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• Adrianus (Arie) Smit, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Allegonda Maria van Grimbergen, Eindhoven (Woensel en Eckart), Noord-Brabant, Nederland, Nederland
• Anders Christiaan Vilters, Burght, Antwerpen, België († 1978)
• Adrianus van Es, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1904)
• Albertus Duker
• Aartje van Loo, Ermelo-Leuvenum († 1913)
• Adrianus Dirkzwager, Garoet, West Java, Indonesië († 1994)
• Aartje Kreukniet, Giessendam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1984)
• Amelie Marie Catherine Klippert, Eijsden
• Andreas Marie VAN LOO, Maldegem, Oost-Vlaanderen, België

• albert pistoor (62), amsterdam
• Adriana Maria Cornelia van de Sanden (1), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Albert Pistoor (62), Amsterdam
• Derk Waarlo (75), Ruurlo
• Cornelis Ariensz Kool (84), Alblasserdam, zh.nld
• Aron Roeper (70), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Carl Pilcher Pomeroy (4)
• Boukje van der Woude (0), Opende, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Alice Batchelor (26)
• Christiaan Draaisma (68), Leeuwarden, Nederland

• 1895 » Jacques Vaché, French author and poet († 1919)
• 1900 » Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak († 1933)
• 1900 » Taylor Caldwell, English-American author († 1985)
• 1903 » Dorothy Marie Donnelly, American poet and author († 1994)
• 1903 » Margaret Landon, American missionary and author († 1993)
• 1904 » C. B. Colby, American author († 1977)
• 1907 » Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Turkish composer and musicologist († 1991)
• 1908 » Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader († 1994)
• 1908 » Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and educator († 2008)
• 1908 » Paul Brown, American football player and coach († 1991)

• 1871 » Kimenzan Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 13th Yokozuna (b. 1826)
• 1881 » Sidney Lanier, American poet and academic (b. 1842)
• 1891 » Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge (b. 1820)
• 1892 » John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and activist (b. 1807)
• 1893 » Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (b. 1808)
• 1907 » Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Romanian philologist, journalist, and playwright (b. 1838)
• 1910 » William Holman Hunt, English painter and soldier (b. 1827)
• 1920 » Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (b. 1855)
• 1921 » Alfred William Rich, English author and painter (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Frederic Weatherly, English lawyer, author, and songwriter (b. 1848)

• 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.
• April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
• May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
• August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
• November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
• December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

The temperature on September 7, 1902 was between 5.1 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (42%).