* 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 ).

He gave $ 2 million in 1901 to start the Carnegie Institute of Technology ( CIT ) at Pittsburgh and the same amount in 1902 to found the Carnegie Institution at Washington, D. C.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

He applied in 1902 to the newly formed Carnegie Institution for a grant to write a systematic book of his life's work.

The beginning of the 20th century marked important steps for Crawfordsville, as Culver Union Hospital and the Carnegie Library were built in 1902.

In 1902 the city of Port Huron secured money from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to erect a municipal library.

File: CarnegieFreeLibraryofMckeesport. jpg | The Carnegie Free Library of McKeesport, built in 1902

* 1902: Bryan's Carnegie Library was opened with a $ 10, 000 grant from Andrew Carnegie.

Joplin began to add cultural amenities ; in 1902 residents passed a tax to create a public library, and gained matching funds that enabled them to build the Carnegie Library.

In 1902, he met with Andrew Carnegie and became one of the founders and incorporators of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

He retired from Johns Hopkins in 1901, but accepted the presidency ( 1902 – 4 ) of the newly founded Carnegie Institution of Washington.

File: carnegie lib 640 03 2. jpg | Detail of the entrance to the Carnegie Library in Avondale, Cincinnati ( 1902 ) ( Spanish colonial style )

Located in the center of Mount Vernon Square in Washington, the society occupies a Beaux-Arts building built by Andrew Carnegie in 1902 ( one of his many Carnegie libraries ), originally used as the District of Columbia Public Library.

Carnegie Library ( 1902 – 1977 )

On March 4, 1902, the first public library, the Carnegie Library, opened on the site of the current Central Library.

When the Carnegie Library opened in 1902, blacks were excluded from the library.

The other seats on the board were held ex-officio by the presidents of the five previously established Carnegie organizations in the United States-Carnegie Institute ( of Pittsburgh ) ( 1896 ), CIW ( 1902 ), Carnegie Hero Fund Commission ( 1904 ), CFAT ( 1905 ), and CEIP ( 1910 ).

The most notable surviving architectural feature in this area, the former Public Halls, was opened in 1902 and designed by William B. Whitie, who also designed Springburn's Public Carnegie library.

Ales Hrdlicka ( 1869 – 1943 ), a physician, studied physical anthropology in France under Leonce Manouvrier before working at the Smithsonian Institution from 1902.

In 1902, the Institution developed into the Hartley University College, with degrees awarded by the University of London.

By 1865, the Smithsonian Institution began a catalog of current scientific papers, which became the International Catalogue of Scientific Papers in 1902.

Swinburne was a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers ( IEE ) for a record-breaking 73 years, serving as president from 1902 to 1903.

Paul Bartsch of the Smithsonian Institution is credited with the first modern banding in the U. S .: he banded 23 Black-crowned Night Herons in 1902.

Type material is mainly found in the collections of Alexander Abercrombie ( India ), Robert Dukinfield Darbishire, Prof. Alfred Cort Haddon ( Torres Straits ), Reverend James Hadfield ( Lifu, Loyalty Islands ), Lewis John Shackleford ( especially Marginella ), George Cooper Spence ( especially African land snails and Urocoptis and many specimens from Matthew William Kemble Connolly and Hugh Berthon Preston ), Frederick W. Townsend ( Persian Gulf ), syntype material from the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition ( 1902 – 1904 ) and that received from the Smithsonian Institution in 1973 in exchange.

The 20th Century Limited was an express passenger train operated by the New York Central Railroad from 1902 to 1967, during which time it would become known as a " National Institution " and the " Most Famous Train in the World ".

He was unable to proceed to England to study law due to his financial situation so he decided to teach instead, and taught at Raffles Institution from 1902 to 1908.

Thirty years earlier, he had argued that the future could be known scientifically in The Discovery of the Future, a 1902 lecture to the Royal Institution.

* Tarleton Hoffman Bean ( 1846 – 1916 ), first Curator of Fishes at the Smithsonian Institution ; Director of the Forestry and Fisheries exhibit at the Paris Exhibition, 1900 ; Chief of the Departments of Fish, Game and Forestry, St. Louis World's Fair, 1902 – 05 ; awarded the 4th Class, Jan 12, 1906, for work with the St. Louis World's Fair

In 1902, a flying cage was completed in the setting of the National Zoological Park of the Smithsonian Institution.

This society became the Junior Institution of Engineers in 1902, which became the Institution of General Technician Engineers in 1970 and the Institute of Mechanical and General Technician Engineers ( IMGTechE ) in 1976.

The modern Institution of Incorporated Engineers ( IIE ) traced its heritage to The Vulcanic Society that was founded in 1884 and became the Junior Institution of Engineers in 1902, which became the Institution of General Technician Engineers in 1970.