==Händelser==
*1 januari
**Den svenska namnlängden läggs om och en ny almanacka införs.
**Australiska statsförbundet bildas.
*9 februari - De första nordiska vinterspelen arrangeras i Stockholm.
*12 februari - På Nybrovikens is genomförs för första gången i Sverige en "offentlig tävlan i hockey" (vilket är bandy, eftersom bandy vid denna tid kallas "Hockey on the ice").
*16 februari - Annebergs spinneri i Borås brinner ner, varvid 400 personer blir arbetslösa.
*7 mars - August Strindberg förlovar sig med Harriet Bosse.
*17 mars - Stockholms Skridskoseglarklubb bildas på Stora Värtan
*10 april - August Strindberg gifter sig för tredje gången.
*20 maj - Byggandet av Bodens fästning påbörjas.
*23 maj - Den svenska riksdagen beslutar att ersätta indelningsverket med allmän värnplikt. Övningstiden blir 240 dagar för värnpliktiga, 300 för flottan och 365 för specialförband.
*4 juni - Artur Hazelius begravs.
*7 juli - Hasse Zetterström och OA (Oskar Andersson) tar över skämttidningen Söndags-Nisse.
*17 juli - Gyttorps krutfabrik exploderar, varvid fyra personer omkommer.
*24 augusti  - Carl Ludvig Granlund, alias ''Gardist-Kalle'', mördar sin hyresgäst Per Johan Berglund.
*29 augusti - De första elspårvagnarna provkörs i Stockholm.
*6 september - Den amerikanske presidenten William McKinley blir föremål för ett attentat och avlider åtta dagar senare.
*7 september - Boxarupproret i Kina slut genom undertecknandet av Pekingprotokollet.
*14 september - Theodore Roosevelt tillträder som president vid William McKinleys frånfälle.
*11 oktober - Svensk premiär för boxning inför publik på Tivoli i Malmö.
*15 oktober - Hjalmar Söderbergs roman ''Martin Bircks ungdom'' utkommer.
*16 oktober - Polarforskaren Otto Nordenskjöld påbörjar sin mer än två år långa expedition till sydpolsområdet.
*5 december - Hjalmar Hammarskjöld blir svensk justitieminister.
*Nobelprisen delas ut i Stockholm.
*12 december - Första radiosignalen skickas över Atlanten.
*15 december - Första delen av Selma Lagerlöfs ''Jerusalem'' utkommer och får lysande kritik.
*31 december - Vid nyårsfirandet på Skansen läses ''Nyårsklockan'' av regissören och skådespelaren Konstantin Axelsson.
*Norrmännen börjar anlägga gränsbefästningar mot Sverige.
*Svenska kvinnor får rätt till fyra veckors ledighet utan lön vid förlossning.
*Stockholms fondbörs omorganiseras och öppnar i modern version.
*''Svenska Journalistföreningen'' (som 1950 byter namn till ''Svenska Journalistförbundet'' och därefter till ''Journalistförbundet'') grundas.
*Den första svenska olycksfallsförsäkringen i industrin instiftas.
*Jugendstilen lanseras i Sverige.
*Stockholms Folkets hus invigs.
*Tidningen ''Affärsvärlden'' grundas av Helmer Key, som ett komplement till ''Svenska Dagbladet''.
*Uppfinnaren Fredrik Ljungström konstruerar mjölkningsmaskinen ''Beta'', som AB Separator blir intresserat av.

==Födda==
*5 januari - Klaus Bonhoeffer, tysk jurist och motståndskämpe.
*9 januari - Chic Young, amerikansk serietecknare – Blondie.
*10 januari - Henning von Tresckow, tysk generalmajor.
*16 januari - Fulgencio Batista, kubansk politiker, president 1933-1944 och 1952-1959.
*17 januari
**Herbert Grevenius, svensk dramatiker, manusförfattare och journalist.
**Aron Gurwitsch, tysk filosof.
*20 januari - Alf Östlund, svensk skådespelare och manusförfattare.
*28 januari - Margareta Bergman, svensk skådespelare.
*29 januari - Mary Eaton, amerikansk dansös och skådespelerska.
*1 februari - Clark Gable, amerikansk filmskådespelare.
*2 februari - Jascha Heifetz, amerikansk violinist.
*16 februari - Heinrich Gley, tysk SS-officer.
*20 februari - Mohammed Naguib, egyptisk general, president 1953-1954.
*23 februari
**Erhard Heiden, tysk SS-officer, Reichsführer-SS 1927-1929.
**Ivar Lo-Johansson, svensk författare.
*25 februari - Zeppo Marx, amerikansk komiker.
*28 februari - Linus Pauling, amerikansk kemist, nobelpris i kemi 1954 och fred 1962.
*17 mars - Margit Rosengren, svensk operettsångerska (sopran), skådespelare.
*21 mars - Karl Arnold, förbundsrepubliken Tysklands förste president.
*27 mars
**Carl Barks, amerikansk serietecknare.
**Sato Eisaku, japansk politiker, premiärminister 1964-1972, nobelpristagare.
*29 mars - Uuno Kailas, finländsk författare.
*5 april - Melvyn Douglas, amerikansk skådespelare.
*6 april - Pier Giorgio Frassati, saligförklarad italiensk student och tertiar inom dominikanorden.
*8 april - Arvid Richter, svensk sångare.
*13 april - Sven Rüno, svensk kompositör, textförfattare, pianist och kapellmästare.
*20 april 
**Karl Damström, svensk järnbruksarbetare och politiker.
**Svea Holst, svensk skådespelare.
*29 april
**Kathrine Aurell, svensk-norsk författare och manusförfattare. 
**Hirohito, japansk kejsare 1926-1989.
*5 maj - Fritiof Billquist, svensk skådespelare och författare.
*7 maj – Gary Cooper, amerikansk skådespelare.
*12 maj - Märta Arbin, svensk skådespelare.
*25 maj - Bellan Roos, svensk skådespelare.
*29 maj - Inga Tidblad, svensk skådespelare.
*6 juni
**Helmuth Stieff, tysk generalmajor, motståndskämpe under andra världskriget.
**Sukarno, indonesisk politiker, premiärminister 1945-1967.
*Birger Andersson, svensk redaktör och riksdagspolitiker (socialdemokrat).
*11 juni - Gustaf Svensson i Vä, svensk folkskollärare och centerpartistisk riksdagspolitiker.
*13 juni – Tage Erlander, svensk politiker, statsminister 1946-1969.
*18 juni
**Storfurstinnan Anastasia, dotter till Rysslands siste tsar.
**Jeanette MacDonald, amerikansk sångerska och skådespelare.
*29 juni
**Rudolf "Putte" Kock, svensk ishockey- och fotbollsspelare samt TV-kommentator.
**Nelson Eddy, amerikansk sångare och skådespelare.
*5 juli - Gustaf Hiort af Ornäs, svensk skådespelare och sångare.
*6 juli - Syama Prasad Mookerjee, indisk politiker, grundare av partiet Bharatiya Jana Sangh. 
*9 juli – Barbara Cartland, brittisk författare.
*25 juli - Oscar Rosander, svensk filmklippare, kortfilmsregissör och statistskådespelare.
*28 juli - Rudy Vallée, amerikansk sångare, saxofonist, orkesterledare och skådespelare.
*29 juli - Magnus Kesster, svensk skådespelare.
*31 juli - Jean Dubuffet, fransk målare och grafiker.
*3 augusti - Stefan Wyszyński, polsk kardinal, Polens primas.
*4 augusti - Louis Armstrong, amerikansk jazztrumpetare.
*8 augusti - Ernest Lawrence, amerikansk fysiker, nobelpristagare 1939.
*18 augusti - Arne Borg, svensk simmare.
*20 augusti - Salvatore Quasimodo, italiensk författare, nobelpristagare.
*27 augusti - Ivar Wahlgren, svensk skådespelare och sångare.
*28 augusti - Hilding Gavle, svensk skådespelare.
*1 september - Andrej Vlasov, rysk militär.
*3 september - Bullan Weijden, svensk skådespelare och sångerska.
*8 september - Hendrik Verwoerd, sydafrikansk politiker, premiärminister 1958-1966.
*18 september - Bengt Rodhe, svensk kompositör, musikarrangör, sångare och musiker (pianist).
*19 september - Alvar Kraft, svensk kompositör, arrangör av filmmusik.
*26 september
**Arthur Hilton, svensk operadirektör och skådespelare.
**Lilly Kjellström, svensk skådespelare.
*29 september - Enrico Fermi, italiensk-amerikansk fysiker, nobelpristagare.
*10 oktober - Alberto Giacometti, schweizisk skulptör och målare.
*13 oktober - Irja Browallius, svensk författare.
*3 november
**Leopold III, belgisk kung 1934-1951.
**André Malraux, fransk författare och politiker.
*4 november - Adriano Olivetti, italiensk ingenjör, skrivmaskinstillverkare.
*14 november - Christian Elling, dansk professor och konsthistoriker.
*18 november - George Gallup, skapare av opinionsundersökningsföretag.
*25 november - Arthur Liebehenschel, tysk nazist, SS-Obersturmbannführer.
*28 november - Edwina Ashley.
*5 december
**Walt Disney, amerikansk filmproducent.
**Werner Heisenberg, tysk fysiker, nobelpristagare.
*Paul I, kung av Grekland 1947-1964.
*27 december
**Oscar Carlsson, svensk pappersbruksarbetare och politiker.
**Marlene Dietrich, tysk-amerikansk skådespelare och sångerska.
**Stanley William Hayter, brittisk målare och grafiker.
*31 december - Karl-August Fagerholm, finlandssvensk socialdemokratisk politiker, Finlands statsminister 1948-1950, 1956-1957 och 1958-1959.

==Avlidna==
*14 januari - Charles Hermite, fransk matematiker.
*17 januari - Frederic William Henry Myers, engelsk poet.
*22 januari - Viktoria I av Storbritannien, drottning av Storbritannien 1837-1901, kejsarinna av Indien 1877-1901.
*27 januari - Giuseppe Verdi, italiensk operakompositör.
*10 februari - Telemaco Signorini, italiensk målare.
*22 februari - George Francis FitzGerald, irländsk fysiker.
*13 mars - Benjamin Harrison, amerikansk president 1889-1893.
*11 april 
**Ivar Hallström, svensk kompositör.
**Gunnar Eriksson i Mörviken, svensk lantbrukare och politiker.
*12 april - Louis Auguste Sabatier, fransk protestantisk teolog.
*24 april - Arvid Posse, svensk statsminister 1880-1883.
*23 maj - John Riley Tanner, amerikansk republikansk politiker, guvernör i Illinois 1897-1901.
*27 maj - Artur Hazelius, svensk filolog och folklivsforskare, grundare av Nordiska museet och friluftsmuseet Skansen.
*16 juni - Herman Grimm, tysk författare och konsthistoriker.
*21 juni - Carl Otto Bergman, svensk militär, industriman, kommunalpolitiker och riksdagsman.
*Viktoria av England, engelsk prinsessa som blev tysk kejsarinna och drottning av Preussen.
*12 augusti
**Francesco Crispi, italiensk politiker, premiärminister 1887-1891 och 1893-1896.
**Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, svensk mineralog och polarforskare.
*15 augusti - Julia von Hausmann, rysk psalmförfattare.
*24 augusti - Gunnar Wennerberg, svensk skald, tonsättare och ecklesiastikminister.
*9 september - Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, fransk konstnär.
*14 september - William McKinley, amerikansk president 1897-1901 (mördad).
*24 september - Fredrik Åkerblom, svensk tidningsredaktör och riksdagsman.
*30 november - Albrecht Friedrich Weber, tysk orientalist.
*24 december - Lev Ivanov, rysk balettdansör och koreograf.

==Nobelpris==
*Fysik - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, tysk fysiker.
*Kemi - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, nederländsk kemist.
*Medicin - Emil von Behring, tysk läkare.
*Litteratur - Sully Prudhomme, fransk författare.
*Fred
**Henri Dunant, Schweiz.
**Frédéric Passy, Frankrike.

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==Events of 1901==
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===January===
110px|thumb|right|[[January 1: British colonies federate.]]
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* January 1 
**<!--January 1-->The world celebrates the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
**<!--January 1-->The British colonies of Victoria and federate as the Commonwealth of Australia. Edmond Barton becomes first Prime Minister.
**<!--January 1-->British protectorate
* January 5 - Typhoid fever breaks out in a Seattle jail, the first of two typhoid outbreaks in USA during the year.
* January 7 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.
* oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
* Queen Victoria dies at the age of 81. Her eldest son, Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales becomes King, reigning as King Edward VII until Prince George, Duke of York becomes Duke of Cornwall.
* January 28 - Baseball's American League declares itself a Major League.
110px|thumb|right|[[January 22: King Edward VII ascends the British throne and becomes Emperor of India.]]

===February===
* King Edward VII opens his first parliament.
* Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.

===March===
* U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
* United States President William McKinley begins his 2nd term. Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
* Bremen, an Wilhelm II of Germany.
* March 17 - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
* March 31 - The United Kingdom Census 1901 is taken.
110px|thumb|right|[[March 6: Wilhelm II of Germany survives assassination attempt.]]

===April===
*April 25 - New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates.
*April 29 - Anti-Jewish rioting breaks out in Budapest.

===May===
* Jacksonville, FL.
* Mayan skirmishers continue sporadic fighting for another decade.
* parliament in Melbourne.
* May 17 - The U.S. stock market crashes for the first time.
* May 24 - 78 miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
* May 25 - The Club Atlético River Plate is founded in Argentina.
* May 27 - In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
* May 28 - Iran (known as Persia until 1935) grants William Knox D'Arcy a concession, giving him the right to prospect for oil.

===June===
* June 2 - Katsura Taro becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
*June 12 - Cuba becomes a US protectorate.
110px|thumb|right|[[June 12: Cuba becomes a United States protectorate.]]

===July===
* July 4 - The 1,282 foot (390 meters) covered bridge crossing the St. John River at Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada opens. It is the longest covered bridge in the world.
* July 24 - O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from the First National Bank in Austin, Texas.

===August===
* world record of 24ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years.
* August 6 - Beginning of the Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on the RRS Discovery to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica.
* 30 August - Hubert Cecil Booth patents an electric vacuum cleaner.

===September===
110px|thumb|right|[[September 7: The Boxer Rebellion in China ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol.]]
110px|thumb|right|[[September 14: Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States on the death of William McKinley.]]
* Vice President big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
* September 5 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago.
* McKinley dies eight days later.
* September 7 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
* September 14 - Theodore Roosevelt succeeds William McKinley as President of the United States.
* September 26 - The body of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick.

===October===
* October 2 - The Royal Navy's first submarine is launched at Barrow.
* Columbia'' defeats the Irish ''Shamrock'' in the America's Cup yachting race.
* October 16 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. The American South reacts angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in the region.
* October 23 - Yale University celebrates its bicentennial.
* October 24 - Michigan schoolteacher Annie Taylor goes down Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.
* October 29 
**<!--October 29-->In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
**<!--October 29-->executed by electrocution.

===November===
* fraternity is founded in Richmond, VA.
* Prince George, Duke of Cornwall becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
* November 15 - Alpha Sigma Alpha is founded at Longwood University.
* new state constitution of Alabama requires voters to have passed literacy tests.

===December===
* House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits."
* December 10 - The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
* Atlantic Newfoundland, Canada; it is Morse code for the letter "S."
* Mombasa-Victoria-Uganda Railway in what is now Kisumu, Kenya.

===Undated===
* Scotland Yard creates a fingerprint archive.
* Europium is isolated by Eugène-Anatole Demarçay.
* William S. Harley draws up plans for his first prototype motorcycle.
* The okapi is observed for the first time (previously known only to local natives).
* Independent Maya of Eastern Yucatán surrender to Mexico.
* Intercollegiate Prohibition Association established in Chicago.
* Shō Tai (Shang Tai), the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in modern Okinawa, Japan, dies.
* New Zealand inventor, Ernest Godward invents the spiral hairpin, one of the most widely-used devices on the planet.
* The first reliable census in India is taken.
*9% of the English urban population is overcrowded in terms of the official definition of more than 2 persons per room.

==Ongoing==
*Second Boer War
*Thousand Days War (1899-1902)
*Philippine-American War (1899-1913)

==Births==

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* January 3 - Ngo Dinh Diem, 1st President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
* January 4 - CLR James, Trinidad-born writer and journalist (d. 1989)
* January 14 - Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971)
* January 16
**<!--January 16-->Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973)
**<!--January 16-->Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
* January 24 - Harry Calder, South African cricketer (d. 1995)
* January 26 - Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)
* January 27 - Art Rooney, American football team owner (d. 1988)
* January 29 - E. P. Taylor, Canadian business tycoon (d. 1989)
* January 30 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
* February 1 - Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
* February 2 - Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987)
* February 10 - Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
* February 15 - João Branco Núncio, Portuguese bullfighter (d. 1976)
* February 22 - Mildred Davis, American actress (d. 1969)
* February 25 - Zeppo Marx, American comedian (d. 1979)
* February 27 - Horatio Luro, Argentine horse trainer (d. 1991)
* Peace (d. 1994)

===March-April===
* March 4
**<!--March 4-->Charles Goren, American bridge player (d. 1991)
**<!--March 4-->Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy-French poet (d. 1937)
* March 17 - Alfred Newman, American film composer (d. 1970)
* March 21 - Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
* March 22 - Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991)
* March 24 - Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971) 
* March 27
**<!--March 27-->Carl Barks, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
**<!--March 27-->Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
**<!--March 27-->Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975)
**<!--March 27-->Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971)
* March 28 - Jack Weil, American entrepreneur
* April 1 - Whittaker Chambers, American spy (d. 1961)
* April 15 - Joe Davis, English snooker and billiards player (d. 1978)
* Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967)
* April 29 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan (d. 1989)
* Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)

===May-June===
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* May 5 - Blind Willie McTell, American singer (d. 1959)
* May 7 - Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
* May 17 - Werner Egk, German composer (d. 1983)
* Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
* May 20 - Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (d. 1981)
* May 21
**<!--May 21-->Horace Heidt, American bandleader (d. 1986)
**<!--May 21-->Sam Jaffe, American film producer (d. 2000)
**<!--May 21-->Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist, and playwright (d. 1992)
* May 31 - Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
* June 3 - Chang Hsüeh-liang, Chinese military leader (d. 2001)
* June 6 - Sukarno, first President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
* June 17 - F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, English World War II hero (d. 1964)
* Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (d. 1918)
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* Chuck Taylor, American basketball player and salesman (d. 1969)
* June 24 - Harry Partch, American composer (d. 1974)
* June 29 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)

===July-August===
* July 7 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film director and special effects designer (d. 1970)
* July 9 - Barbara Cartland, English novelist (d. 2000)
* Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
* July 20 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (d. 1971)
* July 21 - Albert Hamilton Gordon, American businessman and philanthropist
* July 31 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter (d. 1985)
* Pancho Villa, Filipino boxer (d. 1925)
* August 4 - Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician (d. 1971)
* Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
* Franco Dino Rasetti, Italian scientist (d. 2001)
* August 18 - Jean Guitton, French writer and philosopher (d. 1999)
* Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
* August 26
**<!--August 26-->Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987)
**<!--August 26-->Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (d. 1972)
* August 30 - John Gunther, American writer (d. 1970)

===September-October===
* September 9
**<!--September 9-->James Blades, English percussionist (d. 1999)
**<!--September 9-->Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1966)
* September 12 - Ben Blue, Canadian-born comedian and actor (d. 1975)
* Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (d. 1985)
* September 22 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)
* Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986) 
* September 28
**<!--September 28-->Ed Sullivan, American entertainer (d. 1974)
**<!--September 28-->William S. Paley, American businessman (d. 1990)
* September 29
**<!--September 29-->Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
**<!--September 29-->Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher, poet, and activist (d. 1981)
* October 2 - Alice Prin, French singer (d. 1953)
* October 10 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
* October 24 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born dancer and actress (d. 1959)

===November-December===
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* November 3 - Léopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
* November 4 - Masako Nashimoto, Crown Princess of Korea (d. 1989)
* November 7 - Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
* November 18 - George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (d. 1984)
* November 22 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
* November 29 - Mildred Harris, American actress (d. 1944)
* December 5
**<!--December 5-->Milton Erickson, American psychiatrist (d. 1980)
* December 5
**<!--December 5-->Walt Disney, American animator and film producer (d. 1966)
**<!--December 5-->Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
* December 16 - Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist (d. 1978)
* December 19 - Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d. 2002)
* December 25 - Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004)
* December 27 - Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress (d. 1992)
* December 31 - Karl-August Fagerholm, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1984)
*''date unknown'' - Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, second wife of Joseph Stalin (d. 1932)

==Deaths==
===January - June===
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* January 1 - Ignatius L. Donnelly, U.S. politician and writer (b. 1831)
* January 8 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
* January 11 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866) 
* January 16
**<!--January 16-->Arnold Böcklin, Swiss artist (b. 1827)
**<!--January 16-->Mahadev Govind Ranade, Indian reformer (b. 1842)
* January 21 - Elisha Gray, American inventor and appliance manufacturer (b. 1835)
* Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India (b. 1819)
* January 27 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
* February 11 - King Milan I of Serbia (b. 1854)
* February 22 - George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
* February 26 - Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa, Polish writer (b. 1829)
* March 13 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
* April 3 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, English impresario (b. 1844)
* April 19 - Alfred Horatio Belo, American businessman and newswriter (b. 1839)
* May 1 - Lewis Waterman, American inventor and businessman (b. 1837)
* May 22 - Gaetano Bresci Italian anarchist and assassin (b 1869)
* May 24 - Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist (b. 1823)
* June 2 - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
* June 9 - Walter Besant, English writer (b. 1836)

===July - December===
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* Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843)
* July 6 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
* Victoria, Empress of Germany (b. 1840)
* August 12 - Francesco Crispi, Italian Prime Minister (b. 1819)
* August 24 - Clara Maass, American nurse (b. 1876)
* September 5 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
* September 9 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
* September 14 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)
* October 1 - Abdor Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1844)
* October 10 - Lorenzo Snow, Mormon leader (b. 1814)
* October 19 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
* October 29 - Leon Czolgosz, Polish-American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873)
* November 7 - Li Hongzhang, Chinese general (b. 1823)
* November 27 - Clement Studebaker, American manufacturer (b. 1831)
* November 30 - Edward John Eyre, English explorer (b. 1815)
* December 1 - George Lohmann, English cricketer (b. 1865)

==Nobel prizes==
* Physics - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
* Chemistry - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
* Medicine - Emil Adolf von Behring
* Literature - Sully Prudhomme
* Peace - Frédéric Passy

==Notes==

 

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