* 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 ).

* May 8, 1902 — In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30, 000.

Approximately 30, 000 people were killed by pyroclastic flows during the 1902 eruption of Mont Pelée on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean.

A name for some pyroclastic flows is nuée ardente ( French for " glowing cloud "); this was first used to describe the disastrous 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique.

" His rescue efforts during the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on Saint-Pierre, Martinique, reinforced his belief that athletic skill must be combined with courage and altruism.

For example, the city of Saint-Pierre on the Caribbean island of Martinique in 1902 was overcome by one.

* Saint-Pierre, Martinique, in the Martinique overseas département ( known for its destruction in the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée )

In summer 1902 Borchgrevink was one of three geographers invited by the National Geographic Society ( NGS ) to report on the after-effects of the catastrophic eruptions of Mount Pelée, on the French-Caribbean island of Martinique.

** Namur 1695 ; Blenheim ; Ramillies ; Oudenarde ; Malplaquet ; Dettingen ; Louisburg ; Quebec 1759 ; Bellisle ; Martinique 1762 ; Havannah ; St Lucia 1778 ; Martinique 1794, 1809 ; Tournay ; Mysore ; Seringapatam ; Ally Ghur ; Delhi 1803 ; Leswarree ; Dieg ; Corunna ; Guadaloupe 1810 ; Java ; Nive ; Peninsula ; Waterloo ; Bhurtpore ; Alma ; Inkerman ; Sevastopol ; New Zealand ; Abyssinia ; Afghanistan 1879 – 80 ; Tirah ; Relief of Kimberley ; Paardeburg ; Relief of Ladysmith ; South Africa 1899 – 1902 ; Afghanistan 1919 ; Korea 1952 – 53 ; The Hook 1953 ; Iraq 2003

The eruption of May 7, 1902, just hours before the eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique, killed 1, 680 people.

Before the total destruction of Saint-Pierre in 1902 by a volcanic eruption, it was the most important city of Martinique culturally and economically, being known as " the Paris of the Caribbean ".

( 1902 ) Complete story of the Martinique and St. Vincent horrors.

Léon Compère-Léandre ( 1874 ?- 1936 ) was a shoemaker in Saint-Pierre on the French Caribbean island of Martinique when Mount Pelée erupted on May 8, 1902 and destroyed the town.

In 1902 the members of the Witherspoon Lodge bought the two story frame building at 1470 Clayton St. Mount Dora, FL.

* Martha Risdon " Mattie " Levins ( 1902 – 1998 ) a long-time educator at William G. Stewart Elementary School in Minden in Webster Parish, was born in Mount Lebanon.

But the grandest of all was the Mount Washington Hotel, built in 1902 and still operating.

Fronts of some pyroclastic density currents are fully dilute ; for example, during the eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902 a fully dilute current overwhelmed the city of Saint-Pierre and killed nearly 30, 000 people.

Australia's worst coal mining disaster occurred in 1902, at the Mount Kembla mine when an explosion killed 94 men and boys, the youngest aged 14, the oldest 69.

At the turn of the 20th century, however, Fort-de-France became economically important after the volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée destroyed the town of Saint-Pierre in 1902.

Mount Pelée began its eruptions on April 23, 1902.

Book based on the volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée, when it erupted on May 8th 1902 killing over 30, 000 people.

The Armero tragedy, as the event came to be known, was the second-deadliest volcanic disaster in the 20th century, being surpassed only by the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée, and is the fourth-deadliest volcanic eruption in recorded history.

Mount Columbia was first ascended in 1902 by James Outram, guided by Christian Kaufmann

View of Montreal from Mount Royal, 1902.

In 1902, he accompanied his mentor, Academician Niko Marr, to Mount Sinai where they studied medieval Georgian manuscripts.

She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry and physics in 1902.

* 1902: Robert Carl Sticht completes world's first successful pyritic smelting at Mount Lyell

Among the geographical features bearing his name is Antarctica's Mount Markham, named after him by Scott in 1902.

View from Mount Royal, 1902

As the population grew, Mount Martha Post Office opened around 1902.

Andrew " Sandy " Comyn Irvine ( 8 April 1902 – 8 June 1924 ) was an English mountaineer who took part in 1924 British Everest Expedition, the third British expedition to the world's highest ( 8, 848 m ) mountain, Mount Everest.

Mount Lawley was named in honour of Sir Arthur Lawley, the Governor of Western Australia from May 1901 to August 1902.

She took part in Merriam's 1901 expedition to Fossil Lake in Oregon, and his 1902 and 1903 expeditions to Mount Shasta in northern California.