1902

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

Years: 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 - 1902 - 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907

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Births

• February 11 - Arne Jacobsen Danish architect/designer
• March 21 - Son House, blues musician
• August 8 - Paul Dirac, physicist
• August 19 - Ogden Nash, poet
• August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director

Deaths

Events

• February 11 - Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
• Chemistry - Hermann Emil Fischer
• Medicine - Ronald Ross
• Literature - [[Christian Mommsen]|Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen]
• Peace - Élie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat