1901 34618 226080435 2008-07-16T19:09:08Z Cosmic Latte 3190204 /* November */ "male fraternity" is a bit redundant in this context {{year nav|1901}} {{C20YearInTopicX}} Year '''1901''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] (link will display calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[common year starting on Monday]] <ref> "Calendar in year 1901 (Russia)" (Julian on Monday), webpage: [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1901&country=20 Julian-1901] (Russia used the Julian calendar until [[1919]]). </ref> of the 13-day-slower [[Julian calendar]]). <!-- 13-day span=Mon-Sun,Tue-Mon,Wed-Tue,Thu-Wed,Fr-Th,Sa-Fr --> It was the first year of the [[20th century]]. {{C20YearTOC}} ==Events of 1901== <!-- The calendar article is: [[common year starting on Monday]]. -- Remove any month-calendars here, such as: {{Month3|1|1|0}}. --> ===January=== [[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|110px|thumb|right|[[January 1]]: [[Commonwealth of Australia]] forms as [[British overseas territories|British colonies]] [[Federation of Australia|federate]].]] <!-- Link dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 1]] **<!--January 1-->The world celebrates the beginning of the [[Twentieth Century]]. **<!--January 1-->The [[Crown colony|British colonies]] of [[New South Wales]], [[Queensland]], [[South Australia]], [[Tasmania]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] and [[Western Australia]] [[Australian Federation|federate]] as the [[Commonwealth of Australia]]. [[Edmond Barton]] becomes first [[Prime Minister]]. **<!--January 1-->[[Nigeria]] becomes a [[United Kingdom|British]] protectorate * [[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, [[Petroleum|oil]] is discovered at [[Spindletop]] in [[Beaumont, Texas]]. * [[January 22]] - After reigning for almost 64 years, longer than any other British monarch, [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] dies at the age of 81. Her eldest son, Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales becomes King, reigning as [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|King Edward VII]] until [[1910]]. His son, [[George V of the United Kingdom|Prince George, Duke of York]] becomes [[Duke of Cornwall]]. * [[January 28]] - [[Baseball]]'s [[American League]] declares itself a [[Major League]]. [[Image:Edward vii england.jpg|110px|thumb|right|[[January 22]]: [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|King Edward VII]] ascends the [[British monarchy|British throne]] and becomes [[Emperor of India]].]] ===February=== * [[February 14]] - [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|King Edward VII]] opens his first [[parliament]]. * [[February 20]] - The legislature of [[Hawaii|Hawaii Territory]] convenes for the first time. ===March=== * [[March 2]] - The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] passes the [[Platt Amendment]], limiting the autonomy of [[Cuba]] as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops. * [[March 4]] - [[President of the United States|United States President]] [[William McKinley]] begins his 2nd term. [[Theodore Roosevelt]] is sworn in as [[Vice President of the United States]]. * [[March 6]] - In [[Bremen (city)|Bremen]], an [[assassin]] attempts to kill [[William II, German Emperor|Wilhelm II of Germany]]. * [[March 17]] - A showing of 71 [[Vincent van Gogh]] paintings in [[Paris]], 11 years after his death, creates a sensation. * [[March 31]] - The [[United Kingdom Census 1901]] is taken. [[Image:WilhelmIIx.jpg|110px|thumb|right|[[March 6]]: [[Kaiser]] [[William II, German Emperor|Wilhelm II of Germany]] survives [[assassination]] attempt.]] ===April=== *[[April 25]] - [[New York State]] becomes the first to require [[automobile]] [[license plate]]s. *[[April 29]] - Anti-Jewish rioting breaks out in [[Budapest]]. ===May=== * [[May 3]] - The [[Great Fire of 1901]] begins in [[Jacksonville|Jacksonville, FL]]. * [[May 5]] - Official end of the [[Caste War of Yucatán]], although [[Maya peoples|Mayan]] skirmishers continue sporadic fighting for another decade. * [[May 9]] - [[Australia]] opens its first [[Australian Parliament|parliament]] in [[Melbourne]]. * [[May 17]] - The U.S. [[stock market]] crashes for the first time. * [[May 24]] - 78 miners die in the [[Caerphilly]] pit disaster in South [[Wales]]. * [[May 25]] - The [[Club Atlético River Plate]] is founded in Argentina. * [[May 27]] - In [[New Jersey]], the [[Edison Storage Battery Company]] is founded. * [[May 28]] - [[Iran]] (known as Persia until 1935) grants [[William Knox D'Arcy]] a concession, giving him the right to prospect for oil. ===June=== * [[June 2]] - [[Katsura Taro]] becomes [[Prime Minister of Japan]]. *[[June 12]] - [[Cuba]] becomes a US [[protectorate]]. [[Image:Flag of Cuba.svg|110px|thumb|right|[[June 12]]: [[Cuba]] becomes a [[United States]] [[protectorate]].]] ===July=== * [[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. * [[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=== * [[August 5]] - [[Peter O'Connor]] sets the first [[International Association of Athletics Federations]] recognised [[long jump]] [[athletics world record|world record]] of 24ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years. * [[August 6]] - Beginning of the [[Discovery Expedition]]: [[Robert Falcon Scott]] sets sail on the [[RRS Discovery]] to explore the [[Ross Sea]] in [[Antarctica]]. * [[30 August]] - [[Hubert Cecil Booth]] patents an electric [[vacuum cleaner]]. ===September=== [[Image:BoxerSoldiers.jpg|110px|thumb|right|[[September 7]]: The [[Boxer Rebellion]] in China ends with the signing of the [[Peking Protocol]].]] [[Image:President Theodore Roosevelt, 1904.jpg|110px|thumb|right|[[September 14]]: [[Theodore Roosevelt]] becomes [[President of the United States]] on the death of [[William McKinley]].]] * [[September 2]] - U.S. [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]] utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a [[Big stick diplomacy|big stick]]" at the [[Minnesota State Fair]]. * [[September 5]] - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed [[Minor League Baseball]]), is formed in [[Chicago]]. * [[September 6]] - American anarchist [[Leon Czolgosz]] shoots US President [[William McKinley]] at the [[Pan-American Exposition]] in [[Buffalo, New York]]. [[William McKinley assassination|McKinley dies]] eight days later. * [[September 7]] - The [[Boxer Rebellion]] in [[China]] officially ends with the signing of the [[Boxer Protocol]]. * [[September 14]] - [[Theodore Roosevelt]] succeeds [[William McKinley]] as [[President of the United States]]. * [[September 26]] - The body of U.S. President [[Abraham Lincoln]] is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick. ===October=== * [[October 2]] - The [[Royal Navy]]'s first [[submarine]] is launched at Barrow. * [[October 4]] - The American yacht ''[[Columbia (1899 yacht)|Columbia]]'' defeats the Irish ''[[Shamrock (yacht)|Shamrock]]'' in the [[America's Cup]] yachting race. * [[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. * [[October 23]] - [[Yale University]] celebrates its [[bicentennial]]. * [[October 24]] - [[Michigan]] schoolteacher [[Annie Taylor]] goes down [[Niagara Falls]] in a barrel and survives. * [[October 29]] **<!--October 29-->In [[Amherst, Massachusetts]], nurse [[Jane Toppan]] is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of [[morphine]]. **<!--October 29-->[[Leon Czolgosz]], the assassin of [[William McKinley]], is [[Capital punishment|executed]] by electrocution. ===November=== * [[November 1]] - [[Sigma Phi Epsilon]], the largest national collegiate [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternity]] is founded in [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]], [[VA]]. * [[November 9]] - [[George V of the United Kingdom|Prince George]], [[Duke of Cornwall]] becomes [[Prince of Wales]] and [[Earl of Chester]]. * [[November 15]] - [[Alpha Sigma Alpha]] is founded at [[Longwood University]]. * [[November 28]] - The [[Alabama Constitution|new state constitution]] of [[Alabama]] requires voters to have passed [[literacy test]]s. ===December=== * [[December 3]] - US President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] delivers a 20,000-word speech to the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] asking Congress to curb the power of [[Trust (19th century)|trusts]] "within reasonable limits." * [[December 10]] - The first [[Nobel Prize]] ceremony is held in [[Stockholm]] on the fifth anniversary of [[Alfred Nobel]]'s death. * [[December 12]] - [[Guglielmo Marconi]] receives the first trans-[[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] [[radio]] signal in [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]], [[Canada]]; it is [[Morse code]] for the letter "S." * [[December 20]] - The final spike is driven into the [[Uganda Railway|Mombasa-Victoria-Uganda Railway]] in what is now [[Kisumu]], [[Kenya]]. ===Undated=== * [[Scotland Yard]] creates a [[fingerprint]] archive. * [[Europium]] is isolated by [[Eugène-Anatole Demarçay]]. * William S. Harley draws up plans for his first prototype [[Harley-Davidson|motorcycle]]. * The [[okapi]] is observed for the first time (previously known only to local natives). * Independent Maya of Eastern [[Yucatán]] surrender to [[Mexico]]. * [[Intercollegiate Prohibition Association]] established in [[Chicago]]. * Shō Tai (Shang Tai), the last king of the [[Ryūkyū Kingdom]] in modern [[Okinawa]], [[Japan]], dies. * [[New Zealand]] [[inventor]], [[Ernest Godward]] invents the spiral [[hairpin]], one of the most widely-used devices on the planet. * The first reliable census in [[India]] is taken. *9% of the English urban population is overcrowded in terms of the official definition of more than 2 persons per room. ==Ongoing== *[[Second Boer War]] *[[Thousand Days War]] (1899-1902) *[[Philippine-American War]] (1899-1913) ==Births== {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Meiji period|Meiji]] 34}} ===January-February=== <!--Do not add anyone without a Wikipedia article--> <!-- Link dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. ---> * [[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 16-->[[Fulgencio Batista]], Cuban leader (d. [[1973]]) **<!--January 16-->[[Frank Zamboni]], American inventor (d. [[1988]]) * [[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]] - [[João 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 [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] (d. [[1994]]) ===March-April=== * [[March 4]] **<!--March 4-->[[Charles Goren]], American bridge player (d. [[1991]]) **<!--March 4-->[[Jean Joseph Rabearivelo]], Malagasy-French poet (d. [[1937]]) * [[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 27-->[[Carl Barks]], American cartoonist (d. [[2000]]) **<!--March 27-->[[Erich Ollenhauer]], German politician (d. [[1963]]) **<!--March 27-->[[Eisaku Sato]], Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1975]]) **<!--March 27-->[[Kenneth Slessor]], Australian poet (d. [[1971]]) * [[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 (lyricist)|Al Lewis]], American songwriter (d. [[1967]]) * [[April 29]] - [[Emperor Hirohito of Japan]] (d. [[1989]]) * [[April 30]] - [[Simon Kuznets]], Ukrainian-born economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1985]]) ===May-June=== <!-- Link dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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 in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1978]]) * [[May 20]] - [[Max Euwe]], Dutch chess player (d. [[1981]]) * [[May 21]] **<!--May 21-->[[Horace Heidt]], American bandleader (d. [[1986]]) **<!--May 21-->[[Sam Jaffe (producer)|Sam Jaffe]], American film producer (d. [[2000]]) **<!--May 21-->[[Suzanne Lilar]], Belgian essayist, novelist, and playwright (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]]) * [[June 18]] - [[Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova|Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia]] (d. [[1918]]) <!--Please do NOT add "Edward Cullen" or any other fictitious individuals to this list.--> * [[June 23]] - [[Chuck Taylor (salesman)|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 Jasienski|Bruno Jasieński]], 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]] - [[Francisco Guilledo|Pancho Villa]], Filipino boxer (d. [[1925]]) * [[August 4]] - [[Louis Armstrong]], American jazz musician (d. [[1971]]) * [[August 8]] - [[Ernest Lawrence]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1958]]) * [[August 10]] - [[Franco Rasetti|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 in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1968]]) * [[August 26]] **<!--August 26-->[[Maxwell Taylor]], American general (d. [[1987]]) **<!--August 26-->[[Chen Yi (communist)|Chen Yi]], Chinese military commander and politician (d. [[1972]]) * [[August 30]] - [[John Gunther]], American writer (d. [[1970]]) ===September-October=== * [[September 9]] **<!--September 9-->[[James Blades]], English percussionist (d. [[1999]]) **<!--September 9-->[[Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd]], Prime Minister of South Africa (d. [[1966]]) * [[September 12]] - [[Ben Blue]], Canadian-born comedian and actor (d. [[1975]]) * [[September 15]] - [[Donald Bailey|Sir Donald Bailey]], British civil engineer (d. [[1985]]) * [[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 in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1986]]) * [[September 28]] **<!--September 28-->[[Ed Sullivan]], American entertainer (d. [[1974]]) **<!--September 28-->[[William S. Paley]], American businessman (d. [[1990]]) * [[September 29]] **<!--September 29-->[[Enrico Fermi]], Italian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1954]]) **<!--September 29-->[[Lanza del Vasto]], Italian philosopher, poet, and activist (d. [[1981]]) * [[October 2]] - [[Alice Prin]], French singer (d. [[1953]]) * [[October 10]] - [[Alberto Giacometti]], Swiss sculptor (d. [[1966]]) * [[October 24]] - [[Gilda Gray]], Polish-born dancer and actress (d. [[1959]]) ===November-December=== <!-- Link dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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-->[[Milton Erickson]], American psychiatrist (d. [[1980]]) * [[December 5]] **<!--December 5-->[[Walt Disney]], American animator and film producer (d. [[1966]]) **<!--December 5-->[[Werner Heisenberg]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|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]], 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=== <!-- Link dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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 16-->[[Arnold Böcklin]], Swiss artist (b. [[1827]]) **<!--January 16-->[[Mahadev Govind Ranade]], Indian reformer (b. [[1842]]) * [[January 21]] - [[Elisha Gray]], American inventor and appliance manufacturer (b. [[1835]]) * [[January 22]] - [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|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 Ćwierczakiewiczowa]], 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]]) {{C20YearTOCright}} ===July - December=== <!-- Link dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[July 4]] - [[Johannes Schmidt (linguist)|Johannes Schmidt]], German linguist (b. [[1843]]) * [[July 6]] - [[Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1819]]) * [[August 5]] - [[Victoria, Princess Royal and Empress Frederick|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 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]] (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]]) ==Nobel prizes== * [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen]] * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff]] * [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Emil Adolf von Behring]] * [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Sully Prudhomme]] * [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Jean Henri Dunant]], [[Frederic Passy|Frédéric Passy]] ==Notes== {{reflist}} {{commonscat_left|1901}} [[Category:1901| ]] [[af:1901]] [[am:1901 እ.ኤ.አ.]] [[ang:1901]] [[ar:1901]] [[an:1901]] [[frp:1901]] [[ast:1901]] [[av:1901]] [[az:1901]] [[bn:১৯০১]] [[map-bms:1901]] [[be:1901]] [[be-x-old:1901]] [[bh:१९०१]] [[bs:1901]] [[br:1901]] [[bg:1901]] [[ca:1901]] [[cv:1901]] [[cs:1901]] [[co:1901]] [[cy:1901]] [[da:1901]] [[de:1901]] [[et:1901]] [[el:1901]] [[es:1901]] [[eo:1901]] [[eu:1901]] [[fa:۱۹۰۱ (میلادی)]] [[fo:1901]] [[hif:1901]] [[fr:1901]] [[fy:1901]] [[ga:1901]] [[gan:1901年]] [[gv:1901]] [[gd:1901]] [[gl:1901]] [[ko:1901년]] [[hy:1901]] [[hi:1901]] [[hr:1901.]] [[io:1901]] [[ilo:1901]] [[bpy:মারি ১৯০১]] [[id:1901]] [[ia:1901]] [[os:1901]] [[is:1901]] [[it:1901]] [[he:1901]] [[jv:1901]] [[pam:1901]] [[kn:೧೯೦೧]] [[ka:1901]] [[csb:1901]] [[kk:1901]] [[kw:1901]] [[sw:1901]] [[ht:1901 (almanak gregoryen)]] [[ku:1901]] [[la:1901]] [[lv:1901]] [[lb:1901]] [[lt:1901 m.]] [[lij:1901]] [[li:1901]] [[lmo:1901]] [[hu:1901]] [[mk:1901]] [[mi:1901]] [[mr:इ.स. १९०१]] [[ms:1901]] [[nah:1901]] [[nl:1901]] [[new:ई सं १९०१]] [[ja:1901年]] [[nap:1901]] [[no:1901]] [[nn:1901]] [[nrm:1901]] [[nov:1901]] [[oc:1901]] [[uz:1901]] [[pi:१९०१]] [[nds:1901]] [[pl:1901]] [[pt:1901]] [[ty:1901]] [[ksh:Joohr 1901]] [[ro:1901]] [[ru:1901 год]] [[se:1901]] [[sq:1901]] [[scn:1901]] [[simple:1901]] [[sk:1901]] [[sl:1901]] [[sr:1901]] [[sh:1901]] [[su:1901]] [[fi:1901]] [[sv:1901]] [[tl:1901]] [[ta:1901]] [[tt:1901]] [[te:1901]] [[th:พ.ศ. 2444]] [[vi:1901]] [[tg:1901]] [[tr:1901]] [[uk:1901]] [[vec:1901]] [[wa:1901]] [[vls:1901]] [[yo:1901]] [[zh-yue:1901年]] [[cbk-zam:1901]] [[bat-smg:1901]] [[zh:1901年]]