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Taiping Rebellion
1850-12-01 - 1864-08-30
Nian Rebellion
1851-01-01 - 1868-12-31
Second Opium War
1856-10-08 - 1860-10-24
Battle of Palikao
1860-09-21
Self-Strengthening Movement
1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
American Civil War
1861-04-12 - 1865-04-09
Battle of Fort Sumter
1861-04-12 - 1861-04-13
Battle of Philippi
1861-06-03
First Battle of Bull Run
1861-06-21
Battle of Wilson's Creek
1861-08-10
Capture of New Orleans
1862-04-25
Battle of Seven Pines
1862-05-31 - 1862-06-01
Battle of Memphis
1862-06-06
Seven Days Battles
1862-06-25 - 1862-07-01
Battle of Antietam
1862-09-17
Battle of Fredericksburg
1862-12-11 - 1862-12-15
Battle of Stones River
1862-12-31 - 1863-01-02
Emancipation Proclamation
1863-01-01
Battle of Arkansas Post
1863-01-09 - 1863-01-11
Battle of Chancellorsville
1863-04-30 - 1863-05-06
Siege of Vicksburg
1863-05-18 - 1863-08-04
Siege of Port Hudson
1863-05-22 - 1863-07-09
West Virginia admitted to Union
1863-06-20
Battle of Gettysburg
1863-07-01 - 1863-07-03
First Battle of Fort Wagner
1863-07-10 - 1863-07-11
Second Battle of Fort Wagner
1863-07-18
Battle of Chickamauga
1863-09-18 - 1863-09-20
Second Battle of Chattanooga
1863-11-23 - 1863-11-25
Battle of the Wilderness
1864-05-05 - 1864-05-07
Battle of Spotsylvania
1864-05-08 - 1864-05-21
Battle of New Market
1864-05-15
Battle of Cold Harbor
1864-05-31 - 1864-06-12
Battle of the Crater
1864-06-30
Battle of Mobile Bay
1864-08-05
Battle of Jonesborough
1864-08-31 - 1864-09-01
Battle of Franklin
1864-11-30
Battle of Nashville
1864-12-15 - 1864-12-16
Second Battle of Fort Fisher
1865-01-13 - 1865-01-15
Battle of Bentonville
1865-03-19 - 1865-03-21
Battle of Five Forks
1865-04-01
Battle of Sailor's Creek
1865-04-06
Reconstruction era
1865-04-09 - 1877-01-20
Battle of Appomattox Court House
1865-04-09
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
1865-04-14
Thirteenth Amendment to US Constitution
1865-12-06
Civil Rights Act of 1866
1866-04-09
Boshin War
1868-01-27 - 1869-06-27
Gilded Age
1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
Enforcement Act of 1870
1870-05-31
Franco-Prussian War
1870-07-19 - 1871-01-28
Second Enforcement Act
1871-02-28
Third Enforcement Act
1871-04-20
Civil Rights Act of 1875
1875-03-01
Chinese Exclusion Act
1882-05-06
Sino-French War
1884-08-22 - 1885-04-04
First Sino-Japanese War
1894-07-25 - 1895-04-17
First Guangzhou Uprising
1895-10-26
Progressive era
1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Spanish-American War
1898-04-21 - 1898-08-13
Wuxu Coup
1898-09-22
Philippine-American War
1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Second Boer War
1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31
Boxer Rebellion
1899-10-18 - 1901-09-07
Huizhou Uprising
1900-10-08 - 1900-11-08
Russo-Japanese War
1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05
Battle of Mukden
1905-02-20 - 1905-03-10
Treaty of Portsmouth
1905-09-05
Zhennanguan Uprising
1907-12-01
Mexican Revolution
1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
Second Guangzhou Uprising
1911-04-27
Wuchang Uprising
1911-10-10 - 1911-12-01
Xinhai Revolution
1911-10-10 - 1912-02-12
Republic of China proclaimed
1912-01-01
July Crisis
1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
World War I
1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
First Battle of the Marne
1914-09-05 - 1914-09-12
First Battle of Ypres
1914-10-19 - 1914-11-22
Armenian genocide
1915-01-01 - 1917-01-01
Third Battle of Artois
1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04
Second Battle of Champagne
1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06
National Protection War
1915-12-25 - 1916-07-14
Battle of Verdun
1916-02-21 - 1916-12-18
Battle of the Somme
1916-07-01 - 1916-11-18
Russian Revolution
1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War
1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Second Battle of the Marne
1918-07-15 - 1918-07-18
Meuse–Argonne offensive
1918-09-26 - 1918-11-11
German Revolution
1918-10-29 - 1919-08-11
Polish–Ukrainian War
1918-11-01 - 1919-07-18
Armistice of 11 November 1918
1918-11-11
Battle of Saint-Mihiel
1918-11-12 - 1918-09-15
Biennio Rosso
1919-01-01 - 1920-12-31
Polish–Soviet War
1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18
Polish–Lithuanian War
1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29
Treaty of Versailles
1919-06-28
Roaring Twenties
1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
March on Rome
1922-10-27 - 1922-10-29
Declaration of the Creation of the USSR
1922-12-30
Beer Hall Putsch
1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09
Mein Kampf published
1925-07-18
Northern Expedition
1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Chinese Civil War
1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Central Plains War
1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression
1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday
1929-10-29
Reichstag fire
1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree
1933-02-28
Enabling Act of 1933
1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives
1934-07-02 - 1934-07-05
Nuremberg Laws enacted
1935-09-15 - 1935-11-14
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
People
Guangxu Emperor
born 1871-08-14
Emperor
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Imperial China
Hirohito
born 1901-04-29
Emperor
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Japan
Tongzhi Emperor
age 3
Emperor
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Imperial China
Nicholas II of Russia
born 1868-05-18
Emperor
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Russia
Xianfeng Emperor
age 28
Emperor
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Imperial China
Warren G. Harding
born 1865-11-02
President
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United States
Andrew Johnson
age 51
President
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United States
Franz Joseph I of Austria
age 29
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Wilhelm II
age 12 months
Emperor
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German Empire
Charles I of Austria
born 1887-08-17
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Raymond Poincaré
born 1860-08-20
President
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France
Georges Clemenceau
age 18
Prime Minister
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France
Adolf Hitler
born 1889-04-20
Führer
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Germany
H. H. Asquith
age 7
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
David Lloyd George
born 1863-01-17
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
William McKinley
age 17
President
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United States
Benjamin Harrison
age 26
President
-
United States
Grover Cleveland
age 22
President
-
United States
Chester A. Arthur
age 30
President
-
United States
Herbert Hoover
born 1874-08-10
President
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United States
Theodore Roosevelt
age 1
President
-
United States
Woodrow Wilson
age 3
President
-
United States
Emperor Taishō
born 1879-08-31
Emperor
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Japan
Calvin Coolidge
born 1872-07-04
President
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United States
Abraham Lincoln
age 50
President
-
United States
William Howard Taft
age 2
President
-
United States
James Buchanan
age 68
President
-
United States
Rutherford B. Hayes
age 37
President
-
United States
Ulysses S. Grant
age 37
President
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United States
Mehmed V
age 15
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Mehmed VI
born 1861-01-14
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Emperor Meiji
age 7
Emperor
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Japan
Puyi
born 1906-02-07
Emperor
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Imperial China
Joseph Stalin
born 1878-12-18
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt
born 1882-01-30
President
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United States
James A. Garfield
age 28
President
-
United States
Levi P. Morton
age 35
Vice President
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United States
Thomas R. Marshall
age 5
Vice President
-
United States
James S. Sherman
age 4
Vice President
-
United States
Charles W. Fairbanks
age 7
Vice President
-
United States
Garret Hobart
age 15
Vice President
-
United States
Edward VII
age 18
King
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United Kingdom
Edward VIII
born 1894-06-23
King
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United Kingdom
Queen Victoria
age 40
Queen
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United Kingdom
Charles G. Dawes
born 1865-08-27
Vice President
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United States
Charles Curtis
born 1860-01-25
Vice President
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United States
John Nance Garner
born 1868-11-22
Vice President
-
United States
George V
born 1865-06-03
King
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United Kingdom
Józef Piłsudski
born 1867-12-05
Prime Minister
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Poland
Jefferson Davis
age 51
President
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Confederate States of America
Otto von Bismarck
age 44
Chancellor
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German Empire
Kurt von Schleicher
born 1882-04-07
Chancellor
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Germany
Alben W. Barkley
born 1877-11-24
Senate
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United States
Harry S. Truman
born 1884-05-08
Senate
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United States
Hermann Göring
born 1893-01-12
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Edward Douglass White
age 14
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Neville Chamberlain
born 1869-03-18
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Winfield Scott
age 73
Commanding General of the US Army
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United States
Douglas MacArthur
born 1880-01-26
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
George B. McClellan
age 33
Commanding General of the US Army
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United States
Vladimir Lenin
born 1870-04-22
Chairman
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Soviet Union
Harlan F. Stone
born 1872-10-11
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Charles Evans Hughes
born 1862-04-11
Governor of New York
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United States
Yang Shangkun
born 1907-08-03
Communist Party of China
Dong Biwu
born 1886-03-05
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
born 1919-10-17
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
born 1915-11-20
Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
born 1921-02-16
Communist Party of China
Sun Yat-sen
born 1866-11-12
Kuomintang
Clark Clifford
born 1906-12-25
Democratic Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
born 1923-05-27
Republican Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
born 1888-08-20
Communist Party of Vietnam
Mao Zedong
born 1893-12-26
Communist Party of China
John F. Kennedy
born 1917-05-29
Democratic Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
born 1924-06-12
Republican Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
born 1926-08-17
Communist Party of China
William J. Brennan Jr.
born 1906-04-25
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Xiannian
born 1909-06-23
Communist Party of China
Iwane Matsui
born 1878-07-27
Imperial Japanese Army
James R. Schlesinger
born 1929-02-15
Republican Party (United States)
George S. Patton
born 1885-11-11
United States Army
Jimmy Carter
born 1924-10-01
Democratic Party (United States)
Wilhelm Frick
born 1877-03-12
Nazi Party
Charles de Gaulle
born 1890-11-22
French Army
Karl Dönitz
born 1891-09-16
Nazi Party
Kurt Daluege
born 1897-09-15
Nazi Party
Dwight D. Eisenhower
born 1890-10-14
Republican Party (United States)
Zhou Enlai
born 1898-03-05
Communist Party of China
George Wallace
born 1919-08-25
Democratic Party (United States)
Earl Warren
born 1891-03-19
United States Army
Deng Xiaoping
born 1904-08-22
Communist Party of China
Robert A. Lovett
born 1895-09-14
United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
born 1885-04-29
United States Navy
Raymond A. Spruance
born 1886-07-03
United States Navy
Courtney Hodges
born 1887-01-05
United States Army
Martin Bormann
born 1900-06-17
Nazi Party
Li Peng
born 1928-10-20
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
born 1916-05-01
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
born 1908-04-11
Communist Party of China
Liu Shaoqi
born 1898-11-24
Communist Party of China
Walter Mondale
born 1928-01-05
Democratic Party (United States)
Yoshijirō Umezu
born 1882-01-04
Imperial Japanese Army
Reinhard Heydrich
born 1904-03-07
Nazi Party
James Baker
born 1930-04-28
Democratic Party (United States)
Heinrich Himmler
born 1900-10-07
Nazi Party
Rudolf Hess
born 1894-04-26
Nazi Party
Byron White
born 1917-06-08
Democratic Party (United States)
Joseph Goebbels
born 1897-10-29
Nazi Party
Franz von Papen
born 1879-10-29
Imperial German Army
Chiang Ching-kuo
born 1910-04-27
Kuomintang
Potter Stewart
born 1915-01-23
Republican Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
born 1908-08-08
Democratic Party (United States)
William H. Webster
born 1924-03-06
Republican Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
born 1911-02-06
Republican Party (United States)
John Foster Dulles
born 1888-02-25
Republican Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
born 1895-01-01
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
born 1912-05-17
Democratic Party (United States)
John J. Pershing
born 1860-09-13
United States Army
Thurgood Marshall
born 1908-07-02
Democratic Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
born 1907-09-19
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
born 1930-03-26
Republican Party (United States)
John Paul Stevens
born 1920-04-20
Republican Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
born 1923-09-24
Kuomintang
Sun Yun-suan
born 1913-11-10
Kuomintang
Daniel Inouye
born 1924-09-07
Democratic Party (United States)
Richard Nixon
born 1913-01-09
Souphanouvong
born 1909-07-13
Paul von Hindenburg
age 12
Doihara Kenji
born 1883-08-08
Benito Mussolini
born 1883-07-29
Pol Pot
born 1925-05-19
Kim Il-sung
born 1912-04-15
Ho Chi Minh
born 1890-05-19
Elizabeth II
born 1926-04-21
Kōki Hirota
born 1878-02-14
Erich Ludendorff
born 1865-04-09
Wilhelm Groener
born 1867-11-22
Francisco Franco
born 1892-12-04
Manuel Azaña
born 1880-01-10
George VI
born 1895-12-14
Naoki Hoshino
born 1892-04-10
Chester W. Nimitz
born 1885-02-24
Isoroku Yamamoto
born 1884-04-04
Erich Raeder
born 1876-04-24
Alfred Rosenberg
born 1893-01-12
Yuan Shikai
age 4 months
Mikhail Gorbachev
born 1931-03-02
Martin Luther King Jr.
born 1929-01-15
Fritz Sauckel
born 1894-10-27
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
born 1892-07-22
Baldur von Schirach
born 1907-05-09
Hideki Tōjō
born 1884-12-30
Rosa Parks
born 1913-02-04
Hjalmar Schacht
born 1877-01-22
Kyösti Kallio
born 1873-04-10
Seishirō Itagaki
born 1885-01-21
Kingorō Hashimoto
born 1890-02-19
Heitarō Kimura
born 1888-09-28
Rodion Malinovsky
born 1898-11-23
Leonid Brezhnev
born 1906-12-19
Kiichirō Hiranuma
born 1867-09-28
Hubert Gough
born 1870-08-12
Akira Mutō
born 1892-12-15
Lê Duẩn
born 1907-04-07
Ruhollah Khomeini
born 1902-09-24
Robert E. Lee
age 53
He Yingqin
born 1890-04-02
Robert F. Kennedy
born 1925-11-20
Semyon Timoshenko
born 1895-02-18
Kliment Voroshilov
born 1881-02-04
Nikita Khrushchev
born 1894-04-15
Chiang Kai-shek
born 1887-10-31
Lyndon B. Johnson
born 1908-08-27
Friedrich Jeckeln
born 1895-02-02
Claus von Stauffenberg
born 1907-11-15
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
born 1903-10-04
Wilhelm Keitel
born 1882-09-22
Walther Funk
born 1890-08-18
Hans Fritzsche
born 1900-04-21
Clarence M. Kelley
born 1911-10-24
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
born 1933-03-15
Yasser Arafat
born 1929-08-24
Gamal Abdel Nasser
born 1918-01-15
Joseph Gallieni
age 10
Ramsey Clark
born 1927-12-18
Nicholas Katzenbach
born 1922-01-17
Warren Christopher
born 1925-10-27
Lawrence Eagleburger
born 1930-08-01
John Connally
born 1917-02-27
Zhu Rongji
born 1928-10-23
Soong Ching-ling
born 1893-01-27
Zhu De
born 1886-12-01
Empress Dowager Cixi
age 24
Nelson Rockefeller
born 1908-07-08
Matthias Erzberger
born 1875-09-20
Ferdinand Foch
age 8
Joseph Chamberlain
age 23
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
born 1879-12-17
Gerd von Rundstedt
born 1875-12-12
Omar Bradley
born 1893-02-12
Erich von Manstein
born 1887-11-24
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
born 1918-07-17
Konstantin Chernenko
born 1911-09-24
David M. Kennedy (politician)
born 1905-07-21
Carlos Castillo Armas
born 1914-11-04
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
born 1915-11-23
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
born 1908-06-17
Jacobo Árbenz
born 1913-09-14
Juan José Arévalo
born 1904-09-10
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
age 22
Thomas Gage
age 141
Malcolm X
born 1925-05-19
Jo Ann Robinson
born 1912-04-17
Konrad Adenauer
born 1876-01-05
Boris Yeltsin
born 1931-02-01
Nikola Tesla
age 3
Jacques Chirac
born 1932-11-29
Nelson Mandela
born 1918-07-18
Mahatma Gandhi
born 1869-10-02
Albert Einstein
born 1879-03-14
Melvin Laird
born 1922-09-01
John Marshall Harlan II
born 1899-05-20
Abe Fortas
born 1910-06-19
John Tyler
age 69
Millard Fillmore
age 60
Franklin Pierce
age 55
Albert Speer
born 1905-03-19
Gerald Ford
born 1913-07-14
Yuri Andropov
born 1914-06-15
Lee Teng-hui
born 1923-01-15
Winston Churchill
born 1874-11-30
Julius Streicher
born 1885-02-12
Alfred Jodl
born 1890-05-10
George Meade
age 44
Otto Hofmann
born 1896-03-16
Fritz Todt
born 1891-09-04
Otto Rasch
born 1891-12-07
Hans Frank
born 1900-05-23
Hafez al-Assad
born 1930-10-06
George Shultz
born 1920-12-13
Souvanna Phouma
born 1901-10-07
Margaret Thatcher
born 1925-10-13
Nathaniel Lyon
age 41
John Schofield
age 28
Eva Braun
born 1912-02-06
Ōyama Iwao
age 17
George C. Marshall
born 1880-12-31
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
born 1863-12-18
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
born 1906-04-10
Robert McNamara
born 1916-06-09
Fidel Castro
born 1926-08-13
Cai E
born 1882-12-19
Zeng Guofan
age 48
Henry A. Wallace
born 1888-10-07
Hubert Humphrey
born 1911-05-27
Spiro Agnew
born 1918-11-09
Leon Trotsky
born 1879-11-07
Peng Dehuai
born 1898-10-24
William Rehnquist
born 1924-10-01
Warren E. Burger
born 1907-09-17
Fred M. Vinson
born 1890-01-22
Joseph Joffre
age 8
Anthony Eden
born 1897-06-12
Clement Attlee
born 1883-01-03
Emilio De Bono
born 1866-03-19
John Bell Hood
age 28
Martin Van Buren
age 77
Ernst Röhm
born 1887-11-28