* 1901 – Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician ( d. 1975 )

* 1987 – Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist ( b. 1901 )

At first the movement grew most in the Russian empire and eastern Europe, but soon spread to western Europe and beyond: to Argentina in 1889 ; to Canada in 1901 ; to Algeria, Chile, Japan, Mexico, and Peru in 1903 ; to Tunisia in 1904 ; and to Australia, the United States, Guinea, Indochina, New Zealand, Tonkin, and Uruguay in 1905.

* 1901 – Sergey Obraztsov, Russian puppeteer ( d. 1992 )

* 1866 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer ( d. 1901 )

He left the movement in 1887, and in 1901 published a statement in Russian with the title Hillelism, in which he argued that the Zionist project could not solve the problems of the Jewish people.

By 1914 40 % of Russian workers were employed in factories of + 1, 000 workers ( 32 % in 1901 ).

Kim ( 1901 ) by Rudyard Kipling concerns the Anglo – Russian Great Game of imperial and geopolitical rivalry and strategic warfare for supremacy in Central Asia, usually in Afghanistan.

** Nina Berberova, Russian writer ( b. 1901 )

* January 13 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer ( d. 1901 )

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.

He became interested in politics, and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1901.

The United States ( 1920 – 1933 ), Finland ( 1919 – 1932 ), Norway ( 1916 – 1927 ), Canada ( 1901 – 1948 ), Iceland ( 1915 – 1922 ) and the Russian Empire / USSR ( 1914 – 1925 ) had alcohol prohibition.

When in 1901, the Russian writer Maxim Gorky turned to the imagery of Subantarctic avifauna to describe Russian society's attitudes to the coming revolution, he used a storm-announcing petrel as the lead character of a poem that soon became popular in the revolutionary circles as " the battle anthem of the revolution ".

In the early 20th century, revivals of the opera were associated particularly with the famous Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin: he sang the title role on the occasion of his first appearance outside Russia ( La Scala, Milan, 16 March 1901 ) and also on his North American debut ( Metropolitan Opera, New York, 20 November 1907 ).

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.

Tolstoy was a harsh critic of the Russian Orthodox Church, leading to his excommunication in 1901.

The " stormy petrel " appears as the standard English translation of the name of the lead character in Song of the Stormy Petrel-a 1901 poem by the Russian revolutionary writer Maxim Gorky in which he turned to the imagery of Subantarctic avifauna to describe Russian society's attitudes to the coming revolution.

The hallmark of National Geographic, reinventing it from a text-oriented entity closer to a scientific journal, to a magazine famous for exclusive pictorial footage, was its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures made in Tibet in 1900 – 1901 by two explorers from the Russian Empire, Gombojab Tsybikov and Ovshe Norzunov.

The Finnish army was abolished in 1901, and Finnish conscripts could now be forced to serve with Russian troops anywhere in the Russian empire.

The Russian province of Wenden issued stamps for a local post from 1862 to 1901, while Nicaragua issued stamps for Zelaya only, due to its use of a different currency.

Liberals favoured recognising Demotic as the national language, but conservatives and the Orthodox Church resisted all such efforts, to the extent that, when the New Testament was translated into Demotic in 1901, riots erupted in Athens and the government fell ( the Evangeliaka ).

* Justinian Marina ( 1901 – 1977 ), Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1948 to 1977

Hamilton also had a Jewish community ; Beth Israel Synagogue was founded in 1901 as an Orthodox alternative to Hamilton's existing Reform synagogue, which had been founded in the 1880s.

* Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia ( 1901 – 1918 ), daughter of Nicholas II of Russia, the last ruling family of the Romanov dynasty ; Eastern Orthodox Christian Saint.

The large numbers of Russians in San Telmo and elsewhere in Buenos Aires led to the consecration of Argentina's first Russian Orthodox Church in 1901.

Nicholas's Orthodox Naval Cathedral ( 1901 – 1903 )

Justinian Marina ( born Ioan Marina ) ( February 2, 1901, in Şueşti, Vâlcea County – March 26, 1977, in Bucharest ) was a Romanian Orthodox prelate.

* Justinian Marina ( 1901 – 1977 ), Romanian Orthodox prelate

It all began with the Religious-Philosophical Meetings ( 1901 – 1903 ) based on the New church concept, formulated by Gippius, meant as a modern alternative to the old Orthodox one, the latter, in her words, having proved, "... to be imperfect and prone to stagnation ".

In Eddy's Message to The Mother Church for 1901, in the section titled " Christ Is One and Divine ", she writes:

Bannister died of a heart attack in 1901 while attending a prayer meeting at his church, Elmwood Avenue Free Baptist Church.

The St Helena Church News was published from 1888, the Parish Magazine from 1889, the Diocesan Magazine from 1901 and the Jamestown Monthly from 1912 The latter was renamed the St Helena Church Magazine and was published until 1945 by Canon Wallcot, who extended news coverage from church matters to also include island news after the closure of the St Helena Guardian.

* April 3 – Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( d. 1901 )

His congregation published a commemorative volume in his honor, Leonard Bacon, Pastor of the First Church in New Haven ( New Haven, 1882 ), and his biography is also found in Williston Walker's Ten New England Leaders ( New York, 1901 ).

* From 1901 to 1924, the romantic novelist Marie Corelli, real name Minnie Mackay, daughter of Charles Mackay, made her home, with her companion Miss Vyver, at Mason's Croft, Church Street, Stratford.

The first scholar to consider this time period as a whole was Philip Schaff, who wrote The Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church, first published after his death in 1901.

Significant collections of Tiffany windows outside the United States are the 17 windows in the former Erskine and American United Church, now part of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal, Canada, and the two windows in the American Church in Paris, on the Quai d ' Orsay, which have been classified as National Monuments by the French government ; these were commissioned by Rodman Wanamaker in 1901 for the original American Church building on the right bank of the Seine.

Brockley contains several fine churches: St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, Howson Road ( completed in 1901 ), St Peter's, Wickham Rd ( completed 1870 ), the Grade II listed St Andrews, Brockley Rd ( 1882 )-originally a Presbyterian Church, which contains the modern stained glass New Cross Fire memorial window ( 2002 )-and the Grade II listed St Hilda's, Crofton Park 1908.

* 1901: A corrugated iron mission hall church (" tin tabernacle ") was built on Cain's Lane, by the Baptist Church at Sipson.

Other buildings remain from that burgeoning era: the dramatic triangular-peaked Holy Innocents church built in 1901 at the northeastern corner of Old Corte Madera Square still stands, as does the Presbyterian Church built on the old road above the square around the same time.

The settlers built their first church in 1880, replacing it in 1901 with a permanent structure, St. Anthony Catholic Church, which still stands.

When the first St. Adrian Catholic Church burned to the ground Christmas Eve, 1899, the town responded by completing the present edifice in 1901.

* Message to The Mother Church, 1901

The first house of worship in Nanty Glo was the Methodist Episcopal Church, now United Methodist, established in 1901.

The present day United Methodist church ( Trinity United Methodist Church ) sanctuary was constructed in 1901.

Few reminders of Murphy's early heyday remain ; one structure still in use is the First Baptist Church of Murphy, built in 1901.

Settled at the direction of Brigham Young and named in honor of Lorenzo Snow an apostle at the time but later to become the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1898 – 1901.