1902 (MCMII Roman numerals are a numeral system of ancient Rome based on letters of the alphabet, which are combined to signify the sum of their values. The first ten Roman numerals are) was a common year starting on Wednesday This is the calendar for any common year starting on Wednesday . Examples: Gregorian years 1997, 2003 and 2014 or Julian year 1903 (see bottom tables) (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by a decree signed on 24 February 1582, a papal bull known by its opening words Inter gravissimas. The reformed calendar was adopted later that year by a handful of countries, with other countries (or a common year starting on Tuesday This is the calendar for any common year starting on Tuesday . Examples: Gregorian years 2002, 2013 & 1991 or Julian year 1919 (see bottom tables) ^[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus. It has a regular year of 365 days divided into 12).

Events of 1902

January-February

• January
  • In France France (pronounced /ˈfrænts/ frantss or /ˈfrɑːnts/ frahnts; French pronunciation (help·info): [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française, pronounced: [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a state in Western Europe with several of its overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian,, Alfred Loisy Alfred Firmin Loisy was a French Roman Catholic priest, professor and theologian who became the intellectual standard bearer for Biblical Modernism in the Roman Catholic Church. He was a critic of traditional views of the biblical creation myth, and argued that biblical criticism could be applied to interpreting scripture. His theological writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis.
  • International Bureau of the American The Americas, or America, are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World, comprising the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. America may be ambiguous in English, as it is more commonly used to refer to the United States of America. The Americas cover 8.3% of the Earth's total Republics is established.
• January 1 January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year . The preceding day is December 31 of the previous year – The first college football College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges and military academies. It was through college play that American football first gained popularity in the United States bowl game In North America, a bowl game is commonly considered to refer to one of a number of post-season college football games. Prior to 2002, bowl game statistics were not included in players' career totals and the games were mostly considered to be exhibition games involving a payout to participating teams, which had to meet strict eligibility, the Rose Bowl The Rose Bowl Game is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. When New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, the game is then played on the following Monday. The Rose Bowl is nicknamed "The Granddaddy of Them All" because it is the oldest bowl game. It was first played between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena City College (PCC), the Jet Propulsion.
• January 8 January 8 is the eighth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days remaining until the end of the year – A train collision in the New York Central Railroad The New York Central Railroad , known simply as the New York Central in its publicity, was a railroad operating in the Northeastern United States. Headquartered in New York, the railroad served most of the Northeast, including extensive trackage in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Massachusetts, plus's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains.
• January 23 January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining until the end of the year – A snowstorm at Mount Hakkoda, northern Honshu Honshū (本州?, literally "Main State") (also spelled Honshu) is the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaidō across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyūshū across the Kanmon Strait. It is the seventh largest island in the world, and the second most, Japan Japan is an island state in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is, kills 199 Several soldiers in the 2nd Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment became trapped in a blizzard while crossing the Hakkōda Mountains from Aomori City in a military training exercise. The exercise was meant to gather experience in dealing with winter weather. Japan was preparing for a possible conflict with the Russian Empire in Siberia and Manchuria, during a military training exercise.
• January 28 January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 337 days remaining until the end of the year – The Carnegie Institution The Carnegie Institution for Science (also called the Carnegie Institution of Washington ) is an organization in the United States established to support scientific research is founded in Washington, DC Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the Territory of Columbia until an act of Congress in 1871 effectively merged the City and the with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie (properly pronounced /kɑrˈneɪɡi/ , but commonly, /ˈkɑrnɨɡi/ or /kɑrˈnɛɡi/) (25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist.
• February 11 February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 323 days remaining until the end of the year – Police and universal suffrage Universal suffrage consists of the extension of the right to vote to adult citizens (or subjects) as a whole, though it may also mean extending said right to minors and non-citizens. Although suffrage has two necessary components, the right to vote and opportunities to vote, the term universal suffrage is associated only with the right to vote and demonstrators are involved in a physical altercation in Brussels Brussels (French: Bruxelles, pronounced [bʁysɛl] ; Dutch: Brussel, pronounced [ˈbrʏsəl] (help·info)), officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region (French: Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Dutch: Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (help·info)), is the de facto capital city of the European Union (EU) and the largest urban area in.
• February 15 February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 319 days remaining until the end of the year – The Berlin U-Bahn The Berlin U-Bahn is a rapid transit railway in Berlin, Germany, and is a major part of the public transport system of the capital. Opened in 1902, the U-Bahn serves 173 stations spread across nine lines, with a total track length of 147 kilometres , about 80% of which is underground. Trains run every two to five minutes during peak hours, every underground is opened.
• February 18 February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 316 days remaining until the end of the year – U.S. President Roosevelt Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt pronounced /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/ ROE-zə-velt) was the 26th President of the United States. He is famous for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, model of masculinity, and his "cowboy" image. He was a leader of the Republican Party and prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act The Sherman Antitrust Act requires the United States Federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies and organizations suspected of violating the Act. It was the first Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies, and today still forms the basis for most antitrust litigation by the United States federal government. However, for.

March-April

• March 7 March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of the year – Second Boer War The Second Boer War , commonly referred to as The Boer War and also known as the South African War (outside South Africa), the Anglo-Boer War (among most South Africans) and in Afrikaans as the Anglo-Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog ("Second War of Liberation"), or the Engelse oorlog (English War)[citation needed] was fought from 11: South African Coordinates: 29°02′46″S 25°03′47″E / 29.046°S 25.063°E The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a 2,798 kilometres coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent Boers Boer is the Dutch word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal (which are together known as the Boer Republics), and to a win their last battle over British The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland[note 7] is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many small islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
• March 10 March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 296 days remaining until the end of the year – A Circuit Court prevents Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" (now Edison, New Jersey) by a newspaper reporter, he from having a monopoly on motion picture A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a story conveyed with moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. The process of filmmaking has developed into an art form and industry technology.
• April 2 April 2 is the 92nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 273 days remaining until the end of the year – Electric Theatre, the first movie theater Most movie theaters are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing a ticket. The movie is projected with a movie projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium. Some movie theaters are now equipped for digital cinema projection, removing the need to create and transport a physical film in the United States ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language, opens in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States, and with a population of 3.8 million is the largest city in the state of California and the Western United States. Additionally the city spans over 498.3 square miles (1,290.6 km2) in Southern California and is anchored to the world's 13th largest metropolitan area with 17.7 million.
• April 13 April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 262 days remaining until the end of the year. It is also the Ides (middle day) of April – A new car speed record of 74 mph is set in Nice, France Nice is a city in southern France on the Mediterranean coast. The city is nicknamed Nice la Belle (Nissa la Bella in Niçard), which means Nice the Beautiful, by Leon Serpollet.
• April 19 April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining until the end of the year – A magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocks Guatemala, killing 2,000.
• April 26 – Hibernian FC won the Scottish Cup 1–0 against Glasgow Celtic FC, the last time in their history they have won the competition.

May-June

• May 5 – The Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service.
• May 8 – In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000.
• May 13 – Alfonso XIII of Spain begins his reign.
• May 15 – It is claimed that in a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore achieves flight in a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider). There is no surviving evidence to verify this claim.
• May 20 – Cuba gains independence from the United States.
• May 29 – Lord Rosebery opens London School of Economics.
• May 31 – The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the Second Boer War.

• June 2 – The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States.
• June 3 – The Eiffel Tower is struck by lightning at around 9pm.
• June 15 – The New York Central railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago and New York City, New York.
• June 16 – Australia: Female British subjects (with the exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) win the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
• June 17 – Norwich City Football Club is formed.
• June 26 – Edward VII institutes The Order of Merit.

July-August

• July 8 – Service of Reclamation within U.S. Geological Survey.
• July 10 – The Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA kills 112 miners.
• July 11
  • Lord Salisbury retires as British prime minister.
  • The Order of the Garter is conferred on Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
• July 14 – St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapses.
• July 21 – Fluminense Football Club is founded in Rio de Janeiro.
• August 1 – 100 miners die in a pit explosion in Wollongong, Australia.
• August 9 – Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.
• August 22 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rides in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.
• August 24 – A statue of Joan of Arc was unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
• August 30 – In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts again, destroying the town of Morne-Rouge causing 1000 deaths.

September-October

• October 16 – The first Borstal (youth offenders' institution) opens in Borstal, Kent, U.K.
• October 21 – In the United States, a five month strike by the United Mine Workers ends.

=November-December

• November – Start of the Venezuela Crisis between the United States and Germany.
• November 30 – American Old West: The second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years hard labor.
• December 10 – The first Aswan Dam on The Nile is completed.
• December 31 – Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 82°17'S.

Undated

• The insurrection ends in the Philippines.
• The Potawatomi Zoo (the oldest zoo in Indiana) opens in South Bend.

Ongoing

• Discovery Expedition (1901–1904)

Births

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)
  • Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest (d. 1975)
  • Ann Nixon Cooper, American activist for African-American people's rights (d. 2009)
• 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)
  • 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)
  • Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1986)
• February 1 – Langston Hughes, African American writer (d. 1967)
• February 2 – Jane Ising, widow of physicist Ernst Ising
• February 4
  • Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (d. 1974)
  • 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)
  • John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

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)
  • 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)

May–June

• May 3 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• May 6
  • Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)
• May 22 – Al Simmons, American baseball player (d. 1956)
• June 2 – Rosa Rio, American organist and composer (d. 2010)
• 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)

July–August

• July 4
  • George Murphy, American dancer, actor, and politician (d. 1992)
  • Meyer Lansky, Russian-born mobster (d. 1983)
• July 8
  • Richard Barrett Lowe, American governor of both Guam and American Samoa (d. 1972)
  • Gwendolyn Bennett, American writer (d. 1981)
• July 10 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• July 16 – Alexander Luria, Russian nevropychologist (d. 1977)
• July 28
  • Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)
  • Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (d. 1959)
• July 31 – Randolph E. Haugan, American author, editor and publisher (d. 1985)
• 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)

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 3 – Waldo McBurney, America's oldest worker (d. 2009)
• October 5
  • Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges) (d. 1975)
  • Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (McDonald's) (d. 1984)
• October 13 – Arna Wendell Bontemps, American writer (d. 1973)
• October 18
  • Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)
  • Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
• October 25 – Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
• October 31 – Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (d. 1987)

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)
  • Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)

Deaths

January–June

• January 11 – Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)
• February 1 – Salomon Jadassohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1831)
• February 15 – Viggo Hørup, Danish politician (b. 1841)
• February 18 – Albert Bierstadt, German-born American painter (b. 1830)
• February 27
  • Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Australian soldier (b. 1864)
  • 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 12 – Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist (b. 1841)
• 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)
• June 10
  • Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
  • Auguste Schmidt, German educator and activist (b. 1833)
• June 18 – Samuel Butler, British author (b. 1835)
• June 19 – Albert, King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin (b. 1828)

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 19 – Masaoka Shiki, Japanese haiku poet (b. 1867)
• September 26 – Levi Strauss Inventor of Jeans (b. 1829)
• September 29 – Émile Zola, French author (b. 1840)
• October 25 – Frank Norris, American novelist (b. 1870)
• 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 23 – Walter Reed, American army physician (b. 1851)
• December 3 – Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
• December 4 – Charles Dow, American journalist, co-founder of Dow Jones & Company (b. 1851)
• December 14 – Julia Grant, Wife of President Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1826)
• December 22 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (b. 1840)
• December 23 – Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
• Chemistry – Hermann Emil Fischer
• Medicine – Ronald Ross
• Literature – Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
• Peace – Élie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat

Further reading

• The Annual Cyclopedia ...1902 (1903), highly detailed compilation of facts; worldwide coverage online edition

Notes

1. ^ "Calendar in year 1902 (Russia)" (Julian on Tuesday), webpage: Julian-1902 (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).

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