* 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 )

* He was made an honorary member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, a fraternity founded at the University of Richmond in 1901.

Alpha Sigma Alpha ( ΑΣΑ ) is a US national sorority founded on November 15, 1901 at the Virginia State Female Normal School ( later known as Longwood College and now known as Longwood University ) in Farmville, Virginia.

On November 15, 1901 Alpha Sigma Alpha was named and chartered.

Following the founding of Alpha Sigma Alpha in 1901, these four sororities were henceforth referred to as the " Farmville Four ".

1901: Founding of Alpha Sigma Alpha at Longwood College on November 15

As of November 2011, there are 4 chip vendors that are shipping interoperable HomePlug AV chipsets with IEEE 1901 support ( Broadcom, Qualcomm Atheros, Sigma Designs, and SPiDCOM ) and millions of units are shipped each month throughout the world.

Sutton distinguished himself as student being elected to both Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and receiving both Bachelor and Master degrees by 1901.

In the fall of 1898, Zeta Tau Alpha was founded, followed by the founding of Alpha Sigma Alpha in 1901.

Local rulers did not give up easily, as three rebellions sprang up in 1901 – the Ngeaw rebellion in Prae, the Phi Buns in Isan, and the Rebellion of Seven Sultans in the south.

Machen was a brilliant scholar and in 1901 was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society after graduation.

In 1901, the U. S. Steel Corporation was formed, and by 1911 Pittsburgh was the nation's eighth largest city, producing between a third and a half of the nation's steel.

Alameda, the largest island, was created when a shipping lane was cut in 1901.

Known as the " Great Fire of 1901 ", it was one of the worst disasters in Florida history and the largest urban fire in the southeastern United States.

Marine investigations in the area have also identified new species of anemone, rediscovered the fan mussel ( the UK's largest and rarest bivalve mollusc-thought to be found only in Plymouth Sound and a few sites off the west of Scotland ) and a number of shipwreck sites, including HMS Drake ( 1901 ), which was torpedoed and sank just off the island in 1917.

" Other outstanding examples of his portraits include The Agnew Clinic ( 1889 ), Eakins ' most important commission and largest painting, which depicted another eminent American surgeon, Dr. David Hayes Agnew, performing a mastectomy ; The Dean's Roll Call ( 1899 ), featuring Dr. James W. Holland, and Professor Leslie W. Miller ( 1901 ), portraits of educators standing as if addressing an audience ; a portrait of Frank Hamilton Cushing ( ca.

" Figure of Wisdom ," completed in 1901, is the largest stained-glass work created by LaFarge.

The largest commercial enterprise to occur in Hartwick was probably the Oneonta-Mohawk trolley line which arrived in 1901 and had extensive shops, car barn and yards on the southeast side of the village, many of the hamlets and crossings still show architectural signs of its passage nearly a century after the last passenger service.

It was Wasco County's fifth largest city, boasting the largest wool warehouse in the state, from which two tons were marketed in 1901.

The largest tower was built in 1901 / 02 right next to the old tower and entered service on 1 April 1905.

In 1901 U. S. Steel was as the first billion-dollar company in the world with an authorized capitalization of $ 1. 4 billion — much larger than any other industrial firm, and comparable in size to the largest railroads.

In 1901 Govan was the 7th largest town in Scotland.

In 1901, the first civilian U. S. governor of Puerto Rico, Charles Herbert Allen, installed himself as president of the largest suger-refining company in the world, the American Sugar Refining Company.

At its peak, in 1901, the copper mine was one of the largest in the state.

In 1901, when the six British colonies in Australia federated to form the Commonwealth of Australia, Melbourne and Sydney were the two largest cities in the country, but the long history of rivalry between them meant that neither could become the national capital.

Melbourne's status as Australia's largest city lasted long enough, however, for it to become the seat of government of the new Commonwealth of Australia when the six colonies federated in 1901.

* United American Free Will Baptist Church-the largest body of African-American Free Will Baptist churches, organized in 1901 and headquartered in Kinston, North Carolina.

In 1901, with a population of 1, 258, 868, second only to Allahabad, the district headquarters, Kanpur was the largest trading and manufacturing centre in the United Provinces

In 1901 he sold the company but continued to be the largest producer of pig iron in the country because of his extensive iron and coal mines and refining works.

But from 1901 to the present, it has become one of the largest villages in the United Kingdom, with nearly 13, 000 inhabitants.

The White Star Line's " Big Four ", a quartet of revolutionary liners which had large passenger and freight capacities, had the largest carrying capacity for third-class passengers: the Celtic of 1901, with capacity for 2, 352 third-class passengers ; the Cedric of 1903 and Baltic of 1904 each had a third-class carrying capacity of 2, 000 ; the fourth ship, the Adriatic of 1907, had a third-class carrying capacity of 1, 900.

His largest work, on bird systematics, was the monumental 6, 000-page The Birds of North and Middle America, published by the Smithsonian in eleven volumes between 1901 and 1950.

In 1901, the first civilian U. S. governor of Puerto Rico, Charles Herbert Allen, installed himself as president of the largest suger-refining company in the world, the American Sugar Refining Company.

In the 20th century Kidlington grew to be a contender for largest village in England ( as well as Europe ) with a population, including contiguous parts of Gosford and Water Eaton parish, of over 17, 000 ( compared to 1, 300 in 1901 ).