Famous People Who Died in 1881

• Billy the Kid

  Baby-faced outlaw of the 19th-century American West

• Carlyle, Thomas

  Author of Heroes and Hero-Worship

• De Long, George

  The polar explorer who led the U.S.S. Jeannette

• Dostoevsky, Fedor

  The author of Crime and Punishment

• Garfield, James

  President of the United States, March-September 1881

• Gould, John

  The English ornithologist who did Birds of Australia

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