* 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 ).

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 ).

Regina Jonas ( 3 August 1902 – 12 December 1944 ) was a Berlin-born rabbi.

" Rabbiner Regina Jonas 1902 – 1944: Missing Link in a Broken Chain " in Hear Our Voice: Women in the British Rabbinate by Sybil Sheridan.

" Regina Jonas. Vita di una rabbina Berlino 1902 Auschwitz 1944 " ed.

* 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 )

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