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Nicolás Guillén
Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer (1902–1989)
Santos Iriarte
Uruguayan footballer (1902-1968)

Felix Wankel
German mechanical engineer, inventor of the Wankel engine (1902-1988)
Jean Bruller
French author and illustrator (1902–1991)

Samuel Goudsmit
Dutch-American physicist (1902–1978)
Alexandre Kojève
Russian-born French philosopher and statesman

Thomas E. Dewey
American politician (1902–1971)

Margaret Hamilton
American film character actress (1902–1985)

Ogden Nash
American poet (1902–1971)

Kirill Moskalenko
Soviet marshal (1902–1985)

E. E. Evans-Pritchard
British anthropologist (1902–1973)
Oskar Morgenstern
Austrian economist (1902–1977)

Anatole Litvak
Ukrainian-American filmmaker (1902–1974)

Heinz Rühmann
German actor (1902–1994)

Meyer Lansky
American gangster

Harold Lasswell
American political scientist (1902-1978)
Cesare Zavattini
Italian screenwriter (1902–1989)

Flora Robson
English actress (1902-1984)

Leopold Figl
Austrian politician, minister, chancellor (1902–1965)

Georgette Heyer
British historical romance and detective fiction novelist (1902–1974)
Virginio Rosetta
Italian footballer and manager (1902-1975)
Ion Gheorghe Maurer
49th Prime Minister of Romania (1961-1974)
Boris Barnet
Soviet film director, screenwriter (1902-1965)

Jayaprakash Narayan
Indian independence activist and political leader

Son House
American blues singer and guitarist (1902–1988)

Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Russian-American Orthodox Jewish rabbi (1902–1994)

Josep Samitier
Spanish football player and manager (1902–1972)

Ann Harding
American actress (1902–1981)
Abraham Wald
American mathematician, statistician, and scientist (1902–1950)

Eric Liddell
Scottish athlete, sprinter, Olympian, Protestant missionary (1902-1945)
Reinhard Gehlen
German general, Nazi, spy (1902-1979)

Jean Rey
Belgian politician (1902–1983)
Mitsuo Fuchida
Japanese Naval officer (1902-1976)

Bobby Jones
American amateur golfer and lawyer (1902–1971)

Alfredo Binda
Italian cyclist

Wifredo Lam
Cuban artist (1902-1982)

Veniamin Kaverin
Russian-Soviet writer and memoirist (1902-1989)
Carlo Gambino
American mobster (1902–1976)
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
American politician (1902–1985)
Andrew Comyn Irvine
English mountaineer (1902–1924)

Princess Mafalda of Savoy
Savoyard and Hesse-Kasselian Royal

Günther Anders
German-Austrian philosopher (1902–1992)

Anthony Asquith
English film director (1902-1968)
Louis Beel
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1902-1977)
Ilmari Salminen
Finnish long-distance runner
Stella Gibbons
British writer (1902–1989)
Emeric Pressburger
Hungarian-British screenwriter, director and producer (1902–1988)
Beryl Clutterbuck Markham
British writer, aviator, adventurer, racehorse trainer (1902–1986)
Nikolaus Pevsner
German-born British scholar (1902-1983)
Yevgeny Petrov
Soviet writer (1902–1942)
Gyula Illyés
Hungarian poet (1902–1983)
Carlos Vidal
Chilean footballer (1902-1982)
Shen Congwen
Chinese writer (1902–1988)
Skip James
American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter (1902–1969)
Maurice Duruflé
French composer and organist
Fouad Chehab
third president of Lebanon (1902-1973)
Markian Popov
Soviet general (1902-1969)
Nikolay Kamov
Soviet aeronautical engineer, helicopter designer (1902-1973)
Malcolm de Chazal
Mauritian writer (1902—1981)
Guy Lombardo
Canadian-American bandleader