List of Famous people who died in 1901

Johann Heinrich Joseph Düntzer was a German philologist and historian of literature.

Pierre J. Lorillard IV was an American tobacco manufacturer and Thoroughbred race horse owner.

Víctor Balaguer i Cirera was a Spanish politician and author, was born at Barcelona on 11 December 1824, and was educated at the university of his native city.

Ernst Willibald Emil Hübner was a German classical scholar.

Cornelius Gurlitt was a German composer. He was a classmate of Carl Reinecke, whose father was head of the famous Leipzig Conservatory. Gurlitt studied with Reinecke's father for six years. His first public appearance at the age of seventeen was well received, and he decided to go to Copenhagen to continue his studies. There he studied organ, piano, and composition under Curlander and Weyse. While in Copenhagen he became acquainted with the Danish composer Niels Gade, and they remained friends until Gade's death.

Keisuke Ito was a Japanese physician and biologist. He was born in Nagoya.

William Maxwell Evarts was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litigator and was involved in three of the most important causes of American political jurisprudence in his day: the impeachment of a president, the Geneva arbitration and the contests before the electoral commission to settle the presidential election of 1876.

Admiral Arthur William Acland Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon, was an officer of the Royal Navy. As a junior officer he took part in the capture of Acre during the Oriental Crisis in 1840 and went ashore with the naval brigade at the defence of Eupatoria in November 1854 during the Crimean War. He became First Naval Lord in June 1885 and in that role was primarily concerned with enshrining into law the recommendations contained in a report on the disposition of the ships of the Royal Navy many of which were unarmoured and together incapable of meeting the combined threat from any two of the other naval powers : these recommendations were contained in the Naval Defence Act 1889.

Alfred Ernest Tysoe was an English athlete, and winner of two gold medals at the 1900 Olympic Games representing Great Britain.

Prince Henri of Orléans was the son of Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, and Princess Françoise of Orléans.