1901: On this day in history

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Birthdays

January 3 - Ngô Đình Diệm, President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
January 4 - C. L. R. James, writer and journalist (d. 1989)
January 9 - Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
January 11 - Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988)
January 13 - A. B. Guthrie, American novelist
January 13 - Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)
January 14 - Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971)
January 16 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973)
January 16 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
January 17 - Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-born philosopher (d. 1973)
January 18 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1973)
January 21 - Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
January 24 - Harry Calder, South African cricketer (d. 1995)
January 25 - Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (d. 1982)
January 26 - Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)
January 27 - Art Rooney, American football team owner (d. 1988)
January 27 - Willy Fritsch, German actor (d. 1973)
January 29 - Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor (d. 1965)
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 4 - Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987)
February 6 - Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979)
February 9 - Brian Donlevy, Irish actor (d. 1972)
February 9 - James Murray, American actor (d. 1936)
February 10 - Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
February 11 - Roddy Connolly, Irish politician
February 16 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (d. 1971)
February 16 - Wayne King, American musician and orchestra leader (d. 1985)
February 16 - Chester Morris, American film actor (d. 1970)
February 18 - Reginald Sheffield, British actor (d. 1957)
February 20 - Cecil Harmsworth King, English newspaper owner (d. 1987)
February 20 - Muhammad Naguib, President of Egypt (d. 1984)
February 23 - Edgar Ende, German painter (d. 1965)
February 25 - Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979)
February 28 - Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist
March 4 - Charles Goren, American bridge player and writer (d. 1991)
March 4 - Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937)
March 16 - Edward Pawley, American actor (d. 1988)
March 17 - Alfred Newman, American film composer (d. 1970)
March 18 - William H. Johnson, African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance (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 25 - Ed Begley, American actor (d. 1970)
March 27 - Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
March 27 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
March 27 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan
March 27 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971)
March 29 - Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981)
April 1 - Whittaker Chambers, American writer
April 5 - Melvyn Douglas, American actor (d. 1981)
April 6 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic (d. 1925)
April 9 - Paul Willis, American actor (d. 1960)
April 12 - Lowell Stockman, American representative (d. 1962)
April 13 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981)
April 15 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978)
April 18 - Al Lewis, American lyricist (d. 1967)
April 23 - E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist (d. 1988)
April 29 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
April 30 - Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist
May 1 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, American film composer (d. 1985)
May 1 - Antal Szerb, Hungarian author and historian (d. 1945)
May 3 - Gino Cervi, Italian actor (d. 1974)
May 5 - Blind Willie McTell, American singer (d. 1959)
May 7 - Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
May 8 - Turkey Stearnes, baseball player (d. 1979)
May 14 - Robert Ritter, German psychologist (d. 1951)
May 15 - Xavier Herbert, Australian author (d. 1984)
May 15 - Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
May 17 - Werner Egk, German composer (d. 1983)
May 18 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist
May 20 - Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (d. 1981)
May 21 - Horace Heidt, American band leader (d. 1986)
May 21 - Sam Jaffe, American film producer (d. 2000)
May 21 - Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist
May 22 - Maurice J. Tobin, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953)
May 24 - José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1968)
May 30 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d. 1979)
May 31 - Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
June 1 - John Van Druten, English screen writer (d. 1957)
June 1 - Hap Day, Canadian hockey player and manager (d. 1990)
June 3 - Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989)
June 6 - Sukarno, first President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
June 8 - Lena Baker, American murderer (d. 1945)
June 10 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-born composer (d. 1988)
June 13 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
June 18 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia, (d. 1918)
June 24 - Harry Partch, American composer (d. 1974)
June 29 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
July 5 - Sergey Obraztsov, Soviet puppet master (d. 1992)
July 7 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director (d. 1974)
July 7 - Sam Katzman, American film producer (d. 1973)
July 7 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film producer (d. 1970)
July 9 - Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist (d. 2000)
July 13 - Eric Portman, English stage and film actor (d. 1969)
July 14 - Gerald Finzi, British composer (d. 1956)
July 17 - Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and team owner (NART; d. 1994)
July 17 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
July 20 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (d. 1971)
July 23 - Hank Worden, American actor and rodeo cowboy (d. 1992)
July 25 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
July 28 - Rudy Vallee, American entertainer (d. 1986)
July 28 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (d. 1979)
July 30 - Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
July 31 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
August 1 - Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (d. 1925)
August 3 - Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Polish Catholic prelate (d. 1981)
August 4 - Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician (d. 1971)
August 4 - Clarence Passailaigue, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972)
August 5 - Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (d. 2000)
August 7 - Ann Harding, American actress (d. 1981)
August 8 - Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist
August 9 - Charles Farrell, American actor (d. 1990)
August 15 - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (d. 1975)
August 20 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer
August 23 - John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator from Kentucky (d. 1991)
August 24 - Preston Foster, American actor (d. 1970)
August 26 - Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987)
August 26 - Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972)
August 29 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
August 30 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights leader (1981)
August 30 - John Gunther, American writer (d. 1970)
September 2 - Andreas Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet (d. 1975)
September 2 - Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (d. 1977)
September 3 - Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (d. 1959)
September 4 - William Lyons, British industrialist (Jaguar cars) (d. 1985)
September 5 - Mario Scelba, Italian politician and former Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1991)
September 8 - Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, South African politician (d. 1966)
September 12 - Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (d. 1975)
September 15 - Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
September 17 - Francis Chichester, English adventurer (d. 1972)
September 18 - Harold Clurman, American film producer (d. 1980)
September 19 - Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born film producer (d. 1991)
September 22 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born scientist
September 23 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer
September 25 - Gordon Coventry, Australian rules footballer (d. 1968)
September 25 - Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
September 28 - William S. Paley, American radio and television executive (d. 1990)
September 28 - Ed Sullivan, American television show host (d. 1974)
September 29 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist
September 29 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)
October 2 - Alice Prin, French singer and artist (d. 1953)
October 3 - Jean Grémillon, French film director (d. 1959)
October 5 - John Alton, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
October 8 - Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer (d. 1977)
October 10 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
October 19 - Arleigh Burke, American admiral (d. 1996)
October 24 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
October 28 - Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (d. 1979)
November 3 - Leopold III of Belgium, (d. 1983)
November 3 - André Malraux, French writer (d. 1976)
November 4 - Princess Bang-ja of Korea, (d. 1989)
November 4 - Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (d. 1974)
November 7 - Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
November 11 - F. Van Wyck Mason, American author (d. 1978)
November 11 - Magda Goebbels, wife of Nazi minister of propaganda
November 11 - Sam Spiegel, Austrian-born American film producer (d. 1985)
November 17 - Walter Hallstein, German politician (d. 1982)
November 17 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (d. 1982)
November 18 - George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (d. 1984)
November 20 - Nazım Hikmet, Turkish poet (d. 1963)
November 22 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
November 25 - Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1948)
November 27 - Ted Husing, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
November 29 - Mildred Harris, American actress (d. 1944)
December 1 - Ilona Feher, Hungarian-Jewish violinist (d. 1988)
December 2 - Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)
December 5 - Walt Disney, American animated film producer (d. 1966)
December 5 - Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (d. 1980)
December 5 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist
December 9 - Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991)
December 9 - Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938)
December 9 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
December 16 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (d. 1978)
December 19 - Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d. 2002)
December 20 - Robert Van de Graaff, American physicist and inventor (d. 1967)
December 22 - André Kostelanetz, American popular music orchestra leader and arranger (d. 1980)
December 25 - Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004)
December 27 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (d. 1992)
December 27 - Irene Handl, English actress (d. 1987)

Deaths

January 8 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
January 9 - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
January 10 - Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland
January 11 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
January 14 - Bishop Mandell Creighton, English historian and ecclesiastic (b. 1843)
January 14 - Charles Hermite, French mathematician (b. 1822)
January 16 - Hiram Revels, U.S. Senator
January 16 - Jules Barbier, French opera librettist (b. 1825)
January 16 - Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
January 20 - Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (b. 1826)
January 21 - Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
January 22 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, (b. 1819)
January 27 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
January 29 - Milan I, King of Serbia (b. 1855)
February 21 - 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, British impresario (b. 1844)
April 19 - Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
May 4 - John Jones Ross, Canadian politician (b. 1831)
May 13 - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín"
May 22 - Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (b. 1869)
May 30 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
June 2 - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
June 10 - Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
July 4 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843)
July 6 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
July 7 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
July 20 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
August 12 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832)
August 17 - Edmond Audran, French composer (b. 1842)
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)
September 25 - Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
October 1 - Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan amir
October 10 - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
October 19 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
October 29 - Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873)
November 27 - Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
November 30 - Edward John Eyre, British explorer (b. 1815)

Events

January 1 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
January 1 - The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
January 10 - The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
January 22 - Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies.
February 2 - Queen Victoria's funeral takes place.
February 18 - Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
February 20 - The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
February 25 - J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
March 2 - The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
March 6 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
March 17 - A showing of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
April 25 - New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
May 1 - The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.
May 3 - The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
May 9 - Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
May 24 - Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
June 11 - New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
June 17 - The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
June 24 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens.
July 24 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
August 5 - Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years.
August 6 - Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
August 10 - The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
August 14 - The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
August 22 - Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
September 2 - Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
September 6 - Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
September 7 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
September 14 - President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
September 16 - Alturas, California, is incorporated as the only city in Modoc County.
September 30 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
October 12 - President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
October 24 - Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
October 29 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
October 29 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
November 1 - Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
November 8 - Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
November 13 - The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
November 27 - U.S. Army War College is established.
December 3 - US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
December 10 - The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.

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