1902 (MCMII ) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar , the 1902nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 902nd year of the 2nd millennium , the 2nd year of the 20th century , and the 3rd year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1902, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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The capital of French Indochina is moved from Saigon (in Cochinchina) to Hanoi (Tonkin).
Construction of the Paul Doumer Bridge , linking both sections of Hanoi , is completed.
The first Korean Empire passports are issued to assist Korean immigration to Hawaii .
The Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend, Indiana , begins life as a duck pond.[8]
De'Longhi home appliance brand is founded in the Veneto region of Italy .[9]
Daniels Linseed, predecessor of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), a global livestock , commodities trading , food processing brand , is founded in Minnesota , United States.[10]
January
Georgy Malenkov
Saud of Saudi Arabia
Marjorie Daw
Tallulah Bankhead
January 1 – Buster Nupen , South African cricketer (d. 1977 )
January 3 – Tommaso Dal Molin , Italian aviator (d. 1930 )
January 4 – John A. McCone , American politician, 6th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 1991 )
January 8 – Georgy Malenkov , Soviet politician (d. 1988 )
January 9
January 11
January 15
January 16 – Eric Liddell , Scottish runner (d. 1945 )
January 19 – Marjorie Daw , American actress (d. 1979 )
January 20
January 22 – Daniel Kinsey , American hurdler (d. 1970 )
January 24 – Alan Stuart Paterson , New Zealand cartoonist (d. 1968 )
January 25
January 26 – Menno ter Braak , Dutch author, polemicist (d. 1940 )
January 31
February
Langston Hughes
Charles Lindbergh
Léon M'ba
Walter Houser Brattain
Herma Szabo
John Steinbeck
February 1 – Langston Hughes , African-American writer (d. 1967 )
February 4
February 5 – Iwamoto Kaoru , Japanese professional Go player (d. 1999 )
February 8 – Demchugdongrub , Mongolian politician (d. 1966 )
February 9
February 10 – Walter Houser Brattain , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987 )
February 11 – Arne Jacobsen , Danish architect, designer (d. 1971 )
February 12 – William Collier Jr. , American actor (d. 1987 )[15]
February 13 – Fernando Chaves , Ecuadorian novelist, essayist, and journalist (d. 1999 )[16]
February 14 – Thelma Ritter , American actress (d. 1969 )[17]
February 19 – Kay Boyle , American writer (d. 1992 )
February 20 – Ansel Adams , American photographer (d. 1984 )
February 22 – Herma Szabo , Austrian figure skater (d. 1986 )
February 27
March
Will Geer
Mohammed Abdel Wahab
Son House
Thomas E. Dewey
Dame Flora Robson
March 7
March 9 – Will Geer , American actor (d. 1978 )[19]
March 13 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab , Egyptian singer (d. 1991 )
March 15 – Carla Porta Musa , Italian essayist, poet (d. 2012 )
March 17 – Bobby Jones , American golfer (d. 1971 )
March 19
March 21
March 24 – Thomas E. Dewey , American politician (d. 1971 )[21]
March 27 – Émile Benveniste , French linguist (d. 1976 )
March 28 – Dame Flora Robson , English actress (d. 1984 )
March 29
March 30 – Brooke Astor , American socialite, philanthropist (d. 2007 )
April
April 2 – Jan Tschichold , German-born typographer (d. 1974 )[23]
April 4
April 8
April 12 – Louis Beel , Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977 )
April 14
April 18 – Giuseppe Pella , Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981 )
April 20 – Sir Donald Wolfit , English actor (d. 1968 )
April 23 – Halldór Laxness , Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998 )[24]
April 25 – Werner Heyde , German psychiatrist (d. 1964 )
April 28 – Johan Borgen , Norwegian author (d. 1979 )
April 30 – Theodore Schultz , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998 )[25]
May
Alfred Kastler
May 2 – Brian Aherne , English-born actor (d. 1986 )
May 3 – Alfred Kastler , French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1984 )
May 6 – Max Ophüls , German film director (d. 1957 )
May 8 – André Michel Lwoff , French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994 )[26]
May 10 – David O. Selznick , American film producer (d. 1965 )
May 15 – Richard J. Daley , American politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976 )
May 18 – Meredith Willson , American composer (d. 1984 )
May 21
May 22 – Al Simmons , American baseball player (d. 1956 )
May 24 – Wilbur Hatch , American music composer, musical director of Desilu Productions (d. 1969 )
May 29 – Henri Guillaumet , French aviator (d. 1940 )
June
Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu
June 1 – C. Wade McClusky , United States Navy admiral (d. 1976 )
June 2 – James T. Berryman , American political cartoonist, recipient of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (d. 1971 )
June 8 – James Stillman Rockefeller , American Olympic rower – Men's eights (d. 2004 )
June 9 – Skip James , American Delta blues singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 1969 )
June 16 – Barbara McClintock , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1992 )
June 19 – James Buis , Dutch Roman Catholic prelate, vicar apostolic of Kota Kinabalu (d. 1980 )[27]
June 22 – Henri Deglane , French wrestler (d. 1975 )
June 24 – Juan Antonio Yanes , Venezuelan professional baseball pioneer (d. 1987 )
June 25
June 26 – Hugues Cuénod , Swiss tenor (d. 2010 )
June 27 – Stanisław Wycech , Polish World War I veteran (d. 2008 )
June 28 – Richard Rodgers , American composer (d. 1979 )[28]
June 29 – Ellen Pollock , British actress (d. 1997 )
August
Paul Dirac
Mohammad Hatta
August 2 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria , Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (d. 1971 )
August 6 – Enrique Godoy Sayán , Cuban business magnate and banker (d. 1984 )[29]
August 7 – Ann Harding , American actress (d. 1981 )
August 8 – Paul Dirac , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984 )
August 9 – Zino Francescatti , French violinist (d. 1991 )
August 10 – Arne Tiselius , Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )
August 11
August 12
August 13 – Felix Wankel , German mechanical engineer (d. 1988 )
August 16 – Georgette Heyer , British writer (d. 1974 )
August 18 – Adamson-Eric , Estonian artist (d. 1968 )
August 19
August 22
August 24 – Carlo Gambino , American gangster (d. 1976 )
August 25 – Stefan Wolpe , German-born composer (d. 1972 )
September
Juscelino Kubitschek
John Houseman
Ruhollah Khomeini
September 2 – Peter Pitseolak , Inuit photographer, author (d. 1973 )
September 5 – Darryl F. Zanuck , American film producer and studio executive (d. 1979 )
September 6 – Sylvanus Olympio , Togolese politician, 1st President of Togo (assassinated) (d. 1963 )
September 9 – Roberto Noble , Argentine politician, journalist and publisher (d. 1969 )
September 12 – Juscelino Kubitschek , 21st President of Brazil (d. 1976 )
September 14 – Giorgos Papasideris , Greek singer, composer, and lyricist (d. 1977 )
September 21
September 22
September 23 – Ion Gheorghe Maurer , Romanian lawyer and politician, 49th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 2000 )
September 26 – Albert Anastasia , Italian-born American gangster (d. 1957 )[31]
December
Strom Thurmond
Margaret Hamilton
Frances Bavier
December 1 – Trần Văn Hương , South Vietnamese politician, 3rd President of South Vietnam , 3rd Vice President of South Vietnam , and 3rd Prime Minister of South Vietnam (d. 1982 )[33]
December 2 – Wifredo Lam , Cuban artist (d. 1982 )
December 3 – Mitsuo Fuchida , Japanese aviator, naval officer, and Christian evangelist (d. 1976 )
December 5
December 9 – Margaret Hamilton , American actress (d. 1985 )[34]
December 14 – Frances Bavier , American stage and television actress (d. 1989 )[35]
December 19 – Ralph Richardson , English actor (d. 1983 )
December 20 – Prince George, Duke of Kent (d. 1942 )
December 23
December 25 – Barton MacLane , American actor (d. 1969 )
December 27 – Francesco Agello , Italian aviator (d. 1942 )
December 28
January– June
Cecil Rhodes
Hans von Pechmann
Esther Hobart Morris
Saint Agostino Roscelli
January 5 – Martis Karin Ersdotter , Swedish businesswoman (born 1829 )
January 11 – Johnny Briggs , English cricketer (b. 1862 )
January 30 – François Claude du Barail , French general and Minister of War (b. 1820 )
February 6 – Clémence Royer , French scholar (b. 1830 )
February 15 – Viggo Hørup , Danish politician (b. 1841 )
February 18 – Albert Bierstadt , German-born American painter (b. 1830 )[37]
February 26 – Edward Henry Cooper , British army officer and politician (b. 1827 )
February 27
March 3 – Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte , 11th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1822 )
March 7 – Pud Galvin , American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1856 )
March 11 – Friedrich Engelhorn , German industrialist, founder of BASF (b. 1821 )
March 12 – John Peter Altgeld , American politician, 20th Governor of Illinois (b. 1847 )
March 15 – Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet , British colonial administrator of India (b. 1826 )
March 23 – Kálmán Tisza , Hungarian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1830 )
March 26 – Cecil Rhodes , British imperialist (b. 1853 )
March 29 – Sir Andrew Clarke , British army officer and colonial governor (b. 1824 )
April 3 – Esther Hobart Morris , American suffragist judge (b. 1814 )
April 8 – John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley , British politician (b. 1826 )
April 11 – Wade Hampton III , Confederate soldier and South Carolina politician (b. 1818 )[38]
April 15 – Jules Dalou , French sculptor (b. 1838 )[39]
April 17 – Francis, Duke of Cádiz , former king consort of Spain (b. 1822 )
April 19 – Hans von Pechmann , German chemist (b. 1850 )
April 26 – Lazarus Fuchs , German mathematician (b. 1833 )
April 28 – Sol Smith Russell , American comedian (b. 1848 )
May – Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge , American philanthropist, author and reformer (b. 1849 )
May 5 – Bret Harte , American writer (b. 1836 )[40]
May 6
May 7 – Agostino Roscelli , Italian priest, founder of the Institute of Sisters of the Immaculata (b. 1818 )
May 26 – Almon Brown Strowger , American inventor (b. 1839 )
June 5 – Louis J. Weichmann , American witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842 )
June 8 – Charles Ingalls , American pioneer and father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (b. 1836 )
June 10
June 18 – Samuel Butler , British author (b. 1835 )[42]
June 19 – Albert, King of Saxony , member of the House of Wettin (b. 1828 )
July– December
Saint Maria Goretti
Rudolf Virchow
Émile Zola
Prudente de Morais
July 4 – Swami Vivekananda , Indian religious leader (b. 1863 )
July 6 – Maria Goretti , Italian Roman Catholic virgin, martyr and saint (b. 1890 )
July 16 – Henry Dunning Macleod , Scottish economist (b. 1821 )
July 18 – Saigō Jūdō , Japanese general, admiral, and politician (b. 1843 )
July 27 – Gustave Trouvé , French electrical engineer and inventor (b. 1839 )
August 8 – James Tissot , French artist (b. 1836 )[43]
August 31 – Mathilde Wesendonck , German poet (b. 1828 )[44]
September 5 – Rudolf Virchow , German scientist, politician (b. 1821 )
September 6
September 15 – Horace Gray , American jurist (b. 1828 )
September 18 – Thorborg Rappe , Swedish social reformer (b. 1832 )
September 19 – Masaoka Shiki , Japanese haiku poet (b. 1867 )
September 23 – John Wesley Powell , American explorer (b. 1834 )
September 26 – Levi Strauss , German-born American inventor of Levi's Jeans (b. 1829 )
September 29
September 30 – James Edward Jouett , American admiral (b. 1826 )
October 6
October 25 – Frank Norris , American novelist (b. 1870 )[46]
October 26 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton , American activist (b. 1815 )
November 4 – Hale Johnson , American politician (b. 1847 )
November 17 – Hugh Price Hughes , Welsh social reformer (b. 1847 )
November 22
December 2 – Count Richard Belcredi , former Prime minister of the Austrian Empire (b. 1823 )
December 3
December 4 – Charles Dow , American journalist, co-founder of Dow Jones & Company (b. 1851 )
December 5 – Johannes Wislicenus , German chemist (b. 1835 )
December 6 – Alice Freeman Palmer , American educator (b. 1855 )
December 7 – Thomas Nast , American caricaturist, cartoonist (b. 1840 )[48]
December 11 – Mary Mathews Adams , Irish-born American philanthropist (b. 1840 )
December 14 – Julia Grant , First Lady of the United States (b. 1826 )
December 22 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing , German sexologist (b. 1840 )
December 23 – Frederick Temple , Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821 )
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Colby, Frank Moore ed. he International Yearbook A Compendium Of The Worlds Progress During The Year 1902 (1903) coverage of each state online
1902 Annual Cyclopedia (1903) online ; highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for 1902; massive compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage; 865pp
Wall, Edgar G. ed. The British Empire yearbook (1903), 1276pp; covers 1902 online
Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: vol. 1 1900-1933 (1997) pp 55–68; global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare.