List of Famous people who died in 1901

Georg Hermann Ivo Bruns was a German classical philologist. He was the son of legal scholar Karl Georg Bruns (1816-1880).

Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss symbolist painter.

Colonel Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Baronet was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was also a Conservative Party politician.

Domenico Morelli was an Italian painter, who mainly produced historical and religious works. Morelli was immensely influential in the arts of the second half of the 19th century, both as director of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples, but also because of his rebelliousness against institutions: traits that flourished into the passionate, often patriotic, Romantic and later Symbolist subjects of his canvases. Morelli was the teacher of Vincenzo Petrocelli.

Svetozar Miletić was a Serbian lawyer, journalist, author, politician, mayor of Novi Sad, and the political leader of Serbs in Vojvodina. Svetozar Miletić was one of the most influential ideological and political leaders of the Serbs living in the Habsburg lands.

Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin was an American pianist and composer.

Federico Errázuriz Echaurren was lawyer, farmer, deputy, senator, Minister of State and President of Chile.

Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell was a Swedish arachnologist.

Ivar Christian Hallström, born Stockholm, 5 June 1826, died in that city on 11 April 1901 was a Swedish composer, particularly of opera. After many years neglect, Hallström’s operas were revived, in Umeå in 1986 with Bergtagna, seen also in York in 1988, and Hertig Magnus at Vadstena in 1988 and 2000, also broadcast on Swedish television.