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1902 (''' MCMII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-April
May-August
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- May 5 - Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service
- May 8 - In Martinique , Mount Pelée erupts, destroys the town of Saint-Pierre , and kills over 30,000 people. Only a small handful of St. Pierre's residents survived the blast.
- May 13 - Alfonso XIII Of Spain formally begins his reign
- May 15 - In a field outside Grass Valley, California , Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered Airplane (a Steam -powered glider).
- May 17 - Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera Mechanism
- May 20 - Cuba gains independence from the United States
- May 29 - Lord Rosebery opens London School Of Economics
- May 31 - Treaty Of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War
- June 2 - The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States.
- June 15 - The New York Central railroad inaugurates the '' 20th Century Limited '' passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and New York City, New York .
- June 16 - Australia : Female British subjects (with the exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
- June 26 - Edward VII institutes The Order Of Merit .
- July 10 - Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA , kills 112 miners.
- July 11 - Retirement of Lord Salisbury as British Prime Minister .
- July 11 - Order Of The Garter conferred on Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria .
- July 14 - St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapses.
- July 23 - Excelsior Rotterdam was founded.
- August 9 - Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom .
- August 22 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first American President to ride in an Automobile when he rode in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut .
September-December
Births
January-March
- January 1 - Buster Nupen , South African cricketer (d. 1977 )
- January 9 - Rudolph Bing , Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997 )
- January 9 - Josemaría Escrivá , Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei (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 Bible scholar (d. 1965 )
- January 25 - André Beaufre , French general (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 prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials (d. 2003 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
April-June
- April 4 - Louise Leveque De Vilmorin , French actress (d. 1969 )
- 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 2 - Milford Page , New Zealand Cricket Captains (d. 1987 )
- 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 , Hollywood film producer (d. 1965 )
- May 15 - Richard J. Daley , Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976 )
- May 18 - Meredith Willson , American composer (d. 1984 )
- May 21 - Earl Averill , baseball player (d. 1983 )
- May 21 - Marcel Lajos Breuer , architect (d. 1981 )
- May 22 - Al Simmons , baseball player (d. 1956 )
- June 18 - Barbara McClintock , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1992 )
July-September
- July 4 - George Murphy , American dancer, actor, Senator from California (d. 1992 )
- July 4 - Meyer Lansky , Russian-born mobster (d. 1983 )
- 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 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 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 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 )
- September 29 - Miguel Alemán Valdés , President Of Mexico (d. 1983 )
October-December
- October 5 - Larry Fine , American actor and comedian, Three Stooges member (d. 1975 )
- October 5 - Ray Kroc , American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984 )
- October 25 - Eddie Lang , American jazz guitarist (d. 1933 )
- November 1 - Eugen Jochum , German conductor (d. 1987 )
- November 2 - Princess Mafalda Maria Elisabetta 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 23 - Victor Jory , Canadian actor (d. 1982 )
- December 2 - Wilfredo Lam , Cuban artist (d. 1982 )
- December 5 - Strom Thurmond , U.S. Senator (d. 2003 )
- December 9 - Margaret Hamilton , American actress (d. 1985 )
- December 20 - Prince George, Duke Of Kent (d. 1942 )
- December 28 - Mortimer Adler , American philosopher (d. 2001 )
- December 28 - Shen Congwen , Chinese writer (d. 1988 )
Deaths
- January 11 - Johnny Briggs , English cricketer (b. 1862 )
- November 17 - Hugh Price Hughes , Methodist Social Reformer, First Superintendent of the West London Mission (b. 1847 )
- March 26 - Cecil Rhodes , British imperialist (b. 1853 )
- April 2 - Esther Morris , suffragist and the first American woman judge (b. 1814 )
- May 6 - Bret Harte , American writer (b. 1836 )
- May 26 - Almon Strowger , American inventor (b. 1839 )
- June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer , Catalan poet (b. 1845 )
- June 18 - Samuel Butler , British author (b. 1835 )
- 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 doctor, pathologist, biologist, 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 women's rights activist (b. 1815 )
- December 3 - Robert Lawson , New Zealand architect (b. 1833 )
- December 22 - Richard Von Krafft-Ebing , German sexologist (b. 1840 )
Date unknown
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