1901
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
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of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).
It was the first year of the 20th century.
Events of 1901
January
- January 1
- January 5 - Typhoid fever breaks out in a Seattle jail, the first of two typhoid outbreaks in USA during the year.
- January 7 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.
- January 10 - In the first great Texas gusher, oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- January 22 - After reigning for almost 64 years, longer than any other British monarch, Queen Victoria dies 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.
- January 28 - Baseball's American League declares itself a Major League.
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January-February
- January 3 - Ngo Dinh Diem, 1st President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
- January 4 - CLR James, Trinidad-born writer and journalist (d. 1989)
- January 14 - Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971)
- January 16
- 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)
- January 29 - E. P. Taylor, Canadian business tycoon (d. 1989)
- January 30 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
- February 1 - Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
- February 2 - Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987)
- February 10 - Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
- February 15 - Joăo Branco Núncio, Portuguese bullfighter (d. 1976)
- February 22 - Mildred Davis, American actress (d. 1969)
- February 25 - Zeppo Marx, American comedian (d. 1979)
- February 27 - Horatio Luro, Argentine horse trainer (d. 1991)
- February 28 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (d. 1994)
March-April
- March 4
- March 17 - Alfred Newman, American film composer (d. 1970)
- March 21 - Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
- March 22 - Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991)
- March 24 - Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)
- March 27
- March 28 - Jack Weil, American entrepreneur
- April 1 - Whittaker Chambers, American spy (d. 1961)
- April 15 - Joe Davis, English snooker and billiards player (d. 1978)
- April 18 - Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967)
- 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)
- May 7 - Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
- May 17 - Werner Egk, German composer (d. 1983)
- May 18 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
- May 20 - Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (d. 1981)
- May 21
- 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)
- June 18 - Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (d. 1918)
- June 23 - Chuck Taylor, American basketball player and salesman (d. 1969)
- June 24 - Harry Partch, American composer (d. 1974)
- June 29 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
July-August
- July 7 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film director and special effects designer (d. 1970)
- July 9 - Barbara Cartland, English novelist (d. 2000)
- July 17 - Bruno Jasie?ski, Polish poet (d. 1938)
- July 20 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (d. 1971)
- July 21 - Albert Hamilton Gordon, American businessman and philanthropist
- July 31 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter (d. 1985)
- August 1 - Pancho Villa, Filipino boxer (d. 1925)
- 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
- August 30 - John Gunther, American writer (d. 1970)
September-October
November-December
- November 3 - Léopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
- November 4 - Masako Nashimoto, Crown Princess of Korea (d. 1989)
- November 7 - Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
- 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)
- December 5
- December 5
- 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, German-American actress (d. 1992)
- December 31 - Karl-August Fagerholm, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1984)
- date unknown - Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, second wife of Joseph Stalin (d. 1932)
Deaths
January - June
- January 1 - Ignatius L. Donnelly, U.S. politician and writer (b. 1831)
- January 8 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
- January 11 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
- January 16
- 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)
- February 26 - Lucyna ?wierczakiewiczowa, Polish writer (b. 1829)
- March 13 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
- April 3 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, English impresario (b. 1844)
- April 19 - Alfred Horatio Belo, American businessman and newswriter (b. 1839)
- May 1 - Lewis Waterman, American inventor and businessman (b. 1837)
- May 22 - Gaetano Bresci Italian anarchist and assassin (b 1869)
- May 24 - Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist (b. 1823)
- 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 (b. 1819)
- August 24 - Clara Maass, American nurse (b. 1876)
- September 5 - Ignacij Klemen?i?, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
- September 9 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
- September 14 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)
- October 1 - Abdor Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1844)
- October 10 - Lorenzo Snow, Mormon leader (b. 1814)
- October 19 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
- October 29 - Leon Czolgosz, Polish-American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873)
- November 7 - Li Hongzhang, Chinese general (b. 1823)
- November 27 - Clement Studebaker, American manufacturer (b. 1831)
- November 30 - Edward John Eyre, English explorer (b. 1815)
- December 1 - George Lohmann, English cricketer (b. 1865)
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