1902: The Year in People

The Greatest Generation · Year of the Tiger 🐅 · Born in 1902 turn 124 in 2026

The year in numbers

US president

Theodore Roosevelt

In the news: The eruption of Mount Pelee kills 30,000 in Martinique

Born in 1902

63 people in our data · most viewed first

Charles Lindbergh

1902–1974 · February 4

American aviator

Meyer Lansky

1902–1983 · July 4

Russian-born American gangster

Bobby Jones (golfer)

1902–1971 · March 17

American amateur golfer

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

1902–1994 · April 2

Seventh Chabad Rebbe

Albert Anastasia

1902–1957 · September 26

Italian-American mob boss

Gene Sarazen

1902–1999 · February 27

American professional golfer

Eric Liddell

1902–1945 · January 16

Scottish athlete and missionary

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

1902–1985 · July 5

American politician and diplomat

Darryl F. Zanuck

1902–1979 · September 5

American film producer

Beryl Markham

1902–1986 · October 26

British writer, aviator, adventurer, racehorse trainer

Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)

1902–1924 · April 8

British mountaineer

Brooke Astor

1902–2007 · March 30

American philanthropist, socialite, and writer

Brian Aherne

1902–1986 · May 2

English actor

Barbara McClintock

1902–1992 · June 16

American scientist and cytogeneticist

George Murphy

1902–1992 · July 4

American actor and politician

Albert Namatjira

1902–1959 · July 28

Australian painter

Barton MacLane

1902–1969 · December 25

Actor, playwright, screenwriter

Abraham Wald

1902–1950 · October 31

Hungarian mathematician

Anatole Litvak

1902–1974 · May 21

Russian-American film director

Emeric Pressburger

1902–1988 · December 5

Hungarian-British screenwriter, director and producer

Eddie Shore

1902–1985 · November 25

Canadian ice hockey player

Hartley Shawcross

1902–2003 · February 4

English barrister and politician

Charles Lang

1902–1998 · March 27

American cinematographer

Alexander Luria

1902–1977 · July 16

Russian neuropsychologist

Died in 1902

Cecil Rhodes1853–1902 · British mining magnate and politician
Elizabeth Cady Stanton1815–1902 · American suffragist
Albert Bierstadt1830–1902 · German-American landscape painter
Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz1822–1902 · King consort of Spain from 1846 to 1868
Charles Lewis Tiffany1812–1902 · American businessman and jeweller
Charles Dow1851–1902 · American journalist
Bret Harte1836–1902 · American fiction writer and poet
Friedrich Alfred Krupp1854–1902 · German steel manufacturer
Ernst Schröder (mathematician)1841–1902 · German mathematician
Andrejs Pumpurs1841–1902 · Latvian poet
Agostino Roscelli1818–1902 · Italian priest