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Born on Monday March 3, 1902
Died on Monday March 3, 1902

Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from March 3, 1902 at Delpher


Born on March 3
  • 1893 » Beatrice Wood, American illustrator and potter († 1998)
  • 1895 » Matthew Ridgway, American general († 1993)
  • 1895 » Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
  • 1898 » Emil Artin, Austrian-German mathematician and academic († 1962)
  • 1900 » Edna Best, British stage and film actress, appeared on early television in 1938 († 1974)
  • 1901 » Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier († 2011)
  • 1902 » Ruby Dandridge, African-American film and radio actress († 1987)
  • 1903 » Vasily Kozlov, Belarusian general and politician († 1967)
  • 1906 » Artur Lundkvist, Swedish poet and critic († 1991)
  • 1911 » Jean Harlow, American actress († 1937)

Died on March 3

Names that were popular for boys in 1902
  1. Johannes
  2. Jan
  3. Cornelis
  4. Hendrik
  5. Willem
  6. Pieter
  7. Gerrit
  8. Petrus
  9. Jacob
  10. Jacobus
  11. Adrianus
  12. Arie
  13. Wilhelmus
  14. Dirk
  15. Hendrikus
  16. Gerardus
Names that were popular for girls in 1902
  1. Maria
  2. Johanna
  3. Anna
  4. Cornelia
  5. Wilhelmina
  6. Adriana
  7. Elisabeth
  8. Hendrika
  9. Catharina
  10. Jacoba
  11. Aaltje
  12. Geertruida
  13. Petronella
  14. Grietje
  15. Neeltje
  16. Trijntje

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1902
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
  • January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
  • February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
  • July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
  • August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
Weather March 3, 1902

The temperature on March 3, 1902 was between 1.6 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (26%).

Source: KNMI