November 27 - Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
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.
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 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".
