Timeline August 1902

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• 1840 – 1902 Emile Zola French novelist Zola led the Naturalist movement, depicting social conditions with scientific realism and political critique.
• 1902 US Championships 1902 Men: Bill Larned · Women: Marion Jones
• 1902 – 1984 Paul Dirac (1902-1984) Died 20 October 1984, aged 82 British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac, who shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for his foundational work in quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter, died in Tallahassee, Florida.
• 1902 Coronation of King Edward VII British monarch crowned after appendicitis delay Edward VII was crowned King of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey on August 9, after the ceremony was postponed from June when he required emergency surgery for appendicitis. The coronation marked the formal start of the Edwardian era following the death of Queen Victoria.
• 1902 – 1983 Norma Shearer (1902-1983) Canadian-American actress, MGM's first lady in the late 1920s and 1930s and wife of Irving Thalberg.
• 1902 Norma Shearer born in Montreal Norma Shearer is born in Montreal.
• 1902 – 2003 Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) Died 8 September 2003, aged 101 Leni Riefenstahl was a film-maker whose technically innovative documentaries 'Triumph of the Will' and 'Olympia' glorified Nazi Germany. After the war she was widely shunned and spent decades defending herself against charges of complicity. She later worked as a stills and underwater photographer.