* 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 Jacobsen, Danish architect ( 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.

* February 1 – Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1902 )

Alva Myrdal ( née Reimer ; 31 January 1902 – 1 February 1986 ) was a Swedish sociologist and politician.

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

The Swedish right-wing were also threatened by the rise of the Social Democrats ( founded in 1889 ) and the Liberals ( 1902 ).

In order to meet the cost of the new Swedish Army organization the Riksdag of 1902 increased the revenue by progressive taxation, but only for one year.

AIK did not participate in the Swedish championships of 1902 and 1903, which meant these were played only with teams from Gothenburg.

It was so named in 1902 by the Swedish surveyor Johan Gunnar Andersson who found old English try pots used to render seal oil at the site.

Larsen chose the whaling station's site during his 1902 visit while in command of the ship Antarctic of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition ( 1901 – 03 ) led by Otto Nordenskjöld.

His mental instability proved too much for their marriage, and Marie during a tour to Taormina, Sicily in 1902 met Hugo Alfvén, the Swedish composer, the man who would become her future husband.

* the Upplands regemente ( signal ), a 1902 Signal Regiment of the Swedish Armed Forces

* Fredrik Wilhelm von Otter ( 1833 – 1910 ), Swedish naval officer and politician ; Prime Minister of Sweden from 1900 to 1902

The Bay was discovered on January 15, 1902 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskiöld, who named it in commemoration of the winter spent there by J. Gunnar Andersson, S. A. Duse, Toralf Grunden, and José María Sobral of his expedition after his ship ( the Antarctic ) was crushed by the ice and lost.

The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskiöld for the expedition ship Antarctic which in 1902, under the command of Carl Anton Larsen, was the first vessel to navigate it.

The broad strokes of Mommsen's long, sometimes intense narrative of the Roman Republic were summarized at the 1902 award of the Nobel Prize in a speech given by the secretary of the Swedish Academy.

Letter from Carl Sundbeck "), article in the Swedish periodical Hvar 8 Dag, 3: 36 ( 1902 ).

* Snow Hill Island, Antarctica, where the Swedish Antarctic Expedition explorers over-wintered in 1902

* Dagny Lind ( 1902 – 1992 ), Swedish film actress

Fredrik Wilhelm von Otter ( 11 April 1833 – 9 March 1910 ) was a Swedish friherre, naval officer and politician, most notably serving as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1900 to 1902.

Oil on canvas, 1902. From the 18th century onwards, names used by the royal family were introduced to the Swedish list of name days, followed by other common names.

He was also made an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1902, with reference to his chairmanship of a Swedish-Russian surveying commission.

In 1898 the first choral society was established in Paslepa, and in 1902 the first Swedish lending library was established.

* 1902 The first Swedish language book was published in Noarootsi