Year (''' MCMI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Monday
"Calendar in year 1901 (Russia)" (Julian on Monday), webpage:
Julian-1901
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919 ).
of the 13-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
It was the first year and start of the 20th Century .
: Commonwealth Of Australia forms as British Colonies Federate .]]
: King Edward VII ascends the British Throne and becomes Emperor Of India on the death of his mother Queen Victoria .]]
: Kaiser Wilhelm II Of Germany survives Assassination attempt.]]
: Cuba becomes a United States Protectorate .]]
: Boxer Rebellion in China ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol .]]
: Theodore Roosevelt becomes President Of The United States on the death of William McKinley .]]
- January 1
- ---World celebrates what is regarded by some as the start of the new century.
- ---The British Colonies of New South Wales , Queensland , South Australia , Tasmania , Victoria and Western Australia Federate as the Commonwealth Of Australia . Edmund Barton becomes first Prime Minister .
- --- Nigeria becomes a British protectorate
- --- French Rugby Team play their first Test against the New Zealand All Blacks .
- January 5 - Typhoid Fever breaks out in 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 - The first great Texas gusher, Oil discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas
- January 22 - After reigning for almost 64 years, longer than any other British monarch, Queen Victoria died 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
- September 2 - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a 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 and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York . McKinley dies there eight days later.
- September 7 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol .
- September 14
- ---With the death of William McKinley , Theodore Roosevelt succeeds him as President Of The United States .
- --- Huo Yuanjia , martial arts practitioner, defeated all four of his challengers, one from France, Britain, Russia, and Japan.
- September 26 - The 16th President, Abraham Lincoln , is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick.
- 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
- --- Fulgencio Batista , Cuban leader (d. 1973 )
- --- 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 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 4
- --- Charles Goren , American bridge player (d. 1991 )
- --- 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
- --- Carl Barks , American cartoonist (d. 2000 )
- --- Erich Ollenhauer , German politician (d. 1963 )
- --- Eisaku Sato , Prime Minister Of Japan , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975 )
- --- Kenneth Slessor , Australian poet (d. 1971 )
- 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 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
- --- Horace Heidt , American bandleader (d. 1986 )
- --- Sam Jaffe , American film producer (d. 2000 )
- --- Suzanne Lilar , Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright film (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 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Of Russia (d. 1918 )
- June 24 - Harry Partch , American composer (d. 1974 )
- June 29 - Nelson Eddy , American singer and actor (d. 1967 )
- June 23 - Chuck Taylor %28salesman%29 , American basketball player and salesmen (d. 1969 )
- 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
- --- Maxwell Taylor , American general (d. 1987 )
- --- Chen Yi , Chinese military commander and politician (d. 1972 )
- August 30 - John Gunther , American writer (d. 1970 )
- September 9
- --- James Blades , English percussionist (d. 1999 )
- --- Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd , Prime Minister Of South Africa (d. 1966 )
- September 12 - Ben Blue , Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1975 )
- September 15 - 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 laureate (d. 1986 )
- September 28
- --- Ed Sullivan , American entertainer (d. 1974 )
- --- William S. Paley , American business man (d. 1990 )
- September 29
- --- Enrico Fermi , Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954 )
- --- Lanza Del Vasto , Italian philosopher, poet, and activist (d. 1981 )
- November 3 - Léopold III Of Belgium (d. 1983 )
- November 4 - Yi, Bang-ja , 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
- --- Milton Erickson , American psychiatrist and psychotherapist (d. 1980 )
- --- Walt Disney , American animator and film producer (d. 1966 )
- --- Werner Heisenberg , German physicist, 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 , actress (d. 1992 )
- December 31 - Karl-August Fagerholm , Prime Minister Of Finland (d. 1984 )
- ''date unknown'' - Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin , second wife of Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (d. 1932 )
::''(See 1901 list of deaths by name: .)''
- January 11 - Vasily Kalinnikov , Russian composer (b. 1866 )
- January 16 - Arnold Böcklin , Swiss artist (b. 1827 )
- 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 )
- March 13 - Benjamin Harrison , 23rd President Of The United States (b. 1833 )
- April 3 - Richard D'Oyly Carte , English impresario (b. 1844 )
- May 22 - Gaetano Bresci Italian assassin (b 1869 )
- June 2 - George Leslie Mackay , Canadian missionary (b. 1844 )
- June 9 - Walter Besant , English writer (b. 1836 )
- 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
- 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 (assassinated) (b. 1843 )
- October 1 - Abdur Rahman Khan , Amir of Afghanistan
- October 10 - Lorenzo Snow , president of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814 )
- October 19 - Carl Frederik Tietgen , Danish financier and industrialis (b. 1829 )
- October 29 - Leon Czolgosz assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873 )
- November 7 - Li Hongzhang , Chinese general (b. 1823 )
- November 30 - Edward John Eyre , English explorer (b. 1815 )
- December 1 - George Lohmann , English cricketer (tuberculosis) (b. 1865 )
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