Until 1902, a possible enclave of Dorset people or Sadlermiut ( in modern Inuktitut spelling Sallirmiut ) existed on Southampton Island.

After 1902, German spelling was essentially decided de facto by the editors of the Duden dictionaries.

The spelling is from the original words to " Oahu ' a " written in 1902 by a student.

In 1902 the Bundesrat confirmed the Duden as the official standard for German spelling ; Austria-Hungary and Switzerland soon followed suit.

It was only in 1902 when an American supervising teacher made the change of Ybajay to Ibajay because of the preference to the English alphabet and the difficulty of the Americans in spelling the word.

The International Fixed calendar ( also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Eastman plan, the 13 Month calendar or the Equal Month calendar ) is a solar calendar proposal for calendar reform designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, who presented it in 1902.

One notable reform was the introduction of women's suffrage for federal elections in 1902.

A strong supporter of tariff reform, Law was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in 1902.

Before the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, it attempted to reform from 1902 to 1908 to save itself and instigated reforms in infrastructure, transportation, and government.

1901, the Qing government began to reform under this situation, and in 1902 issued ‘ The imperial rules for colleges ’, and adapted the new modern education system.

Thammayut remained a reform movement until passage of the Sangha Act of 1902, which formally recognized it as the lesser of Thailand's two Theravada denominations.

Ames had been suspected of scandalous behavior in his preceding terms as mayor ; but due to his actions in 1901 and 1902 as part of a " reform " administration, Ames's behavior would prove he was corrupt himself.

Balfour succeeded Salisbury as prime minister in 1902, and the government would eventually falter after Chamberlain proposed his scheme for tariff reform, whose partial embrace by Balfour led to the resignation of the more orthodox free traders in the Cabinet.

The Conservative Chief Secretary, Wyndham, was supportive of constructive steps to reform systems of land tenure in Ireland, and the 1902 Land Conference resulted in the Wyndham Land Act of 1903, which allowed tenants to buy their holdings from landlords through a system of state-provided loans.

A year later began the struggle for the reform of the national defense, and Széll introduced in 1902 a law for increasing the number of recruits, in exchange for which the Independent Party — under the slogan of " no more soldiers without the introduction of Hungarian as the language service and command " — wanted concessions to the principle of nationality.

In 1902 a successful effort to reform Atlanta targeted the infection harboring suburb disease.

Another reform in 1902 allowed a better publication of patents.

In 1902 and 1903 Becker was one of the leaders of a patrolman's reform movement agitating for the introduction of the Three Platoon System, which would have significantly reduced the number of hours the beat police officer was expected to work.

* 1902 – Felix Wankel, German engineer and inventor ( d. 1988 )

* 1902 – Regina Jonas, German rabbi ( d. 1944 )

* 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.