About the day » Thursday May 15, 1902Calender converter

• Aaltje van der Veen, Weststellingwerf
• Anna Hendrika Waasdorp, Leiden († 1914)
• Albert Doornbos, Middelstum, Huizinge († 1964)
• Albert Barneveld, Genemuiden, Overijssel, Nederland († 1974)
• Aleida Maria Beijer, Groot Azewijn
• Alijda Hubertina de Conijn, Amersfoort
• Alfons Vanhamel, Koersel,Provincie Limburg,Flanders,Belgium
• Adelànna Federici della Costa, Torino, Italie († 1979)
• Alice Declerck, St. Baafs Vijve (B) († 1977)
• Aleida Maria Beyer, Azewijn,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1980)

• Aaltje Berends Krol (8), Lichtaard
• Abraham Klaassen (0), Terneuzen,Gemeente Terneuzen,Zeeland,Netherlands
• Aaltje Berends Krol (8), Ferwerderadeel
• Arendina Oolbekkink (38), raalte
• * Pieter Brandwijk (24), Rotterdam
• Arendina Oolbekkink (37), Raalte, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Remijnse (77), Kruiningen
• Arjen~Sietzes Zijda (0), Warns
• Anna Catharina van Lommel (78), Geel
• Arnoldus van der Gaag (61), Maassluis

• 1899 » Jean Étienne Valluy, French general († 1970)
• 1900 » Ida Rhodes, American mathematician, pioneer in computer programming († 1986)
• 1901 » Luis Monti, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager († 1983)
• 1901 » Xavier Herbert, Australian author († 1984)
• 1902 » Richard J. Daley, American lawyer and politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago († 1976)
• 1902 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin († 1937)
• 1903 » Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist († 1998)
• 1904 » Clifton Fadiman, American game show host and author († 1999)
• 1905 » Albert Dubout, French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor († 1976)
• 1905 » Joseph Cotten, American actor († 1994)

• 1879 » Gottfried Semper, German architect and educator, designed the Semper Opera House (b. 1803)
• 1886 » Emily Dickinson, American poet and author (b. 1830)
• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)

• 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.
• February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
• 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.
• June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
• August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
• December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

The temperature on May 15, 1902 was between 0.2 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (19%).