About the day » Sunday December 21, 1902Calender converter

• Alphonse, Edmond De Prest, Brugge,8000,West Vlaanderen,Vlaanderen,België († 1957)
• Anna Wobbes Brouwer, Kortehemmen, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje de Vries, Woudsend, gem. Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Bot, Wervershoof, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andre Pierre Maurice Albert Forgeur, Liege († 1974)
• 00 Hendricus Albertus van Ommen, Rhenen, Utrecht, NL († 1983)
• Adriana Ringelberg († 1958)
• adrianus houthuijsen, amsterdam
• Angenita Elisabeth Adriana Vuijk, 's-Gravenhage
• Aleida Papenburg, Laren († 1977)

• Antonie van der Maaten (65), Wijhe
• Anna Francisca van Dongen (40), Den Bosch
• Alberdiena(Dientjen) Nijdeken (81), Apeldoorn,Gemeente Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Amanda Melinda Learned (69), Constable, Franklin, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Antonie van der Maaten (65), Wijhe
• Antonia Hendrina Mulder (0), Deventer
• Abraham Kappen (64), (GR) Hoogezand
• Anna Maria Allegonda van Hautum (0), Tilburg
• Abraham Kappen (64), Kropswolde,Gemeente Hoogezand,Groningen,Nederland
• Albert Carel Snouckaert Van Schauburg (61), Den Haag, S-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• 1891 » John William McCormack, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1980)
• 1892 » Rebecca West, English journalist and author († 1983)
• 1892 » Walter Hagen, American golfer († 1969)
• 1896 » Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II († 1968)
• 1900 » Luis Arturo González López, Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president († 1965)
• 1905 » Anthony Powell, English author († 2000)
• 1905 » Käte Fenchel, German mathematician († 1983)
• 1909 » Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese journalist and author († 1992)
• 1911 » Josh Gibson, American baseball player († 1947)
• 1913 » Arnold Friberg, American illustrator and painter († 2010)

• 1869 » Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
• 1873 » Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)
• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)

• 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.
• April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
• June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
• August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
• October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
• December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

The temperature on December 21, 1902 was between 4.3 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 5.9 °C.