1901
Events
January-March
April-June
July-September
October-December
Unknown date
Births
- January 3 - Ngo Dinh
Diem, President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
- January 16 - Frank
Zamboni, inventor; most famous for the Zamboni machine (d. 1988)
- January 26 - Stuart Symington, politician (d. 1988)
- January 27 - Willy Fritsch, actor (d. 1973)
- January 29 - Allen Du Mont, television pioneer
- January 29 - E. P. Taylor, Canadian business tycoon (d. 1989)
- January 30 - Rudolf Caracciola, driver of racing cars (d. 1959)
- January 31 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz,
writer (d. 1974)
- February 1 - Clark
Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
- February 2 - Jascha
Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987)
- February 10 - Stella
Adler, acting teacher (d. 1992)
- February 16 - Wayne King, band leader ("The Waltz King")
- February 25 - Zeppo
Marx, comedian, The Marx Brothers (d. 1979)
- February 27 - Horatio
Luro, Hall of Fame horse trainer (d. 1991)
- February 28 - Linus
Pauling, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1954 and Peace 1962; only person to win two Nobel Prizes outright (d. 1994)
- March 4 - Charles Goren,
bridge expert (d. 1991)
- March 11 - Leopold III of Belgium (d.. 1983)
- March 21 - Karl Arnold,
politician (d. 1958)
- March 24 - Ub Iwerks, cartoonist (d. 1971)
- March 27 - Carl Barks,
Donald Duck illustrator (d. 2000)
- March 27 - Erich
Ollenhauer, politician (d. 1963)
- April 1 - Whittaker
Chambers, spy (d. 1961)
- April 29 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan (d. 1989)
- May 5 - Blind Willie
McTell, blues singer (d. 1959)
- May 7 - Gary Cooper, actor (d.
1961)
- May 17 - Werner Egk, composer (d. 1983)
- May 20 - Max Euwe, Dutch world
champion chess 1935-1937 (d. 1981)
- May 21 - Horace Heidt, band leader (d. 1986)
- May 21 - Sam Jaffe, producer (d. 2000)
- June 17 - F. F.
E. Yeo-Thomas, WW II SOE agent and hero
(d. 1964)
- June 18 - Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (d. 1918)
- June 24 - Harry Partch,
microtonal composer
(d. 1974)
- June 29 - Nelson Eddy,
American singer and actor (d. 1967)
- July 17 - Bruno
Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
- July 20 - Heinie Manush,
Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1971)
- July 31 - Jean Dubuffet,
painter (d. 1985)
- August 4 - Louis
Armstrong, jazz musician (d. 1971)
- September 9 - James
Blades, English percussionist (d. 1999)
- September 29 - Enrico
Fermi, Italian physicist (d. 1954)
- September 29 - Lanza del Vasto, philosopher, poet and non-violent
activist (d. 1981)
- October 2 - Kiki, singer
(d. 1953)
- October 10 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor (d. 1966)
- November 22 - Joaquin Rodrigo, composer (d. 1999)
- 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)
- December 16 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist (d. 1978)
- December 19 - Rudolf
Hell, inventor (d. 2002)
- December 25- Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Duchess of
Gloucester
- December 31 - Karl-August Fagerholm, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1984)
- Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, later second
wife of Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (d. 1932)
- Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright.
Deaths
- January 11 - Vasily Kalinnikov, composer
- January 22 - Queen
Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and
Empress of India dies, after the longest ever reign by a British
monarch.
- January 27 - Giuseppe
Verdi, Italian grand opera composer
- February 11 - Milan I, king
of Serbia.
- February 22 - George Francis FitzGerald, mathematician
- March 13 - Benjamin
Harrison, 23rd President of the United
States
- April 3 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, impresario
- June 2 - George
Leslie Mackay, missionary
- July 4 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist
- August 5 - The Empress Frederick, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and mother of
German Emperor Wilhelm II
- September 5 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovene physicist (b. 1853)
- September 9 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter
- September 14 - William McKinley, US President
- 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 29 - Leon
Czolgosz assassin of US President William McKinley
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