1901

This article is about the year 1901. For other uses, see January 7 Alferd Packer is released from prison
1901 (disambiguation). after serving 18 years for cannibalism.

January 9 Lord Kitchener reports that Christiaan

1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tues-
day (dominical letter F) of the Gregorian calendar and
a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G)
of the Julian calendar, the 1901st year of the Common
Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 901st
year of the 2nd millennium, the 1st year of the 20th cen-
tury, and the 2nd year of the 1900s decade. As of the
start of 1901, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead
of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use
until 1923.
1 Events
1.1 January
Main article: January 1901
de Wet has shot one of the peace envoys, and
ogged two more, who had gone to his commando
to ask the Burgher citizens of South Africa to halt
ghting.[1]
January 10 In the rst great Texas gusher, oil is
discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
January 22
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom dies at
age 81, after more than 63 years on the throne,
and her son the Prince of Wales formally suc-
ceeds her as King Edward VII.
The Grand Opera House in Cincinnati is de-
stroyed in a re.
January 28 Baseball's American League declares
itself a Major League.

January 1: The Commonwealth of Australia forms as British

colonies federate.

January 1
The British colonies of New South Wales,
Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania,
Victoria and Western Australia federate as the
Commonwealth of Australia. Edmund Barton
becomes rst Prime Minister of Australia.
Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
The birth of Pentecostalism at a prayer meet-
ing at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas.
January 5 Typhoid fever breaks out in a Seattle January 22: King Edward VII ascends the British throne and also
jail, the rst of two typhoid outbreaks in the United becomes Emperor of India.
States during the year.

1
2 1 EVENTS
1.2 February
Main article: February 1901
February 2 Funeral of Queen Victoria at St
Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle.
February 5
HayPauncefote Treaty signed by United
Kingdom and United States, ceding control of
the Panama Canal to the United States.
J. P. Morgan buys mines and steel mills in the
United States, marking the rst billion dollar
business deal.
In Evansville, Indiana, a re burns through the
business district, causing $175,000 of damage.
February 11 Anti-Jesuit riots sweep across Spain.
February 12 Viceroy of India Lord Curzon creates
the new North-West Frontier Province in the north
of the Punjab region, bordering Afghanistan.
February 14 Edward VII opens his rst parliament
of the United Kingdom.
February 15 The Alianza Lima Foundation is cre-
ated in Peru.
February 20 The Hawaii Territory Legislature
convenes for the rst time.
February 22 The Pacic Mail Steamship Com-
pany's SS City of Rio de Janeiro sinks entering San
Francisco Bay, killing 128.
February 23 The United Kingdom and Germany
agree the frontier between German East Africa and
the British colony of Nyasaland.
February 25 U.S. Steel is incorporated by indus-
trialist J. P. Morgan as the rst billion-dollar corpo-
ration.
February 26
Chi-hsui and Hsu-cheng-yu, Boxer Rebellion 1.4 April
leaders, executed in Peking.
Main article: April 1901
The Middelburg peace conference fails in
South Africa as Boers continue to demand au-
tonomy. April 25 New York becomes the rst US state to
February 27 The Sultan of Turkey orders 50,000
troops to the Bulgarian frontier because of unrest in
Macedonia
1.3 March
Main article: March 1901
March 1
The United Kingdom, Germany and Japan
protest at the Sino-Russian agreement on
Manchuria.
1901 Census of India taken, the fourth, and
rst reliable, census of the British Raj.
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 4 William McKinley is sworn in for a sec-
ond term as President of the United States.
March 5 Irish nationalist demonstrators are ejected
by police from House of Commons of the United
Kingdom in London.
March 6 In Bremen, an assassination attempt is
made on Wilhelm II, German Emperor.
March 11 The United Kingdom rejects the
amended HayPauncefote Treaty.
March 13 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of
the United States, dies of pneumonia at age 67.
March 17
A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings
in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sen-
sation.
Student riots in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.
March 18 Patrick Donahoe, businessman and pub-
lisher of the Boston Catholic newspaper The Pilot,
dies aged 90.
March 31
1901 Black Sea earthquake of 7.2 on the
moment magnitude scale.
The United Kingdom Census 1901 is taken.
The number of people employed in manufac-
turing is at its highest-ever level.
require automobile license plates.
April 29 Anti-Jewish rioting breaks out in
Budapest.
1.6 June
March 6: Wilhelm II, German Emperor, survives an assassina-
tion attempt.
1.5 May
Main article: May 1901
May 3 The Great Fire of 1901 begins in
Jacksonville, Florida.
May 5 The Caste War of Yucatn in Mexico of-
cially ends, although Mayan skirmishers continue Main article: July 1901
sporadic ghting for another decade.
May 9 The rst Australian Parliament opens in
Melbourne.
May 17 Panic of 1901: The New York Stock Ex-
change crashes.
May 24 81 miners are killed in an accident at Uni-
versal Colliery, Senghenydd in South Wales.
May 25 The Club Atltico River Plate is founded
in Argentina.
May 27 In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery
Company is founded.
May 28 Persia grants William Knox D'Arcy a con-
cession, giving him the right to prospect for oil.
3
1.6 June
Main article: June 1901
June Emily Hobhouse reports on the genocide in
the 45 British concentration camps for Boer women
and children in South Africa in which, over an 18-
month period, 26,370 people would die, 24,000 of
them children under 16. Exact mortality gures in
the 64 concentration camps for black displaced farm
workers and their families are not known, but they
are even worse.[2]
June 2 Katsura Tar becomes Prime Minister of
Japan.
June 12 Cuba becomes a United States
protectorate.
June 15 RMS Lucania is the rst Cunard Line ship
to receive a wireless radio set.
June 12: Cuba becomes a United States protectorate.
1.7 July
July 1
The rst United Kingdom Fingerprint Bu-
reau is established at Scotland Yard, the
Metropolitan Police headquarters in London,
by Edward Henry.
Bureau of Chemistry established within the
United States Department of Agriculture.
July 4
The 1,282 foot (390 m) covered bridge cross-
ing the Saint John River at Hartland, New
Brunswick, Canada opens. It is the longest
covered bridge in the world.
William Howard Taft becomes Governor-
General of the Philippines.
4 1 EVENTS

July 10 The worlds rst passenger-carrying

trolleybus in regular service operates on the Biela
Valley Trolleybus route at Koeninggstein in Ger-
many.
July 24 O. Henry is released from prison in
Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for
embezzlement from the First National Bank in
Austin, Texas.

1.8 August
Main article: August 1901

September 6: US President William McKinley is shot and fatally

wounded.

Silliman University is the rst American private school in the

Philippines.

August 5 Peter O'Connor sets the rst

International Association of Athletics Federa-
tions recognised long jump world record of 24 ft
11ins. The record will stand for 20 years.
August 6 Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon
Scott sets sail on the RRS Discovery to explore the
Ross Sea in Antarctica.
August 14 The rst claimed powered ight, by
Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
August 21 The International Secretariat of
National Trade Union Centres is founded in September 7: The Boxer Rebellion in China ends with the signing
of the Peking Protocol.
Copenhagen.
August 28 Silliman University is founded in the
Philippines, the rst American private school in the September 2 U.S. Vice President Theodore Roo-
country.[3] sevelt utters the famous phrase, Speak softly and
carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
August 30 Hubert Cecil Booth patents an electric
vacuum cleaner in the United Kingdom. September 5 The National Association of Pro-
fessional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor
League Baseball), is formed in Chicago.
1.9 September
September 6 William McKinley assassination:
Main article: September 1901 American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S.
President William McKinley at the Pan-American
1.11 November
1.11 November
Main article: November 1901
September 14: Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the
United States on the death of William McKinley.
Exposition in Bualo, New York. McKinley dies 8
days later.
September 7 The Boxer Rebellion in China o-
cially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
September 14 Vice President Theodore Roosevelt
succeeds William McKinley as President of the
United States, upon McKinleys death. Roosevelt is
sworn in that afternoon.
September 26 The body of U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in con-
crete several feet thick.
September 28 PhilippineAmerican War: 1.12 December
Balangiga massacre: Filipino guerrillas kill more
than forty United States soldiers in a surprise attack Main article: December 1901
in the town of Balangiga in Samar.
1.10 October
Main article: October 1901
October 2 The British Royal Navy's rst
submarine, Holland 1, is launched at Barrow-in-
Furness.
October 4 The American yacht Columbia defeats
the British Shamrock in the Americas Cup yachting
race.
5
October 16 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in-
vites African American leader Booker T. Washing-
ton to the White House. The American South reacts
angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in
the region.
October 23 Yale University celebrates its
bicentennial.
October 24 Michigan schoolteacher Annie Edson
Taylor goes over Niagara Falls in a barrel and sur-
vives.
October 29 In Amherst, New York, nurse Jane
Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family
of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
November 1 Sigma Phi Epsilon is founded in
Richmond, Virginia.
November 9 The Prince George, Duke of Corn-
wall (later George V) becomes Prince of Wales and
Earl of Chester.
November 15 The Alpha Sigma Alpha Fraternity
is founded at Longwood University in Farmville,
Virginia.
November 25 Auguste Deter is rst examined
by German psychiatrist Dr Alois Alzheimer, lead-
ing to a diagnosis of the condition that will carry
Alzheimers name.[4]
November 28 The new Constitution of Alabama
requires voters in the state to have passed literacy
tests.
December 3 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Rep-
resentatives asking Congress to curb the power of
trusts within reasonable limits.
December 10 The rst Nobel Prize ceremony is
held in Stockholm on the fth anniversary of Alfred
Nobel's death.
December 12 Guglielmo Marconi receives the rst
trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu in Eng-
land, UK to Newfoundland; it is the letter S in
Morse.[5]
6 2 BIRTHS

December 20 The nal spike is driven into the

MombasaVictoriaUganda Railway in what is now
Kisumu, Kenya.

December 22 Peace Sunday and Charles Aked, a

Baptist minister in Liverpool, says about the war in
South Africa: Great Britain cannot win the battles
without resorting to the last despicable cowardice
of the most loathsome cur on earth the act of
striking a brave mans heart through his wifes hon-
our and his childs life. The cowardly war has been
conducted by methods of barbarism... the concen-
tration camps have been Murder Camps. A crowd
follows him home and breaks the windows of his
house.[6]

1.13 Date unknown

Europium is isolated by Eugne-Anatole Demaray.

The okapi is observed for the rst time (previously

known only to local natives).

The Intercollegiate Prohibition Association is estab- Clark Gable

lished in Chicago.

New Zealand inventor Ernest Godward invents the

spiral hairpin.

William S. Harley draws up plans for his rst proto-

type motorcycle.

German Oscar Troplowitz invents for German com-

pany Beiersdorf the medical plaster patch called
Leukoplast.

German engineer Richard Fiedler invents the mod-

ern Flamethrower, the Kleinammenwerfer.

2 Births

2.1 JanuaryFebruary
January 3 Ng nh Dim, 1st President of South
Vietnam (d. 1963)

January 4 C. L. R. James, Trinidad-born writer

and journalist (d. 1989)
Zeppo Marx
January 9

Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973) January 13

Vilma Bnky, Hungarian-American actress
(d. 1991)
January 10 Henning von Tresckow, Major General
in the German Wehrmacht (d. 1944)
January 11 Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988)
A. B. Guthrie, American novelist, historian (d.
1991)
Mieczysaw ywczyski, Polish historian and
priest (d. 1978)
Wilhelm Hanle, German physicist (d. 1993)
2.2 MarchApril
Linus Pauling
January 14
Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971)
Alfred Tarski, Polish logician and mathemati-
cian (d. 1983)
January 16
Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973)
Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
January 21 Marcellus Boss, American politician
and lawyer, member of Kansas Senate and 5th
Civilian Governor of Guam (d. 1967)
January 24
Hans Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (d.
1972)
Harry Calder, South African cricketer (d.
1995)
January 25 Mildred Dunnock, American actress
(d. 1991)
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)
7
February 1
Frank Buckles, last surviving American vet-
eran of World War I (d. 2011)
Howard I. Chapelle, American naval architect,
museum curator, and author (d. 1975)
Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
February 2 Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d.
1987)
February 3 Arvid Wallman, Swedish diver (d.
1982)
February 8 Virginius Dabney, American teacher,
journalist, writer and editor (d. 1995)
February 10
Stella Adler, American actress/acting teacher
(d. 1992)
Anthony Prusinski, American politician (d.
1950)
February 15 Joo Branco Nncio, Portuguese bull-
ghter (d. 1976)
February 16 Chester Morris, American actor (d.
1970)
February 19 Florence Green, Last surviving World
War I veteran (d. 2012)
February 20 Mohammed Naguib, 1st President of
Egypt (d. 1984)
February 22
Mildred Davis, American actress (d. 1969)
Charles Evans Whittaker, Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States (d.
1973)
February 25 Zeppo Marx, American comedian (d.
1979)
February 27 Horatio Luro, Argentine horse trainer
(d. 1991)
February 28 Linus Pauling, American chemist, re-
cipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace
(d. 1994)
2.2 MarchApril
March 3 Claude Choules, British World War I vet-
eran and last combat veteran from any nation (d.
2011)
March 4
Charles Goren, American bridge player (d.
1991)
8 2 BIRTHS

March 13 Paul Fix, American actor (d. 1983)

March 17 Alfred Newman, American lm com-

poser (d. 1970)

March 21

Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)

Carmelita Geraghty, American actress (d.
1966)

March 22 Greta Kempton, American artist (d.

1991)

March 23 Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious

writer (d. 1982)

March 24 Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d.

1971)

March 25 Ed Begley, American actor (d. 1970)

March 27
Ed Begley Carl Barks, American cartoonist and screen-
writer (d. 2000)
Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d.
1963)
Enrique Santos Discpolo, Argentine tango
and milonga musician and composer (d. 1951)
Eisaku Sat, Prime Minister of Japan, recipi-
ent of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975)
Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971)

March 28 Jack Weil, American entrepreneur (d.

2008)

April 1 Whittaker Chambers, American spy (d.

1961)

April 5 Melvyn Douglas, American actor (d.

1981)

April 13 Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and

psychiatrist (d. 1981)

April 15

Joe Davis, English snooker and billiards player

(d. 1978)

Hirohito Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief

Minister of West Bengal (d. 1986)

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy-French April 18 Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967)

poet (d. 1937)
April 29 Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)

March 9 Joachim Hmmerling, German-Danish April 30 Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born

biologist (d. 1980) economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
2.3 MayJune 9

Henri Lefebvre

Gary Cooper
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)

Doris Fleeson, American journalist (d. 1970)

May 21

Manfred Aschner, German-born Israeli mi-

crobiologist and entomologist, recipient of the
Israel Prize (d. 1989).
Horace Heidt, American bandleader (d. 1986)
Sam Jae, American lm producer (d. 2000)
Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist, and
playwright (d. 1992)

May 25 Antnio de Alcntara Machado, Brazilian

novelist (d. 1935)

May 31 Alfredo Antonini, American conductor

Zhang Xueliang and composer (d. 1983)

June 3 Zhang Xueliang, Chinese military leader

2.3 MayJune (d. 2001)

May 2 Chiyo Miyako, Japanese supercentenarian
May 7 Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
May 11 Rose Auslnder, German poet (d. 1988)
June 6 Sukarno, rst President of Indonesia (d.
1970)
June 8 Salustiano Sanchez, Spanish-born Ameri-
can supercentenarian, oldest living man (d. 2013)
10 2 BIRTHS

June 12 Arnold Kirkeby, American hotelier, art

collector, and real estate investor (d. 1962)
June 13
Tage Erlander, Swedish politician (social
democrat), prime minister of Sweden for 23
years (19461969) (d. 1985)
Jean Prvost, French writer and journalist,
member of the Maquis (d. 1944)
June 16 Henri Lefebvre, French Marxist philoso-
pher and sociologist (d. 1991)
June 17 F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, English World War
II hero (d. 1964)
June 18 Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (d.
1918)
June 23 Chuck Taylor, American basketball player
and salesman (d. 1969)
June 24
Marcel Mule, French saxophonist (d. 2001)
Harry Partch, American composer (d. 1974)
June 27 Merle Tuve, American physicist (d. 1982) Ernest Lawrence
June 29 Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor
(d. 1967) July 10 Daniel V. Gallery, American admiral and
author (d. 1977)

2.4 JulyAugust July 17 Bruno Jasieski, Polish poet (d. 1938)

July 20 Heinie Manush, American baseball player

(d. 1971)

July 21 Albert Hamilton Gordon, American busi-

nessman and philanthropist (d. 2009)

July 24 Mabel Albertson, American actress (d.

1982)

July 28 Rudy Vallee, American jazz musician (d.

1986)

July 31 Jean Dubuet, French painter (d. 1985)

August 1 Pancho Villa, Filipino boxer (d. 1925)

August 4 Louis Armstrong, American jazz musi-

Louis Armstrong
cian (d. 1971)

August 5 Thomas J. Ryan, American admiral (d.

1970)
July 7
Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese lm director and spe- August 8 Ernest Lawrence, American physicist,
cial eects designer (d. 1970) Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)

Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and lm director August 10 Franco Dino Rasetti, Italian scientist (d.
(d. 1974) 2001)

July 9 Barbara Cartland, British novelist (d. 2000) August 14 Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (d. 1998)
2.5 SeptemberOctober 11

August 18
Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
Jean Guitton, French writer and philosopher
(d. 1999)
August 20 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
August 24 Edmund Germer German electrical en-
gineer and inventor (d. 1987)
August 26
Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987)
Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and
politician (d. 1972)
August 28 Babe London, American actress and
comedian (d. 1980)
August 30 John Gunther, American writer (d.
1970)

2.5 SeptemberOctober

Ed Sullivan

Jaroslav Seifert

September 4 William Lyons, British automobile

engineer and designer (d. 1985)
September 9 Enrico Fermi
James Blades, English percussionist (d. 1999)
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, Prime Minister of Shmuel Horowitz, Russian-born Israeli
South Africa (d. 1966) agronomist (d. 1999)

September 12 September 15 Sir Donald Bailey, British civil en-

gineer (d. 1985)
Ben Blue, Canadian-born comedian and actor
(d. 1975) September 17 Sir Francis Chichester, British sailor
12
Alberto Giacometti
(d. 1972)
September 22
Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer re-
searcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Phys-
iology or Medicine (d. 1997)
Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, second wife of
Joseph Stalin (d. 1932)
September 23 Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
September 24 Gerald Warner Brace, American
writer, educator, sailor and boat builder (d. 1978)
September 25 Gordon Coventry, Australian rules
footballer (d. 1968)
September 26 George Raft, American lm actor
(d. 1980)
September 28
Ed Sullivan, American entertainer (d. 1974)
William S. Paley, American businessman
(CBS) (d. 1990)
September 29
Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1954)
Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher, poet, and
activist (d. 1981)
2 BIRTHS
October 2 Alice Prin, French singer (d. 1953)
October 3 Jean Grmillon, French lm director (d.
1959)
October 10 Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d.
1966)
October 19 Arleigh Burke, American admiral (d.
1996)
October 20 Adelaide Hall, American jazz singer
and entertainer born in Brooklyn, New York (d.
1993)
October 24
Gilda Gray, Polish-born dancer and actress (d.
1959)
Moultrie Kelsall, Scottish lm and television
actor (d. 1980)
October 28 Hilo Hattie, Native Hawaiian singer
and actress (d. 1979)
October 29 Ana Mara Vela Rubio, Spanish super-
centenarian
2.6 NovemberDecember
November 3
Prithviraj Kapoor, pioneer of Indian Cinema
and Indian Theatre (d. 1972)
Lopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
November 4
Masako Nashimoto, Crown Princess of Korea
(d. 1989)
Max Wagner, Mexican-born American lm
actor (d. 1975)
November 7 Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and
illustrator (d. 1980)
November 13 Arturo Jauretche, Argentine writer,
politician, and philosopher (d. 1974)
November 18 George Gallup, American statisti-
cian and opinion pollster (d. 1984)
November 22 Joaqun Rodrigo, Spanish composer
(d. 1999)
November 28
Walter Havighurst, American critic, novelist,
literary and social historian of the Midwest,
professor of English at Miami University, (d.
1994)
Roy Urquhart, British general (d. 1988)
 13

Marlene Dietrich

Walt Disney, American animator and lm pro-

ducer (d. 1966)
Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1976)
December 7 Troy Sanders, American lm score
composer (d. 1959)
Werner Heisenberg
December 8 Arthur Leslie, British actor (d. 1970)
December 12 Fred Barker, American criminal,
youngest son of Ma Barker (d. 1935)
December 16 Margaret Mead, American cultural
anthropologist (d. 1978)
December 19 Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d.
2002)
December 25 Princess Alice, Duchess of Glouces-
ter (d. 2004)
December 27 Marlene Dietrich, German-
American actress (d. 1992)
December 31
Julia Bathory, Hungarian glass designer (d.
2000)
Karl-August Fagerholm, Prime Minister of
Finland (d. 1984)
Walt Disney

November 29 Mildred Harris, American actress 3 Deaths

(d. 1944)

December 5 3.1 JanuaryJune

Milton Erickson, American psychiatrist (d. January 1 Ignatius L. Donnelly, U.S. politician and
1980) writer (b. 1831)
14 3 DEATHS

Albert, 4th duc de Broglie Giuseppe Verdi

King Milan of Serbia

Queen Victoria
January 10 Sir James Dickson, Premier of
Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b.
1832)
January 8 John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victo-
ria Cross (b. 1873) January 11 Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer
3.1 JanuaryJune 15

Marthinus Wessel Pretorius

Benjamin Harrison

author, (b. 1824)

January 16

Arnold Bcklin, Swiss artist (b. 1827)

Mahadev Govind Ranade, Indian reformer (b.
1842)

January 17 Frederic W. H. Myers, British poet (b.

1843)

January 19 Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, French

politician and 2-Time Prime Minister of France (b.
1821)

January 21 Elisha Gray, American inventor and

appliance manufacturer (b. 1835)

January 22 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

and Empress of India (b. 1819)

January 27 Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b.

1813)

January 28 Iosif Gurko, Russian eld marshal (b.

1828)

February 7 Ana Betancourt, Cuban national hero-

Mariano Ignacio Prado ine (b. 1832)

February 10 Max von Pettenkofer Bavarian

(b. 1866) chemist and hygienist (b. 1818)

January 14 Vctor Balaguer, Spanish politician and February 11

16 3 DEATHS

King Milan I of Serbia (b. 1854)

Ramn de Campoamor, Spanish poet (b.
1817)

February 22 George Francis FitzGerald, Irish

mathematician (b. 1851)

February 26 Lucyna wierczakiewiczowa, Polish

writer (b. 1829)

March 13 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of

the United States (b. 1833)

April 3 Richard D'Oyly Carte, English impresario

(b. 1844)

April 19 Alfred Horatio Belo, American business-

man and newswriter (b. 1839)

May 1 Lewis Waterman, American inventor and

businessman (b. 1837)

May 5
Francesco Crispi
Axel Wilhelm Eriksson, Swedish settler and
trader in South-West Africa (b. 1846)
Mariano Ignacio Prado, Peruvian military and
statesman, 2-Time President of Peru (b. 1826)

May 19 Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, 1st President

of South Africa (b. 1819)

May 22 Gaetano Bresci Italian anarchist and as-

sassin (b. 1869)

May 24 Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist

(b. 1823)

May 31 Ernest de Sarzec, French archeologist (b.

1832)

June 2 George Leslie Mackay, Canadian mission-

ary (b. 1844)

June 9

Walter Besant, English writer (b. 1836)

Adolf Btticher, German art historian (b.
Adolf Eugen Fick
1842)

June 13 Leopoldo Alas, 'Clarn', Spanisn novelist 3.2 JulyDecember

(b. 1852)
July 4
June 16 Herman Grimm, German historian (b.
1828) John Fiske, American philosopher (b. 1842)
3.2 JulyDecember 17

William McKinley

August 21 Adolf Eugen Fick, German-born physi-

cian and physiologist (b. 1829)
August 24 Clara Maass, American nurse (b. 1876)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
September 5 Ignacij Klemeni, Slovenian physi-
cist (b. 1853)
Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843)
September 9 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French
July 6 painter (b. 1864)
September 14 William McKinley, 25th President
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