1902: On this day in history

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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1902

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Birthdays

January 1 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977)
January 2 - Dan Keating, Irish republican (d. 2007)
January 2 - Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
January 4 - John McCone, CIA Director (d. 1991)
January 5 - Stella Gibbons, English novelist (d. 1989)
January 6 - Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (d. 1994)
January 8 - Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)
January 8 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
January 9 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997)
January 9 - Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975)
January 11 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer (d. 1986)
January 15 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia, (d. 1969)
January 16 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)
January 20 - Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993)
January 22 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
January 24 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (d. 1965)
January 25 - Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975)
January 26 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)
January 30 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (d. 1983)
January 31 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)
January 31 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician
February 1 - Langston Hughes American writer, (d. 1967)
February 1 - Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (d. 1947
February 2 - Newbold Morris, American politician (d. 1966)
February 4 - Charles Lindbergh, American pilot (d. 1974)
February 4 - Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
February 6 - George Brunies, American musician (d. 1974)
February 8 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966)
February 9 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader (d. 1999)
February 10 - Walter Houser Brattain, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)
February 11 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect (d. 1971)
February 12 - William Collier, American stage and film actor (d. 1987)
February 14 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (d. 1969)
February 18 - Walter Herbert, German-born conductor and impresario (d. 1975)
February 19 - Kay Boyle, American writer (d. 1992)
February 20 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
February 22 - Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)
February 26 - Jean Bruller, alias Vercors
February 27 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999)
February 27 - John Steinbeck, American writer
March 2 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (d. 1972)
March 7 - Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
March 8 - Louise Beavers, American actress (d. 1962)
March 8 - Jennings Randolph, America politician (d. 1998)
March 9 - Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)
March 16 - Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943)
March 17 - Bobby Jones, American golfer (d. 1971)
March 21 - Son House, American musician (d. 1988)
March 22 - Madeleine Milhaud, French actress (d. 2008)
March 24 - Thomas Dewey, American politician (d. 1971)
March 27 - Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
March 28 - Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
March 28 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (d. 1988)
March 29 - Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)
March 29 - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
March 30 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (d. 2007)
March 30 - Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d. 1969)
April 1 - Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (d. 1930)
April 2 - Jan Tschichold, German typographer (d. 1974)
April 4 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French actress (d. 1969)
April 4 - Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (d. 1935)
April 6 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989)
April 12 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977)
April 13 - Philippe de Rothschild, French race car driver and wine grower (d. 1988)
April 14 - Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1974)
April 15 - Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
April 17 - Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican politician (d. 1974)
April 18 - Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
April 18 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Hasidic Judaism leader (d. 1994)
April 23 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer
April 25 - Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
April 28 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d. 1979)
April 30 - Theodore Schultz, American economist
May 3 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist
May 6 - Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981)
May 6 - Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957)
May 8 - Andre Michael Lwoff, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
May 10 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974)
May 10 - David O. Selznick, American film producer (d. 1965)
May 15 - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)
May 18 - Meredith Willson, American composer (d. 1984)
May 21 - Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)
May 21 - Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)
May 22 - Al Simmons, American baseball player (d. 1956)
May 30 - Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (d. 1985)
June 6 - Jimmie Lunceford, American bandleader (d. 1947)
June 7 - Herman B Wells, president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000)
June 12 - Hendrik Elias, Flemish politician (d. 1973)
June 15 - Erik Erikson, psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
June 16 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist
June 16 - George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
June 17 - Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (d. 1989)
June 17 - Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (d. 1982)
June 19 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian bandleader (d. 1977)
June 21 - Howie Morenz, professional ice hockey player (d. 1937)
June 22 - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (d. 1950)
June 23 - Mathias Wieman, German actor (d. 1969)
June 25 - Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, brother of Emperor Showa (d.1953)
June 26 - Hugues Cuénod, Swiss Tenor
June 28 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
July 1 - William Wyler, French-born film director (d. 1981)
July 4 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born American gangster (d. 1983)
July 4 - George Murphy, American entertainer (d. 1992)
July 5 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
July 7 - Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
July 10 - Kurt Alder, German chemist
July 15 - Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission {d. 1983)
July 16 - Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)
July 17 - Christina Stead, Australian novelist (d. 1983)
July 18 - Jessamyn West, American writer (d. 1984)
July 20 - Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984)
July 25 - Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983)
July 28 - Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
August 2 - Helen Morgan, American actress (d. 1941)
August 3 - Regina Jonas, German first woman rabbi (d. 1944)
August 4 - Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (d. 1981)
August 6 - Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger (d. 1935)
August 8 - Paul Dirac, English physicist
August 9 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
August 10 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
August 10 - Curt Siodmak, German-born author (d. 2000)
August 10 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist
August 11 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
August 11 - Lloyd Nolan, American actor (d. 1985)
August 12 - Mohammad Hatta, Vice President of Indonesia 1945-1956 (d. 1980)
August 13 - Felix Wankel, German engineer and inventor (d. 1988)
August 16 - Georgette Heyer, English novelist (d. 1974)
August 18 - Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter (d. 1968)
August 19 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
August 19 - J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)
August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
August 22 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
August 24 - Fernand Braudel, French historian (d. 1985)
August 24 - Carlo Gambino, Sicilian-born American mafioso (d. 1976)
August 25 - Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972)
September 4 - Thomas Mitchell, England cricketer (d. 1996)
September 5 - Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and executive (d. 1979)
September 12 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (d. 1976)
September 14 - Giorgos Papasideris Greek musician, (d. 1977)
September 20 - Stevie Smith, British poet (d. 1971)
September 21 - Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)
September 21 - Sir Allen Lane, British founder of Penguin Books (d. 1970)
September 22 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor (d. 1988)
September 23 - Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003)
September 24 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian politician
October 2 - Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (d. 1965)
October 5 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
October 5 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
October 9 - Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)
October 11 - Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader (d. 1979)
October 13 - Arna Wendell Bontemps, American writer (d. 1973)
October 14 - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963)
October 17 - Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973)
October 18 - Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)
October 18 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
October 25 - Henry Steele Commager, American historian (d. 1998)
October 25 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
October 26 - Jack Sharkey, American boxer (d. 1994)
October 28 - Elsa Lanchester, British-born actress (d. 1986)
October 31 - Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1950)
November 1 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987)
November 9 - Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)
November 17 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist
November 21 - Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (d. 1985)
November 22 - Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)
November 22 - Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Rhodesian politician (d. 1990)
November 22 - Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
November 23 - Aaron Bank, American OSS officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces (d. 2004)
November 23 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)
November 25 - Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)
December 2 - Howard Koch, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
December 5 - Strom Thurmond, American politician (d. 2003)
December 8 - Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (d. 1982)
December 9 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
December 12 - Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (d. 2003)
December 13 - Talcott Parsons, American sociologist
December 14 - Frances Bavier, American actress (d. 1989)
December 15 - Robert F. Bradford, 57th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1983)
December 16 - Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet (d. 1999)
December 19 - Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor (d. 1983)
December 20 - Sidney Hook, American philosopher (d. 1989)
December 20 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
December 23 - Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990)
December 25 - Barton MacLane, American actor (d. 1969)
December 26 - Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter (d. 1980)
December 28 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001)
December 28 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (d. 1988)
December 29 - Nels Stewart, National Hockey League player (d. 1957)
December 31 - Lionel Daunais, Quebec singer and composer (d. 1982)

Deaths

January 11 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)
February 18 - Charles Lewis Tiffany, American founder of Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
February 27 - Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Anglo-Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances (b. 1864)
February 27 - Peter Handcock, Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances
March 26 - Cecil Rhodes, English explorer (b. 1853)
April 2 - Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (b. 1814)
April 12 - Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist (b. 1842)
April 17 - Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (b. 1822)
May 6 - Bret Harte, American author (b. 1836)
May 26 - Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
June 5 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842)
June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
June 16 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
June 18 - Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835)
June 19 - Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
July 4 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1863)
July 6 - St. Maria Goretti, Italian saint (b. 1890)
July 22 - Mieczys³aw Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (b. 1822)
August 8 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
September 5 - Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
September 6 - Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist (b. 1827)
September 26 - Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)
September 29 - William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)
September 29 - Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
October 26 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
November 17 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
November 23 - Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (b. 1851)
December 3 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
December 4 - Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company
December 7 - Thomas Nast, German-born American cartoonist (b. 1840)
December 14 - Julia Grant, wife of President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1826)
December 22 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychiatrist (b. 1840)
December 23 - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)

Events

January 1 - The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena.
January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
February 11 - Police assault universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
March 4 - In Chicago, the American Automobile Association is established.
March 10 - Second Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
March 10 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
April 2 - Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated by a terrorist in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.
April 2 - "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
April 13 - James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
April 18 - Quetzaltenango, second largest city of Guatemala, destroyed by Earthquake.
April 20 - Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
April 28 - Using the ISO 8601 standard Year Zero definition for the Gregorian calendar preceded by the Julian calendar, the one billionth minute since the start of January 1, Year Zero occurs at 10:40 AM on this date.
May 8 - In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
May 17 - Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
May 20 - Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the first President of Cuba.
May 31 - Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
June 12 - Australia: women in the four Australian States without female suffrage are given the right to vote in Commonwealth elections under Section 3 of the Commonwealth Franchise Act for a Uniform Federal Franchise. Specifically excluded from enrolling to vote are 'aboriginal native[s] of Australia Africa Asia or the Islands of the Pacific except New Zealand' unless covered under Section 41 of the Constitution of Australia.
June 24 - King Edward VII develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
June 28 - The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
July 14 - The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
August 1 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
August 4 - The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
August 9 - Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom.
August 22 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
September 1 - A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
October 21 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
November 30 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
December 10 - Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
December 14 - The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.

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