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1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Philippine-American War
1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Second Boer War
1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31
Russo-Japanese War
1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05
Russian Revolution of 1905
1905-01-22 - 1907-06-16
Bloody Sunday
1905-01-22 - 1905-01-22
Battle of Mukden
1905-02-20 - 1905-03-10
Treaty of Portsmouth
1905-09-05
Partition of Bengal
1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12
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
First Balkan War
1912-10-08 - 1913-05-30
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
1914-06-28
July Crisis
1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
World War I
1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
Battle of Tannenberg
1914-08-26 - 1914-08-30
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
Gallipoli campaign
1915-02-19 - 1916-01-09
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 Jutland
1916-05-31 - 1916-06-01
Brusilov Offensive
1916-06-04 - 1916-09-20
Arab Revolt
1916-06-10 - 1918-10-25
Battle of the Somme
1916-07-01 - 1916-11-18
Assassination of Grigori Rasputin
1916-12-30 - 1916-12-30
Russian Revolution
1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
February Revolution
1917-03-08 - 1917-03-16
Battle of Aqaba
1917-07-06 - 1917-07-06
Battle of Passchendaele
1917-07-31 - 1917-11-10
Kornilov affair
1917-09-10 - 1917-09-13
Battle of Caporetto
1917-10-24 - 1917-11-19
Balfour Declaration
1917-11-02 - 1917-11-02
October Revolution
1917-11-07 - 1917-11-08
Russian Civil War
1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly
1918-01-19 - 1918-01-19
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
1918-03-03 - 1918-03-03
Battle of Tsaritsyn
1918-07-01 - 1920-01-01
Second Battle of the Marne
1918-07-15 - 1918-07-18
Execution of the Romanov family
1918-07-17 - 1918-07-17
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
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
1919-04-13 - 1919-04-13
Polish–Lithuanian War
1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29
Treaty of Versailles
1919-06-28
Roaring Twenties
1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
Battle of Warsaw (1920)
1920-08-12 - 1920-08-25
Tambov Rebellion
1920-08-19
Non-cooperation movement
1920-09-04 - 1922-02-12
Siege of Perekop (1920)
1920-11-07 - 1920-11-17
Kronstadt rebellion
1921-03-01 - 1921-03-18
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
Shanghai massacre
1927-04-12 - 1927-04-12
Chinese Civil War
1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Nanchang Uprising
1927-08-01 - 1927-08-05
Autumn Harvest Uprising
1927-09-07
Central Plains War
1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression
1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday
1929-10-29
Salt March
1930-03-12 - 1930-04-06
Encirclement Campaigns
1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27
Mukden Incident
1931-09-18 - 1931-09-18
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1932-09-23 - 1932-09-23
Nazi seizure of power
1933-01-30
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
Long March
1934-10-16 - 1935-10-19
Zunyi Conference
1935-01-15 - 1935-01-17
Nuremberg Laws enacted
1935-09-15 - 1935-11-14
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
Remilitarization of the Rhineland
1936-03-07
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine
1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War
1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Xi'an Incident
1936-12-12 - 1936-12-25
Bombing of Guernica
1937-04-26 - 1937-04-26
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Shanghai
1937-08-13 - 1937-11-26
Battle of Nanking
1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre
1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Anschluss
1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Battle of Wuhan
1938-06-11 - 1938-10-27
Battle of the Ebro
1938-07-25 - 1938-11-16
Munich Agreement
1938-09-30
Kristallnacht
1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
1939-05-11 - 1939-09-16
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
1939-08-23
World War II
1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Poland
1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
Battle of the Atlantic
1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Winter War
1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Operation Weserübung
1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
Battle of France
1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk
1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Battle of Britain
1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
Operation Compass
1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust
1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia
1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Siege of Tobruk
1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Battle of Crete
1941-05-20 - 1941-06-01
Operation Barbarossa
1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War
1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad
1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Babi Yar massacre
1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow
1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941-12-07
Pacific War
1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign
1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign
1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan
1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference
1942-01-20
Bataan Death March
1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway
1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre
1942-06-10
Battle of Stalingrad
1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign
1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign
1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement
1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Operation Torch
1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign
1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Battle of Kursk
1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Battle of Tarawa
1943-11-20 - 1943-11-23
Battle of Monte Cassino
1944-01-17 - 1944-05-18
Battle of Anzio
1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04
People
Adolf Hitler
age 12
Führer
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Germany
Mao Zedong
age 7
Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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Communist Party of China
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 19
President
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United States
Joseph Stalin
age 23
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Emperor Meiji
age 49
Emperor
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Japan
Nicholas II of Russia
age 33
Emperor
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Russia
Wilhelm II
age 42
Emperor
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German Empire
Hirohito
age 7 months
Emperor
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Japan
George V
age 36
King
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United Kingdom
Woodrow Wilson
age 44
President
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United States
Sun Yat-sen
age 35
Kuomintang
Yuan Shikai
age 42
President
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Republic of China
George VI
age 6
King
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United Kingdom
Theodore Roosevelt
age 43
President
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United States
Emperor Taishō
age 22
Emperor
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Japan
William Howard Taft
age 44
President
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United States
Warren G. Harding
age 36
President
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United States
Calvin Coolidge
age 29
President
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United States
Herbert Hoover
age 27
President
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United States
Mehmed V
age 57
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Mehmed VI
age 40
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria
age 71
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Charles I of Austria
age 14
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Raymond Poincaré
age 41
President
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France
Guangxu Emperor
age 30
Emperor
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Imperial China
Puyi
born 1906-02-07
Emperor
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Imperial China
Edward VII
age 60
King
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United Kingdom
Edward VIII
age 7
King
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United Kingdom
Paul Deschanel
age 46
President
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France
Alexandre Millerand
age 42
President
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France
Gaston Doumergue
age 38
President
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France
Paul Doumer
age 44
President
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France
Albert Lebrun
age 30
President
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France
Manuel Ávila Camacho
age 4
President
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Mexico
Lázaro Cárdenas
age 6
President
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Mexico
Gerardo Machado
age 30
President
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Cuba
José Miguel Gómez
age 43
President
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Cuba
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada
age 30
President
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Cuba
Tomás Estrada Palma
age 66
President
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Cuba
Mario García Menocal
age 35
President
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Cuba
Miguel Mariano Gómez
age 12
President
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Cuba
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso
age 40
President
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Cuba
Jorge Ubico
age 23
President
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Guatemala
Lázaro Chacón González
age 28
President
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Guatemala
Carlos Herrera y Luna
age 45
President
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Guatemala
José María Reyna Andrade
age 41
President
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Guatemala
José María Orellana
age 29
President
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Guatemala
Manuel María Orellana Contreras
age 31
President
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Guatemala
Baudilio Palma
age 21
President
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Guatemala
Manuel Estrada Cabrera
age 42
President
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Guatemala
Abelardo L. Rodríguez
age 12
President
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Mexico
Adolfo de la Huerta
age 20
President
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Mexico
Porfirio Díaz
age 71
President
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Mexico
Francisco León de la Barra
age 38
President
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Mexico
Francisco S. Carvajal
age 31
President
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Mexico
Emilio Portes Gil
age 11
President
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Mexico
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
age 24
President
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Mexico
Eulalio Gutiérrez
age 20
President
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Mexico
Francisco I. Madero
age 28
President
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Mexico
Álvaro Obregón
age 21
President
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Mexico
Victoriano Huerta
age 51
President
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Mexico
Venustiano Carranza
age 41
President
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Mexico
Plutarco Elías Calles
age 24
President
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Mexico
Pedro Lascuráin
age 45
President
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Mexico
Bahij al-Khatib
age 6
President
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Syria
Wang Jingwei
age 18
Premier
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Republic of China
Hsu Shih-chang
age 46
Premier
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Republic of China
Zhang Zuolin
age 26
President
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Republic of China
Cao Kun
age 39
President
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Republic of China
Feng Guozhang
age 42
President
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Republic of China
Du Xigui
age 26
Acting
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Republic of China
Huang Fu
age 18
Acting
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Republic of China
Chiang Kai-shek
age 14
Premier
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Republic of China
Vladimir Lenin
age 31
Chairman
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Soviet Union
Benito Mussolini
age 18
Prime Minister
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Italy
Winston Churchill
age 27
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Kurt von Schleicher
age 19
Chancellor
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Germany
Józef Piłsudski
age 34
Prime Minister
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Poland
Neville Chamberlain
age 32
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Georges Clemenceau
age 60
Prime Minister
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France
David Lloyd George
age 38
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law
age 43
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Stanley Baldwin
age 34
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald
age 35
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas
age 1
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Ramón Zaydín
age 6
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Aly Maher Pasha
age 20
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa
age 61
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Mustafa al-Nahhas
age 22
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Muhammad Tawfiq Nasim Pasha
age 27
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Ahmad Ziwar
age 37
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha
age 25
Prime Minister
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Egypt
ʿAbd al-Khaliq Tharwat
age 28
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Hussein Sirri Pasha
age 9
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Husayn Rushdi
age 38
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Saad Zaghloul
age 44
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Adli Yakan
age 37
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Ismaʿil Sidqi
age 26
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Yusef Wahba
age 49
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Yahya Ibrahim Pasha
age 40
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Muhammad Said Pasha
age 38
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha
age 24
Prime Minister
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Egypt
Hashim al-Atassi
age 26
Prime Minister
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Syria
Jamil al-Elshi
age 18
Prime Minister
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Syria
Ata al-Ayyubi
age 24
Prime Minister
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Syria
Husni al-Barazi
age 6
Prime Minister
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Syria
Rida al-Rikabi
age 37
Prime Minister
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Syria
Hassan al-Hakim
age 15
Prime Minister
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Syria
Haqqi al-Azm
age 36
Prime Minister
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Syria
Saadallah al-Jabiri
age 9
Prime Minister
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Syria
Jamil Mardam Bey
age 8
Prime Minister
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Syria
Khalid al-Azm
age 6
Prime Minister
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Syria
Taj al-Din al-Hasani
age 16
Prime Minister
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Syria
Nasuhi al-Bukhari
age 20
Prime Minister
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Syria
Lutfi al-Haffar
age 13
Prime Minister
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Syria
Subhi Bey Barakat
age 12
Prime Minister
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Syria
H. H. Kung
age 20
Premier
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Republic of China
Wang Zhengting
age 19
Premier
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Republic of China
Xiong Xiling
age 31
Premier
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Republic of China
Wellington Koo
age 13
Premier
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Republic of China
Li Jingxi
age 42
Premier
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Republic of China
Sun Fo
age 10
Premier
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Republic of China
Tan Yankai
age 21
Premier
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Republic of China
Aleksander Prystor
age 27
Prime Minister
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Poland
Julian Nowak
age 36
Prime Minister
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Poland
Antoni Ponikowski
age 23
Prime Minister
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Poland
Kazimierz Bartel
age 19
Prime Minister
-
Poland
Artur Śliwiński
age 24
Prime Minister
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Poland
Leopold Skulski
age 24
Prime Minister
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Poland
Janusz Jędrzejewicz
age 16
Prime Minister
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Poland
Jędrzej Moraczewski
age 31
Prime Minister
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Poland
Władysław Grabski
age 27
Prime Minister
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Poland
Stanisław Mikołajczyk
age 5 months
Prime Minister
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Poland
Wincenty Witos
age 27
Prime Minister
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Poland
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
age 41
Prime Minister
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Poland
Kazimierz Świtalski
age 15
Prime Minister
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Poland
Walery Sławek
age 22
Prime Minister
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Poland
Ignacy Daszyński
age 35
Prime Minister
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Poland
Władysław Sikorski
age 20
Prime Minister
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Poland
Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski
age 9
Prime Minister
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Poland
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski
age 16
Prime Minister
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Poland
Aleksander Skrzyński
age 19
Prime Minister
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Poland
Hideki Tojo
age 16
Prime Minister
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Japan
Edward Douglass White
age 56
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Charles Evans Hughes
age 39
Governor of New York
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United States
Harlan F. Stone
age 29
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Melville Fuller
age 68
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Henry A. Wallace
age 13
Vice President
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United States
John Nance Garner
age 33
Vice President
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United States
Charles Curtis
age 41
Vice President
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United States
Charles G. Dawes
age 36
Vice President
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United States
Thomas R. Marshall
age 47
Vice President
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United States
James S. Sherman
age 46
Vice President
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United States
Charles W. Fairbanks
age 49
Vice President
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United States
Hermann Göring
age 8
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Heinrich Himmler
age 1
Nazi Party
Rudolf Hess
age 7
Nazi Party
Douglas MacArthur
age 21
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
George C. Marshall
age 20
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
A. Mitchell Palmer
age 29
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Robert H. Jackson
age 9
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Francis Biddle
age 15
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
John Hay
age 63
Secretary Of State
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United States
Elihu Root
age 56
Secretary Of State
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United States
Robert Bacon
age 41
Secretary Of State
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United States
Philander C. Knox
age 48
Secretary Of State
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United States
William Jennings Bryan
age 41
Secretary Of State
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United States
Robert Lansing
age 37
Secretary Of State
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United States
Bainbridge Colby
age 32
Secretary Of State
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United States
Frank B. Kellogg
age 45
Secretary Of State
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United States
Henry L. Stimson
age 34
Secretary Of State
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United States
Cordell Hull
age 30
Secretary Of State
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United States
J. Edgar Hoover
age 6
Republican Party (United States)
Wilhelm Frick
age 24
Nazi Party
Harry S. Truman
age 17
Senate
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 24
Senate
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
born 1908-08-27
House of Representatives
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United States
Earl Warren
age 10
Governor of California
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United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 11
Republican Party (United States)
John F. Kennedy
born 1917-05-29
Democratic Party (United States)
Deng Xiaoping
born 1904-08-22
Communist Party of China
Jimmy Carter
born 1924-10-01
Democratic Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
born 1911-02-06
Republican Party (United States)
George H. W. Bush
born 1924-06-12
Republican Party (United States)
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Joseph Goebbels
age 4
Nazi Party
Reinhard Heydrich
born 1904-03-07
Nazi Party
Martin Bormann
age 1
Nazi Party
Karl Dönitz
age 10
Nazi Party
Liu Shaoqi
age 3
Communist Party of China
Grover Cleveland
age 64
Democratic Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
born 1926-08-17
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
born 1923-05-27
Republican Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
born 1941-01-30
Republican Party (United States)
Zhou Enlai
age 3
Communist Party of China
Kurt Daluege
age 4
Nazi Party
Hu Jintao
born 1942-12-21
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
born 1909-06-23
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
born 1907-08-03
Communist Party of China
Dong Biwu
age 15
Communist Party of China
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