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Born on Sunday October 6, 1901
- Alje Venhuis, Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland († 1982)
- Albertus Hermanus Hattink, Delft
- Adam Johan Wierts, Bocholtz (L
- Alida Maria Catharina van MARIS, Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Albertus Wagensveld, Woudenberg, Utrecht, Nederland
- Alice van Wyhe, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 1926)
- Aaltje Vos, Wirdum
- Alida Johanna van Leeuwen, Wassenaar
- Alida Johanna van Leeuwen, Wassenaar, South Holland, The Netherlands
- Anje Nienhuis, Loppersum, Groningen, Nederland
Died on Sunday October 6, 1901
- Albert Briggs (74), Fairhaven, MA
- Alwayne Chadwell (31), Claiborne Co, TN (Chadwell Farm Family Cemetery, Hopewell, TN)
- Antonetta van den Nieuwenhof (72), Nuenen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, Nederland
- Augusta L Barnes (56)
- Christoffel Hubertus Passage (57), Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands
- Barnabas T. Stephens (83), Erath County, TX, United States
- Bastiaan Lagendijk (49), Rotterdam
- Aaltjen Meijerink (70), Warnsveld
- Amandus Van den Broeck (79), Booischot,, Antwerpen, België
- Anna Maria Hubertina Clignet (72), Bocholtz, Simpelveld, Limburg, Netherlands
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from October 6, 1901 at Delpher
Born on October 6
- 1896 » David Howard, American film director († 1941)
- 1897 » Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist and academic († 1991)
- 1900 » Stan Nichols, English cricketer († 1961)
- 1900 » Vivion Brewer, American activist and desegregationist († 1991)
- 1900 » Willy Merkl, German mountaineer († 1934)
- 1901 » Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German-Brazilian zoologist and academic († 1990)
- 1903 » Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)
- 1905 » Helen Wills, American tennis player and painter († 1998)
- 1906 » Janet Gaynor, American actress († 1984)
- 1906 » Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach († 1946)
Died on October 6
- 1873 » Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
- 1883 » Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
- 1891 » Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
- 1892 » Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
- 1912 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
- 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
- 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
- 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
- 1947 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
- 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
Names that were popular for boys in 1901
- Johannes
- Jan
- Cornelis
- Hendrik
- Willem
- Pieter
- Gerrit
- Petrus
- Jacob
- Adrianus
- Jacobus
- Dirk
- Wilhelmus
- Arie
- Hendrikus
- Gerardus
Names that were popular for girls in 1901
- Maria
- Johanna
- Anna
- Cornelia
- Wilhelmina
- Elisabeth
- Adriana
- Hendrika
- Catharina
- Jacoba
- Aaltje
- Grietje
- Geertruida
- Petronella
- Neeltje
- Helena
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1901
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
- The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
- March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
- July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
- September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
- November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
- November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.
- December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Weather October 6, 1901
The temperature on October 6, 1901 was between 6.8 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.4 °C.