* 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 – 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 )

* 1901 – Francisco Fernández Fernández, Spanish super-centenarian ( d. 2012 )

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

From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight by airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | Kitty Hawk in 1903 ; U. S. President William McKinley is William McKinley assassination | assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition ; An 1906 San Francisco earthquake | earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, killing at least 3, 000 in 1906 ; United States | America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine – American War ; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal ; Admiral Heihachiro Togo | Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power.

The world expositions of 1851 London, 1853 New York, 1862 London, Philadelphia ( 1876 ), 1889 Paris, 1893 Chicago, 1900 Paris, 1901 Buffalo, 1904 St. Louis and 1915 San Francisco were landmarks in this respect.

During 1901 – 1903, The Ozark and Cherokee Central Railway, which later became part of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway was the first to build a track in the county.

Francisco lost his mansion to foreclosure in 1901, but even though Jose, his brother, died in the same year, his family retained his mansion and property, including the olive grove, and it was considered the Estudillo Estate, becoming the site of many family events, and a couple of family burials, until it was sold in 1919.

In 1887 the railroad finally went through to Los Angeles, and in 1901 to San Francisco: Santa Barbara was now easily accessible by land and by sea, and subsequent development was brisk.

St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railway ( later the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway ) constructed a line south from Sapulpa through Praper between 1900 and 1901.

The city was founded in 1901 and is named for George Alexander Madill, an attorney for the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, popularly known as the Frisco.

Ada was incorporated as a city in 1901 and grew rapidly with the arrival of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway line.

Founded in 1901, Golden Gate University ( informally referred to as GGU, or simply as Golden Gate ) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in the Financial District of downtown San Francisco, California.

Patricio Ballagas ( 1879 – 1920 ); María Teresa Vera ( 1895 – 1965 ), Lorenzo Hierrezuelo ( 1907 – 1993 ), Ñico Saquito ( Antonio Fernandez: 1901 – 1982 ), Carlos Puebla ( 1917 – 1989 ) and Compay Segundo ( Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz: 1907 – 2003 ) were all great trova musicians.

His chief writings were a Textbook of Physiology ( 1876 ), which became a standard work, and Lectures on the History of Physiology in the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries ( 1901 ), which consisted of lectures delivered at the Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, in 1900.

Mrs. McKinley travelled to California with the President in May 1901, but became so ill in San Francisco that the planned tour of the Northwest was cancelled.

Former presidents: Cornelio Nable ( 1901 – 1902 ), Juan Aguilocho ( 1902 – 1903 ), Vicente Dominguez ( 1903 – 1904 ), Florencio Morente ( 1905 – 1906 ), Juan Morente ( 1907 – 1912 ), Jesus Dominuez ( 1913 – 1915 ), Jose Benitez ( 1915 – 1916 ), Elias Semilla ( 1916 – 1919 ), Carlos Aguilocho, Francisco Laurea ( 1925 – 1928 ), Anacleto Villamin ( 1928 – 1929 ), Conrado M. Morente ( 1929 – 1930, 1931 – 1934 ), Felipe Venturanza ( 1934 – 1938 ), ( 1938 – 1940 ), Dr. Abelardo Bunag ( 1941 – 1942 ), Carlos Aguilocho ( 1942 – 1943 ), Manuel Medina ( 1943 – 1945 ), Thomas B. Villamin ( 1946 – 1947 ). Dominador Madrid ( 1948 – 1951 ), Dr. Pio Baldos ( 1952 – 1955 ).

* Francisco González de la Vega e Iriarte ( 1901 – 1976 ), Mexican politician

Patrick Washington Murphy ( September 11, 1840 in Missouri-November 1, 1901 in San Francisco ) operated Rancho Santa Margarita, and the adjacent Rancho Atascadero, and Rancho Asuncion, altogether comprising about from his Rancho Santa Margarita headquarters.

* The Family ( club ), a private club formed in San Francisco in 1901

* 1901: Shortly after Cuba achieved its independence from Spain, José and Francisco Nonell y Feliu, who had been running a Cambio in Cuba since 1885, moved their business to Barcelona.

Founded by decree on February 23, 1901, as a port for the inland settlement of Sarmiento, the first settler was Francisco Pietrobelli.

In 1901 Irwin got a job as a reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle, eventually becoming Sunday editor.

Spreckels was the President of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway from 1895 until it was sold to the Santa Fe Railway in 1901.

After working as a sculptor at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and as director at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York in 1901, Bitter ’ s extraordinary organizational skills led him to be named head of the sculpture programs at both the 1904 St. Louis Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, where Lee Lawrie trained with his guidance, and the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition held in San Francisco, California.