1901 deaths

Italian opera composer (1813–1901)

Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was longer than those of any of her predecessors, constituted the Victorian era, a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India.

William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades. McKinley successfully led the U.S. in the Spanish–American War and oversaw a period of American expansionism, with the annexations of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and American Samoa.

President of the United States, 1889-1893 (1833–1901)

French painter and illustrator (1864–1901)

Swiss writer (1827–1901)

Swiss painter, draftsman, graphic artist and sculptor (1827–1901)

French mathematician (1822-1901)

Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901

British princess (1840-1901), Empress of Germany and Queen consort of Prussia from March to June 1888

Finland Swedish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer (1832–1901)

German chancellor (1819–1901)

Modern Enlightenment thinker, educator, philosopher, scholar, author, writer, journalist, translator, entrepreneur, and founder of Keio University in Japan's Meiji era (1835-1901)

Italian patriot and statesman (1818–1901)

Irish physicist (1851–1901)

Spanish author (1852–1901)

Chinese politician, general and diplomat; governor of Zhili of the late Qing dynasty; Trade Minister of the Beiyang Government (1823–1901)

king of Serbia

American laborer and assassin (1873–1901)

German-born physician and physiologist (1829-1901)

American electrical engineer

Spanish politician (1824–1901)

Greek artist (1842-1901)

Belgian jurist (1841-1901)

Italian anarchist regicide of King Umberto I of Italy (1869-1901)

French politician (1821-1901)

Scottish mathematical physicist (1831–1901)

Bavarian chemist and hygienist (1818–1901)

French chemist (1830–1901)

Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist (1813-1901)

British artist (1846-1901)

Belgian electrical engineer and inventor

British explorer and colonial administrator (1815–1901)

Spanish author (1817–1901)

American lawyer and politician (1818–1901)

Polish painter (1831-1901)

South African politician (1819–1901)

American physicist (1848–1901)

Polish painter (1850–1901)

British athlete (1874-1901)

Swedish 19th century prime minister (1820-1901)

Russian composer (1866–1900)

Spanish author and politician (1824-1901)

English writer, editor (1823–1901)

Russian general (1828-1901)

Liechtensteiner organist and composer (1839-1901)

last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom (1843-1901)

Czech poet, playwright, bookwriter and historic literature writer (1841-1901)

German linguist (1843–1901)

French poet, writer and librettist (1825–1901)

Russian zoologist (1840-1901)

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1814-1901)

Monarch of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1853 - 1901)

German indologist (1825–1901)

Indian scholar, social reformer and author (1842-1901)

Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, creator of a "Swan Lake" (1834–1901)

American politician (1831-1901)

Italian general (1841-1901)

American politician (1827-1901)

Italian naturalist and alleged murderer (1841-1901)