It was founded in the Netherlands in 1902 by Nico Broekhuysen.

* 1902 – Louis Beel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1977 )

* 1902 – Dutch Schultz, American mobster ( d. 1935 )

* 1902 – Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and critic ( d. 1943 )

* 1902 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist ( d. 1940 )

* 1902 – Johannes Brinkman, Dutch architect ( d. 1949 )

* May 15 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer ( b. 1902 )

** Dutch Schultz, American gangster ( b. 1902 )

The Second Boer War (, or Tweede Boereoorlog ) was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic ( Transvaal Republic ) and the Orange Free State.

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

The Dutch author and polemicist Menno ter Braak ( 1902 – 1940 ) grew up in Tiel.

* Jan Campert ( 1902 – 1943 ), Dutch poet and writer

* Hendrik Lorentz ( 1853 – 1928 ), Dutch physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in 1902

After becoming a naturalized British citizen in 1902, he was involved in arranging the 1907 merger resulting in Royal Dutch / Shell and emerged from that effort as a major shareholder.

On 22 December 1902, the Apostolic Prefecture of Dutch New Guinea was established in the city, later to be promoted as the Diocese of Amboina.

* Dutch Schultz ( 1902 – 1935 ), mobster

An offshoot of the New Objectivity movement centered around the Forum magazine, which appeared in the years 1932 – 1935 and was edited by the leading Dutch literary critic Menno ter Braak ( 1902 – 1940 ) and the novelist Edgar du Perron ( 1899 – 1940 ).

Commenting on Rydberg's mythological work in 1902, Dutch Professor, P. D.

The Anderheggen was a Dutch automobile ; the short-lived light 4hp four-seater vis-à-vis, powered by a water-cooled Abeille engine, was manufactured in Amsterdam from 1899 to 1902.

( 12 August 1902 – 14 March 1980 ) was born in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ).

* Dutch Schultz ( 1902 – 1935 ), American gangster

Louis Joseph Maria Beel ( April 12, 1902 – February 11, 1977 ) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party ( KVP ) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal ( CDA ).

Damiaen J. van Doorninck ( 29 August 1902 Vught-24 September 1987, Mynachlog-ddu ) was a Dutch officer ( lieutenant in the Royal Netherlands Navy Reserve ) and a POW in Colditz.

MVV Maastricht (, full name Maastrichtse Voetbal Vereniging ) is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Maastricht, founded on April 2, 1902.

From the start in 1902 until 1976 MVV played continuously in the highest Dutch leagues.

She continued to work there for the rest of her career and was as dean of the school from 1883 to 1902.

In 1899 he was appointed Demonstrator of Physiology at the London Hospital Medical School and in 1902 he was appointed Lecturer in Biochemistry at the school.

His interest in mathematics increased when in 1920 his older brother Rudolf ( born 1902 ) left for Vienna to go to medical school at the University of Vienna.

He was born to Ross R. Brattain and Ottilie Houser in Amoy, China on February 10, 1902 and spent the early part of his life in Springfield, Oregon where an elementary school is named in his honor, and Tonasket, Washington in the United States.

Émile François Zola (; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902 ) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

He attended the Horace Mann School upon his return to New York City and after having passed a special examination, he was admitted in 1902 to the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1906.

* February 26, 1902: Camargo, Illinois teacher Fletcher R. Barnett shot and killed another teacher, Eva C. Wiseman, in front of her class at a school near Camargo, Illinois.

The school joined the federal University of London in 1900, becoming the university's Faculty of Economics and awarding degrees of the University from 1902.

The community is also served by Saint Michael Indian School, a K-12 private, Catholic school established by Saint Katherine Drexel in 1902.

The first school in the Village of Reddick was constructed in 1902 and consisted of two rooms and a library, and employed two teachers.

In 1902, the white residents of Kinloch Park decided to withdraw from the neighboring Ferguson school district and built the Nuroad school for whites.

From 1902 until the Great Depression, Wenonah Military Academy, a private military school, trained cadets there.

In the nineteenth century the school was renamed in Claverack College, and it closed in 1902.

Sedalia is home to the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum on the site of the former Palmer Memorial Institute ( 1902 – 1971 ), a preparatory school for African American students.

That building burnt down on December 9, 1902, and a new building was erected in 1904 as an elementary school.

S. L. O ' Bannon was the teacher in the first school, which was opened in 1902 with funds gained by subscribers.

The first school building was built in 1902.

The city was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 23, 1880, and obtained its first high school in 1902.

Normal school in 1902

* Jacob Bickler ( 1849 – 1902 ) Educator, founder of two Austin academies, taught summer school in Frederickburg.

Until 1959, Dorchester had its own school, originally built in 1902 ( a state historical marker stands at the school's old location, next to the current home of the First Baptist Church of Dorchester ).

In 1902 Holy Trinity Catholic Church was erected ; a parish school opened in 1911.

* Jacob Bickler ( 1849 – 1902 ) German immigrant, educator, founder of two Austin academies, taught summer school in Mason.