List of Famous people who died in 1902

Swami Vivekananda

নরেন্দ্রনাথ দত্ত
First Name Swami
Last Name Vivekananda
Born on January 12, 1863
Died on July 4, 1902 (aged 39)
Born in India

Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk. He was a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major force in the contemporary Hindu reform movements in India, and contributed to the concept of Indian nationalism as a tool to fight against the British empire in colonial India. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. He is perhaps best known for his speech which began with the words "Sisters and brothers of America ...," in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893.

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Cecil John Rhodes

First Name Cecil
Last Name Rhodes
Born on July 5, 1853
Died on March 26, 1902 (aged 48)

Cecil John Rhodes was a British mining magnate, and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890-96. An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia, which the company named after him in 1895. South Africa's Rhodes University is also named after him. Rhodes set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate. He also put much effort towards his vision of a Cape to Cairo Railway through British territory.

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Almon Brown Strowger

First Name Almon
Born on February 11, 1839
Died on May 26, 1902 (aged 63)

Almon Brown Strowger was an American inventor who gave his name to the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired.

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William Still

First Name William
Last Name Still
Born on October 7, 1821
Died on July 14, 1902 (aged 80)

William Still was an African-American abolitionist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, businessman, writer, historian and civil rights activist. Before the American Civil War, Still was chairman of the Vigilance Committee of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. He directly aided fugitive slaves and also kept records of the people served in order to help families reunite.

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Maria Goretti

First Name Maria
Last Name Goretti
Born on October 16, 1890
Died on July 6, 1902 (aged 11)
Born in Italy, Marche

Maria Teresa Goretti is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Catholic Church, and one of the youngest saints to be canonized. She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she was nine, and they had to share a house with another family, the Serenellis. Maria took over household duties while her mother, brothers, and sister worked in the fields.

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Julia Grant

Julia Boggs Dent
First Name Julia
Last Name Grant
Born on January 26, 1826
Died on December 14, 1902 (aged 76)

Julia Boggs Grant was the First Lady of the United States and wife of Ulysses S. Grant. Her time as First Lady marked a turning point in her life, when she became a national figure. Her memoirs, The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant were published in 1975.

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Rudolf Virchow

Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow
First Name Rudolf
Last Name Virchow
Born on October 13, 1821
Died on September 5, 1902 (aged 80)

Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician. He is known as "the father of modern pathology" and as the founder of social medicine, and to his colleagues, the "Pope of medicine". He received the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1892. He was a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was elected to the Prussian Academy of Sciences, but he declined to be ennobled as "von Virchow".

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William Taylor

First Name William
Last Name Taylor
Born on January 1, 1821
Died on January 1, 1902 (aged 81)

William Taylor (1821–1902) was an American Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1884. Taylor University, a Christian college in Indiana, carries his name.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

First Name Elizabeth
Last Name Stanton
Died on October 26, 1902

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-1800s. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women's rights, and was the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. Her demand for women's right to vote generated a controversy at the convention but quickly became a central tenet of the women's movement. She was also active in other social reform activities, especially abolitionism.

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Émile Zola

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola
First Name Émile
Last Name Zola
Died on September 29, 1902

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. According to major Zola scholar and biographer Henri Mitterand, "Naturalism contributes something more than realism: the attention brought to bear on the most lush and opulent aspects of people and the natural world. The realist writer reproduces the object's image impersonally, while the naturalist writer is an artist of temperament." He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'Accuse…! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.

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