About the day » Tuesday August 12, 1902Calender converter

• Alida Maria Clementina Duikersloot, 's-Gravenhage
• Hazenberg, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1965)
• Adriaan Willem Karelse, 's-Heer Arendskerke, Zeeland, NL († 1982)
• Albert Voerman, Tiendeveen († 1985)
• Aafke Former
• Adriaantje Chaterina BALKENENDE, Lisse Zuid-Holland Netherlands († 1967)
• Adriana Elisabeth van KLAVEREN, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Alida Maria Clementine Duikerslot, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Christiaan Jonas Lobato, Paramaribo († 1960)
• , Waarloos, België († 1975)

• Adriana Scherpenisse (74), Oosterland gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL
• Arnoldus Denissen (67), Tilburg
• van Weerden (0), Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Dona Marie Martin (1), Newtown, Sullivan, Missouri, United States
• Betje de Vries (76), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Conrad Goebel (78), Philadelphia, Verenigde Staten
• Cashuel "Cash" Augustus WELBORN (65), Anderson County, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Alida Scheerman (40), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna van Gestel (31), Ede
• Anna Maria Catharina van Hooren (32), Maastricht

• 1897 » Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer († 1981)
• 1899 » Ben Sealey, Trinidadian cricketer († 1963)
• 1902 » Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 1st Vice President of Indonesia († 1980)
• 1904 » Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia († 1918)
• 1904 » Idel Jakobson, Latvian-Estonian NKVD officer († 1997)
• 1904 » Tamás Lossonczy, Hungarian painter († 2009)
• 1906 » Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach († 1985)
• 1906 » Tedd Pierce, American animator, producer, and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1907 » Gladys Bentley, American blues singer († 1960)
• 1907 » Joe Besser, American actor († 1988)

• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1871)
• 1924 » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863)

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

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

• 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 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
• April 18 » The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
• 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 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 August 12, 1902 was between 6.2 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%).