Year '1901' ('
MCMI') was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Monday
[1]
of the 13-day-slower
Julian calendar).
It was the first year and start of the
20th century.
Events of 1901
January
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January 1
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★ World celebrates what is regarded by some as the start of the new century.
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★ The
British colonies of
New South Wales,
Queensland,
South Australia,
Tasmania,
Victoria and
Western Australia federate as the
Commonwealth of Australia.
Edmund Barton becomes first
Prime Minister.
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Nigeria becomes a
British protectorate
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French rugby team play their first Test against the New Zealand
All Blacks.
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January 5 -
Typhoid fever breaks out in
Seattle jail, the first of two typhoid outbreaks in USA during the year.
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January 7 -
Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for
cannibalism
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January 10 - The first great
Texas gusher,
oil discovered at
Spindletop in
Beaumont, Texas
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January 22 - After reigning for almost 64 years, longer than any other British monarch,
Queen Victoria died at the age of 81. Her eldest son, Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales becomes King, reigning as
King Edward VII until
1910. His son,
Prince George, Duke of York becomes
Duke of Cornwall.
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January 28 -
Baseball's
American League declares itself a
Major League
February
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February 20 - The legislature of
Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
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February 25 -
J. P. Morgan incorporates the
United States Steel Corporation.
March
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March 2 - The
U.S. Congress passes the
Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of
Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
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March 4 -
US. President William McKinley begins second term.
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March 6 - In
Bremen an
assassin attempts to kill
Wilhelm II of Germany.
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March 17 - A showing of 71
Vincent van Gogh paintings in
Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
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March 31 -
United Kingdom Census 1901
April
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April 25 -
New York State becomes the first to require
automobile license plates.
May
★
May 3 -
Great Fire of 1901 begins in
Jacksonville, FL.
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May 5 - Official end of the
Caste War of Yucatán, although
Mayan skirmishers will continue sporadic fighting for the next decade.
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May 9 -
Australia opens its first
parliament in
Melbourne.
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May 17 - The
Stock Market crashes for the first time. This is also the 6th worst crash.
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May 25 -
Club Atlético River Plate is founded in Argentina.
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May 27 - In
New Jersey, the
Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
June
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June 2 -
Katsura Taro becomes
Prime Minister of Japan
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June 12 -
Cuba becomes US
protectorate
July
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July 4 - The 1,282 foot (390 meters) covered bridge crossing the St.John River at
Hartland, New Brunswick,
Canada opens. It is the longest
covered bridge in the world.
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July 24 -
O. Henry is released from prison in
Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for
embezzlement from the First National Bank in
Austin, Texas.
August
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August 5 -
Peter O'Connor sets the first
International Association of Athletics Federations recognised
long jump world record of 24ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years.
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August 21 - The
Cadillac Motor Company formed in
Detroit, Michigan, USA
September
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September 2 -
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a
big stick" at the
Minnesota State Fair.
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September 5 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed
Minor League Baseball), is formed in
Chicago.
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September 6 - American anarchist
Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President
William McKinley at the
Pan-American Exposition in
Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies there eight days later.
★
September 7 - The
Boxer Rebellion in
China officially ends with the signing of the
Boxer Protocol.
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September 14
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★ With the death of
William McKinley,
Theodore Roosevelt succeeds him as
President of the United States.
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★
Huo Yuanjia, martial arts practitioner, defeated all four of his challengers, one from France, Britain, Russia, and Japan.
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September 26 - The 16th President,
Abraham Lincoln, is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick.
October
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October 2 -
Royal Navy's first
submarine launched at Barrow.
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October 4 - The American yacht ''
Columbia'' defeats the Irish ''
Shamrock'' in the
America's Cup yachting race.
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October 16 - U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt invites
African American leader
Booker T. Washington to the
White House. The American South reacts angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in the region.
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October 23 -
Yale University celebrates its
bicentennial.
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October 24 - Michigan schoolteacher
Annie Taylor goes down
Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.
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October 29
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★ In
Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse
Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of
morphine.
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Capital punishment:
Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President
William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
November
★
November 1 -
Sigma Phi Epsilon was founded in
Richmond,
VA
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November 9 -
Prince George,
Duke of Cornwall becomes
Prince of Wales and
Earl of Chester.
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November 15
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★
Miller Reese Hutchinson patents
Acousticon, a heavy
Hearing aid prototype
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★
Alpha Sigma Alpha was founded at
Longwood University
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November 27 -
U.S. Army War College is established.
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November 28 - The
new state constitution of
Alabama disenfranchises black voters via
literacy tests and the
grandfather clause.
December
★
December 3 - US President
Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the
House of Representatives asking Congress curb the power of
trusts "within reasonable limits".
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December 10 -
Marie Curie receives doctorate. The first
Nobel Prize ceremony is held in
Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of
Alfred Nobel's death.
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December 12 -
Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-
Atlantic radio signal in
Newfoundland,
Canada; it is
Morse code for the letter "S."
★
December 20 - The final spike is driven to complete the
Mombasa-Victoria-Uganda Railway in what is now
Kisumu,
Kenya.
Undated
★ In the
United Kingdom,
Factory Act puts an end to child labour under 12.
★
Winston Churchill enters the
British House of Commons
★ In Germany,
Eugen Hollander makes the first known
facelift to a Polish noblewoman
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Scotland Yard creates a
fingerprint archive
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Cleveland Indians founded, under the name "Cleveland Blues".
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Europium is isolated by
Eugène-Anatole Demarçay.
★ First prototype
Harley-Davidson created
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Okapi discovered (previously known only to local natives)
★ Independent Maya of Eastern
Yucatán surrender to
Mexico
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American Standard Version Bible first published.
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Intercollegiate Prohibition Association established in
Chicago.
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Mordecai Ham, American evangelist enters ministry.
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Pablo Picasso begins his
Blue Period.
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Shō Tai (Shang Tai), the last king of the
Ryūkyū Kingdom in modern
Okinawa,
Japan, dies.
Ongoing
★
Second Boer War
Births
January-February
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January 3 -
Ngo Dinh Diem, 1st President of South Vietnam (d.
1963)
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January 4 -
CLR James, Trinidad-born writer and journalist (d.
1989)
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January 14 -
Bebe Daniels, American actress (d.
1971)
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January 16
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★
Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d.
1973)
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★
Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d.
1988)
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January 24 -
Harry Calder,
South African cricketer (d.
1995)
★
January 26 -
Stuart Symington, American politician (d.
1988)
★
January 27 -
Art Rooney, American football team owner (d.
1988)
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January 29 -
E. P. Taylor, Canadian business tycoon (d.
1989)
★
January 30 -
Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d.
1959)
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February 1 -
Clark Gable, American actor (d.
1960)
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February 2 -
Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d.
1987)
★
February 10 -
Stella Adler, American actress (d.
1992)
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February 15 -
João Branco Núncio, Portuguese Bullfighter (d.
1976)
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February 25 -
Zeppo Marx, American comedian (d.
1979)
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February 27 -
Horatio Luro, Argentine horse trainer (d.
1991)
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February 28 -
Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry and
Peace (d.
1994)
March-April
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March 4
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★
Charles Goren, American bridge player (d.
1991)
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★
Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d.
1937)
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March 17 -
Alfred Newman, American film composer (d.
1970)
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March 21 -
Karl Arnold, German politician (d.
1958)
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March 22 -
Greta Kempton, American artist (d.
1991)
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March 24 -
Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d.
1971)
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March 27
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★
Carl Barks, American cartoonist (d.
2000)
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★
Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d.
1963)
★
★
Eisaku Sato,
Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1975)
★
★
Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d.
1971)
★
April 1 -
Whittaker Chambers, American spy (d.
1961)
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April 15 -
Joe Davis, English snooker and billiards player (d.
1978)
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April 18 -
Al Lewis, American songwriter (d.
1967)
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April 29 -
Emperor Hirohito of Japan (d.
1989)
★
April 30 -
Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1985)
May-June
★
May 5 -
Blind Willie McTell, American singer (d.
1959)
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May 7 -
Gary Cooper, American actor (d.
1961)
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May 17 -
Werner Egk, German composer (d.
1983)
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May 18 -
Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1978)
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May 20 -
Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (d.
1981)
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May 21
★
★
Horace Heidt, American bandleader (d.
1986)
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★
Sam Jaffe, American film producer (d.
2000)
★
★
Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright film (d.
1992)
★
May 31 -
Alfredo Antonini, American conductor, and composer (d.
1983)
★
June 3 -
Chang Hsüeh-liang, Chinese military leader (d.
2001)
★
June 6 -
Sukarno, first
President of Indonesia (d.
1970)
★
June 17 -
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, English World War II hero (d.
1964)
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June 18 -
Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (d.
1918)
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June 24 -
Harry Partch, American composer (d.
1974)
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June 29 -
Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d.
1967)
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June 23 -
Chuck Taylor %28salesman%29, American basketball player and salesmen (d.
1969)
July-August
★
July 7 -
Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film director and special effects designer, creator of
Godzilla and
Ultraman (d.
1970)
★
July 9 -
Barbara Cartland, English novelist (d.
2000)
★
July 17 -
Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d.
1938)
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July 20 -
Heinie Manush, baseball player (d.
1971)
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July 21 -
Albert Hamilton Gordon, American businessman and philanthropist
★
July 31 -
Jean Dubuffet, French painter (d.
1985)
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August 4 -
Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician (d.
1971)
★
August 8 -
Ernest Lawrence, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1958)
★
August 10 -
Franco Dino Rasetti, Italian scientist (d.
2001)
★
August 18 -
Jean Guitton, French writer and philosopher (d.
1999)
★
August 20 -
Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1968)
★
August 26
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★
Maxwell Taylor, American general (d.
1987)
★
★
Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (d.
1972)
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August 30 -
John Gunther, American writer (d.
1970)
September-October
★
September 9
★
★
James Blades, English percussionist (d.
1999)
★
★
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd,
Prime Minister of South Africa (d.
1966)
★
September 12 -
Ben Blue, Canadian comedian and actor (d.
1975)
★
September 15 -
Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (d.
1985)
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September 22 -
Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1997)
★
September 23 -
Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1986)
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September 28
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★
Ed Sullivan, American entertainer (d.
1974)
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★
William S. Paley, American business man (d.
1990)
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September 29
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★
Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1954)
★
★
Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher, poet, and activist (d.
1981)
★
October 2 -
Kiki, French singer (d.
1953)
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October 10 -
Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d.
1966)
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October 24 -
Gilda Gray, Polish-born dancer and actress (d.
1959)
November-December
★
November 3 -
Léopold III of Belgium (d.
1983)
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November 4 -
Yi, Bang-ja, Crown Princess of Korea (d.
1989)
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November 7 -
Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (d.
1980)
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November 18 -
George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (d.
1984)
★
November 22 -
Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d.
1999)
★
November 29 -
Mildred Harris, American actress (d.
1944)
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December 5
★
★
Milton Erickson, American psychiatrist and psychotherapist (d.
1980)
★
★
Walt Disney, American animator and film producer (d.
1966)
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★
Werner Heisenberg, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1976)
★
December 16 -
Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist (d.
1978)
★
December 19 -
Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d.
2002)
★
December 25 -
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d.
2004)
★
December 27 -
Marlene Dietrich, actress (d.
1992)
★
December 31 -
Karl-August Fagerholm,
Prime Minister of Finland (d.
1984)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, second wife of
Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (d.
1932)
Deaths
::''(See 1901 list of deaths by name: .)''
January - June
★
January 11 -
Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b.
1866)
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January 16 -
Arnold Böcklin, Swiss artist (b.
1827)
★
January 21 -
Elisha Gray, American inventor and appliance manufacturer (b.
1835)
★
January 22 -
Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India (b.
1819)
★
January 27 -
Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b.
1813)
★
February 11 - King
Milan I of Serbia (b.
1854)
★
February 22 -
George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b.
1851)
★
March 13 -
Benjamin Harrison, 23rd
President of the United States (b.
1833)
★
April 3 -
Richard D'Oyly Carte, English impresario (b.
1844)
★
May 22 -
Gaetano Bresci Italian assassin (b
1869)
★
June 2 -
George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b.
1844)
★
June 9 -
Walter Besant, English writer (b.
1836)
July - December
★
July 4 -
Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b.
1843)
★
July 6 -
Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst,
Chancellor of Germany (b.
1819)
★
August 5 -
Victoria, Empress of Germany (b.
1840)
★
August 12-
Francesco Crispi- Italian Prime Minister
★
August 24 -
Clara Maass, American nurse (b.
1876)
★
September 5 -
Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b.
1853)
★
September 9 -
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b.
1864)
★
September 14 -
William McKinley, 25th
President of the United States (assassinated) (b.
1843)
★
October 1 -
Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan
★
October 10 -
Lorenzo Snow, president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1814)
★
October 19 -
Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialis (b.
1829)
★
October 29 -
Leon Czolgosz assassin of U.S. President
William McKinley (b.
1873)
★
November 7 -
Li Hongzhang, Chinese general (b.
1823)
★
November 30 -
Edward John Eyre, English explorer (b.
1815)
★
December 1 -
George Lohmann, English cricketer (tuberculosis) (b.
1865)
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
★
Chemistry -
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
★
Medicine -
Emil Adolf von Behring
★
Literature -
Sully Prudhomme
★
Peace -
Jean Henri Dunant,
Frédéric Passy
Fictional
★ ''
1901 (novel)''.
Notes
1.
"Calendar in year 1901 (Russia)" (Julian on Monday), webpage:
Julian-1901
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).
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