* 1901 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic activist ( d. 1925 )

* 1901 – Lowell Stockman, American politician ( d. 1962 )

* 1901 – Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian economist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1985 )

* 1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.

* 1901 – Charles Farrell, American actor ( d. 1990 )

His successor Joe Darling won the next three series in 1899, 1901 – 02 and the classic 1902 series, which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket.

* 1835 – Elisha Gray, American inventor and businessman, co-founded Western Electric ( d. 1901 )

* 1999 – Jesse Stone, American musician and songwriter ( b. 1901 )

* 1901 – Francisco Guilledo, Filipino boxer ( d. 1925 )

* 1901 – John C. Stennis, American politician ( d. 1995 )

* 1901 – Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal ( d. 1981 )

* 1975 – Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer ( b. 1901 )

* 1901 – Ann Harding, American actress ( d. 1981 )

* 1901 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

* 1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.

* 1901 – Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician ( d. 1975 )

* 1831 – John Jones Ross, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Quebec ( d. 1901 )

* 1901 – Guy Bush, American baseball player ( d. 1985 )

* 1901 – John Sherman Cooper, American politician ( d. 1991 )

* María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, ( 11 September 1880 – 17 October 1904 ), married on 14 February 1901 to Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and titular heiress from the death of her father until the posthumous birth of her brother

* 1901 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines.

* 1901 – Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 1986 )

* 1901 – John Gunther, American journalist and author ( d. 1970 )

* 1901 – Roy Wilkins, American activist ( d. 1981 )

In 1901, Wallis's aunt Bessie Merryman was widowed, and the following year Alice and Wallis moved into her four-bedroom house at 9 West Chase Street, Baltimore, where they lived for at least a year until they settled in an apartment, and then a house, of their own.

Alice Ernestine Prin ( 2 October 1901 – 29 April 1953 ), nicknamed Queen of Montparnasse, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French artist model, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter.

The episode was featured in the 1901 novel Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson.

Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ( née Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott ; 25 December 1901 – 29 October 2004 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, the wife and then widow of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of George V and Mary of Teck.

Lady Alice was born, in Montagu House, Whitehall, London, on Christmas Day 1901 as the third daughter of John Montagu Douglas Scott, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, and his wife, the former Lady Margaret Bridgeman, daughter of George Bridgeman, 4th Earl of Bradford.

* 25 December 1901 – 5 November 1935: The Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott

His mother was Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ( 1901 – 2004 ), the third daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch.

* Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ( 1901 – 2004 ), member of the British Royal Family, the wife and then widow of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of King George V and Queen Mary

Mrs. Depew died May 7, 1893 Married ( 2 ) December 27, 1901, in Nice, France, May, daughter of Henry and Alice ( Hermann ) Palmer.

Alice Roosevelt, formal portrait by Theobald Chartran 1901.

** Alice Smith ( 27 July 1882 – 29 April 1901 )

When Trefusis was four years old, Alice Keppel became the favourite mistress of Albert Edward ( Bertie ), the Prince of Wales, who became King Edward VII on 22 January 1901.

Married to an American, Alice Marie Davis ( 1873 – 1956 ), his children were Helen Lehmann ( 1899 – 1985 ), the novelist Rosamond Lehmann ( 1901 – 1990 ), the actress Beatrix Lehmann ( 1903 – 1979 ) and the writer and publisher John Lehmann ( 1907 – 1987 ).

* Alice Prin ( Kiki ) ( 1901 – 1953 ), nightclub singer, actress, model, and painter

* Alice Betteridge ( 1901 – 1966 ): first deafblind Australian to be educated.

Wren worked as a boarding school teacher for a few years, during which he married Alice Shovelier, and had a daughter ( Estelle, born 1901 ).

In 1901 Charles Greene married Alice Gordon White, and they honeymooned in Europe and her native England.

More recent authors include Charles Ferdinand Ramuz ( 1878 – 1947 ), whose novels describe the lives of peasants and mountain dwellers, set in a harsh environment, the poets Blaise Cendrars ( born Frédéric Sauser, 1887 – 1961 ), Gustave Roud ( 1897 – 1976 ), Maurice Chappaz ( 1916 – 2009 ) and Philippe Jaccottet (* 1925 ) and the novelists Catherine Colomb ( 1892 – 1965 ), Monique Saint-Hélier ( 1895 – 1955 ), Alice Rivaz ( 1901 – 1998 ) and Prix Goncourt winner Jacques Chessex ( 1934 – 2009 ).

* Lady Margaret Alice Seymour ( 1869 – 1901 ), married James Ismay and had issue.

* Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ( 1901 – 2004 ), wife of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, third son of King George V and Queen Mary ; née Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott

About this time she went to North America and provided the illustrations, many in colour, to A Guide to the Wild Flowers, by Alice Lounsberry, published in New York in 1899 as well as Guide to the Trees ( 1900 ), and Southern Wild Flowers and Trees ( 1901 ) also by Lounsberry.