About the day » Sunday December 1, 1901Calender converter

• Aart Lems, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1902)
• Alphonsius Hofkens, Beerse († 1979)
• Adriana van der Wielen, Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)
• Abraham Brandon, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1981)
• , Schiedam
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Kooijman, Kamerik
• "Antoine" Adalbert Marie Gérard Georges de Cock de Rameyen, Anvers, Belgique († 1962)
• Alexander Van Boom, Bornem, België († 1978)
• Adriana Leeman, Veere († 1983)
• Aaltje Schaap, Musselkanaal (Onstwedde)

• Antje Zandvliet (26), Hillegom
• Amelia Rosalia Lippens (86), Brugge (St.-Kruis)
• Alphonsus Hubertus Crooijmans (0), Maashees en Overloon
• Arie Wouters van Turenhout (76), Zwijndrecht, Nederland
• Andrew Edward Gossett (39)
• André Maurice Jean Marie Joseph LEMAÎTRE (0), Charleroi, 6000, Hainaut, Belgique
• Anne Blaauw (0), Kalkwijk (Hoogezand-Gr)
• Anna Maria Theresia van Cuijk (39), Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie van TURENHOUT (76), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna van der Haven (0), Rotterdam

• 1894 » Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral, Brazilian herpetologist († 1982)
• 1895 » Henry Williamson, English farmer, soldier, and author († 1977)
• 1896 » Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union († 1974)
• 1898 » Cyril Ritchard, Australian-American actor and singer († 1977)
• 1898 » Stuart Garson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba († 1977)
• 1900 » Karna Maria Birmingham, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker († 1987)
• 1901 » Ilona Fehér, Hungarian-Israeli violinist and educator († 1988)
• 1903 » Nikolai Voznesensky, Soviet economic planner, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union († 1950)
• 1905 » Alex Wilson, Canadian sprinter and coach († 1994)
• 1910 » Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer († 2004)

• 1867 » Charles Gray Round, English lawyer and politician (b. 1797)
• 1884 » William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)
• 1913 » Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and author (b. 1864)
• 1914 » Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
• 1916 » Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1928 » José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (b. 1888)
• 1933 » Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865)
• 1934 » Sergey Kirov, Russian engineer and politician (b. 1886)
• 1935 » Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b. 1879)

• 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 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
• May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
• June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
• September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
• September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
• November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.

The temperature on December 1, 1901 was between 7.0 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 8.0 °C.