* 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 ).

* French — Alleaume, Ludovic: Poor Pierrot ( 1915 ); Derain, André: Pierrot ( 1923 – 1924 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( c. 1924 ); Gabain, Ethel: Many works, including Pierrot ( 1916 ), Pierrot's Love-letter ( 1917 ), and Unfaithful Pierrot ( 1919 ); La Fresnaye, Roger de: Study for " Pierrot " ( 1921 ); La Touche, Gaston de: Pierrot's Greeting ( n. d .); Laurens, Henri: Pierrot ( c. 1922 ); Matisse, Henri: The Burial of Pierrot ( 1943 ); Mossa, Gustav Adolf: Pierrot and the Chimera ( 1906 ), Pierrot Takes His Leave ( 1906 ), Pierrot and His Doll ( 1907 ); Picabia, Francis: Pierrot ( early 1930s ); Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: White Pierrot ( 1901 / 1902 ); Rouault, Georges: Many works, including White Pierrot ( 1911 ), Pierrot ( 1920 ), Pierrot ( 1937 – 1938 ), Pierrot ( or Pierrette ) ( 1939 ), Aristocratic Pierrot ( 1942 ), The Wise Pierrot ( 1943 ), Blue Pierrots with Bouquet ( c. 1946 ).

As a freelancer he was engaged at the Opéra-Comique, where he continued to play from time to time for several years, leading the viola section at the 1902 premiere of Pelléas et Mélisande under the baton of André Messager.

Among his works are monographs on Gustave Flaubert ( 1899 ), André Chénier ( 1902 ), Émile Zola ( 1903 ); an admirably concise Histoire de la littérature française depuis le XVII ' siècle jusqu ' a nos jours ; series of literary studies on the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries ; Questions politiques ( 1899 ); Propos littéraires ( 3 series, 1902 – 1905 ); Le Libéralisme ( 1902 ); and L ' Anticléricalisme ( 1906 ); Vie de Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1911 ); Petite histoire de la littérature française ( 1913 ).

It premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 30 April 1902 with Jean Périer as Pelléas and Mary Garden as Mélisande in a performance conducted by André Messager, who was instrumental in getting the Opéra-Comique to stage the work.

Pelléas et Mélisande received its first performance at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 30 April 1902 with André Messager conducting.

Affiliated with USFSA since 1898, it was only in 1902, thanks to English and German people ( according to André Gascard ), that football began to be played by Olympique de Marseille.

André Patry ( November 22, 1902 – June 20, 1960, age 57 ) was a French astronomer.

* André Lanskoy ( 1902 – 1976 )

André Beaufre ( 25 January 1902, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 13 February 1975 ) was a French general.

In the novel, André Gide's early works, especially L ' Immoraliste ( 1902 ), pursue the problems of freedom and sensuality that symbolism had posed ; Alain-Fournier's novel Le Grand Meaulnes is a deeply felt portrait of a nostalgic past.

Other translations include those of Paul Béesau ( 1868 ), Gaston Pérot ( 1902, in verse ), Nata Minor ( received the Prix Nelly Sachs, given to the best translation into French of poetry ), Roger Legras, Maurice Colin, Michel Bayat and Jean-Louis Backès ( does not preserve the stanzas ).

* Wagener, Françoise ( 2008 ), Je suis née inconsolable: Louise de Vilmorin ( 1902 – 1969 ), Albin Michel, Paris, ISBN 978-2-226-18083-4.

It was followed by Les Trois cœurs ( 1890 ), Le Sacrifice ( 1892 ), La Vie privée de Michel Teissier ( 1893 ), translated as The Private Life of an Eminent Politician ( 1893 ); La Seconde Vie de Michel Teissier ( 1894 ), Le Silence ( 1894 ), Les Roches blanches ( 1895 ), Le Dernier Refuge ( 1896 ), Le Ménage du pasteur Naudi ( 1898 ), a study of Protestant France ; L ' eau courante ( 1902 ), L ' Inutile effort ( 1903 ), Un Vainqueur ( 1904 ), L ' Indocile ( 1905 ), and L ' Incendie ( 1906 ).

Adams purchased an automobile as early as 1902, in order to make better use of a summer in France researching Mont Saint Michel and Chartres.

Following in the tradition of Michel Foucault, scholars such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and David Halperin have argued that various Victorian public discourses, notably the psychiatric and the legal, fostered a designation or invention of the " homosexual " as a distinct category of individuals, a category solidified by the publications of sexologists such as Richard von Krafft-Ebing ( 1840 – 1902 ) and Havelock Ellis ( 1859 – 1939 ), sexologists who provided an almost-pathological interpretation of the phenomenon in rather Essentialist terms, an interpretation that led, before 1910, to hundreds of articles on the subject in The Netherlands, Germany, and elsewhere.

* Michel, Edmond, Histoire de la ville de Brie-Comte-Robert, Vol. 1, Dujarric & Cie, 1902.

* 1840 – Émile Zola, French novelist and critic ( d. 1902 )

French armored car: the Charron-Girardot-Voigt 1902.

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

* 1902 – Jean Bruller, French writer and illustrator ( d. 1991 )

In Conrad's words, regarding Heart of Darkness: In a letter to Henry-Durand Darvay, dated April 10th 1902, Joseph Conrad wrote ( French: translated below ):

* 1902 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer ( d. 1986 )

A treaty with Japan in 1902 meant that ships could be withdrawn from East Asia, while the Entente with France in 1904 meant that Britain could concentrate on guarding Channel waters, including the French coast, while France would protect British interests in the Mediterranean.

* 1902 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1984 )

* 1902 – Madeleine Milhaud, French actress ( d. 2008 )

* 1902 – Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general ( d. 1947 )

* 1836 – James Tissot, French artist ( d. 1902 )

In the latter 19th century French physical anthropologists, led by Paul Broca ( 1824 – 1880 ), focused on craniometry while the German tradition, led by Rudolf Virchow ( 1821 – 1902 ), emphasized the influence of environment and disease upon the human body.

The town of St. Louis became the capital of French West Africa ( Afrique occidentale française, or AOF ) before it was moved to Dakar in 1902.

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

* March 23 – Elisabeth de Rothschild, French WWII heroine ( executed ) ( b. 1902 )

* January 20 – Philippe de Rothschild, French vineyard owner ( b. 1902 )

* July 29 – Christian de Castries, French general ( b. 1902 )

** Zino Francescatti, French violinist ( b. 1902 )

* June 16 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer ( b. 1902 )

* October 15 – James Tissot, French artist ( d. 1902 )

* Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ), French historian

Dakar replaced Saint-Louis as the capital of French West Africa in 1902.