* 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 ).

* 1902 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1971 )

** Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1902 )

Arne Emil Jacobsen ( 11 February 1902 – 24 March 1971 ) was a Danish architect and designer.

Arne Jacobsen was born on 11 February 1902 in Copenhagen to upper-middle-class Jewish parents.

Danish design is also a well-known brand, often associated with world-famous designers and architects such as Børge Mogensen ( 1914 – 1972 ), Finn Juhl ( 1912 – 1989 ), Hans Wegner ( 1914 – 2007 ), Arne Jacobsen ( 1902 – 1971 ), Poul Kjærholm ( 1929 – 1980 ), Poul Henningsen ( 1894 – 1967 ) and Verner Panton ( 1926 – 1998 ).

Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius ( 10 August 1902 – 29 October 1971 ) was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948.

* March 24-Arne Jacobsen ( born 1902 )

Duddell didn't further develop his invention, but in 1902 Danish physicists Valdemar Poulsen and P. O. Pederson were able to increase the frequency produced into the radio range, inventing the Poulsen arc radio transmitter, the first continuous wave radio transmitter, which was used through the 1920s.

He went on his first expedition in 1902 – 1904, known as The Danish Literary Expedition, with Jørgen Brønlund, Harald Moltke and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, to examine Inuit culture.

A second draft treaty to sell the islands to the United States was negotiated in 1902 but was narrowly defeated in the Danish parliament.

* September 24 – Ib Schønberg, Danish actor ( b. 1902 )

He married Danish actress Ada Vilstrup in 1902 and moved to Berlin, where he would meet collector Gustav Schiefler and artist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, both of whom would advocate his work later in life.

The four-act Saul og David ( Saul and David ), written in 1902 to a libretto by Einar Christiansen tells the Biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David while Maskarade ( Masquerade ) is a comic opera in three acts written in 1906 to a Danish libretto by Vilhelm Andersen, based on the comedy by Ludvig Holberg.

The Civil War temporarily closed the mission, but work resumed until 1902, when the Danish Lutherans took over.

* Jørgen Brønlund ( 1877 – 1907 ), was also a polar explorer born in Ilulissat, He grew up with Rasmussen and accompanied him, along with Harald Moltke and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, on the Danish Literary Expedition ( 1902 – 1904 ) to examine Inuit culture.

He published a number of important works including Kirkemelodier ( Church Melodies ) ( 1890 ), Udvalg af Salme-Melodier i Kirkestil ( Selected Hymn Tunes in the Church Style ) ( 1896 and 1902 ), Dansk Kirkesang ( Danish Church Song ) ( 1918 ) and Musik og Kirke ( Music and Church ) ( 1920 ).

Interestingly, early Danish jazz was influenced by three classically trained musicians: Erik Tuxen ( 1902 – 1957 ), who created one the country's first jazz bands, Bernhard Christensen ( b. 1906 ), a composer of both jazz and classical music, and Sven Møller Kristensen ( 1909 – 1991 ) who wrote lyrics for Christensen as well as a number of books about jazz.

Landvarnarflokkurinn was an Icelandic political movement which operated from 1902 to 1912, founded because of discontentedness with a clause in the Icelandic constitution that stated that the Icelandic minister should bring up cases in the Danish Council of State.

Most prominat of these were William Henry Traill ( 1842 – 1902 ), the later NSW politician and editor of the famed Sydney journal ' The Bulletin ', and the Danish born but English and French educated Carl Adolph Feilberg ( 1844 – 1887 ).

In 1902, Meyer founded Fysisk Tidsskrift, the Danish journal of physics.

The Anglo-Dane was a Danish automobile manufactured by H. C. Fredriksen of Copenhagen from 1902 to 1917.

With Count Harald Moltke and Knud Rasmussen he formed the Danish Literary expedition ( 1902-04 ) to West Greenland, and in the early stages ( 1902 ) discovered near Evigheds Fiord two ice-free mountain ranges.

Many pictures of old Al-Ahsa and the Eastern Province were taken by the Danish explorer and convert to Islam Knud Holmboe ( 1902 – 1931 ) in his travels through the Middle East.

* Hedevig Rasmussen ( 1902 – 1985 ), Danish freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics

Ib Christian Albert von Cotta Schønberg ( 23 October 1902 – 24 September 1955 ) was a Danish film actor, and is considered one of the leading actors of Danish film in the 20th century.