In the year 1901, oil is discovered in the first great Texas gusher at Spindletop in Beaumont (Jan 10), Queen Victoria dies after 63 years of reign (Jan 22), New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates (Apr 25), Cuba becomes a U.S. protectorate (Jun 12), Hubert Cecil Booth patents an electric vacuum cleaner (Aug 30), the first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm (Dec 10), Alzheimer’s disease is described for the first time by German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer, Scotland Yard creates a fingerprint archive - and all these fine people were born:

1901-0101 1901-0103 Ngo Dinh Diem* politician/ PM of the State of Vietnam/first president of South Vietnam - Quảng Bình, French Indochina (1963/62) 1901-0105 Niilo Jaakko Hakoniemi* married to Impi Maria Ala-Ranta - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1973/72) 1901-0116 Fulgencio Batista* politician/ dictator/P - Banés, Cuba (1973/72) 1901-0116 Frank Zamboni* engineer/ inventor of ice resurfacer - Eureka, UT USA (1988/87) 1901-0127 Art Rooney* boxer/baseball player/founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers - Coulterville, PA USA (1988/87) 1901-0130 Verner Lundström* cross-country skier (Vasaloppet) - Arvidsjaur, Sweden (1983/82) 1901-0201 Clark Gable* actor - Cadiz, OH USA (1960/58) 1901-0223 Ivar Lo-Johansson* proletarian writer - Ösmo, Sweden (1990/89) 1901-0225 Paul Fritsch* boxer/OG - Paris, France (1970/69) 1901-0225 Zeppo Marx* actor/theatrical agent/engineer - Manhattan, NY USA (1979/77) 1901-0227 George Vernot* swimmer/OS - Montreal, QC Canada (1962/61) 1901-0228 Linus Pauling* chemist/peace activist/N - Portland, OR USA (1994/93) 1901-0303 Claude Choules* World War I veteran/last surviving combat veteran from any nation - Pershore, Worcestershire, England (2011/110) 1901-0304 Johan Wilhelm Klüver* entrepreneur/ father of Björn Tarras-Wahlberg - Steinkjer, Norway (1981/80) 1901-0310 1901-0318 William Johnson* painter - Florence, SC USA (1970/69) 1901-0320 1901-0324 Ub Iwerks* cartoonist (Mickey Mouse)/ special effects technician - Kansas City, MO USA (1971/70) 1901-0325 Ed Begley* actor - Hartford, CT  USA (1970/69) 1901-0327 Carl Barks* cartoonist/ painter/the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories - near Merrill, OR USA (2000/99) 1901-0327 Eisaku Satō* 佐藤 榮作 politician/PM/N - Tabuse, Yamaguchi, Japan (1975/74) 1901-0401 Whittaker Chambers* ex-spy for the Soviet Union/writer/editor - Philadelphia, PA USA (1961/60) 1901-0405 Melvyn Douglas* actor - Macon, GA USA (1981/80) 1901-0429 Hirohito* Emperor Shōwa 昭和 the 124th emperor of Japan - Tokyo, Empire of Japan (1989/87) 1901-0501 1901-0507 Gary Cooper* actor - Helena, MT USA (1961/60) 1901-0510 Eino Friberg* Finnish-American author/translator of Finland’s national epic Kalevala (1989)/to U.S. at age 5 - Merikarvia, GD of Finland (1995/94) 1901-0513 Witold Pilecki* Polish cavalry officer/intelligence agent/heroic resistance leader - Olonets, Russian Empire (1948/47) 1901-0516 Sven Utterström* cross-country skier/OG (Vasaloppet) - Boden, Sweden (1979/77) 1901-0520 1901-0524 Arvid Harnack* jurist/economist/ German resistance fighter (Rote Kapelle) - Darmstadt, German Empire (1942/41) 1901-0530 1901-0601 Tom Gorman* rugby player - Charters Towers, QLD Australia (1978/77) 1901-0606 Sukarno* politician/1stP of Indonesia - Surabaya, Dutch East Indies (1970/69) 1901-0620 1901-0622 Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo* founder of the Subud movement - Kedungjati, Java, Indonesia (1987/86) 1901-0630 Elsa Rantalainen* actress - Tampere, GD of Finland (1988/86) 1901-0701 1901-0704 Curtis Shears* fencer/OB (team) - Omaha, NE USA (1988/87) 1901-0705 1901-0709 Barbara Cartland* novelist (723 novels) - Edgbaston, Birmingham, England (2000/98) 1901-0713 Eric Portman* actor - Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (1969/68) 1901-0721 Albert Hamilton Gordon* businessman/avid walker/ philanthropist - Scituate, MA USA (2009/107) 1901-0723 Eugene Oberst* athlete (javelin/OB)/Am. football player/coach - Owensboro, KY USA (1991/89) 1901-0731 Jean Dubuffet* painter/ sculptor - Le Havre, France (1985/83) 1901-0801 Gérard Blitz* Belgian swimmer/OB/water polo player - Amsterdam, Netherlands (1979/77) 1901-0804 Louis Armstrong* trumpeter/composer/ singer - New Orleans, LA USA (1971/69) 1901-0808 Ernest Lawrence* nuclear physicist/N - Canton, SD USA (1958/57) 1901-0821 Anders Ström* cross-country skier (Vasaloppet) - Östnor, Sweden (1986/85) 1901-0826 Frankie Genaro* boxer/OG - New York, NY USA (1966/65) 1901-0902 Robert von Essen* Russian-Finnish pianist/songwriter - Trasitsyn, Russian Empire (1957/56) 1901-0905 1901-0910 Ray Kegeris* swimmer/OS - Bellwood, NE USA (1975/73) 1901-0911 Katri Vala* (b Karin Wadenström) poet/critic/teacher - Muonio, Finland (1944/42) 1901-0923 Ruth Andreas-Friedrich* (b Andreas) social worker/journalist/ involved in the resistance to Nazism - Berlin, German Empire (1977/75) 1901-0923 Jaroslav Seifert*  writer/poet/journalist/N - Zizkov, Austria-Hungary (1986/84) 1901-0928 Ed Sullivan* television talk show host - New York, NY USA (1974/73) 1901-0929 Enrico Fermi* nuclear physicist/N - Rome, Italy (1954/53) 1901-1003 Lettie Allen* public servant/political activist/feminist - Wellington, New Zealand (1980/78) 1901-1008 Mark Oliphant* physicist/humanitarian - Adelaide, SA Australia (2000/98) 1901-1022 Arvo Lehesmaa* (b Nylund) actor - Pori, GD of Finland (1973/71) 1901-1028 Ilmari Turja* journalist/ playwright/writer - Isokyrö, GD of Finland (1998/96) 1901-1101 Harry C. Butcher* radio broadcaster/Naval Aide to Eisenhower during WW2 - Springville, IA USA (1985/83) 1901-1101 Victor Hammer* businessman/brother of Armand Hammer - New York City, NY USA (1985/83) 1901-1102 James Dunn* actor/vaudeville performer - Manhattan, NY USA (1967/65) 1901-1102 Paul Ford* actor - Baltimore, MD USA (1976/74) 1901-1117 Lee Strasberg* actor/ director/theater practitioner - Budzanow, Galicia Austria-Hungary (1982/80) 1901-1121 Forrest Bondurant* Prohibition era gangster - Franklin County, VA USA (1965/64) 1901-1126 Howard Frankland* businessman/banker active in the Tampa Bay area - Jackson, TN USA (1980/79) 1901-1129 Mildred Harris* actress - Cheyenne, WY USA (1944/42) 1901-1202 Olga von Root* actress/first wife of Armand Hammer – Sevastopol, Crimea, Russian Empire (1967/66) 1901-1205 Walt Disney* animator/writer/film producer etc - Chicago, IL USA (1966/65) 1901-1205 Werner Heisenberg* physicist/N - Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (1976/74) 1901-1210 1901-1214 Henri Cochet* tennis player/OS - Villeurbanne, France (1987/85) 1901-1216 Margaret Mead*anthropologist/ author/speaker - Philadelphia, PA USA (1978/76) 1901-1224 Donald Ewen Cameron* psychiatrist involved in CIA’s unethical experiments - Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland (1967/65) 1901-1227 Marlene Dietrich* singer/actress - Schöneberg, Berlin Germany (1992/90) 1901-1231 Karl-August Fagerholm* politician/PM - Siuntio, GD of Finland (1984/82) 1901-0 1901-0 1901-0 Updated 2025-0511 Helsinki-Stockholm Search for another year here