List of Famous people who died in 1902

Sergei Ivanovich Mosin was a Russian Major General, engineer, and the main contributor to the design of the 3-line rifle, Model 1891, colloquially known as Mosin–Nagant.

Aimé-Jules Dalou was a French sculptor, recognized as one of the most brilliant virtuosos of nineteenth-century France, admired for his perceptiveness, execution, and unpretentious realism.

Salomon Jadassohn was a German pianist, composer and a renowned teacher of piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory.

Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs was a Jewish-German mathematician who contributed important research in the field of linear differential equations. He was born in Moschin (Mosina) and died in Berlin, Germany. He was buried in Schöneberg in the St. Matthew's Cemetery. His grave in section H is preserved and listed as a grave of honour of the State of Berlin.

Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz was a Baltic German painter, primarily of portraits.

Laurent Menager (1835–1902) was a Luxembourg composer, choirmaster, organist and conductor who is often referred to as Luxembourg's national composer. He founded the national choral association Sang a Klang (1857) and composed many songs, orchestral music and operettas as well as music for brass bands and the theatre.

Thomas Dunn English was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented the state's 6th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895. He was also a published author and songwriter, who had a bitter feud with Edgar Allan Poe. Along with Waitman T. Barbe and Danske Dandridge, English was considered a major West Virginia poet of the mid 19th century.

Princess Marie of Nassau was the eighth child and fourth daughter of William, Duke of Nassau and wife of Hermann, 4th Prince of Wied. She was the mother of Queen Elisabeth of Romania.

Ellen Frothingham worked in the United States as a translator of German-language works into English.

Admiral Sir Edward Bridges Rice, was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.