About the day » Thursday February 13, 1902Calender converter

• Albertje Jantina Booij, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland, Slood († 1902)
• Abrahamina Maria Cornelia van Veldhoven († 1986)
• * Leendert Vellekoop, Wateringen
• Seuntjens, Bladel
• Adrianus Verleun, Vreeswijk, Utrecht, Nederland († 1967)
• Albertus van Veen, Zwartsluis († 1977)
• Adrianus Jacobus van Gils, Teteringen, Nederland
• Clemence Paulina Baert, Koewacht († 1902)
• Aaltje Cornelia Formijne, Tiel (GL) († 1945)
• Adrienne Blanche Van Labeke, Sint-Andries

• Abeltje Helmantel (20), Grijpskerk
• Anna Christina de Charon de Saint Germain (93), Arnhem,Gemeente Arnhem,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Aaltje de G.-Blokzijl (1)
• Anna NIEMEIJER (52), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Adrinus Rietveld (77), Schiedam
• Alphonse Baudry (50), Tournai, 7500, Belgique
• Alfred WATMORE (41), Woking Station, Woking, Surrey
• Anna Maria Elizabeth Minnie (62)
• Aaltje de Groot (1), Finsterwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Anje Kornelis Smit (74), Ulrum, Groningen, Netherlands

• 1898 » Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician († 1979)
• 1900 » Barbara von Annenkoff, Russian-born German film and stage actress († 1979)
• 1901 » Paul Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist and academic († 1976)
• 1902 » Harold Lasswell, American political scientist and theorist († 1978)
• 1903 » Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author († 1989)
• 1903 » Georgy Beriev, Georgian-Russian engineer, founded the Beriev Aircraft Company († 1979)
• 1906 » Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher and author († 1994)
• 1907 » Katy de la Cruz, Filipino-American singer and actress († 2004)
• 1910 » William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1911 » Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Indian-Pakistani poet and journalist († 1984)

• 1877 » Costache Caragiale, Romanian actor and manager (b. 1815)
• 1883 » Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
• 1888 » Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (b. 1814)
• 1892 » Provo Wallis, Canadian-English admiral (b. 1791)
• 1893 » Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Mexican intellectual and journalist (b. 1834)
• 1905 » Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
• 1906 » Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
• 1934 » József Pusztai, Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (b. 1864)
• 1942 » Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th President of Brazil (b. 1865)
• 1942 » Otakar Batlička, Czech journalist (b. 1895)

• 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.
• March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
• March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
• April 18 » The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
• June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
• July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
• December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

The temperature on February 13, 1902 was between -14.3 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged -7.4 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (34%).