Famous people born in 1902

The best-known people born in 1902, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

John Steinbeck
American writer (1902–1968)
February 27 · d. 1968
Photo: McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited; photo likely the work of Sonya Noskowiak, as , Public domain
Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
September 24 · d. 1989
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)
July 28 · d. 1994
Photo: Franz Barta, No restrictions
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
August 8 · d. 1984
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Halldór Laxness
Icelandic author (1902-1998)
April 23 · d. 1998
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Eugene Paul Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
November 17 · d. 1995
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Barbara McClintock
American scientist and cytogeneticist
June 16 · d. 1992
Photo: Smithsonian Institution /Science Service; Restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
February 4 · d. 1974
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Georgy Malenkov
Soviet politician (1902–1988)
January 8 · d. 1988
Photo: G. Weil for TASS, Public domain
Nâzım Hikmet
Turkish communist poet, playwright and novelist (1902–1963)
January 15 · d. 1963
Photo: Hans-Joachim Koch, CC BY-SA 4.0
Walter Houser Brattain
American physicist (1902–1987)
February 10 · d. 1987
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Carl Rogers
American psychologist (1902–1987)
January 8 · d. 1987
Alfred Kastler
French physicist (1902–1984)
May 3 · d. 1984
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Alva Myrdal
Swedish sociologist and politician (1902-1986)
January 31 · d. 1986
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
Kurt Alder
German chemist (1902–1958)
July 10 · d. 1958
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Erik Erikson
American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist
June 15 · d. 1994
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Fernand Braudel
French historian and leader of the Annales School
August 24 · d. 1985
Photo: Jerry Bauer, Public domain
William Wyler
Swiss-German-American director and producer (1902–1981)
July 1 · d. 1981
Photo: Film studio, Public domain
Juscelino Kubitschek
President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961
September 12 · d. 1976
Photo: Governo do Brasil, Public domain
Ansel Adams
American photographer and environmentalist (1902–1984)
February 20 · d. 1984
Photo: J. Malcolm Greany, Public domain
Saud of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964
January 15 · d. 1969
Norma Shearer
Canadian-American actress (1902-1983)
August 10 · d. 1983
Photo: Bain News Service, Public domain
Josemaría Escrivá
Spanish priest, writer and Catholic saint
January 9 · d. 1975
Photo: Oficina de Información de la Prelatura del Opus Dei en España, CC BY-SA 2.0
Arne Tiselius
Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
August 10 · d. 1971
Talcott Parsons
American sociologist (1902 – 1979)
December 13 · d. 1979
Photo: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain
Theodore Schultz
American economist (1902–1998)
April 30 · d. 1998
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author photographer - Photo from Wide World press service, Public domain
Charan Singh
Prime Minister of India (1979-1980)
December 23 · d. 1987
Photo: India Post, Government of India, GODL-India
André Lwoff
French microbiologist
May 8 · d. 1994
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Tallulah Bankhead
American actress (1903–1968)
January 31 · d. 1968
Ray Kroc
American businessman
October 5 · d. 1984
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain

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January

January 5 · Stella Gibbons, British writer (1902–1989)
January 5 · Adolfo Zumelzú, Argentine footballer (1902-1973)
January 16 · Eric Liddell, Scottish athlete, sprinter, Olympian, Protestant missionary (1902-1945)
January 19 · George Ostrogorsky, Russian Byzantinist (1902-1976)
January 24 · Oskar Morgenstern, Austrian economist (1902–1977)
January 26 · Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala, Colombian politician (1903-1948)

February

February 9 · Léon M'ba, Prime Minister (1959–61) and President (1961–67) of Gabon
February 11 · Lyubov Orlova, Soviet actress and singer (1900–1975)
February 11 · Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (1902–1971)
February 14 · Thelma Ritter, American actress and vaudevillian (1902-1969)
February 22 · Fritz Strassmann, German chemist (1902–1980)
February 27 · Lucio Costa, Brazilian architect (1902–1998)

March

March 7 · Heinz Rühmann, German actor (1902–1994)
March 9 · Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (1902-1988)
March 24 · Thomas E. Dewey, American politician (1902–1971)
March 28 · Flora Robson, English actress (1902-1984)
March 29 · Marcel Aymé, French writer (1902–1967)
March 29 · William Walton, English composer (1902–1983)

April

April 3 · Reinhard Gehlen, German general, Nazi, spy (1902-1979)
April 8 · Andrew Comyn Irvine, English mountaineer (1902–1924)
April 18 · Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician (1902-1981)
April 18 · Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-American Orthodox Jewish rabbi (1902–1994)
April 19 · Veniamin Kaverin, Russian-Soviet writer and memoirist (1902–1989)
April 30 · Peregrino Anselmo, Uruguayan footballer (1902-1975)

May

May 6 · Max Ophüls, German film director (1902-1957)
May 10 · David O. Selznick, American film producer (1902–1965)
May 11 · Alexandre Kojève, Russian-born French philosopher and statesman
May 11 · Kirill Moskalenko, Soviet marshal (1902–1985)
May 17 · Khuang Aphaiwong, Prime Minister of Thailand (1902-1968)
May 27 · Émile Benveniste, French linguist (1902–1976)

June

June 3 · Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-American filmmaker (1902–1974)
June 9 · Skip James, American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter (1902–1969)
June 16 · Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (1902–1984)
June 18 · Boris Barnet, Soviet film director, screenwriter (1902-1965)
June 19 · Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American bandleader
June 28 · Richard Rodgers, American composer of songs and Broadway musicals (1902–1979)

July

July 10 · Nicolás Guillén, Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer (1902–1989)
July 11 · Samuel Goudsmit, Dutch-American physicist (1902–1978)
July 15 · Jean Rey, Belgian politician (1902–1983)
July 16 · Alexander Luria, Soviet psychologist (1902–1977)
July 16 · Ho Jong-suk, independence activist and writer, Journalist, Communism activist, feminist, sex positive activists (1902-1991)
July 25 · Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (1902–1983)

August

August 7 · Ann Harding, American actress (1902–1981)
August 11 · Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist
August 12 · Mohammad Hatta, 1st vice president of Indonesia from 1945 to 1956 (1902–1980)
August 13 · Felix Wankel, German mechanical engineer, inventor of the Wankel engine (1902-1988)
August 16 · Georgette Heyer, British historical romance and detective fiction novelist (1902–1974)
August 19 · Ogden Nash, American poet (1902–1971)

September

September 5 · Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer (1902–1979)
September 6 · Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio, President of Togo (1902-1963)
September 20 · Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (1902–1989)
September 21 · Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (1902–1963)
September 21 · E. E. Evans-Pritchard, British anthropologist (1902–1973)
September 22 · John Houseman, Romanian-born British–American actor and film producer (1902–1988)

October

October 2 · Leopold Figl, Austrian politician, minister, chancellor (1902–1965)
October 11 · Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian independence activist and political leader
October 13 · Shigeyoshi Suzuki, Japanese association football player and manager (1902–1971)
October 18 · Miriam Hopkins, American actress (1902-1972)
October 18 · Pascual Jordan, German physicist and politician (1902-1980)
October 28 · Elsa Lanchester, British-American actress (1902–1986)

November

November 1 · Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian author (1902–1943)
November 2 · Santos Iriarte, Uruguayan footballer (1902-1968)
November 9 · Anthony Asquith, English film director (1902-1968)
November 21 · Mikhail Suslov, Soviet-era statesman (1902-1982)
November 22 · Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (1902–1947)
November 29 · Carlo Levi, Italian painter, writer, politic and anti-fascist (1902-1975)

December

December 5 · Strom Thurmond, American politician (1902–2003)
December 9 · Margaret Hamilton, American film character actress (1902–1985)
December 16 · Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet (1902–1999)
December 19 · Ralph Richardson, British actor (1902–1983)
December 20 · Prince George, Duke of Kent, Royal Navy admiral (1902–1942), member of the House of Windsor
December 28 · Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher, author and educator (1902–2001)

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