* 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 )

Aron Gurwitsch ( January 17, 1901, Vilnius, Vilna Governorate – June 25, 1973, Zurich ) was a Litvak American philosopher working in the field of phenomenology.

* December 10 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-born violinist ( b. 1901 )

As a philosopher, Ernst Haeckel wrote Die Welträtsel ( 1895 – 1899, in English, The Riddle of the Universe, 1901 ), the genesis for the term " world riddle " ( Welträtsel ); and Freedom in Science and Teaching to support teaching evolution.

* 1817 – Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher ( d. 1901 )

** Arturo Jauretche, Argentine writer, politician, and philosopher ( b. 1901 )

* June 29 – Henri Lefebvre, French sociologist and philosopher ( b. 1901 )

** Lanza del Vasto, Italian-born philosopher, poet, and activist ( b. 1901 )

Charles W. Morris ( May 23, 1901, Denver, Colorado – January 15, 1979, Gainesville, Florida ) was an American semiotician and philosopher.

John Fiske, 1878John Fiske ( March 30, 1842 – July 4, 1901 ) was an American philosopher and historian.

* Jean Guitton ( 1901 – 1999 ) a Catholic philosopher and theologian.

Lanza del Vasto, ( Giuseppe Giovanni Luigi Enrico Lanza di Trabia ), ( September 29, 1901 – January 5, 1981 ) was a philosopher, poet, artist, catholic and nonviolent activist.

One of the most delicate and controversial areas of Tveitt's biography is his affiliation with the so-called Neo-Heathenistic movement, which centered around the Norwegian philosopher Hans S. Jacobsen ( 1901 – 1980 ) in the 1930s in Oslo.

After Mach's resignation in Vienna in 1901, Boltzmann returned there and decided to become a philosopher himself to refute philosophical objections to his physics, but he soon became discouraged again.

* Henri Lefebvre ( 1901 – 1991 ), French philosopher, sociologist, and intellectual

Grete ( Henry -) Hermann (* March 2, 1901 in Bremen, † April 15, 1984 in Bremen ) was a German mathematician and philosopher noted for her work in mathematics, physics, philosophy and education.

Ernest Nagel ( November 16, 1901 – September 20, 1985 ) was an American philosopher of science.

Rudolf Haym ( 5 October 1821 – 27 August 1901 ) was a German philosopher.

Such study may be said to have begun with the American psychologist and philosopher William James in his 1901 / 02 Gifford Lectures later published as The Varieties of Religious Experience.

He was the brother of the noted philosopher and UB professor, Marvin Farber ( 1901 – 1980 ).

Ramón María de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio ( September 24, 1817 – February 11, 1901 ), known as Ramón de Campoamor, Spanish realist poet and philosopher, was born at Navia ( Asturias ) on September 24, 1817.

* Ernest Nagel ( 1901 – 1985 ), philosopher of science

* Ernest Nagel ( 1901 – 1985 ), philosopher of science

Jean Guitton ( August 18, 1901 – March 21, 1999 ) was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian.

Later novels depicting the affair, such as the philosopher Josiah Royce's The Feud of Oakfield Creek ( 1887 ) and naturalist Frank Norris ' The Octopus ( 1901 ) are slightly less hagiographic in their portrayals of the Mussel Slough ranchers, but nevertheless give a fairly one-sided, anti-railroad view of the Mussel Slough affair.