* 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 )

* 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 )

* Stefan Wyszyński ( 1901 – 1981 ), archbishop

Stefan Wyszyński ( 3 August 1901 – 28 May 1981 ) was a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Image: Stefan Luchian portrait of a woman. jpg | Portrait of a Woman 1901

* 1901 – Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest ( d. 1978 )

* The war of the Polish succession by Vajiravudh, King of Siam, 1901

It lies exclusively within the Polish part of Tatras and was conceived in 1901 by Franciszek Nowicki, a Polish poet and mountain guide.

From 1898 to 1901, a secret society of Polish students seeking to restore Polish independence operated in the city, but the activists were tried by German courts in 1901, frustrating their efforts.

* Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski ( 1876 – 1901 ) Polish

Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz (,,, or ), August 7, 1868 – July 15, 1931 ) was an economist and statistician of Polish descent, who lived most of his professional life in Germany, where he taught at Strassburg University ( Privatdozent, 1895 – 1897 ) and Berlin University ( 1901 – 1931 ).

Września is known in Poland for a school strike by Polish children in May 1901 in response to the intensification of Germanization ( i. e. prohibition of the Polish language at school ).

Written in 1901 – 1911, the trilogy is one of the greatest works of Polish science fiction.

According to Russian estimates, by 1901 one-third of the inhabitants in the Congress Kingdom was involved in clandestine education based on Polish national literature.

* October 26 – Alfred Tarski, Polish American logician and mathematician ( b. 1901 )

In 1901, Korfanty became editor-in-chief of the Polish language paper Górnoslązak ( The Upper Silesian ), in which he appealed to the national consciousness of the region's Polish-speaking population.

In a polemic paper entitled Precz z Centrum (" Away with the Centre Party ", 1901 ), Korfanty had urged the Catholic Polish-speaking minority in Germany to overcome their national indifference and shift their political allegiance from supra-national Catholicism to the cause of the Polish nation.

Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa ( pronounced, commonly known as Lucyna Ćwierciakiewiczowa ) ( 1829 — February 26, 1901 ) was a Polish writer, journalist and author of Polish cookery books.

Bruno Jasieński (; born Wiktor Zysman, Klimontów, Congress Poland, 17 July 1901 – died 17 September 1938, in Butyrka prison, Moscow ) was a Polish poet and leader of the Polish futurist movement, executed during the Polish operation of the NKVD in the Soviet Union.

Kazimierz Józef Marian Michałowski ( b. November 11, 1901 in Tarnopol – January 1, 1981 in Warsaw, Poland ) was a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist, and the founder of Nubiology.

* Ćwirko-Godycki Michał ( 1901 – 1980 ), Polish anthropologist.