* 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 )

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 ).

* Felix Frankfurter ( 1902 ), U. S. Supreme Court Justice

* 1988 – Felix Wankel German inventor of the Wankel engine ( b. 1902 )

In addition to several school editions of portions of Cicero, Thucydides, Xenophon and Plutarch, he published an expurgated text of Aristophanes with a useful onomasticon ( re-issued separately, 1902 ) and larger editions of Cicero's De officiis ( revised ed., 1898 ) and of the Octavius of Minucius Felix ( 1853 ).

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

* Felix J., " Die Attische Königsliste ," Klio 3 ( 1902 ), 406-439.

It was named by the daughter of Felix Klein at a meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in 1902 held at the Georg August University of Göttingen, where Klein was a professor.

From February 1900 until 1902 Admiral Felix von Bendemann commanded the East Asia Squadron ( Ostasiengeschwader ) from his flagships the SMS Irene, and then the SMS Hertha.

The site was excavated in 1888, 1890, 1890 – 91, 1894 and 1902 by a German Oriental Society expedition led by Felix von Luschan and Robert Koldewey.

In 2004 Felix Fraga, a former city council member, said that at one point in time, people kept moving out of the Second Ward opened in 1902.

* 1840 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist ( d. 1902 )

The distinction of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred upon him by Queen Victoria in 1897 ( and later Knight Grand Commander in 1902 by Edward VII ) and he received like recognition for his public services from the German Emperor, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia and other potentates.

* 1902 – Jan Tschichold, German typographer ( d. 1974 )

* 1902 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist ( d. 1964 )

* 1947 – Hans Biebow, German Nazi chief ( b. 1902 )

* 1902 – Fritz Strassmann, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

* 1902 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader ( d. 1999 )

Koch accepted the invitation and spent two years, from 1900 to 1902, on the Brijuni Islands and Kupelwieser erected a monument to Koch, which still stands in the vicinity of the 15th-century Church of St. German on Veliki Brijun.

* 1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

* 1902 – Günther Anders, German philosopher ( d. 1992 )

* 1902 – Helmut Poppendick, German physician ( d. 1994 )

* 1830 – Albert Bierstadt, German / American painter ( d. 1902 )

Also in 1902 he was decorated by the German Emperor for his services in China with the Red Eagle, 2nd class, with Crossed Swords.

Helene Bertha Amalie " Leni " Riefenstahl (; August 22, 1902 – September 8, 2003 ) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker.

* 1994 – Erik Erikson, German psychoanalyst ( b. 1902 )

* 1902 – Max Ophüls, German director ( d. 1957 )

* 1999 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist ( b. 1902 )

* 1902 – Eugen Jochum, German conductor ( d. 1987 )

* 1841 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician ( d. 1902 )

* 1821 – Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician ( 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 proposal that proteins were linear chains of α-amino acids was made nearly simultaneously by two scientists at the same conference in 1902, the 74th meeting of the Society of German Scientists and Physicians, held in Karlsbad.