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1901
1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-March
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January 1 - World celebrates what is regarded as the start of the new century. (Zero-ists' argument that new century should be celebrated in 1900 rejected worldwide).
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January 1 - The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia. Edmund Barton becomes first Prime Minister.
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January 1 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate
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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 - Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies. His own son Prince George, Duke of York becomes Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay.
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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.
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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 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.
April-June
July-September
October-December
unknown dates
Births
January-March
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January 3 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
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January 4 - CLR James, writer and journalist (d. 1989)
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January 16 - Frank Zamboni, inventor; most famous for the Zamboni machine (d. 1988)
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January 26 - Stuart Symington, politician (d. 1988)
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January 27 - Willy Fritsch , actor (d. 1973)
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January 29 - Allen Du Mont , television pioneer
- January 29 - E. P. Taylor, Canadian business tycoon (d. 1989)
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January 30 - Rudolf Caracciola, driver of racing cars (d. 1959)
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January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz , writer (d. 1974)
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February 1 - Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
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February 2 - Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987)
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February 10 - Stella Adler, acting teacher (d. 1992)
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February 16 - Wayne King , band leader ("The Waltz King")
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February 25 - Zeppo Marx, comedian, The Marx Brothers (d. 1979)
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February 27 - Horatio Luro, Hall of Fame horse trainer (d. 1991)
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February 28 - Linus Pauling, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 and Peace 1962; only person to win two Nobel Prizes outright (d. 1994)
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March 4 - Charles Goren, bridge expert (d. 1991)
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March 11 - Leopold III of Belgium (d.. 1983)
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March 21 - Karl Arnold, politician (d. 1958)
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March 24 - Ub Iwerks, cartoonist (d. 1971)
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March 27 - Carl Barks, Donald Duck illustrator (d. 2000)
- March 27 - Erich Ollenhauer, politician (d. 1963)
April-June
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April 1 - Whittaker Chambers, spy (d. 1961)
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April 29 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan (d. 1989)
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May 5 - Blind Willie McTell, blues singer (d. 1959)
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May 7 - Gary Cooper, actor (d. 1961)
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May 17 - Werner Egk , composer (d. 1983)
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May 20 - Max Euwe, Dutch world champion chess 1935-1937 (d. 1981)
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May 21 - Horace Heidt , band leader (d. 1986)
- May 21 - Sam Jaffe, producer (d. 2000)
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June 17 - F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, WW II SOE agent and hero (d. 1964)
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June 18 - Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (d. 1918)
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June 24 - Harry Partch, microtonal composer (d. 1974)
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June 29 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
July-September
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July 17 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
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July 20 - Heinie Manush, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1971)
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July 31 - Jean Dubuffet, painter (d. 1985)
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August 4 - Louis Armstrong, jazz musician (d. 1971)
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September 9 - James Blades, English percussionist (d. 1999)
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September 12 - Ben Blue, comedian, actor (d. 1975)
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September 15 - Sir Donald Bailey, civil engineer who invented the Bailey Bridge (d. 1985)
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September 29 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (d. 1954)
- September 29 - Lanza del Vasto, philosopher, poet and non-violent activist (d. 1981)
October-December
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October 2 - Kiki, singer (d. 1953)
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October 10 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor (d. 1966)
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November 22 - Joaquin Rodrigo, composer (d. 1999)
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December 5 - Walter Elias Disney, later known as Walt Disney, American animator and film producer (d. 1966)
- December 5 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (d. 1976)
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December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist (d. 1978)
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December 19 - Rudolf Hell, inventor (d. 2002)
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December 25- Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004)
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December 31 - Karl-August Fagerholm, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1984)
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Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, later second wife of Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (d. 1932)
- Kjeld Abell , Danish playwright.
Deaths
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January 11 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
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January 21 - Elisha Gray, American inventor and founder of Western Electric (b. 1835)
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January 22 - Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India (b. 1819)
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January 27 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera composer (b. 1813)
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February 11 - Milan I, king of Serbia (b. 1854)
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February 22 - George Francis FitzGerald, mathematician (b. 1851)
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March 13 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
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April 3 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, English impresario (b. 1844)
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June 2 - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary to Taiwan (b. 1844)
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July 4 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843)
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August 5 - Victoria, Empress of Germany, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and mother of German Emperor Wilhelm II (b. 1840)
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September 5 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovene physicist (b. 1853)
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September 9 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
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September 14 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (assassinated) (b. 1843)
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October 1 - Abdur Rahman Khan, amir of Afghanistan
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October 10 - Lorenzo Snow, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
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October 29 - Leon Czolgosz assassin of US President William McKinley (b. 1873)
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December 1 - George Lohmann, Surrey bowler, of tuberculosis (b. 1865)
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