* 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 ).

Almon Brown Strowger ( Penfield, New York, United States, Feb 11, 1839 – St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, May 26, 1902 ) gave his name to the electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired.

** Almon Strowger ( died 1902 ), American telecommunications engineer.

* John Appleton Brown ( 1844 – 1902 ), American painter

In 1902 Vickers took a half share in the famous Clyde shipyard John Brown and Company.

The Woodstock Art Colony in Woodstock, New York began as two colonies: first Byrdcliffe, founded in 1902 by Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Hervey White, and Bolton Brown, and then the Maverick Colony, founded by Hervey White after seceding from Byrdcliffe in 1904.

Sedalia is home to the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum on the site of the former Palmer Memorial Institute ( 1902 – 1971 ), a preparatory school for African American students.

Within the Bennettsville Historic District, historic buildings include the Jennings Brown House ( 1826 ), the Female Academy ( 1830 ), the Medical Museum ( 1902 ), and the Murchison School ( 1902 ) — as well as other residences in the Queen Anne and Beaux Arts style.

* James Brown Craven, Doctor Fludd ( Robertus de Fluctibus ), the English Rosicrucian: Life and Writings, Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1902.

* Buster Brown, a comic strip character created in 1902, and the shoes associated with that character

In 1902, Outcault introduced Buster Brown, a mischievous boy dressed in Little Lord Fauntleroy style, and his dog Tige.

Alexander T. Brown | Alex T. Brown and John Wilkinson ( Franklin automobile ) | John Wilkinson of H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Company in one of their gasoline automobiles after a record run over rough country roads, February 21, 1902

Their friendship had its ups and downs for years until June 1902, when Lomax met Bess Baumann Brown from Dallas, one of Green's acquaintances.

* George Douglas Brown ( 1869 – 1902 ), Scottish novelist

* Joe Brown ( third baseman ) ( 1902 -?

Alfonso Teofilo Brown ( 1902 – 1951 ), better known as Panama Al Brown, was a bantamweight boxer from Panama who made history by becoming boxing's first Hispanic world champion.

Brown was born in 1902 when Panama was part of Colombia.

In 1902 rationalisation of the rolling stock industry began when the Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage and Wagon Co. Ltd. was formed, incorporating Joseph Wright's old firm with other well known companies such as Ashbury, Brown and Marshalls, Oldbury and Lancaster railway carriage companies.

Buster Brown was a comic strip character created in 1902 by Richard Felton Outcault who was known for his association with the Brown Shoe Company.

In 1902 Sheffield steelmakers John Brown & Company exchanged shares and came to a working agreement with neighbouring company Thomas Firth & Sons, the companies continuing under their own management until they finally merged in 1930 Forming Firth Brown Ltd.

Brown, William Michael, 21 Feb 1902, aged 57, Master Shifter, deceased signalled to the winding engineman to take the cage from the 5 / 4 to main coal seam and then attempted to get into the cage, but the engineman, not knowing there was no onsetter there, dropped the cage at once, and Brown was caught and killed

* 1814 – Esther Morris, American jurist ( d. 1902 )

* 1902 – Ogden Nash, American poet ( d. 1971 )

* 1836 – Bret Harte, American writer ( d. 1902 )

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

* 1902 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor ( d. 1985 )

* 1988 – Fred Bear, American bow-hunter ( b. 1902 )

* 1902 – Bill Hallahan, American baseball player ( d. 1981 )

Their 1901 – 1907 jerseys, both home and road, simply read " Boston ", except for 1902 when they sported large letters " B " and " A " denoting " Boston " and " American.

The Orioles name had been used by previous major league baseball clubs in Baltimore, including the American League Baltimore Orioles franchise from 1901 – 1902 that became the New York Yankees and the National League Baltimore Orioles.

Relief came in 1902 as a result of the conflict between the National and American Leagues.

Carl Ransom Rogers ( January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987 ) was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology.

* 1902 – Strom Thurmond, American politician ( d. 2003 )

* 1902 – Charles Dow, American journalist ( b. 1851 )

* 1902 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress ( d. 1985 )

* 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American composer ( b. 1902 )

* 1993 – Alice Tully, American music promoter and philanthropist ( b. 1902 )

* 1902 – Sidney Hook, American philosopher ( d. 1989 )

* 1902 – Frances Bavier, American actress ( d. 1989 )