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

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

* 1901 – Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer ( d. 1998 )

* 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 )

** Ann Harding, American actress ( b. 1901 )

Some examples of New Woman literature are Victoria Cross's Anna Lombard ( 1901 ), Dixon's The Story of a Modern Woman and H. G. Wells's Ann Veronica ( 1909 ).

Mary Ann Bickerdyke ( July 19, 1817 – November 8, 1901 ), also known as Mother Bickerdyke, was a hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the American Civil War.

As Sister Ann in Bluebeard, 1901

Dean Benjamin McLaughlin ( born October 25, 1901, Brooklyn, Queens, NY, USA ; died December 8, 1965, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, MI, USA ) was an American astronomer.

* Ann Harding ( 1901 – 1981 ), American actress

He served as Republican mayor of Ann Arbor from 1901 to 1903, as president of the Ann Arbor Board of Education from 1907 to 1908, and as president of the Ann Arbor Board of Park Commissioners.

In the 1901 census Allen was living at Fox Lane in Leyland with his 2nd wife Margaret ( Whittle ), daughter of James Whittle, a coachman, & Ann Mills, whom he had married in 1900.

He appears in the 1901 Census as a two-year-old boy along with his stonemason father William John Patch, mother Elizabeth Ann ( née Morris ), and older brothers George Frederick and William Thomas at a house called " Fonthill ".

He was married to Elizabeth Ann Bliss ( 1824 – 1901 ), daughter of William Blowers Bliss and Sarah Ann Anderson.

* 1891 – 1901 James A. Harding

It would not be too many years before these roles were reversed, however, with Harding elected to the state senate in 1901 and appointed Republican floor leader in that same session.

State funerals have been held in Washington D. C. for William Henry Harrison ( 1841 ), Zachary Taylor ( 1850 ), Abraham Lincoln ( 1865 ), Thaddeus Stevens ( 1868 ), James A. Garfield ( 1881 ), William McKinley ( 1901 ), Warren Harding ( 1920 ), the Unknown Soldier of World War I ( 1921 ), William Howard Taft ( 1930 ), John J. Pershing ( 1948 ), the Unknown Soldiers of World War II and the Korean War ( 1958 ), John F. Kennedy ( 1963 ), Douglas MacArthur ( 1964 ), Herbert Hoover ( 1964 ), Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1969 ), Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1973 ), Ronald Reagan ( 2004 ), and Gerald Ford ( 2006-2007 ).

* William Harding Jackson ( 1901 – 1971 ), U. S. National Security Advisor, 1956

William Harding Jackson ( II ) ( March 25, 1901 – September 28, 1971 ) was a U. S. civilian administrator, New York lawyer, and investment banker who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Born William Harding Jackson ( II ), March 25, 1901 on the Belle Meade Plantation, in Nashville, Tennessee to parents William Harding Jackson ( I ) and wife, Anne Davis ( Richardson ) Jackson ( later remarried to Stevenson ).

* Rowe Harding ( 1901 – 1991 ), Welsh rugby union player

* William Harding Jackson ( 1901 – 1971 ), Deputy Director of the CIA in the 1950s