Editing 1901 (section)

=== January–February ===

[[File:Queen Victoria by Bassano.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Queen Victoria]]]]
[[File:Giuseppe Verdi by Giovanni Boldini.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Giuseppe Verdi]]]]
[[File:MilanIDeSerbia--dasknigreichse03kaniuoft.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Milan of Serbia]]]]
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[[File:Mariano Prado.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Mariano Ignacio Prado]]]]
[[File:Marthinus Wessel Pretorius.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Marthinus Wessel Pretorius]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Ignatius L. Donnelly]], American politician and writer (b. [[1831]])
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[John Barry (VC recipient)|John Barry]], Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. [[1873]])
* [[January 10]] &ndash; Sir [[James Dickson (Queensland politician)|James Dickson]], Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b. [[1832]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Vasily Kalinnikov]], Russian composer (b. [[1866]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Víctor Balaguer]], Spanish politician, author (b. [[1824]])
* [[January 16]]
** [[Arnold Böcklin]], Swiss artist (b. [[1827]])
** [[Mahadev Govind Ranade]], Indian reformer (b. [[1842]])
* [[January 17]] 
** [[Leonard Fulton Ross]], American Civil War general (b. [[1823]])
** [[Frederic W. H. Myers]], British poet and psychic researcher (b. [[1843]])
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Albert, 4th duc de Broglie]], French politician, 28th [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1821]])
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Elisha Gray]], American inventor, appliance manufacturer (b. [[1835]])
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Queen Victoria]] of the United Kingdom, Empress of India (b. [[1819]])
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Verdi]], Italian composer (b. [[1813]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Iosif Gurko]], Russian field marshal (b. [[1828]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Ana Betancourt]], Cuban national heroine (b. [[1832]]) 
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Max von Pettenkofer]], Bavarian chemist and hygienist (b. [[1818]])<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Locher|first1=Wolfgang Gerhard|title=Max von Kettenkoffer (1818–1901) as a Pioneer of Modern Hygiene and Preventive Medicine|journal=Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine|date=November 2007|volume=12|issue=6|pages=238–245|doi=10.1007/BF02898030|pmid=21432069|pmc=2723483|bibcode=2007EHPM...12..238L }}</ref>
* [[February 11]]
** King [[Milan I of Serbia]] (b. [[1854]])
** [[Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio|Ramón de Campoamor]], Spanish poet (b. [[1817]])
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Edward Stafford (politician)|Sir Edward Stafford]], Scottish-New Zealand educator, politician and 3rd [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (b. [[1819]])
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[George Francis FitzGerald]], Irish mathematician (b. [[1851]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa]], Polish writer (b. [[1829]])