1901
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1901 (MCMI) is the 1st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1900s decade.
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Art and culture
- L'Assiette au Beurre, French satirical and libertarian magazine founded.
Novels
- The Adventures of King Pausole by Pierre Louÿs
Non fiction
- Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis
- The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
- Thought Forms by Annie Besant & Charles Webster Leadbeater.
- "L'idée de sadisme et l'érotologie scientifique" by Octave Uzanne
- Kryptádia Vol. 7 (1901)
Visual art
- Il Quarto Stato, social realist painting by Italian artist Giuseppe Pellizza
- Judith and the Head of Holofernes by Gustav Klimt
Architecture
- Whitechapel Gallery in London, designed by C. Harrison Townsend is completed.
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Births
- February 1 - Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
- April 20 - Michel Leiris (d. 1990)
- May 7 - Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
- June 16 - Henri Lefèbvre, French philosopher (d. 1991)
- July 9 - Barbara Cartland, English novelist (d. 2000)
- July 31 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter (d. 1985)
- August 4 - Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician (d. 1971)
- October 2 - Kiki, French singer (d. 1953)
- October 10 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
- December 5 - Walt Disney, American animator and film producer (d. 1966)
- December 16 - Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist (d. 1978)
- December 27 - Marlene Dietrich, actress (d. 1992)
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Deaths
- January 16 - Arnold Böcklin, Swiss artist (b. 1827)
- January 22 - Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India (b. 1819)
- January 27 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
- September 9 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
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