* 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 ).

While manufacturing its own Studebaker Electric vehicles from 1902 to 1911, the company entered into body-manufacturing and distribution agreements with two makers of gasoline-powered vehicles, Garford of Elyria, Ohio, and the Everitt-Metzger-Flanders ( E-M-F ) Company of Detroit and Walkerville, Ontario ).

Both were under the control of Charles Yerkes through his Metropolitan District Electric Traction Company and, in June 1902, were transferred to Yerkes ' new holding company, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ).

* 1902: Hong Kong Tramway Electric Company Ltd founded.

* 1902: Name changed to Electric Traction Company of Hong Kong Ltd.

Following the purchase of the MDR by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London in 1902, the planned MDR and B & PCR lines were merged with a third proposed route from the Great Northern and Strand Railway.

Together they wrote Alternating Electric Currents ( 1895 ), Electrical Engineering leaflets ( 1896 ), and Electric arc lighting ( 1902 ).

Following the purchase of the MDR by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London in 1902, the planned MDR and B & PCR lines were merged with a third proposed route from the Great Northern and Strand Railway.

Electric services started to Waverley in 1902, then Bronte in 1911.

After a 1901 journey across Russia on the then not-quite-completed Trans-Siberian Railway, Hill settled in 1902 in Seattle, Washington, where he had major interests in the Seattle Gas and Electric Company, which was focused mainly in the coal gas business.

The adjacent Enoshima Electric Railway station opened on September 1, 1902 and the Odakyu Enoshima Line station on April 1, 1929.

The American Electric was an American automobile manufactured in Chicago from 1899 to 1902 and Hoboken, New Jersey in 1902.

The tramway was sold by the liquidator to the newly formed Manx Electric Railway Co. Ltd., which took over the services in 1902.

The railway and the MER were sold by the liquidator to the newly-formed Manx Electric Railway Co. Ltd, which took over in 1902.

He emigrated to the U. S. in 1902 and spent much of his life working for the General Electric company.

Having then acquired control of the GN & SR, the B & PCR and BS & WR railways, the MDETC was reconstituted as the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) on 9 April 1902.

The Upton Street Railway was absorbed in 1902 and named the ' Electric Loop ' or ' Upton Loop '.

* The Electric Telegraphs Amendment Act 1902 ( required wireless masts to be licensed )

The MLR became part of Henry Huntington's recently formed Pacific Electric Railway ( also known as " Red Car ") in 1902.

The Blick Electric was a revolutionary machine when it was first introduced in 1902.

Boston and Worcester Electric Companies was incorporated December 29, 1902 to serve as a holding company for these railroads.

The original ' red line ' streetcar line service on the route, which was operated by Pacific Electric Railway, began service in 1902.