1902 in Literature - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 7 - Wilhelm Hertz
  • April 6 - Gleb Uspensky, Russian writer
  • April 20 - Frank R. Stockton, writer and humorist
  • May 6 - Bret Harte, author, poet
  • June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet
  • June 18 - Samuel Butler, novelist
  • September 11 - Ernst Dümmler, historian
  • September 29
    • Emile Zola, French author
    • William Topaz McGonagall, notoriously bad poet
  • October 7 - George Rawlinson, historian
  • October 13 - John George Bourinot, Canadian historian
  • October 25 - Frank Norris, novelist
  • November 16 - G. A. Henty, novelist

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