About the day » Thursday May 2, 1901Calender converter

• Albertje van den Elsaker, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Hogewoning, Rijnsburg
• Aldegonda Maria Antoinetta Mommers, Tilburg, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Moerkerken, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1902)
• Anna Cornelia Maria Ansems, Zevenbergen († 1983)
• Albertje Van den Elsaker, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Van Baelen, Lommel, België († 1901)
• Aaltje Mons, Harderwijk († 1982)
• Annechien Woltman, Gieten, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana-Maria-Antonia van den Oetelaar, Tilburg († 1936)

• Aaltje van Bergen (84), Oude Pekela
• Antoinette Wilhelmina van Dompseler (48), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Adriana Luif (76), Weesp
• Arend Beekhuis (76), Bunschoten
• Antonius Johannes Petrus de Wit, Heusden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Adrianus Slooven, Bergen op Zoom
• Wilhelmus Luijks (73), Halsteren
• Adriana Sas (48), Montfoort
• Anna Jacoba Zekveld (3), Leimuiden, ZH, Nederland
• Arend Jan Roelvink (45), Hengelo

• 1897 » John Frederick Coots, American songwriter († 1985)
• 1898 » Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor († 1989)
• 1901 » Bob Wyatt, English cricketer († 1995)
• 1901 » Edouard Zeckendorf, Belgian doctor, army officer and mathematician († 1983)
• 1901 » Willi Bredel, German writer († 1964)
• 1902 » Brian Aherne, English actor († 1986)
• 1902 » Werner Finck, German Kabarett comedian, actor and author († 1978)
• 1903 » Benjamin Spock, American rower, pediatrician, and author († 1998)
• 1904 » Bill Brandt, German-English photographer and journalist († 1983)
• 1905 » Alan Rawsthorne, British composer († 1971)

• 1864 » Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer and educator (b. 1791)
• 1880 » Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (b. 1805)
• 1880 » Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, co-created Australian rules football (b. 1835)
• 1885 » Terézia Zakoucs, Hungarian-Slovene author (b. 1817)
• 1915 » Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870)
• 1918 » Jüri Vilms, Estonian lawyer and politician (b. 1889)
• 1925 » Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet (b. 1898)
• 1925 » Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1927 » Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (b. 1879)

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. Arie
15. Hendrikus
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.
• February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
• June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
• August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
• August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
• August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
• September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.

The temperature on May 2, 1901 was between 2.2 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (51%).