* 1901 – Robert J.

Sir Robert Garran noted as early as 1901 that the governor-general was distinguished from other Empire governors-general by the fact that " the principal and most important of his powers and functions, legislative as well as executive, are expressly conferred on him by the terms of the Constitution itself.

Robert Falcon Scott, CVO ( 6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912 ) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901 – 04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910 – 13.

* RRS Discovery, a Royal Geographical Society research vessel which, under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, was the main ship of the 1901 – 1904 " Discovery Expedition " to Antarctica which is still preserved as a museum in Dundee, Scotland.

Trade in the stone was investigated by Robert Carr Bosanquet in excavations of 1901.

Reprinted, pp. 177 – 281 in Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901 – 1950, Robert Charles Marsh ( ed.

* Russell, Bertrand ( 1956 ), Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901 – 1950, Robert Charles Marsh ( ed.

* December 18 – Robert Bresson, French filmmaker ( b. 1901 )

In 1901 Robert Ridgway wrote in the introduction to The Birds of North and Middle America that:

Longstreet is a character in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel, How Few Remain, and in Robert Conroy's alternate history novel, 1901.

His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition, 1901 – 04, from which he was sent home early on health grounds.

Robert Hofstadter coined the term fermi ( unit ), symbol fm, in honor of the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi ( 1901 – 1954 ), one of the founders of nuclear physics, in Hofstadter's 1956 paper published in the Reviews of Modern Physics journal, " Electron Scattering and Nuclear Structure ".

Robert Bresson ( pronounced in French ; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999 ) was a French film director known for his spiritual, ascetic style.

* Haakon Chevalier ( 1901 – 1985 ), author, translator, and professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley best known for his friendship with physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.

* William Robert Cox ( 1901 – 1988 ), prolific writer of short stories and Western and Mystery novels mainly for the pulp and paperback markets written under multiple pseudonyms.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

The town was formed in 1901 with the opening of the Federal Coal and Coke Company bituminous coal mine, and was named for Robert Grant, vice president of the coal company.

Both the 1891 short story " The Bottle Imp " by Robert Louis Stevenson and the 1901 short story " The Monkey's Paw " by W. W. Jacobs feature an object containing a supernatural power that can grant the wishes of its human possessors, indicating that such is a dangerous power to enjoy.

It was built from 1901 to 1903, and was designed by Robert W. Gibson in the Renaissance Revival style for the Women's Hotel Company.

Pan-American Exhibition, panorama view, from " The Latest and Best Views of the Pan-American Exposition ", Buffalo, N. Y.: Robert Allen Reid, 1901.

* Robert Grant Haliburton, Q. C., D. C. L., 1831 – 1901, lawyer, author, and anthropologist

* Robert John Wilson ( 1901 – 1986 ), Delaware-based chemical industry sales executive

" The Le Robert dictionary states that in 1901 the word indicated a sailor working barefoot in the coal room of a ship, who would find his feet dirtied by the soot.

Robert Williams Buchanan ( 18 August 1841 – 10 June 1901 ) was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist.

Individual contributions have been made by epigraphers such as Georg Fabricius ( 1516 – 1571 ); August Wilhelm Zumpt ( 1815 – 1877 ); Theodor Mommsen ( 1817 – 1903 ); Emil Hübner ( 1834 – 1901 ); Franz Cumont ( 1868 – 1947 ); Louis Robert ( 1904 – 1985 ).

* 1901 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist ( d. 1978 )

Margaret Mead ( December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978 ) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

* November 15 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist ( b. 1901 )

Religious writer Margaret Barber ( 1869 – 1901 ), author of the posthumously published best-selling book of meditations, The Roadmender, settled in Bungay.

Lady Alice was born, in Montagu House, Whitehall, London, on Christmas Day 1901 as the third daughter of John Montagu Douglas Scott, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, and his wife, the former Lady Margaret Bridgeman, daughter of George Bridgeman, 4th Earl of Bradford.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

George and Margaret ( 1901 – 1919 ), six launches and six lives saved.

* Margaret ( Nin ) Dorothy Wolff Kahn ( b. July 4, 1901, Morristown, New Jersey-d. January 26, 1995, New York City );

He married Margaret Eleanor Furneaux, daughter of classical scholar Henry Furneaux, in April 1901 and they had three children, Eleanor, Frederick and Pamela.

Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, the son of William Garson and Margaret Annable, Garson came to Manitoba with his parents in 1901.

* November 15 – Margaret Mead ( b. 1901 ), American cultural anthropologist.

It produced two daughters, Margaret Mary (" Mardi ") and Beatrix Waring (" Bixie "), born in 1897 and 1901, respectively.

* Margaret Angela Strickland ( 1900 – 1901 )

However in 1901, he, with Sir John Jackson and Sir William Crundall, formed the Dover, St. Margaret ’ s and Martin Mill Light Railway Company.

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

Margaret Eddy, founding principal of Kodaikanal International School ( 1901 )

After commissioning The Highclerc Hotel as a building more than a year later, under the leadership of Mrs. Margaret Eddy, " Highclerc School " was opened to students on 1 July 1901.

* Margaret Mead ( 1901 – 1978 ), anthropologist

* Margaret Carnegie ( 7 June 1901 – 19 April 1946 )

On December 1, 1901 he married Helen Margaret Kelly and had twin daughters, Helen Gould and Dorothy Gould ( 1904 – 1969 ).

* Märtha ( legal name after 1901 ) is not alphabetized as Margaret.

World-renowned cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead ( 1901 – 1978 ) held a research fellowship in 1928-1929.

* Lady Margaret Alice Seymour ( 1869 – 1901 ), married James Ismay and had issue.