Historical figures in 1902
The atlas holds 40 people and 57 moments here, in 1902. The most recorded lives are Edmund Barton, Mark Twain and Leon Trotsky. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Artists.
Notable people
P. L. Travers
in 1902
1 moment here
Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…
Rajendra Prasad
in 1902
1 moment here
Indian lawyer, independence leader, journalist and statesman who became the first President of India, serving from 1950 to 1962.…
Roald Amundsen
in 1902
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Norwegian polar explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872–1928) led the first successful transit of the Northwest Passage, reached the South…
Ronald Ross
in 1902
1 moment here
British physician, malariologist, mathematician, writer, and 1902 Nobel laureate. Ross established the mosquito’s role in malaria transmission…
Rudyard Kipling
in 1902
1 moment here
English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Born in Bombay, Kipling spent his childhood in India and England, worked as a journalist…
Sarah Bernhardt
in 1902
2 moments here
French stage and early film actress, born Henriette-Rosine Bernard in Paris. Bernhardt became an international theatrical star through performances…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1902
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Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Born in the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire, he studied and worked chiefly in Saint…
Sun Yat-sen
in 1902
1 moment here
Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Swami Vivekananda
in 1902
1 moment here
Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, teacher, and chief disciple of Ramakrishna. Born Narendranath Datta in Calcutta, he travelled widely through India…
Vladimir Lenin
in 1902
2 moments here
Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
Walter Brattain
in 1902
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American experimental physicist and co-inventor of the point-contact transistor. Brattain’s documented life moved from his birth in Amoy, China,…
William Faulkner
in 1902
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American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose work was closely associated with Oxford and north Mississippi.…
William Howard Taft
in 1902
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William Howard Taft was an American lawyer, judge, colonial administrator, secretary of war, 27th president of the United States, and 10th chief…
Winston Churchill
in 1902
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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) was a British soldier, journalist, author and statesman whose career ranged from imperial campaigns in…
Woodrow Wilson
in 1902
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American academic, governor of New Jersey, and the 28th president of the United States.…
Yasunari Kawabata
in 1902
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Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…
Moments
- 1902 Final summer at Médan Émile Zola
- 1902 Hospitalization at Serbsky Center Mikhail Vrubel
- 1902 Malaria investigation at Ismailia Ronald Ross
- 1902 Guest of the Royal Family at Balmoral Winston Churchill
- 1902 Knighthood at Buckingham Palace Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1902 Debut at the Waldorf-Astoria Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1902 Hanoi visit and branch founding Sun Yat-sen