Famous People Who Died in 1901

August 15, 2024

1901 Calendar

Jan 16 American clergyman, politician,1st African American in Congress (US Senator from Mississippi, 1870-71), and college president (Alcorn, 1871-82), dies at 73

Jan 16 Jules Barbier, French opera librettist (b. 1825)
Jan 17 Jacob Georg Agarah, Swedish botanist, dies at 87
Jan 19 Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (1873-74, 1977), dies at 79
Jan 20 Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (Gramme dynamo), dies at 74
Jan 21 Elisha Gray, American inventor (telephone prototype), dies at 65

Jan 22 Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland (1837-1901), dies at 81

Jan 24 Simon Hassler, German-American composer, dies at 68

Feb 7 Benjamin Edward Woolf, British-American violinist, composer (The Mighty Dollar), playwright, and journalist, dies at 64
Feb 11 Milan I, King of Serbia (1882-89) who unexpectedly abdicated in favor of his 12-year-old son Alexander I, dies at 56
Feb 12 Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83
Feb 14 Edward John Hopkins, English organist and composer, dies at 82
Feb 17 Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (The Rosary; Narcissus), dies of a stroke at 38
Feb 21 George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
Feb 25 Jose Rogel, Spanish composer, dies at 71
Feb 26 Chi-hsui, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
Feb 26 Hsu Cheng-yu, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
Mar 8 Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician and industrialist (richest person in German Empire), dies at 64
Mar 8 Peter Benoit, Flemish composer (De Leie; Rubens Cantata: Requiem), and conductor, dies at 66
Mar 10 Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, Russian composer, dies at 38

Mar 17 Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Test), dies at 69
Mar 24 Charlotte Mary Yonge, English writer (Heir of Redclyffe), dies at 77
Mar 31 John Stainer, English composer (The Crucifixion), dies at 60
Apr 1 François-Marie Raoult, French physicist and chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70
Apr 3 Richard D'Oyly Carte, British opera impresario (Gilbert & Sullivan operas), dies at 56
Apr 4 George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 77
Apr 11 Ivar Hallström, Swedish composer, dies at 74
Apr 12 Thomas Hart Taylor, American brigade commander in the Confederate Army, dies at 75
Apr 19 Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
Apr 22 William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford, dies at 74
Apr 27 Richard Redhead, English organist, and composer of sacred music, dies at 81
May 1 Lewis Waterman, American insurance agent and inventor of an improved fountain pen, dies at 63
May 4 John Jones Ross, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Quebec (1884-87), dies at 69
May 5 Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Parsi entrepreneur and founder of the first textile mills in India, dies at 77
May 13 Leopoldo Alas, Spanish novelist (La Regenta), dies at 49
May 19 Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president of the Republic South Africa, dies at 81
May 22 Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (assassinated King Umberto I of Italy on July 29, 1900), dies at 31
May 30 Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, dies at 60
Jun 2 George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
Jun 2 James A. Herne, American playwright (Hearts of Oak; Margaret Fleming), dies at 62
Jun 9 Walter Besant, English writer and philanthropist (Rebel Queen), dies at 64
Jun 10 Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish, poet, dramatist and novelist, dies at 59
Jun 16 Herman Grimm, German writer, poet and historian, dies at 75
Jun 23 Charles Kensington Salaman, British pianist and synagogue music composer, dies at 87
Jul 4 Johannes Schmidt, German linguist, known for the 'wave theory' of language development, dies at 57
Jul 4 John Fiske [Edmund Fisk Green], American historian and philosopher, dies at 59
Jul 4 Julian Scott, American artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 55
Jul 6 Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)

Jul 13 Peter Jackson, Australian heavyweight boxer (International Boxing Hall of Fame), dies from tuberculosis at 40
Jul 17 John Farmer, English composer, dies at 64
Jul 18 Alfredo Carlo Piatti, Italian cellist, teacher, and composer, dies at 79
Jul 20 William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
Jul 30 Herbert Baxter Adams, American historian (American Historical Association), dies at 51
Aug 5 Victoria, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III, dies at 60
Aug 11 Francesco Crispi, Italian statesman, dies at 82
Aug 12 Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer and mineralogist (Vega Expedition), dies at 68
Aug 15 Karl Weinhold, German sociologist (founder of Journal of the Association of Folklore), dies at 77
Aug 17 Edmond Audran, French composer, dies at 61
Aug 18 Richard Kleinmichel, composer, dies at 54
Aug 22 Gunnar Wennerberg, Swedish poet and composer, dies at 83
Aug 24 Clara Maass, American army nurse who sacrificed her life at 25 to prove that mosquitoes carry yellow fever. Her death put an end to yellow fever experiments on human beings.
Sep 5 Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
Sep 8 Johannes von Miquel, German politician (Vice President Kingdom of Prussia 1897-1901), dies at 73
Sep 9 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and printmaker (At the Moulin Rouge), dies from the effects of alcoholism and syphilis at 36
Sep 9 Willem van Goltstein van Oldenaller, Dutch minister of Colonies dies at 70

Sep 14 25th US President (Republican: 1897-1901), dies in Buffalo at 58, after being shot 8 days earlier by anarchist Leon Czolgosz

Sep 25 Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
Oct 1 Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1880-1901)
Oct 2 Rudolph Koenig, German physicist, dies at 68
Oct 10 Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), dies at 87
Oct 17 George Godfrey, Canadian Black heavyweight boxer known as Old Chocolate, dies of Tuberculosis at 48
Oct 19 Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
Oct 21 James A. Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 69
Oct 23 Georg von Siemens, German banker and politician (helped found Deutsche Bank), dies at 62
Oct 24 Paul Henrion, French composer, dies at 82
Oct 29 Leon Czolgosz, American anarchist and assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted after being sentenced to death at 28
Oct 30 George Elliott Benson, British Army officer, killed in battle Battle at Bakenlaagte, South Africa at 40
Nov 6 Bohdan Borkowski, Polish composer, dies at 48
Nov 6 Kate Greenaway, English artist known for her children's book illustrations (Under the Window), dies of breast cancer at 55
Nov 7 Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese modernizing politician and general (governor-general of Zhili province)), dies at 78
Nov 8 Mary Ann Bickerdyke, American army nurse (union), dies at 84
Nov 11 Antonio Zamara, Austrian harpist, teacher, and composer, dies at 72
Nov 22 Aleksandr Kovalevsky, Russian biologist (founded comparative embryology and experimental histology and identified a common pattern of embryological development in all multi-cellular animals), dies at 61
Nov 24 Heinrich Urban, German violinist, composer, and teacher of Wanda Landowska and Ignace Jan Paderewski, dies at 64
Nov 25 Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer/music theorist, dies at 62
Nov 27 Clement Studebaker, American manufacturer of horse-drawn vehicles and later made early automobiles, dies at 70
Nov 30 Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86

Dec 15 Elias Álvares Lobo, Brazilian composer, dies at 67
Dec 23 Edward Onslow Ford, English sculptor, dies at 51

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