Famous People Born In 1902
Discover the most famous people born in 1902. The list includes people like John Steinbeck, Charles Lindbergh, Langston Hughes, Ansel Adams, Erik Erikson and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, poets, physicists and novelists born in 1902. This list includes people from United States, Germany, United Kingdom & France and many more countries.
Charles Lindbergh4th February, American
Aviator, Inventor & Author
Langston Hughes1st February, American
Poet, Novelist, Playwright, & Columnist
John Steinbeck27th February, American
Author
Ray Kroc5th October, American
Founder of the McDonald’s Corporation
Meyer Lansky4th July, Polish, American
Gangster
Albert Anastasia26th September, Italian, American
Criminal
Strom Thurmond5th December, American
Former United States Senator
Carlo Gambino24th August, Italian, American
Criminal
Ansel Adams20th February, American
Photographer
Georgy Malenkov8th January, Russian
Politician
Frances Bavier14th December, American
Actress
Larry Fine5th October, American
Comedian
Tallulah Bankhead31st January, American
Actress
Karl Popper28th July, British
Philosopher
Will Geer9th March, American
Actor
Erik Erikson15th June, Canadian, German, American
American-German psychologist
Jayaprakash Narayan11th October, Indian
Political Leaders
Norma Shearer10th August, Canadian, American
Actress
Carl Rogers8th January, American
Psychologist
Paul Dirac8th August, British
Physicist
Richard Rodgers28th June, American
Composer, songwriter, playwright
Thomas E. Dewey24th March, American
Former Governor of New York
Saud of Saudi Arabia15th January, Saudi Arabian
Former King of Saudi Arabia
Eric Liddell16th January, Scottish
Lieserl Einstein27th January, Serbian
Albert Einstein's Daughter
Elsa Lanchester28th October, American
Actress
William Wyler1st July, American
Film director
Carlos Gracie14th September, Brazilian
Martial Artist
Menachem Mendel Schneerson18th April, Ukrainian, American, Russian
Rabbi
Talcott Parsons13th December, American
Sociologist
Rab Butler9th December, British
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
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Chill Wills18th July, American
Actor
Stepin Fetchit30th May, American
Actor
Barbara McClintock16th June, American
Scientist
Ayatollah Khomeini22nd September, Iranian
Led the Famous Iranian Revolution in 1979
Ogden Nash19th August, American
Poet
Isaac Bashevis Singer21st November, Polish, American
Writer
Eugene Wigner17th November, American
Physicist & Mathematician
Gladys Aylward24th February, Chinese, British
Missionary
Miriam Hopkins18th October, American
Actress
Marcel Breuer21st May, Hungarian
Architect & Furniture Designer
Ann Harding7th August, American
Actress
Walter Houser Brattain10th February, American
Physicist
William Walton29th March, British
Composer
W. Clement Stone4th May, American
Businessman & Self Help Book Author
Albert Namatjira28th July, Australian
Artist
Anatole Litvak21st May, French, Ukrainian, American, Russian
Director, Screenwriter, Producer
Alva Myrdal31st January, Swedish
Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Theodore Schultz30th April, American
Economist
Kurt Alder10th July, German
Chemist
Alfred Kastler3rd May, French
Physicist
Rafael Alberti16th December, Spanish
Poet
André Lwoff8th May, French
Microbiologist
Jack Del Rio1st August, Argentinian
Actor
Irene Ryan17th October, American
Actress
Leni Riefenstahl22nd August, German
Film director, Actor, Photographer, Film producer,
Moe Berg2nd March, American
Baseball coach
Charan Singh23rd December, Indian
Prime Minister of India
George Cross12th February, British
Actor,Casting Department,Casting Director
Ralph Richardson19th December, British
Actor
Thelma Ritter14th February, American
Actress
John Houseman22nd September, Romanian, British, American
Actor
David O. Selznick10th May, American
American film producer
Richard J. Daley15th May, American
Former Mayor of Chicago
Eddie Lowery14th October, American
Golfer
Reinhard Gehlen3rd April, German
Officer
Paul Guilfoyle14th July, American
Actor
Beryl Markham26th October, British
Horse trainer
Louise Beavers8th March, American
Actress
Meredith Willson18th May, American
Conductor, Composer, Flautist, Pianist, Songwriter
Norman Maclean23rd December, American
Novelist, Journalist, Writer, University teacher
Son House21st March, American
Guitarist, Singer
Joe Adonis22nd November, Italian
Fernand Braudel24th August, Brazilian, French
Economic historian, Historian, Professor
Walter Slezak3rd May, Austrian
Stage actor, Film actor
George Murphy4th July, American
Former American senator
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan2nd April, Indian
Singer
Mohammad Hatta12th August, Indonesian
Politician
Luis Barragán9th March, Mexican
Mexican architect
K. Shivaram Karanth10th October, Indian
Author, Poet
Brooke Astor30th March, American
Writer
Eric Hoffer25th July, American
Writer, Philosopher, Psychologist
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque22nd November, French
Military Personnel
Mortimer J. Adler28th December, American
Philosopher, Teacher, Writer, University teacher
Juscelino Kubitschek12th September, Brazilian
Physician, Politician
Wilhelm Stuckart16th November, German
Lawyer, Judge, Politician, Jurist
Nâzım Hikmet15th January, Greek, Russian
Poet
Arne Jacobsen11th February, Danish
Danish architect
Harold Lasswell13th February, American
Political scientist, Scientist, Sociologist
Nikolaus Pevsner30th January, German, British
Historian
Bill Lear26th June, American
Aerospace engineer, Engineer
Gene Sarazen27th February, American
Golfer
Alexander Luria16th July, Russian
Neuropsychologist
Max Ophüls6th May, German, French
Film Director