About the day » Tuesday July 2, 1901Calender converter

• Agatha Rietkerk, Den Haag
• Adriaan Jacob Jasperse, Groede
• Andries Hendrikus Kleisterlee, Nijmegen
• Achiel Bernard Petrus Dumoleijn, Assenede, België († 1986)
• * Hendrika Kivits, Hedikhuizen († 1979)
• Albertje Oosting, Hooghalen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Lips, Loon op Zand († 1955)
• Agneta Lucretia Sollewijn Gelpke, Poerworedjo (IND)
• Alphonsine Sophie Marie Lenaerts, Sint-Truiden, België
• Albertus Hoogland

• Agnes Maria Theresia van den Berg (38), Amsterdam
• Barend Jan van Rhee (21), Lienden
• Andries Hartsuiker (3), Winsum
• Anna Maria Jansen (72), Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Jansen (72), Barger-Compascuum
• Antonius de Beer (73), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Hartsuiker (3), Winsum, Het Hogeland, Groningen, Nederland
• Aart van de Kamp (76), Nijkerk
• Barend van Rinsum (88), Oosterbeek
• Adrianus Johannes Maria Hubertus Schrijnen (13), Oss (Osch), Provincie Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1900 » Sophie Harris, English costume and scenic designer for theatre and opera († 1966)
• 1900 » Tyrone Guthrie, English actor and director († 1971)
• 1902 » Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist († 1987)
• 1902 » K. Kanapathypillai, Sri Lankan author and academic († 1968)
• 1903 » Alec Douglas-Home, English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1995)
• 1903 » Olav V of Norway († 1991)
• 1904 » René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt († 1996)
• 1906 » Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1906 » Károly Kárpáti, Hungarian Jewish wrestler († 1996)
• 1906 » Séra Martin, French middle-distance runner († 1993)

• 1857 » Carlo Pisacane, Italian soldier and philosopher (b. 1818)
• 1903 » Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1867)
• 1912 » Tom Richardson, English cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1914 » Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1836)
• 1915 » Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1830)
• 1920 » William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
• 1926 » Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1932 » Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
• 1950 » Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1872)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Wilhelmus
14. Hendrikus
15. Arie
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Petronella
15. Neeltje
16. Helena

• 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.
• July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
• August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
• September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
• September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
• September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
• November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.

The temperature on July 2, 1901 was between 12.8 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (25%).