1901: The Year in People

The Greatest Generation · Year of the Ox 🐂 · Born in 1901 turn 125 in 2026

The year in numbers

US president

Theodore Roosevelt

In the news: Queen Victoria dies, ending the Victorian era

What happened in 1901

1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1901st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 901st year of the 2nd millennium, the 1st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1901, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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Born in 1901

57 people in our data · most viewed first

Clark Gable

1901–1960 · February 1

American actor

Ed Sullivan

1901–1974 · September 28

American host and columnist

Adolph Rupp

1901–1977 · September 2

American college basketball coach

Jacques Lacan

1901–1981 · April 13

French psychoanalyst and writer

George Raft

1901–1980 · September 26

American actor

Barbara Cartland

1901–2000 · July 9

English writer and media personality

Arleigh Burke

1901–1996 · October 19

US Navy admiral

Alberto Giacometti

1901–1966 · October 10

Swiss sculptor and painter

John C. Stennis

1901–1995 · August 3

American politician

Art Rooney

1901–1988 · January 27

American football player, executive, and owner

Carl Barks

1901–2000 · March 27

American cartoonist

André Malraux

1901–1976 · November 3

French novelist, art theorist, and statesman

C. L. R. James

1901–1989 · January 4

Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist

Bebe Daniels

1901–1971 · January 14

American actress, singer, dancer, writer, producer

Ann Harding

1901–1981 · August 7

American actress

Eisaku Satō

1901–1975 · March 27

Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972

Alfred Tarski

1901–1983 · January 14

Polish–American mathematician

Arthur Liebehenschel

1901–1948 · November 25

SS officer in Nazi Germany

Ajoy Mukherjee

1901–1986 · April 15

Indian politician

Adelaide Hall

1901–1993 · October 20

American-British jazz singer and actor

Ben Lyon

1901–1979 · February 6

American actor

Arnulfo Arias

1901–1988 · August 15

President of Panama from 1940 to 1941, 1949 to 1951 and in 1968

Allen B. DuMont

1901–1965 · January 29

American electronics engineer and inventor

Cornelia Otis Skinner

1901–1979 · May 30

American actress and author

Died in 1901

Leon Czolgosz1873–1901 · Assassin of William McKinley
Arnold Böcklin1827–1901 · Swiss Symbolist painter
Elisha Gray1835–1901 · American electrical engineer
Edward John Eyre1815–1901 · English explorer and colonial administrator
Lorenzo Snow1814–1901 · American LDS Church leader
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst1819–1901 · Chancellor of the German Empire from 1894 to 1900
Clarence King1842–1901 · American geologist
Charles Hermite1822–1901 · French mathematician
Josef Rheinberger1839–1901 · German composer and organist
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld1832–1901 · Finland-Swedish baron, geologist and explorer
George Lohmann1865–1901 · English cricketer
Edward Stafford (politician)1819–1901 · Premier of New Zealand