* Kate Austin ( 1864 – 1902 ), American writer, feminist and anarchist

* 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer ( d. 1989 )

* 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet ( d. 1933 )

* 1902 – Louis Beel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1977 )

* 1902 – Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1998 )

* 1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

* 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.

* 1902 – Dutch Schultz, American mobster ( d. 1935 )

* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1902 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist ( d. 1991 )

* 1902 – Felix Wankel, German engineer and inventor ( d. 1988 )

His successor Joe Darling won the next three series in 1899, 1901 – 02 and the classic 1902 series, which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket.

It has been compared with the great series of the distant past, such as 1894 – 95 and 1902.

* 1902 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria ( d. 1971 )

* 1902 – Helen Morgan, American actress ( d. 1941 )

* 1995 – Lucy Rie, American potter ( b. 1902 )

* 2004 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces ( b. 1902 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1902 – Regina Jonas, German rabbi ( d. 1944 )

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

* Tarski's axioms: Alfred Tarski ( 1902 – 1983 ) and his students defined elementary Euclidean geometry as the geometry that can be expressed in first-order logic and does not depend on set theory for its logical basis, in contrast to Hilbert's axioms, which involve point sets.

However, it became more widely known when American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan used the term in 1902 to ' designate the area between Arabia and India '.

* January 7 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1902 )

* February 17 – Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist ( d. 1902 )

She became engaged to engineer and novelist Arthur Gundaccar Freiherr von Suttner ( who died on 10 December 1902 ), but his family opposed the match, and she answered an advertisement from Alfred Nobel in 1876 to become his secretary-housekeeper at his Paris residence.

In chamber music, he founded the Schnabel Trio with the violinist Alfred Wittenberg and the cellist Anton Hekking ; they played together between 1902 and 1904.

* Alfred J. Billes ( 1902 – 1995 ), cofounder of Canadian Tire

* Alfred Georges Regner, ( 1902 – 1987 ), painter and engraver.

On the British side, Sir Alfred Milner was appointed the first governor of the Orange River Colony on 4 January 1901, with Hamilton John Goold-Adams as lieutenant-governor, in office until 23 June 1902.

* Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner, in office 21 June 1902 – 1 April 1905 ;

" Spring Showers ", by Alfred Stieglitz, 1902

Image: Stieglitz-Hand. jpg | Alfred Stieglitz, The Hand of Man, 1902

Marie Alfred Cornu ( March 6, 1841 – April 12, 1902 ) was a French physicist.

* Alfred Hertz ( 1902 – 1915, principal conductor of German repertory )

In 1902, the then Attorney-General Alfred Deakin introduced the Judiciary Bill 1902 in House of Representative.

A statue of Queen Victoria by Alfred Turner, unveiled on 25 October 1902.

Alfred Kastler ( May 3, 1902 – January 7, 1984 ) was a French physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate.

Alfred Eastlack Driscoll ( October 25, 1902 – March 9, 1975 ) was an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey Senate ( 1939 – 1941 ) representing Camden County, who served as the 43rd Governor of New Jersey, and as president of Warner-Lambert ( now a part of Pfizer ).

The chapel, which was designed by Alfred and Paul Waterhouse, was completed in 1901, and inaugurated on 23 May 1902.

Wien: Alfred Hölder 1902

* Alfred Thayer Mahan ( 1902 )

* Alfred Loisy ( 1857 – 1940 ), A French priest whose L ' Évangile et L ’ Église ( 1902 ) sparked the crisis ; he was excommunicated vitandus in 1908

Type material is mainly found in the collections of Alexander Abercrombie ( India ), Robert Dukinfield Darbishire, Prof. Alfred Cort Haddon ( Torres Straits ), Reverend James Hadfield ( Lifu, Loyalty Islands ), Lewis John Shackleford ( especially Marginella ), George Cooper Spence ( especially African land snails and Urocoptis and many specimens from Matthew William Kemble Connolly and Hugh Berthon Preston ), Frederick W. Townsend ( Persian Gulf ), syntype material from the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition ( 1902 – 1904 ) and that received from the Smithsonian Institution in 1973 in exchange.