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Year 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).
[edit] Events of 1902
[edit] January
- January - In France, Alfred Loisy writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis.
- January 1 - The first college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena.
- January 8 - A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains.
- January 25 - A snowstorm at Mount Hakkoda, northern Honshu, Japan, kills 199 during a military training exercise.
- January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
[edit] February
[edit] August
[edit] October
[edit] November
[edit] December
[edit] Undated
[edit] Ongoing
[edit] Births
[edit] January-February
- January 1 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977)
- January 2 - Dan Keating, Irish republican (d. 2007)
- January 9 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997)
- January 9 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest (d. 1975)
- January 11 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer (d. 1986)
- January 12 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969)
- January 16 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)
- January 20 - Kevin Barry, Irish republican (d. 1920)
- January 22 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
- January 24 - E. A. Speiser, American biblical scholar (d. 1965)
- January 25 - André Beaufre, French general (d. 1975)
- January 25 - Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975)
- January 26 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)
- January 31 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)
- January 31 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1986)
- February 1 - Langston Hughes, American writer (d. 1967)
- February 4 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (d. 1974)
- February 4 - Hartley Shawcross, British barrister and politician (d. 2003)
- February 5 - Iwamoto Kaoru, Japanese professional Go player (d. 1999)
- February 6 - George Brunies, American jazz trombonist (d. 1974)
- February 8 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966)
- February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
- February 11 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (d. 1971)
- February 19 - Kay Boyle, American writer (d. 1992)
- February 19 - Eddie Peabody, American musician (d. 1970)
- February 20 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
- February 26 - Albert Anastasia, American gangster (d. 1957)
- February 27 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999)
- February 27 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
[edit] March-April
- March 4 - Red Reeder, American soldier and author (d. 1998)
- March 7 - Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
- March 9 - Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)
- March 16 - Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943)
- March 17 - Bobby Jones, American golfer (d. 1971)
- March 21 - Son House, American musician (d. 1988)
- March 24 - Thomas Dewey, American politician (d. 1971)
- March 28 - Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
- March 29 - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
- March 29 - Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)
- March 30 - Brooke Astor, American socialite and philanthropist (d. 2007)
- April 4 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French actress (d. 1969)
- April 4 - Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (d. 1935)
- April 8 - Andrew Irvine, British mountaineer (d. 1924)
- April 12 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977)
- April 23 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- April 25 - Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
- April 30 - Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
[edit] May-June
- May 3 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- May 6 - Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957)
- May 6 - Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981)
- May 8 - Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
- May 10 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974)
- May 10 - David O. Selznick, American film producer (d. 1965)
- May 15 - Richard J. Daley, American politician (d. 1976)
- May 18 - Meredith Willson, American composer (d. 1984)
- May 21 - Earl Averill, American baseball player (d. 1983)
- May 21 - Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)
- May 22 - Al Simmons, American baseball player (d. 1956)
- June 18 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1992)
- June 26 - Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor
- June 28 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
[edit] July-August
- July 4 - George Murphy, American dancer, actor, and politician (d. 1992)
- July 4 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born mobster (d. 1983)
- July 8 - Gwendolyn Bennett, American writer (d. 1981)
- July 10 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- July 28 - Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)
- July 28 - Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (d. 1959)
- August 2 - Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (d. 1971)
- August 4 - Clara Peller, American actress (d. 1987)
- August 8 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- August 9 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
- August 10 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
- August 10 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
- August 11 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
- August 18 - Adamson-Eric, Estonian artist (d. 1968)
- August 19 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
- August 19 - J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)
- August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
- August 24 - Carlo Gambino, American gangster (d. 1976)
- August 25 - Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972)
[edit] September-October
- September 12 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (d. 1976)
- September 14 - Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer, composer, and lyricist (d. 1977)
- September 21 - Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)
- September 22 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer (d. 1988)
- September 24 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shia cleric (d. 1989)
- October 5 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
- October 5 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
- October 13 - Arna Wendell Bontemps, American writer (d. 1973)
- October 18 - Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)
- October 18 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
- October 25 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
[edit] November-December
- November - Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (d. 1973)
- November 1 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987)
- November 2 - Princess Mafalda of Savoy (d. 1944)
- November 9 - Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)
- November 17 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- November 21 - Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (d. 1982)
- November 23 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)
- December 2 - Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (d. 1982)
- December 5 - Strom Thurmond, American politician (d. 2003)
- December 9 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
- December 20 - Prince George, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
- December 23 - Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990)
- December 28 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001)
- December 28 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January - June
- January 11 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)
- February 15 - Viggo Hørup, Danish politician (b. 1841)
- February 27 - Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Australian soldier (b. 1864)
- February 27 - Peter Handcock, Australian soldier (b. 1869)
- March 26 - Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist (b. 1853)
- April 2 - Esther Hobart Morris, American suffragist judge (b. 1814)
- April 15 - Jules Dalou, French sculptor (b. 1838)
- April 21 - Ethna Carbery, Irish poet (b. 1866)
- May 6 - Bret Harte, American writer (b. 1836)
- May 26 - Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
[edit] July - December
- July 4 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian religious leader (b. 1863)
- July 6 - Maria Goretti, Italian Catholic saint (b. 1890)
- August 8 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
- September 5 - Rudolf Virchow, German scientist and politician (b. 1821)
- September 6 - Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist (b. 1827)
- September 29 - Emile Zola, French author (b. 1840)
- 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)
- December 3 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
- December 22 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (b. 1840)
- December 23 - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)
[edit] Nobel Prizes
- ^ "Calendar in year 1902 (Russia)" (Julian on Tuesday), webpage: Julian-1902 (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).
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