* 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 )

* 2004 – Konstantinos Kallias, Greek politician ( b. 1901 )

Konstantinos Kallias ( July 9, 1901 – April 7, 2004 ) was a Greek politician.

* 1842 – Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter ( d. 1901 )

* 1901 – Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.

* 1901 – Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist ( d. 1974 )

* 1901 – Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet ( d. 1975 )

** Nikos Skalkottas, Greek composer ( b. 1901 )

Blass is chiefly known for his works in connection with the study of Greek oratory: Die griechische Beredsamkeit von Alexander bis auf Augustus ( 1865 ); Die attische Beredsamkeit ( 1868 – 1880 ; 2nd ed., 1887 – 1898 ), his greatest work ; editions for the Teubner series of Andocides ( 1880 ), Antiphon ( 1881 ), Hypereides ( 1881, 1894 ), Demosthenes ( Dindorf's ed., 1885 ), Isocrates ( 1886 ), Dinarchus ( 1888 ), Demosthenes ( Rehdantz ed., 1893 ), Aeschines ( 1896 ), Lycurgus, Leocrates ( 1902 ); Die Rhythmen der attischen Kunstprosa ( 1901 ); Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa ( 1905 ).

* Hypolympia, or the Gods on the Island ( 1901 ), an " ironic phantasy ," the scene of which is laid in the 20th century, though the personages are Greek gods, is written in prose, with some blank verse.

Around 1901, David Fairchild of USDA imported high-quality black currant cuttings from Greek village of Panariti, a renowned producer, establishing first commercial crops.

108 ( 1901 ): " It seems natural to interpret names of Carian sanctuaries like Labranda in the most literal sense as the place of the sacred labrys, which was the Lydian ( or Carian ) name for the Greek πέλεκυς, or double-edged axe.

It is based on the 1901 American Standard Version, the Greek Majority Text, and the Hebrew Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia with some minor adjustments made because of alternate readings in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint although usually these alternate readings are ignored or restricted to the footnotes.

In a 1901 photograph of the Council of Archangels fresco there are Georgian inscriptions, but 1960 photographs show the inscriptions had been changed to Greek ; after cleaning the paintings the Georgian inscriptions emerged again.

Spyridon Nikolaou Marinatos ( Greek:, November 4, 1901 – October 1, 1974 ) was one of the premier Greek archaeologists of the 20th century.

In 1900 and 1901, a variety of existing Greek stamps ( Large Hermes heads, Small Hermes heads and 1896 Olympics ) were surcharged in black or red with new values and also with the letters " A M ", standing for the Greek words Αξία Μεταλλική (" Axia Metalliki " or " value in ( gold ) metal "), meaning that the face values were based on the gold standard of the Latin Monetary Union.

The " Magdalen " papyrus was purchased in Luxor, Egypt in 1901 by Reverend Charles Bousfield Huleatt ( 1863 – 1908 ), who identified the Greek fragments as portions of the Gospel of Matthew ( Chapter 26: 23 and 31 ) and presented them to Magdalen College, Oxford, where they are cataloged as P. Magdalen Greek 17 ( Gregory-Aland < sup > 64 </ sup >) and whence they have their name.

( 1901, Greek Ionic.

Shilleto's powers as a translator from English into Greek ( especially prose ) and Latin were unrivalled ; a selection of his versions was published in 1901.

Edward Morris wrote in 1901 that the term was introduced into linguistics by Friedrich Thiersch in his Greek Grammar ( 1831 ).

Basil the Great to students on Greek literature, with notes and vocabulary, New York: American Book Company, 1901 ( online )