* 1901 – Peter O ' Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of The record will stand for 20 years.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

His first wife was mathematician Sophie Wertman ( 1901 – 1951 ), with whom he had a son, Peter ( born 1928 ).

The fact that electromagnetic radiation exerts a pressure upon any surface exposed to it was deduced theoretically by James Clerk Maxwell in 1871 and Adolfo Bartoli in 1876, and proven experimentally by Russian physicist Peter Lebedev in 1900 and by Ernest Fox Nichols and Gordon Ferrie Hull in 1901.

The five sons were, in order of birth: Henry ( 1826 – 1895 ), Clement ( 1831 – 1901 ), John Mohler ( 1833 – 1917 ), Peter Everst ( 1836 – 1897 ) and Jacob Franklin ( 1844 – 1887 ).

Peter Lougheed was born in Calgary on July 26, 1928, the son of Edgar Donald Lougheed ( 1893 – 1951 ) and Edna Alexandria Bauld ( 1901 – 1972 ).

* August 17 – Peter Benoit, composer ( d. 1901 )

Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE ( 28 April 1831 – 4 July 1901 ) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline.

* Peter T. Farrell ( c. 1901 – 1992 ), judge who presided over the trial of bank robber Willie Sutton

Precedents for independent MP speakers are former LNP member Peter Slipper who is the current speaker in the hung parliament resulting from the 2010 election ; Frederick Holder who was initially elected for the Free Trade Party at the inaugural 1901 election, serving as an independent while speaker until his death in 1909 ; and in the Senate, Labor's Mal Colston became an independent and Deputy President of the Senate following the 1996 election.

Smithsonian Institution Curator of Aeronautics Peter L. Jakab said that Whitehead's wife and family did not know about his August 1901 flights.

The groundbreaking was held on April 19, 1900, the school moved in May, and the new facility was dedicated on July 1, 1901, by Peter Muldoon, Bishop of the Diocese of Chicago.

* 1901 – Peter Behrens completes his house at the Art Nouveau colony at Darmstadt, Germany.

Piet van de Kamp ( December 26, 1901, Kampen – May 18, 1995, Amsterdam ), known as Peter van de Kamp in the United States, was a Dutch astronomer who lived most of his life in the United States.

His parents were immigrants from Italy, Peter Mascolo ( 1901 – 2008 ) and Anna Mascolo ( née DeTuccio ) ( 1910 – 2010 ), who were really fortunate to have made it to their 80th wedding anniversary shortly before his father died.

The music for this popular show had been originally written by Walter Slaughter in 1901, with a book by Seymour Hicks ( providing the inspiration for Barrie's Peter Pan ).

* Cecil Headlam, Peter Vischer ( 1901 ).

She decided to publish the book herself, and, on 16 December 1901, the first 250 copies of her privately printed The Tale of Peter Rabbit " was ready for distribution to family and friends ".

In 1901 Peter O. Bogen set up a whaling station in Lopra on the island of Suðuroy together with H. G.

Peter Cooper Hewitt ( May 5, 1861 – August 25, 1921 ) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who invented the first mercury-vapor lamp in 1901.

Arthur Peter König ( September 13, 1856, Krefeld – October 26, 1901, Berlin ) devoted his short life to physiological optics.

In 1901, she married Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, who was privately believed by family and friends to be homosexual.

His father, Judge Charles J. Vallone ( 1901 – 1967 ) of the Queens County Civil Court, encouraged young Peter to broaden his horizons beyond the limited social interactions with other ethnic and religious groups than were encouraged in the pre-Vatican II era.

Margaret died when Dorothy was seven ( in 1901 ), leaving Peter, a Methodist preacher, to raise his daughter alone.

* 1901 – John Sherman Cooper, American politician ( d. 1991 )

* 1901 – Gary Cooper, American actor ( d. 1961 )

* May 13 – Gary Cooper, American actor ( High Noon ) ( b. 1901 )

** John Sherman Cooper, American politician ( b. 1901 )

* John Sherman Cooper ( R-Kentucky ), U. S. Senator ( 1901 – 1991 )

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.

* Charles Cooper 1833-1895 ( subsequently chairman to his death in 1901 )

* John Sherman Cooper ( 1901 – 1991 ), American politician

* Josh Cooper ( cryptographer ) ( 1901 – 1981 ), British cryptographer

John Sherman Cooper ( August 23, 1901 – February 21, 1991 ) was a politician, jurist, and diplomat from the U. S. state of Kentucky.

John Sherman Cooper was born August 23, 1901, in Somerset, Kentucky.

The first mercury vapor lamp was invented in 1901 by American engineer Peter Cooper Hewitt.

* Henry Edward Cooper ( 1845 – 1916 ), Bishop of Grafton and Armidale, 1901 – 1914, Bishop of Armidale, 1914 – 1916

Selina Cooper ( 1864-1946 ) was an English Suffragist and the first woman to represent the Independent Labour Party in 1901 when she was elected as a Poor Law Guardian.

In 1901, they moved to San Francisco to attend medical school at Cooper Medical College.

Hewitt was issued U. S. patent # 682692 on September 17, 1901.

Hewitt was issued on September 17, 1901.

* Woolsey Hall and other buildings on the Hewitt Quadrangle, Yale University, 1901