* 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 ).

In 1902, under Leo XIII, a commission under the presidency of Monsignor Louis Duchesne was appointed to consider the Breviary, the Missal, the Pontifical and the Ritual.

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

The town of St. Louis became the capital of French West Africa ( Afrique occidentale française, or AOF ) before it was moved to Dakar in 1902.

* February 11 – Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( b. 1902 )

* August 26 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator ( Spirit of St. Louis ) ( b. 1902 )

The modern automobile drum brake was invented in 1902 by Louis Renault, whose unique genius inspired him to use woven asbestos lining for the drum brakes lining as there were no other alternatives that dissipated heat like the asbestos lining, though a less-sophisticated drum brake had been used by Maybach a year earlier.

* Milwaukee Brewers ( became the St. Louis Browns in 1902 and the Baltimore Orioles in 1954 )

* 1902: Milwaukee Brewers move to St. Louis, renamed St. Louis Browns

* Baltimore Orioles enfranchised 1901 as the Milwaukee Brewers, moved to St. Louis ( 1902 ) and to Baltimore ( 1954 )

Born Isidore Louis Bernard Edmon van Dommelen, he was the illegitimate child of army lieutenant Isidore Louis Bernard Edmon Tellegen ( 1836 – 1902 ) and Anna Maria van Dommelen.

Paul Barbarin's year of birth is often given as 1901, but his brother Louis Barbarin ( born 1902 ) said he was quite sure that Paul was several years older than he was, and Paul Barbarin simply refused to answer the year of his birth in an interview at Tulane's Jazz Archives.

Louis Barbarin ( October 24, 1902 – May 12, 1997 ) was a New Orleans jazz drummer.

* Louis Alter ( 1902 – 1980 ), songwriter (" Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?

* Louis Beel ( 1902 – 1977 ), Prime Minister of the Netherlands

Around the turn of the 20th century, Houck ’ s various lines were consolidated under the name of St. Louis & Gulf Railroad Co. Later Mr. Houck sold out to a syndicate headed by Newman Erb, who in 1902 sold out to the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company.

In 1902, the Arkansas Valley and Western Railway ( later the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway ) also built a line through the city.

* James D. Porter, Jr. — Judge of the 12th Judicial Circuit of Tennessee 1870-1874, Tennessee governor 1875 – 1879, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad Company 1880-1884, Assistant Secretary of State under President Grover Cleveland 1885-1887, Minister to Chile under President Grover Cleveland 1893-1895, Chancellor of the University of Nashville 1901, President of Peabody Normal College 1902, later President of those two schools ' merging ( George Peabody College ) until 1909

About 1902 the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway began making surveys of the area, and fearing that the railroad would bypass their town unless paid a $ 30, 000 " bonus ," leading citizens organized to raise the money.

* 1902 – Charles Francis Murphy, Daniel F. McMahon & Louis F. Haffen

In 1902, Louis H. Bill was granted a patent for an improved version of the Duck Roller Brake ( Patent 708, 114 ) for use on motorized bicycles ( motorcycles ).

* 1902 – J.

Mordred, Arthur's final foe according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford | H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's King Arthur: The Tales of the Round Table, 1902

The term " statistical thermodynamics " was proposed for use by the American thermodynamicist and physical chemist J. Willard Gibbs in 1902.

The Venerable Bede translates John, by J. D. Penrose, c. 1902.

* December 20 – Richard J. Daley, American Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1902 )

A story of the origin of fairies appears in a chapter about Peter Pan in J. M. Barrie's 1902 novel The Little White Bird, and was incorporated into his later works about the character.

* Alfred J. Billes ( 1902 – 1995 ), cofounder of Canadian Tire

There are at least five plays based on Deirdre's story: George William Russell's Deirdre ( 1902 ), William Butler Yeats ' Deirdre ( 1907 ), J. M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows ( 1910 ), John Coulter's Deirdre of the Sorrows: An Ancient and Noble Tale Retold by John Coulter for Music by Healey Willian ( 1944 ), and Vincent Woods ' A Cry from Heaven ( 2005 ).

In 1902, the Henry County Historical Society was incorporated at Martinsville with its first officers being John W. Carter, J. Harrison Spencer and C. B. Bryant.

The Imperial Land Company laid out the town in 1902 and named it Braly in honor of J. H.

Still standing are his own 1900 house, now called the Caldwell Home and said to be the oldest house in town ; the 1902 Garland / Reeder House ; the 1903 J. W.

The brothers continued to run the business successfully and brought the Spaulding Brothers leatherboard mill in Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts, under the J. Spaulding and Sons banner in 1902.

The Denver, Enid and Gulf Railroad laid track one mile ( 1. 6 km ) west of the city in 1902, and the city obtained of land from two farmers ( C. E. Wells and J. H. Rhoades ) creating " new Crescent " or " West Crescent "; eventually the town moved to the new location.

The J. C. Penney company store was founded in Kemmerer in 1902.

The JCPenney mother store, originally founded as The Golden Rule by owner J. C. Penney in 1902.

" Sir Mordred " ( 1902 ) by Henry Justice Ford | H. J. Ford

" Then, starting in 1902 at the newly-established University of Chicago Law School, the J. D.

* Dixon, RMW & Godrich, J ( 1981 ) Blues and Gospel Records: 1902 – 1943, Storyville, London.

Charles J. Glidden on his 1902 world tour

Napier's 1902 win brought the Gordon Bennett hosting duties to Britain, and the 1903 event was held south of Dublin, with three shaft-driven Napiers defending British honour, all in the ( later famous ) green: a brace of 470 cu in ( 7708 cc ) 45 hp ( 33. 5 kW ) fours of Charles Jarrott and J. W. Stocks ( with McDonald, the Genoa plant manager, his riding mechanic ), and an 80 hp ( 838 cu in, 13, 726 cc ), the Type K5, of Edge ; Jarrott and Stocks wrecked, while Edge was disqualified for receiving outside assistance ( onlookers helped throw buckets of water over the wheels to cool the tyres ).

In 1902, J. P. Morgan & Co. financed the formation of International Mercantile Marine Company, an Atlantic shipping combine which absorbed several major American and British lines.

See also Martineau, Types of Ethical Theory ( London, 1902 ); WR Scott, Francis Hutcheson ( Cambridge, 1900 ); Albee, History of English Utilitarianism ( London, 1902 ); T Fowler, Shaftesbury and Hutcheson ( London, 1882 ); J McCosh, Scottish Philosophy ( New York, 1874 ).

; J Morley, Diderot and the Encyclopaedists ( London, 1878 ); DG Mostratos, Die Pädagogik des Helvétius ( Berlin, 1891 ); A Guillois, Le Salon de Madame Helvétius ( 1894 ); A Piazzi, Le idee filosofiche specialmente pedagogiche de C. A. Helvétius ( Milan, 1889 ); Georgi Plekhanov, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Materialismus ( Stuttgart, 1896 ); L Limentani, Le teorie psicologiche de C. A. Helvétius ( Verona, 1902 ); A Keim, Helvétius, sa vie et son œuvre ( 1907 ); Isaiah Berlin, " Helvétius " in Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Liberty, ed.