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Born in 1902

996 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Norm Ferguson

    camera operator, director

    1902–1957 · aged 55

    September 2 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  2. Tom Neale*

    writer, author

    Date disputed

    November 2 · 1902

    Source: Find a Grave

  3. Riccardo Morandi

    civil engineer

    1902–1989 · aged 87

    September 1 · 1902

    Source: Morandi, Riccardo

  4. Jean Rey

    jurist, lawyer

    1902–1983 · aged 80

    July 15 · 1902

    Source: Roglo

  5. Boris Barnet

    director, film director

    1902–1965 · aged 62

    June 18 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  6. Peregrino Anselmo

    association football player, association football coach

    1902–1975 · aged 73

    April 30 · 1902

    No external source identified

  7. Hellmuth Becker

    concentration camp guard, military officer

    1902–1953 · aged 50

    August 12 · 1902

    Source: Dienstaltersliste der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP, Stand vom 1. Dezember 1936

  8. William Forrest

    television actor, actor

    1902–1989 · aged 86

    October 10 · 1902

    No external source identified

  9. María Izquierdo

    painter, artist

    1902–1955 · aged 53

    November 12 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  10. Stanislav Poplavsky

    military officer

    1902–1973

    April 22 · 1902

    Source: bs.sejm.gov.pl

  11. Arne Tiselius

    university teacher, biochemist

    1902–1971 · aged 69

    August 10 · 1902

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  12. Archduke Gottfried of Austria

    aristocrat

    1902–1984 · aged 81

    March 14 · 1902

    Source: The Peerage

  13. Joachim Prinz

    rabbi, writer

    1902–1988 · aged 86

    May 10 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  14. Anna Wolkoff

    spy, fashion designer

    1902–1973 · aged 70

    October 30 · 1902

    No external source identified

  15. David Burns*

    musician, actor

    Date disputed

    June 22 · 1902

    No external source identified

  16. André Lwoff

    microbiologist, virologist

    1902–1994 · aged 92

    May 8 · 1902

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  17. Ion Moţa

    lawyer, political activist

    1902–1937 · aged 34

    July 5 · 1902

    No external source identified

  18. Marguerite De La Motte

    film actor, actor

    1902–1950 · aged 47

    June 22 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  19. Otto Bayer

    chemist, engineer

    1902–1982 · aged 79

    November 4 · 1902

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  20. Manuel Álvarez Bravo

    photographer

    1902–2002 · aged 100

    February 4 · 1902

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  21. Charles Barton

    film producer, actor

    1902–1981 · aged 79

    May 25 · 1902

    No external source identified

  22. Afife Jale

    actor, stage actor

    1902–1941

    1902

    No external source identified

  23. Marion Mack

    screenwriter, silent film actor

    1902–1989 · aged 87

    April 8 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  24. Vince Barnett

    stage actor, actor

    1902–1977 · aged 75

    July 4 · 1902

    No external source identified

  25. Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin

    journalist, novelist

    1902–1969 · aged 67

    April 4 · 1902

    Source: FemBio database

  26. Francis Otto Matthiessen

    journalist, literary critic

    1902–1950 · aged 48

    February 19 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  27. Manuel Hedilla Larrey

    politician, machinist

    1902–1970 · aged 67

    July 18 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  28. George Kingsley Zipf

    linguist, statistician

    1902–1950 · aged 48

    January 7 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  29. George Ostrogorsky

    classical scholar, university teacher

    1902–1976 · aged 74

    January 19 · 1902

    Source: La France savante

  30. Henry Steele Commager

    historian, writer

    1902–1998 · aged 95

    October 25 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  31. Frank Jenks

    actor

    1902–1962 · aged 59

    November 4 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  32. Kitty Kelly

    Ziegfeld girl, television actor

    1902–1968

    April 27 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  33. Marie-Laure de Noailles

    salonnière, actor

    1902–1970 · aged 67

    October 31 · 1902

    Source: GeneaStar

  34. Blanche Calloway

    entrepreneur, singer

    1902–1978 · aged 76

    February 9 · 1902

    Source: Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era

  35. Josef Grohé

    politician

    1902–1987

    November 6 · 1902

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  36. Indrasakdi Sachi

    consort

    1902–1975 · aged 73

    June 10 · 1902

    No external source identified

  37. Anton Kaindl

    accountant

    1902–1948 · aged 46

    July 14 · 1902

    Source: Nuremberg Trials Project

  38. Yevgeny Petrov*

    humorist, playwright

    Date disputed

    December 13 · 1902

    Source: Revue des Etudes Slaves

  39. Joseph Schacht*

    orientalist, academic

    Date disputed

    March 15 · 1902

    Source: Leidse Hoogleraren

  40. Lili Darvas

    film actor, stage actor

    1902–1974 · aged 72

    April 10 · 1902

    Source: filmportal.de

  41. Erwin Rösener

    military personnel, Obergruppenführer

    1902–1946 · aged 44

    February 2 · 1902

    No external source identified

  42. Shmuel Rodensky

    musician, actor

    1902–1989 · aged 86

    December 10 · 1902

    Source: IMDb

  43. Stanley G. Weinbaum

    writer, science fiction writer

    1902–1935 · aged 33

    April 4 · 1902

    Source: Discogs

  44. Hilde Benjamin

    jurist, judge

    1902–1989 · aged 87

    February 5 · 1902

    Source: filmportal.de

  45. Curt Herzstark*

    engineer, inventor

    Date disputed

    July 26 · 1902

    Source: waywiser.rc.fas.harvard.edu

  46. Jan Kiepura

    actor, musician

    1902–1966

    May 16 · 1902

    Source: Archivio Storico Ricordi

  47. Carl Esmond

    actor, film actor

    1902–2004 · aged 102

    June 14 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  48. Franz Hofer*

    politician

    Date disputed

    November 27 · 1902

    Source: The Hitler Book

  49. Annie Mascarene

    freedom fighter, politician

    1902–1963 · aged 61

    June 6 · 1902

    No external source identified

  50. Ida Siekmann

    nurse

    1902–1961 · aged 58

    August 23 · 1902

    No external source identified

  51. Max Abegglen

    association football player

    1902–1970 · aged 68

    April 11 · 1902

    Source: Transfermarkt

  52. Richard Allen

    field hockey player

    1902–1969

    June 4 · 1902

    No external source identified

  53. Werner Heyde

    psychiatrist, university teacher

    1902–1964 · aged 61

    April 25 · 1902

    Source: Dienstaltersliste der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP, Stand vom 1. Dezember 1936

  54. Andrew L. Stone

    director, film producer

    1902–1999 · aged 96

    July 16 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  55. Henri Guillaumet

    Flieger, soldier

    1902–1940 · aged 38

    May 29 · 1902

    Source: GeneaStar

  56. Herbert Selpin*

    writer, film editor

    Date disputed

    May 29 · 1902

    Source: IMDb

  57. George Quaintance

    hairdresser, erotic photographer

    1902–1957 · aged 55

    June 3 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  58. Chet Miller

    racing automobile driver, engineer

    1902–1953 · aged 50

    July 19 · 1902

    Source: Find a Grave

  59. Elizabeth Gray Vining

    children's writer, writer

    1902–1999 · aged 97

    October 6 · 1902

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  60. Théodore Monod

    biologist, carcinologist

    1902–2000 · aged 98

    April 9 · 1902

    Source: GeneaStar

  61. Douglas Lowe

    judge, barrister

    1902–1981 · aged 78

    August 7 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  62. William Collier Jr.

    stage actor, film producer

    1902–1987 · aged 84

    February 12 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  63. Alexander Mach

    journalist, politician

    1902–1980 · aged 78

    October 11 · 1902

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  64. Victoria Kamhi

    pianist, musician

    1902–1997

    1902

    Source: web page

  65. Erin O'Brien-Moore

    film actor, actor

    1902–1979 · aged 77

    May 2 · 1902

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  66. Vladimír Clementis

    jurist, translator

    1902–1952 · aged 50

    September 20 · 1902

    Source: Find a Grave

  67. Sidney Buchman

    screenwriter, film producer

    1902–1975 · aged 73

    March 27 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  68. Dulce María Loynaz*

    poet, writer

    Date disputed

    December 10 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  69. Alfred H. Barr

    university teacher, historian

    1902–1981 · aged 79

    January 28 · 1902

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  70. Valerian Zorin

    diplomat, civil servant

    1902–1986 · aged 84

    January 14 · 1902

    Source: bse.sci-lib.com

  71. Virginio Rosetta*

    association football player, association football coach

    Date disputed

    February 25 · 1902

    Source: FBref

  72. Barbecue Bob

    guitarist, singer

    1902–1931 · aged 29

    September 11 · 1902

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  73. Ho Jong-suk*

    political activist, journalist

    Date disputed

    July 16 · 1902

    No external source identified

  74. Elisabeth Lupka

    concentration camp guard

    1902–1949 · aged 46

    October 27 · 1902

    No external source identified

  75. Józef Maria Bocheński

    theologian, philosopher

    1902–1995 · aged 92

    August 30 · 1902

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  76. Edward Gargan

    film actor, television actor

    1902–1964 · aged 61

    July 17 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  77. Louis Nizer

    lawyer, writer

    1902–1994 · aged 92

    February 6 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  78. Johnston Murray

    lawyer, jurist

    1902–1974 · aged 71

    July 21 · 1902

    Source: Find a Grave

  79. K. Shankar Pillai

    writer, cartoonist

    1902–1989 · aged 87

    July 31 · 1902

    Source: childrensbooktrust.com

  80. Rudolf Bing

    Theaterintendant, impresario

    1902–1997 · aged 95

    January 9 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  81. Carlos Vidal

    association football coach, association football player

    1902–1982 · aged 80

    February 24 · 1902

    Source: FBref

  82. Chaim-Moshe Shapira

    politician

    1902–1970 · aged 68

    March 26 · 1902

    No external source identified

  83. Lauchlin Currie

    economist

    1902–1993 · aged 91

    October 8 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  84. Luo Ronghuan

    politician

    1902–1963

    November 26 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  85. Paul Harteck

    nuclear physicist, chemist

    1902–1985

    July 20 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  86. Garry Owen

    actor

    1902–1951 · aged 49

    February 18 · 1902

    No external source identified

  87. Metodija Andonov-Čento

    statesperson, politician

    1902–1957 · aged 54

    August 17 · 1902

    Source: IdRef

  88. Julian Steward

    anthropologist, archaeologist

    1902–1972 · aged 70

    January 31 · 1902

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  89. Josef Krips

    conductor, violinist

    1902–1974 · aged 72

    April 8 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  90. George de Roerich

    explorer, translator

    1902–1960 · aged 57

    August 16 · 1902

    Source: Great Russian Encyclopedia

  91. Georges Lacombe

    screenwriter, film director

    1902–1990 · aged 87

    August 19 · 1902

    Source: www.acmi.net.au

  92. Koka Subba Rao

    judge

    1902–1976 · aged 73

    July 15 · 1902

    No external source identified

  93. Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

    writer

    1902–1975 · aged 72

    November 15 · 1902

    No external source identified

  94. Heinz Neumann

    journalist, communist

    1902–1937 · aged 35

    July 6 · 1902

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  95. Juan José Tramutola

    association football coach, association football player

    1902–1968 · aged 66

    October 21 · 1902

    No external source identified

  96. Quentin Reynolds

    screenwriter, journalist

    1902–1965 · aged 62

    April 11 · 1902

    Source: Find a Grave

  97. Eddy Hamel

    association football player

    1902–1943 · aged 40

    October 21 · 1902

    Source: Oorlogsbronnen

  98. Marjorie Daw

    actor, film actor

    1902–1979 · aged 77

    January 19 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  99. Dorothy Dunbar

    stage actor, actor

    1902–1992 · aged 90

    May 28 · 1902

    Source: IMDb

  100. Fritz Machlup*

    university teacher, economist

    Date disputed

    December 15 · 1902

    Source: books.google.fr

  101. Ruth Elder

    actor, film actor

    1902–1977 · aged 75

    September 8 · 1902

    Source: Find a Grave

  102. Jaime Torres Bodet

    minister, diplomat

    1902–1974 · aged 72

    April 17 · 1902

    Source: Enciclopedia de la Literatura en México

  103. Elizabeth Roboz Einstein*

    chemist

    Date disputed

    April 11 · 1902

    No external source identified

  104. Walter Plunkett

    costume designer

    1902–1982 · aged 79

    June 5 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  105. Vasil Mzhavanadze

    politician, official

    1902–1988 · aged 85

    September 20 · 1902

    Source: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia

  106. Mike Monroney

    consultant, journalist

    1902–1980 · aged 77

    March 2 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  107. Nguyen Thai Hoc

    political activist

    1902–1930 · aged 27

    December 1 · 1902

    No external source identified

  108. Herbert Feigl

    philosopher, university teacher

    1902–1988 · aged 85

    December 14 · 1902

    Source: Internet Philosophy Ontology project

  109. Dennie Moore

    actor, film actor

    1902–1978 · aged 75

    December 31 · 1902

    No external source identified

  110. Gwendolyn B. Bennett

    artist, educator

    1902–1981

    July 8 · 1902

    Source: FemBio database

  111. Michael Whalen

    actor, television actor

    1902–1974 · aged 71

    June 30 · 1902

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  112. Oscar Cullmann

    theologian, university teacher

    1902–1999 · aged 96

    February 25 · 1902

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  113. Julia Lee

    pianist, musician

    1902–1958 · aged 56

    October 31 · 1902

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  114. Zhou Baozhong

    politician

    1902–1964

    1902

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  115. Emanuel Feuermann

    music educator, musician

    1902–1942 · aged 39

    November 22 · 1902

    Source: Find a Grave

  116. Adolfo Zumelzú

    association football player

    1902–1973 · aged 71

    January 5 · 1902

    Source: FBref

  117. Joan Lowell

    writer, film actor

    1902–1967 · aged 64

    November 23 · 1902

    Source: IMDb

  118. Sergey Lebedev

    university teacher, computer scientist

    1902–1974 · aged 71

    November 2 · 1902

    Source: Q136094914

  119. Carl Eckart

    physicist, university teacher

    1902–1973 · aged 71

    May 4 · 1902

    Source: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

  120. Alfred Trzebinski

    physician

    1902–1946 · aged 44

    August 29 · 1902

    No external source identified

  121. Kajirō Yamamoto

    film director, screenwriter

    1902–1974

    March 15 · 1902

    Source: IMDb

  122. Herma Szabo

    alpine skier, figure skater

    1902–1986 · aged 84

    February 22 · 1902

    No external source identified

  123. Kim Sowol

    poet, writer

    1902–1934 · aged 32

    August 6 · 1902

    No external source identified

  124. Adam Grünewald

    military personnel, concentration camp guard

    1902–1945 · aged 42

    October 20 · 1902

    Source: Dienstaltersliste der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP, Stand vom 1. Dezember 1936

  125. Adolf Hoffmeister

    theatre designer, politician

    1902–1973 · aged 70

    August 15 · 1902

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  126. Christian Bérard

    painter, graphic artist

    1902–1949

    August 20 · 1902

    Source: MAK

  127. Paul Thümmel

    spy, double agent

    1902–1945 · aged 43

    January 15 · 1902

    Source: Database of the Terezín Memorial

  128. Bessie Jones

    traditional folk singer, singer

    1902–1984

    February 8 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  129. Gyula Illyés

    politician, literary translator

    1902–1983 · aged 80

    November 2 · 1902

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  130. Stefan Wolpe

    university teacher, composer

    1902–1972 · aged 69

    August 25 · 1902

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  131. Veniamin Kaverin

    playwright, novelist

    1902–1989 · aged 87

    April 19 · 1902

    Source: Concise Literary Encyclopedia

  132. Devaneya Pavanar

    poet, writer

    1902–1981 · aged 78

    February 7 · 1902

    No external source identified

  133. Boris Gudz

    spy, military personnel

    1902–2006

    August 19 · 1902

    No external source identified

  134. Seton I. Miller

    screenwriter, film producer

    1902–1974

    May 3 · 1902

    Source: filmportal.de

  135. Martin Noth

    Protestant theologian, university teacher

    1902–1968 · aged 65

    August 3 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  136. Wijeyananda Dahanayake

    diplomat, politician

    1902–1997 · aged 94

    October 22 · 1902

    No external source identified

  137. Harold Goodwin

    screenwriter, stage actor

    1902–1987 · aged 84

    December 1 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  138. Jimmy Van Alen

    tennis player

    1902–1991 · aged 88

    September 19 · 1902

    Source: Find a Grave

  139. Heinrich Matthes

    nurse, politician

    1902–1978 · aged 76

    January 11 · 1902

    No external source identified

  140. Martin Harlinghausen

    aircraft pilot, lieutenant general

    1902–1986 · aged 84

    January 17 · 1902

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  141. Diego Giacometti

    sculptor, designer

    1902–1985 · aged 82

    November 15 · 1902

    Source: GeneaStar

  142. Manuel Seoane

    association football player, association football coach

    1902–1975 · aged 73

    March 19 · 1902

    No external source identified

  143. Joseph Kesselring*

    playwright, stage actor

    Date disputed

    July 21 · 1902

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  144. Egon Orowan

    physicist, metallurgist

    1902–1989 · aged 87

    August 2 · 1902

    Source: SNAC

  145. Archduchess Assunta of Austria

    aristocrat

    1902–1993 · aged 90

    August 10 · 1902

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  146. Ahmed Ghulamali Chagla

    composer

    1902–1953 · aged 50

    May 31 · 1902

    No external source identified

  147. Sigizmund Levanevsky

    military personnel, aircraft pilot

    1902–1937 · aged 35

    May 15 · 1902

    No external source identified

  148. Hu Feng

    writer, literary critic

    1902–1986

    November 1 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  149. Werner Finck

    director, television actor

    1902–1978 · aged 76

    May 2 · 1902

    Source: BnF authorities

  150. Malcolm de Chazal

    poet, writer

    1902–1981 · aged 79

    September 12 · 1902

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

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