Alexandru Candiano-Popescu, Romanian general, lawyer, journalist, and poet (b. 1841) July–August July 4 John Fiske, American philosopher (b. 1842) Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843) July 6 Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819) Joseph LeConte, American physician and geologist (b. 1823) July 7 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (b. 1827) July 10 – Kliment of Tarnovo, 2nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1841) July 11 – Marietta Bones, American suffragist, social reformer, philanthropist (b. 1842) July 18 – Jan ten Brink, Dutch writer (b. 1834) August 5 – Victoria, Princess Royal (b. 1840) August 12 Francesco Crispi, 11th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1819) Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832) August 19 – Shō Tai, last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Japan (b. 1843) August 21 – Adolf Eugen Fick, German-born physician and physiologist (b. 1829) September–October September 9 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864) September 10 – Emanuella Carlbeck, Swedish educator and social reformer (b. 1829) September 14 – William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (assassinated) (b. 1843) September 15 – Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott, Australian politician and solicitor (b. 1842) September 25 – Sir Arthur Fremantle, British army general (b. 1835) October 1 – Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1844) October 15 – Carlos María Fitz-James Stuart, 16th Duke of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1849) October 19 – Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier, industrialist (b. 1829) October 28 – Paul Rée, German author and philosopher (b. 1849) October 29 Leon Czolgosz, Polish-American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (executed) (b. 1873) John Kemp Starley, English bicycle inventor (b. 1854) November–December November 7 – Li Hongzhang, Chinese general (b. 1823) November 13 – Sir William Stewart, British admiral (b. 1822) November 27 – Clement Studebaker, American manufacturer (b. 1831) November 29 – Francisco Pi y Margall, Spanish politician, former president of the Republic (b. 1824) November 30 – Edward John Eyre, English explorer, Governor of Jamaica (b. 1815) December 6 – Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, German photographer (b. 1815) December 11 – Lev Ivanov, Russian choreographer (b. 1834) Nobel Prizes Physics – Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Chemistry – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Medicine – Emil Adolf von Behring Literature – Sully Prudhomme Peace – Jean Henri Dunant and Frédéric Passy Significance of 1901 for modern computers The date of Friday December 13 20:45:52 1901 is significant