About the day » Tuesday December 17, 1901Calender converter

• Adrianus van Erp, Oirschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1912)
• Alexander Lilburn Walker, Bedford, Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 1966)
• Albert Diederich van Leeuwen, 's-Gravenhage († 1926)
• Alle Bergsma, Tietjerksteradeel
• Adrianus Slingerland, Nieuwkoop († 1986)
• Alida Antonetta Kluwen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1987)
• <male> Sabean, Port Lorne, Annapolis, NS
• Adriana Maria Gestel, van, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus van Gool, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham den Hartog, Ameide († 1996)

• Antonia van der Avoort (0), Waalwijk, NL
• Aaltjen WITTEVEEN (22), Deventer,Overijsel,Netherlands
• Anna Helena Jongen (10), Maastricht
• Annatje Kuitert (81), Kollumerzwaag, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Bogaard (4), Beusichem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius van Dooremaalen (79), 's-Hertogenbosch, s-Hertogenbosch, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Annetje Pijl (71), Streefkerk
• Annetje (Antje) Pijl (71), Streefkerk
• Anna Margaretha Wolken (0), Nieuw Schoonebeek (Schoonebeek)
• Anna, Hendrika Helsloot (3), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1898 » Loren Murchison, American sprinter († 1979)
• 1900 » Katina Paxinou, Greek actress († 1973)
• 1900 » Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos († 1998)
• 1903 » Erskine Caldwell, American novelist and short story writer († 1987)
• 1903 » Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor († 1978)
• 1904 » Paul Cadmus, American painter and illustrator († 1999)
• 1905 » Erico Verissimo, Brazilian author and translator († 1975)
• 1905 » Mohammad Hidayatullah, 11th Chief Justice of India, and politician, 6th Vice President of India († 1992)
• 1905 » Simo Häyhä, Finnish soldier and sniper († 2002)
• 1906 » Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and conductor († 1994)

• 1904 » William Shiels, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Victoria (b. 1848)
• 1907 » William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
• 1909 » Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
• 1917 » Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and activist (b. 1836)
• 1927 » Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892)
• 1928 » Frank Rinehart, American photographer (b. 1861)
• 1929 » Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician, 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)
• 1930 » Peter Warlock, Welsh composer and critic (b. 1894)
• 1932 » Charles Winckler, Danish discus thrower, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (b. 1867)
• 1933 » 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)

• 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.
• January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
• August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
• September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
• September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
• 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.
• December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.

The temperature on December 17, 1901 was between -6.9 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -3.6 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (50%).