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1902
1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-April
May-August
September-December
Births
January-February
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January 6 - Max Güde , attorney (d. 1984)
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January 9 - Rudolph Bing, opera manager (d. 1997)
- January 9 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975)
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January 16 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)
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January 20 - Nazim Hikmet, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1963)
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January 22 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
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January 31 - Alva Myrdal, politician (d. 1986)
- January 31 - Tallulah Bankhead, actress (d. 1968)
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February 1 - Langston Hughes, writer (d. 1967)
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February 4 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (d. 1974)
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February 6 - George Brunies, jazz musician (d. 1974)
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February 8 - Lyle Talbot , actor (d. 1996)
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February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 (d. 1987)
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February 11 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect/designer (d. 1971)
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February 20 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
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February 27 - John Steinbeck American writer (d. 1968)
- February 27 - Gene Sarazen, golfer (d. 1999)
March-April
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March 7 - Heinz Rühmann , actor (d. 1994)
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March 9 - Elisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, wife of Philippe de Rothschild (d. 1945)
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March 9 - Will Geer, actor (d. 1978)
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March 16 - Leon Roppolo, jazz clarinetist (d. 1943)
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March 17 - Bobby Jones, golfer (d. 1971)
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March 21 - Son House, blues musician (d. 1988)
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March 24 - Thomas Dewey, American politician (d. 1971)
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March 28 - Dame Flora Robson, actress (d. 1984)
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March 29 - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
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March 29 - Marcel Aymé, French narrator and dramatist, humorist and satirist (d. 1967)
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April 4 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French actress (d. 1969)
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April 12 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977)
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April 23 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author (d. 1998)
May-October
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May 6 - Max Ophüls, director (d. 1957)
- May 6 - Harry Golden, U.S. journalist (d. 1981)
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May 10 - Anatole Litvak, film director (d. 1974)
- May 10 - David O. Selznick, Hollywood film producer (d. 1965)
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May 15 - Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)
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May 18 - Meredith Willson, composer (d. 1984)
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May 21 - Earl Averill, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1983)
- May 21 - Marcel Lajos Breuer , architect (d. 1981)
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May 22 - Al Simmons, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1956)
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July 4 - George Murphy, dancer, actor, Senator from California (d. 1992)
- July 4 - Meyer Lansky, mobster (d. 1983)
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July 28 - Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)
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July 26 - Gracie Allen, actress, comedienne (d. 1964)
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August 8 - Paul Dirac, English physicist (d. 1984)
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August 9 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
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August 10 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award winning actress (d. 1983)
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August 11 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
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August 19 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
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August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
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August 25 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972)
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September 21 - Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)
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September 22 - John Houseman, actor and producer (d. 1988)
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October 5 - Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's Corporation
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October 25 - Eddie Lang, jazz musician (d. 1933)
November-December
Deaths
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January 11 - Johnny Briggs, Lancashire left arm slow bowler and useful batsman (b. 1862)
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March 26 - Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist (b. 1853)
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May 26 - Almon Strowger, inventor of the Strowger switch (b. 1839)
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June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
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June 18 - Samuel Butler, British Author (b. 1835)
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July 4 - Swami Vivekananda (b. 1863)
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July 6 - Maria Goretti, Roman Catholic Virgin Saint (b. 1890)
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August 8 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
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September 5 - Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician (b. 1821)
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September 6 - Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist (b. 1827)
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September 29 - Emile Zola, French author (b. 1840)
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October 26 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women's rights activist (b. 1815)
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December 22 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (b. 1840)
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Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)
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