Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

* 1783 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia ( d. 1801 )

* 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.

* 1801 – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician ( d. 1876 )

* Alexander I of Russia ( 1801 – 1825 ), Emperor of Russia

* 1801 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen – The British capture the Danish fleet.

* 1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician ( d. 1877 )

** April 1798 – November 1801 Jakob Emmanuel Feer ( b. 1754 – d. 1833 )

* 1713 – Nicola Sala, Italian composer and music theorist ( d. 1801 )

* 1801 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer ( b. 1724 )

After the defeat of the French Campaign in the Battle of the Nile, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 King George III presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs.

* Frédéric Bastiat ( 1801 – 1850 ), classical-liberal author and political economist

#* Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte ( 1801 – 1854 )

#** Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte ( 1803 – 1857 ), ornithologist and politician married Princess Zénaïde Bonaparte ( 1801 – 1854 )

#* Prince Achille Murat ( 1801 – 1847 ), married Catherine Willis Gray ( 1803 – 1867 ), great-grandniece of George Washington.

Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877 ) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States.

* 2 Kings of Etruria ( 1801 – 1807 )

** Louis ( 1801 – 1803 )

The first four censuses ( 1801 – 1831 ) were mainly headcounts and contained little personal information.

*: 1801: Joseph Marie Jacquard invents the Jacquard loom, the first machine to use punched cards to control a sequence of operations.

The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom, invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801, that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with complex patterns such as brocade, damask and matelasse.

* 1801 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist ( d. 1883 )

A check of the website Old Bailey for " Associated Records 1674-1834 " for an alleged trial in December 1801 and hanging of Sweeney Todd for January 1802 shows no reference ; the only murder trial for this period is that of a Governor / Lt Col. Joseph Wall who was hanged 28 January 1802 for killing a Benjamin Armstrong on 10 July 1782 on the isle of Gorée, West Africa, and the discharge of a Humphrey White in January 1802.

* 1801 – Joseph Marie Jacquard invents the Jacquard punched card loom.

* Joseph Haydn, The Seasons ( 1801 )

The existence of saline springs in the county proved to be a strong attraction to early white men, and were mentioned as early as 1801, when Joseph Barron, an interpreter fluent in a number of Native American languages, stated in an affidavit that he was present at the " Vermilion Salines " that year.

The first settlements were made by James Weymouth, Benjamin Smith, Joseph Corning and Nathaniel Cushman, in 1801 and 1802.

The area was first developed in 1801 when a Belgian aristocrat, Henri Joseph Stier, purchased 800 acres situated between two tributaries of the Anacostia River known as the Paint and Northwest branches.

* Joseph Bloomfield ( 1753 – 1823 ), Captain in Revolutionary War, New Jersey Attorney General, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Vice-Admiralty Court, president of the first Society for the Abolition of Slavery, Mayor from 1795 to 1800, Governor of New Jersey ( 1801 – 1802 and 1803 – 1812 ), a Brigadier General in the War of 1812 and U. S. Representative from 1817 to 1821.

* Col. Joseph Hardin ( 1734 – 1801 ) Speaker of the House for the State of Franklin ; trustee of Greeneville ( now Tusculum ) College.

In 1801, Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a punched card system to control operations of the cloth weaving loom in France.

Three panels depicting Hawking in England from various time periods, as reprinted in Joseph Strutt ( engraver and antiquary ) | Joseph Strutt's 1801 book, The sports and pastimes of the people of England from the earliest period.

Étienne Joseph Louis Garnier-Pagès ( December 27, 1801 – June 23, 1841 ) was a French politician, born at Marseille.

* Abraham Hayward ( 1801 – 1884 ), writer and essayist who, with his father Joseph Hayward, an amateur horticulturist of ' Westhill ', Silver Street, Lyme Regis, successfully brought a landmark case in the 1840s on behalf of the citizens of Lyme Regis, to maintain a permanent right of way for the town's citizens across the cliffs to Axmouth and Seaton.

For the Napoleonic French state, the French triangulation was extended by Jean Joseph Tranchot into the German Rhineland from 1801, subsequently completed after 1815 by the Prussian general Karl von Müffling.

** Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia ( 1783 – 1801 ), daughter of Paul I of ; first wife Archduke Joseph of Austria

* Joseph Plateau ( 1801 – 1883 ), a Belgian mathematician

* Joseph Lanner ( 1801 – 1843 ), composer

* Col. Joseph Hardin ( 1734 – 1801 ) Speaker of the House for the State of Franklin ; trustee of Greeneville ( now Tusculum ) College.

* 1801 – 1822 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre

A sales office for the Holland Land Company was opened in 1801 by surveyor and agent Joseph Ellicott in Batavia where land was sold until 1846 when the company was dissolved.

* Hatfield, Joseph T. " Governor William Claiborne, Indians, and Outlaws in Frontier Mississippi, 1801 – 1803 ," Journal of Mississippi History 1965 27 ( 4 ): 323 – 350