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Months in Year 1901: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 86 of 86

Jan 1st - Ignatius Donnelly, US attorney/lt-governor (Minnesota), dies at 69
Jan 8th - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
Jan 9th - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
Jan 10th - Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832)
Jan 11th - Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer, dies at 34
Jan 13th - Carlo Angeloni, composer, dies at 66
Jan 14th - Charles Hermite, French mathematician (e is transcendent), dies at 78
Jan 14th - Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian, dies at 57
Jan 14th - Victor Balaguer, Catalaans historian/politician/author, dies at 76
Jan 16th - Hiram Revels, dies at 73
Jan 16th - Jules Barbier, French opera librettist (b. 1825)
Jan 16th - Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
Jan 17th - Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist, dies at 87
Jan 20th - Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (b. 1826)
Jan 21st - Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
Jan 22nd - Victoria, [Alexandrine], Britain's Queen (1837-1901), dies at 81
Jan 24th - Simon Hassler, composer, dies at 68
Jan 27th - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer, dies at 77
Feb 7th - Benjamin Edward Woolf, composer, dies at 64
Composer Giuseppe Verdi (Jan 27th) Feb 11th - Milan I, king of Serbia, dies at 56
Feb 12th - Ramon de Campoamor bon Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83
Feb 14th - Edward John Hopkins, composer, dies at 82
Feb 17th - Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer, dies at 38
Feb 21st - George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
Feb 25th - Jose Rogel, composer, dies at 71
Feb 26th - Chi-hsui, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
Feb 26th - Hsu Cheng-yu, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
Mar 8th - Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64
Mar 8th - Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at 66
Mar 10th - Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer, dies at 38
Mar 13th - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd pres (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67
Mar 13th - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States, dies at 67
Mar 17th - Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Test), dies at 69
Mar 31st - John Stainer, composer, dies at 60
Apr 1st - Francois M Raoult, Fren physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70
Apr 3rd - Richard D'Oyly Carte, promotor (Gilbert & Sullivan operas), dies
Apr 11th - Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer, dies at 74
Apr 19th - Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
Apr 22nd - William Stubbs, historian/bishop, dies
Apr 27th - Richard Redhead, composer, dies at 81
May 4th - John Jones Ross, Canadian politician (b. 1831)
May 13th - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist and literary critic (b. 1851)
May 19th - Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st pres Rep South-Africa, dies at 81
May 30th - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
Jun 2nd - James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Margaret Fleming), dies
Jun 2nd - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
Jun 9th - Walter Besant, novelist/philanthropist, dies
Jun 10th - Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
Jun 16th - Hermann Grimm, German writer/poet/historian, dies
Jun 23rd - Charles Kensington Salaman, composer, dies at 87
Jul 4th - John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher, dies
Jul 6th - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
Jul 7th - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
Jul 17th - John Farmer, composer, dies at 64
Jul 18th - Alfredo Carlo Piatti, composer, dies at 79
Jul 20th - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
Aug 5th - Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60
Aug 11th - Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82
Aug 12th - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832)
Aug 15th - Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77
Aug 17th - Edmond Audran, composer, dies at 61
Aug 18th - Richard Kleinmichel, composer, dies at 54
Aug 22nd - Gunnar Wennerberg, composer, dies at 83
Aug 25th - Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever
Sep 5th - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
Sep 9th - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36
Sep 9th - Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne dies
25th US President William McKinley (Sep 14th) Sep 14th - Pres William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, of gunshot wounds inflicted at 58
Sep 25th - Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
Oct 1st - Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan
Oct 10th - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
Oct 19th - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
Oct 23rd - Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank), dies
Oct 24th - Paul Henrion, composer, dies at 82
Oct 29th - Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted
Oct 30th - ... Opperman, South African Boer general (Spy), killed in battle
Oct 30th - U Benson, British lt-col (Magers' fountain), killed in battle
Nov 6th - Bohdan Borkowski, composer, dies at 48
Nov 6th - Kate Greenaway, English children book illustrater, dies at 55
Nov 7th - Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies
Nov 11th - Antonio Zamara, composer, dies at 72
Nov 25th - Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer/music theorist, dies at 62
Nov 27th - Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
Nov 30th - Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86
Dec 1st - George Lohmann, cricketer (in South Africa 18 Tests, 112 wickets), dies
Dec 15th - Elias Alvares Lobo, composer, dies at 67

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