Centuries:
19th century -
20th century -
21st century
Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 - 1907 - 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
Events:
- The Diamond Sutra of AD 868, a Buddhist scripture later dated as earliest example of block printing, is discovered in the Mogao Caves.
- The triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee DeForest, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology.
- The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births:
- January 3 - Ray Milland, actor (+ 1986)
- January 19 - Lilian Harvey[?], actress (+ 1968)
- January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress († 1990)
- January 20 - Paula Wessley[?], actress († 2000)
- January 23 - Dan Durya[?], actor (+ 1968)
- February 1 - Günter Eich[?], lyricist (+ 1972)
- February 11 - E W Swanton[?], author & sports commentator.
- February 15 - Cesar Romero[?], actor (+ 1994)
- February 17 - Buster Crabbe, swimming champion, actor (+ 1983)
- February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet.
- February 22 - Robert Young, actor (+ 1998)
- February 22 - Sheldon Leonard[?], actor, writer, director, producer
- February 27 - Mildred Bailey[?], jazz performer (+ 1951)
- March 11 - Helmut von Moltke[?], jurist (+ 1945)
- March 15 - Zarah Leander[?], actress and singer (+ 1981)
- April 3 - Iron Eyes Cody[?], actor (+ 1999)
- May 8 - Wof Stefan Traugott Graf von Baudissin[?], general (+ 1993)
- May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, Naxi official (+ 1974)
- May 11 - Rose Ausänder[?], poet (+ 1988)
- May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, actress
- May 13 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, author (+ 1989)
- May 22 - Herge, Belgian writer-artist
- May 22 - Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, director (+ 1989)
- May 26 - John Wayne ("The Duke"), actor (+ 1979)
- May 30 - Elly Beinhorn[?], pilot
- July 6 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
- July 7 - Robert Heinlein, American (science fiction author).
- September 15 - Fay Wray, actress
- October 5 - Mrs. Miller, singer (+ 1997)
- October 9 - Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (+ 2001)
- November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author of children's books.
- December 7 - [Lily] Teresa Ferster Glazier[?] (Glazier is her married name), American author of The Least You Should Know About English[?]
Deaths:
Nobel Prizes: