* 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 – 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 )

Annie Jump Cannon and Edward C. Pickering at Harvard College Observatory developed a method of categorization that became known as the Harvard Classification Scheme, published in the Harvard Annals in 1901.

On October 24, 1901, 63-year-old Michigan school teacher Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to go over the falls in a barrel as a publicity stunt ; she survived, bleeding, but virtually unharmed.

* Anna Lombard, a 1901 novel by Annie Sophie Cory writing as Victoria Cross

However Annie had it changed on June 1, 1901 to the name of the large bay on which the village was located.

Annie Oakley between 1885 and 1901

* Thought Forms ( With Annie Besant ) ( 1901 )

The most popularly celebrated case of retrocognition concerns the visions in 1901 of Annie Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain – two scholars and early administrators of British university education for women – as they tried to find their way to Marie Antoinette's private château, the Petit Trianon.

In 1901 one of his lectures on paleontology inspired the young Annie Montague Alexander, who financed and took part in his expedition that year to Fossil Lake in Oregon.

Elizabeth Hamilton ( 1847 – 1901 ); Agnes Crooks ( 1849 – 1889 ); James ( 1851 – 1920 ); Alexander ( 1853 – 1900 ); Marion ( 1855 – 1892 ); Mary Jean ( 1862 – 1928 ); Emily Ellen ( 1864 – 1944 ); Jessie Sophia ( 1866 – 1946 ); Annie Euphemia ( 1868 – 1952 ); Henrietta Maude ( 1872 – 1950 ).

Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell was born in Cowley, Oxford on 19 April 1901 to James, a market gardener of Scottish parentage, and Annie.

Born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1901, Boucher was the youngest son in a family of six sons and two daughters born to Tom Boucher and Annie Carroll.

Annie Edson Taylor ( October 24, 1838April 29, 1921 ) was an American adventurer who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

He married Annie Adkins of Winnipeg in 1901, and they had five children.

* 1901 – Chuck Taylor, American basketball player and salesman ( d. 1969 )

Taylor was forced to leave Bethlehem Steel in 1901 after antagonisms with other managers.

His initial idea to set up a large-scale tax-exempt foundation occurred in 1901, but it was not until 1906 that Senior's famous business and philanthropic advisor, Frederick Taylor Gates, seriously revived the idea, saying that Rockefeller's fortune was rolling up so fast his heirs would " dissipate their inheritances or become intoxicated with power ", unless he set up " permanent corporate philanthropies for the good of Mankind ".

* Thomas Gascoyne, an English dual world record holder who defeated Marshal Taylor twice in one day at Boston on 20 July 1901.

General Maxwell Davenport " Max " Taylor ( August 26, 1901 – April 19, 1987 ) was a United States Army four star general and diplomat of the mid-20th century, who served as the fifth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after having been appointed by the President of the United States John F. Kennedy.

* May 14-E. P. Taylor, business tycoon and race horse breeder ( b. 1901 )

* Chuck Taylor ( salesman ) ( 1901 – 1969 ), basketball player and shoe salesman

One of those elite was Canada's E. P. Taylor ( 1901 – 1989 ), chairman of a giant business conglomerate, the founder of the Jockey Club of Canada, and later the president of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association.

Edward Plunket Taylor ( January 29, 1901 – May 14, 1989 ) was a Canadian business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred race horses.

* Chuck Taylor ( salesman ) ( 1901 – 1969 ), American basketball player and shoe salesman / evangelist

The first crematory in Canada was built by Sir Andrew Taylor ( Architect ) in 1901 on the eastern side of the Mount Royal Cemetery property with funds donated by Sir William Christopher Macdonald, a well-known tobacco tycoon and great philanthropist.

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 ).

Taylor actually threw 187 consecutive complete games between June 1901 and August 1906., but this streak was interrupted by 15 additional relief appearances.

Taylor began playing ball with an amateur club in Anderson, South Carolina in 1901, starting as a catcher.

Taylor used the American Standard Version of 1901 as his base text.

The Living Bible, released in 1971, was published by its author Kenneth N. Taylor, based on the literal American Standard Version of 1901.

George Quayle Cannon ( January 11, 1827 – April 12, 1901 ) was an early member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), and served in the First Presidency under four successive presidents of the church: Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and Lorenzo Snow.

With the death of his father in 1901, Taylor began working in the stables of a horse trainer and then as a jockey on Melbourne's inner-city pony circuit.

Romantic critics such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt raised admiration for Shakespeare to worship or even " bardolatry " ( a sarcastic coinage from bard + idolatry by George Bernard Shaw in 1901, meaning excessive or religious worship of Shakespeare ).

* Isaac Taylor ( 1829 – 1901 ), churchman and author ;

Within months the leading players of the day, led by the legendary JH Taylor had galvanised enough support to form the London & Counties Golf Professionals ' Association on 9 September 1901 ( changed at the first AGM on 2 December to The Professional Golfers ' Association )-the world's first ever golf association.

She practiced obstetrics, gynecology, and surgery, and cared for patients in her own home until she established the Taylor Lane Hospital and Training School for Nurses, the first black hospital in the city of Columbia, in 1901.

Matilda Simpson was the daughter of Thomas Jacques and Jane Taylor born on 7 August 1814, either at Cottingham ( 1851 and 1881 census ), or at Dunswell ( 1901 census ), depending on which census you believe.