Famous Deaths for Year 1902

Months in Year 1902: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 74 of 74

Jan 9th - Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian lawyer/Interior minister, dies at 66
Jan 11th - Johnny Briggs, cricketer (118 wkts for England), dies in an asylum
Jan 14th - Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 65
Jan 17th - Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed
Jan 18th - Filippo Marchetti, composer, dies at 70
Feb 1st - Salomon Jaoassohn, composer, dies at 70
Feb 2nd - Emanuil Mandlov, composer, dies at 42
Feb 3rd - Isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch PM (1866), dies
Feb 10th - J N Krieger, German Selenographer, dies
Feb 15th - Wilhelmina JR Albregt-Engelman, Dutch actress, dies at 68
Feb 18th - Charles Lewis Tiffany, American founder of Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
Feb 23rd - Samuel R Gardiner, British historian (Oliver Cromwell), dies at 72
Feb 25th - Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer, dies at 77
Mar 3rd - Isaac D France van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866), dies at 79
Mar 12th - John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54
Mar 17th - George William Warren, composer, dies at 73
Mar 26th - Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) dies at 48
Apr 2nd - Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (b. 1814)
Apr 8th - Sipyagain, Russian min of interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated
Apr 11th - ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle
Apr 12th - Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist (b. 1842)
Apr 17th - Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (b. 1822)
Apr 27th - Julius Sterling Morton, who started Arbor Day, dies at 72
May 1st - John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85
May 3rd - David R Capriles, Curacaos director of psychiatric, dies at 64
May 5th - Bret Harte, writer, dies at 65
May 26th - Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
May 27th - Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet, dies
US President Abraham Lincoln (Jun 5th) Jun 5th - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842)
Jun 10th - Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist, dies at 68
Jun 10th - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
Jun 16th - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
Jun 18th - Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), dies at 66
Jun 19th - John E E Dalberg baron van Acton, English historian, dies at 69
Jul 4th - Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1863)
Jul 6th - Leopoldo Miguez, composer, dies at 51
Jul 10th - Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902), dies at 74
Jul 12th - Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway), dies at 74
Jul 14th - Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor, dies at 58
Jul 18th - John White, composer, dies at 47
Jul 22nd - Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (b. 1822)
Aug 1st - Ludwig Beckmann, painter, dies
Aug 3rd - August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer, dies at 54
Aug 8th - Jean Y Y Tissot, French painter/illustrator, dies
Aug 10th - George Vernon, cricketer (scored 11* & 3 in only England Test), dies
Aug 31st - Mathilde Wesendonk, German author/poetess, dies at 73
Anthropologist/Pathologist Rudolf Virchow (Sep 5th) Sep 5th - Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician, dies at 80
Sep 6th - Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet), dies at 75
Sep 6th - Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn), dies at 86
Sep 7th - Franz Wullner, composer, dies at 70
Sep 9th - Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, gov of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53
Sep 14th - Reinhold Finsterbusch, composer, dies at 76
Sep 19th - Maria Hendrika, Queen of the Belgians, dies
Sep 23rd - John Wesley Powell, US geologist (Grand Canyon), dies at 68
Sep 26th - Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)
Sep 28th - Emile Zola, French writer (Nana/Germinal/J'accuse), dies at 62
Sep 29th - Iosif Ivanovici, composer, dies
Sep 29th - William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)
Oct 24th - Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 69
Oct 25th - Frank Norris, writer, dies at 32
Oct 25th - [B] Frank[lin] Norris, US writer (Pit), dies at 32
Clothing Designer Levi Strauss (Sep 26th) Oct 26th - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
Oct 31st - Jean-Baptist Colyns, composer, dies at 67
Nov 14th - Paulus T van der Maesen the Sombreff, foreign minister, dies
Nov 17th - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
Nov 22nd - Friedrich A Krupp, cannon manufacturer, commits suicide
Nov 22nd - Septimus Winner, composer, dies at 75
Nov 23rd - Walter Reed, US bacteriologist (Yellow Fever), dies
Dec 3rd - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
Dec 4th - Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company - Wall Street Journal) (b. 1851)
Dec 5th - Henry Stephen Cutler, composer, dies at 78
Dec 7th - Thomas Nast, political cartoonist, dies
Dec 11th - Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies at 68
Dec 22nd - Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62