1828) September 18 – Thorborg Rappe, Swedish social reformer (b. 1832) September 19 – Masaoka Shiki, Japanese haiku poet (b. 1867) September 23 – John Wesley Powell, American explorer (b. 1834) September 26 – Levi Strauss, German-born American inventor of Levi's Jeans (b. 1829) September 29 William McGonagall, Scottish doggerel poet (b. 1825) Émile Zola, French author (b. 1840) September 30 – James Edward Jouett, American admiral (b. 1826) October 6 John Hall Gladstone, British chemist (b. 1827) Liu Kunyi, Chinese general (b. 1830) October 25 – Frank Norris, American novelist (b. 1870) October 26 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (b. 1815) November 4 – Hale Johnson, American politician (b. 1847) November 17 – Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh social reformer (b. 1847) November 22 Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (b. 1854) Walter Reed, American army physician (b. 1851) December 2 – Count Richard Belcredi, former Prime minister of the Austrian Empire (b. 1823) December 3 Prudente de Morais, 3rd President of Brazil (b. 1841) Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833) December 4 – Charles Dow, American journalist, co-founder of Dow Jones & Company (b. 1851) December 5 – Johannes Wislicenus, German chemist (b. 1835) December 6 – Alice Freeman Palmer, American educator (b. 1855) December 7 – Thomas Nast, American caricaturist, cartoonist (b. 1840) December 11 – Mary Mathews Adams, Irish-born American philanthropist (b. 1840) December 14 – Julia Grant, First Lady of the United States (b. 1826) December 22 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (b. 1840) December 23 – Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821) Nobel Prizes Physics – Hendrik Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman Chemistry – Emil Fischer Medicine – Sir Ronald Ross Literature – Theodor Mommsen Peace – Élie Ducommun and Charles Albert Gobat References Further reading and year books Colby, Frank Moore ed. he International Yearbook A Compendium Of The Worlds Progress During The Year 1902 (1903) coverage of each state online 1902 Annual Cyclopedia (1903) online; highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for 1902; massive compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage; 865pp Wall, Edgar G. ed. The British Empire yearbook (1903), 1276pp; covers 1902 online Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: vol. 1 1900-1933 (1997) pp 55–68; global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare.