About the day » Thursday May 2, 1901Calender converter

• Adrianus Moerkerken, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1902)
• adriana MAASDAM, rotterdam
• Anna Hogewoning, Rijnsburg
• Albert Vrijheer Godin († 1982)
• Antje Schipper, Bergschenhoek
• Agatha Berendina Zeinstra, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Antoine S'Heeren, Sint-Truiden, België († 1984)
• Adelia Emma Peeters, Beerzel, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België († 1987)
• Aldegonda Maria Antoinetta Mommers, Tilburg, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Allegonda Maria Antonetta Mommers, Tilburg Nederland († 1977)

• Arie Kleppe (3), Asperen (West Betuwe) (GL)
• Adriana Sas (48), Montfoort
• Anna Catharina MULLEMAN (29), Blerick, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Petronella Adriana van Schie (0), Pijnacker
• Abraham Goedegebuure (64), St. Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Allegonda de Raad (0), Ammerzoden
• Alida Johanna Maria Zwart (8), Rotterdam
• Adriana Luijf (76), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland The Netherlands
• Adriana Luif (76), Weesp
• (56), Leeuwte (Ambt Vollenhove), Steenwijkerland

• 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)

• 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 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
• February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
• July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
• August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
• December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
• 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 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%).