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Self-Strengthening Movement
1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Gilded Age
1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
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
Xinhai Revolution
1911-10-10 - 1912-02-12
Wuchang Uprising
1911-10-10 - 1911-12-01
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
Second Battle of Champagne
1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06
Third Battle of Artois
1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04
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
Remilitarization of the Rhineland
1936-03-07
Spanish Civil War
1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Nanking
1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre
1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Anschluss
1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Munich Agreement
1938-09-30
Kristallnacht
1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Invasion of Poland
1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
World War II
1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Winter War
1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
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
The Holocaust
1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia
1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Operation Barbarossa
1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War
1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Babi Yar massacre
1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow
1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Pacific War
1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941-12-07
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 Kursk
1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Operation Overlord
1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of the Philippine Sea
1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
20 July plot
1944-07-20
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944-08-23 - 1944-10-26
Battle of Metz
1944-09-27 - 1944-12-13
Guatemalan Revolution
1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Aachen
1944-10-02 - 1944-10-21
Rescue of the Lost Battalion
1944-11-24 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge
1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Battle of Manila (1945)
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
Chinese Communist Revolution
1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Soviet–Japanese War
1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Iran crisis of 1946
1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials
1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War
1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War
1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Indian Independence Act
1947-07-18
Partition of India
1947-08-15
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War
1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Berlin Blockade
1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
People
Adolf Hitler
born 1889-04-20
Führer
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Germany
Mao Zedong
born 1893-12-26
Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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Communist Party of China
Puyi
born 1906-02-07
Emperor
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Imperial China
Guangxu Emperor
age 13
Emperor
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Imperial China
Emperor Meiji
age 32
Emperor
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Japan
Franz Joseph I of Austria
age 54
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Harry S. Truman
age 8 months
President
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United States
Wilhelm II
age 26
Emperor
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German Empire
Charles I of Austria
born 1887-08-17
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Raymond Poincaré
age 24
President
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France
Georges Clemenceau
age 43
Prime Minister
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France
Joseph Stalin
age 6
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
William Howard Taft
age 27
President
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United States
H. H. Asquith
age 32
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
David Lloyd George
age 22
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 2
President
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United States
Warren G. Harding
age 19
President
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United States
Hirohito
born 1901-04-29
Emperor
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Japan
Chester A. Arthur
age 55
President
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United States
Herbert Hoover
age 10
President
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United States
Theodore Roosevelt
age 26
President
-
United States
Woodrow Wilson
age 28
President
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United States
Emperor Taishō
age 5
Emperor
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Japan
Calvin Coolidge
age 12
President
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United States
Winston Churchill
age 10
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Grover Cleveland
age 47
President
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United States
Ho Chi Minh
born 1890-05-19
President
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Vietnam
Benjamin Harrison
age 51
President
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United States
Mehmed V
age 40
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
William McKinley
age 42
President
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United States
Neville Chamberlain
age 15
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Mehmed VI
age 24
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Clement Attlee
age 2
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Nicholas II of Russia
age 16
Emperor
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Russia
Thomas R. Marshall
age 30
Vice President
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United States
James S. Sherman
age 29
Vice President
-
United States
Charles W. Fairbanks
age 32
Vice President
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United States
Edward VII
age 43
King
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United Kingdom
Garret Hobart
age 40
Vice President
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United States
Edward VIII
born 1894-06-23
King
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United Kingdom
Levi P. Morton
age 60
Vice President
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United States
George V
age 19
King
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United Kingdom
Queen Victoria
age 65
Queen
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United Kingdom
Charles G. Dawes
age 19
Vice President
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United States
Charles Curtis
age 25
Vice President
-
United States
John Nance Garner
age 16
Vice President
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United States
Henry A. Wallace
born 1888-10-07
Vice President
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United States
Joseph Goebbels
born 1897-10-29
Chancellor
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Germany
Józef Piłsudski
age 17
Prime Minister
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Poland
Kurt von Schleicher
age 2
Chancellor
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Germany
Otto von Bismarck
age 69
Chancellor
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German Empire
George VI
born 1895-12-14
King
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United Kingdom
Alben W. Barkley
age 7
Senate
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United States
Kim Il-sung
born 1912-04-15
Premier
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North Korea
Hermann Göring
born 1893-01-12
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Richard Nixon
born 1913-01-09
House of Representatives
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United States
John F. Kennedy
born 1917-05-29
House of Representatives
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
born 1908-08-27
House of Representatives
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United States
George C. Marshall
age 4
Secretary Of State
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United States
Fred M. Vinson
born 1890-01-22
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone
age 12
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Edward Douglass White
age 39
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Omar Bradley
born 1893-02-12
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Douglas MacArthur
age 4
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
born 1890-10-14
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Vladimir Lenin
age 14
Chairman
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Soviet Union
Earl Warren
born 1891-03-19
Governor of California
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United States
Charles Evans Hughes
age 22
Governor of New York
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United States
Kurt Daluege
born 1897-09-15
Nazi Party
Jimmy Carter
born 1924-10-01
United States Navy
George Wallace
born 1919-08-25
United States Army
John Lewis
born 1940-02-21
Democratic Party (United States)
George S. Patton
born 1885-11-11
United States Army
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
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
Wilhelm Frick
age 7
Nazi Party
Charles de Gaulle
born 1890-11-22
French Army
James R. Schlesinger
born 1929-02-15
Republican Party (United States)
Melvin Laird
born 1922-09-01
United States Navy
Clark Clifford
born 1906-12-25
United States Navy
Rudolf Hess
born 1894-04-26
Nazi Party
Reinhard Heydrich
born 1904-03-07
Nazi Party
Walter Mondale
born 1928-01-05
Democratic Party (United States)
Martin Bormann
born 1900-06-17
Nazi Party
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
born 1946-08-19
Democratic Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
born 1926-08-17
Communist Party of China
Ronald Reagan
born 1911-02-06
Republican Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
born 1923-05-27
United States Army
George H. W. Bush
born 1924-06-12
Republican Party (United States)
Iwane Matsui
age 6
Imperial Japanese Army
Deng Xiaoping
born 1904-08-22
Communist Party of China
Lee Teng-hui
born 1923-01-15
Imperial Japanese Army
John Foster Dulles
born 1888-02-25
Republican Party (United States)
Heinrich Himmler
born 1900-10-07
Nazi Party
Robert A. Lovett
born 1895-09-14
United States Navy
Karl Dönitz
born 1891-09-16
Nazi Party
William Rehnquist
born 1924-10-01
United States Air Force
Dick Cheney
born 1941-01-30
Republican Party (United States)
Franz von Papen
age 5
Imperial German Army
Daniel Inouye
born 1924-09-07
Democratic Party (United States)
William H. Webster
born 1924-03-06
Republican Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
born 1887-01-05
United States Army
Liu Shaoqi
born 1898-11-24
Communist Party of China
Sun Yat-sen
age 18
Kuomintang
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
John Paul Stevens
born 1920-04-20
United States Navy
J. Edgar Hoover
born 1895-01-01
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
born 1912-05-17
Democratic Party (United States)
David Souter
born 1939-09-17
Republican Party (United States)
Wen Jiabao
born 1942-09-15
Communist Party of China
Thurgood Marshall
born 1908-07-02
Democratic Party (United States)
James Baker
born 1930-04-28
Democratic Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
born 1907-09-19
Democratic Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
born 1910-04-27
Kuomintang
Byron White
born 1917-06-08
Democratic Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
born 1930-03-26
Republican Party (United States)
Zhou Enlai
born 1898-03-05
Communist Party of China
Tôn Đức Thắng
born 1888-08-20
Communist Party of Vietnam
John J. Pershing
age 24
United States Army
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 3
Imperial Japanese Army
Lien Chan
born 1936-08-27
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
born 1923-09-24
Kuomintang
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
Democratic Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
born 1913-11-10
Kuomintang
Arthur Goldberg
born 1908-08-08
Democratic Party (United States)
Potter Stewart
born 1915-01-23
Republican Party (United States)
Frank Jack Fletcher
born 1885-04-29
United States Navy
William J. Brennan Jr.
born 1906-04-25
United States Army
Raymond A. Spruance
born 1886-07-03
United States Navy
Semyon Timoshenko
born 1895-02-18
He Yingqin
born 1890-04-02
Rodion Malinovsky
born 1898-11-23
Elizabeth II
born 1926-04-21
Hubert Gough
age 14
Heitarō Kimura
born 1888-09-28
Lê Duẩn
born 1907-04-07
Naoki Hoshino
born 1892-04-10
Akira Mutō
born 1892-12-15
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 9 months
Erich Ludendorff
age 19
Seishirō Itagaki
born 1885-01-21
Kingorō Hashimoto
born 1890-02-19
Doihara Kenji
age 1
Wilhelm Groener
age 17
Francisco Franco
born 1892-12-04
George W. Bush
born 1946-07-06
Rutherford B. Hayes
age 62
Chester W. Nimitz
born 1885-02-24
Kōki Hirota
age 6
Manuel Azaña
age 5
Claus von Stauffenberg
born 1907-11-15
Kyösti Kallio
age 11
Hjalmar Schacht
age 8
Baldur von Schirach
born 1907-05-09
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
born 1892-07-22
Fritz Sauckel
born 1894-10-27
Alfred Rosenberg
born 1893-01-12
Erich Raeder
age 8
Chiang Kai-shek
born 1887-10-31
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 17
Nikita Khrushchev
born 1894-04-15
Yuan Shikai
age 25
Robert F. Kennedy
born 1925-11-20
Leonid Brezhnev
born 1906-12-19
Hans Fritzsche
born 1900-04-21
Walther Funk
born 1890-08-18
Wilhelm Keitel
age 2
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
born 1903-10-04
Saddam Hussein
born 1937-04-28
Ulysses S. Grant
age 62
Mikhail Gorbachev
born 1931-03-02
Ruhollah Khomeini
born 1902-09-24
Jefferson Davis
age 76
Martin Luther King Jr.
born 1929-01-15
Hideki Tōjō
age 0 months
Rosa Parks
born 1913-02-04
Souphanouvong
born 1909-07-13
Pol Pot
born 1925-05-19
Friedrich Jeckeln
born 1895-02-02
Kliment Voroshilov
age 3
Benito Mussolini
age 1
Paul von Hindenburg
age 37
Kim Jong-il
born 1941-02-16
Nelson Mandela
born 1918-07-18
Mahatma Gandhi
age 15
Albert Einstein
age 5
John Marshall Harlan II
born 1899-05-20
Abe Fortas
born 1910-06-19
Clarence M. Kelley
born 1911-10-24
Antonin Scalia
born 1936-03-11
Anthony Kennedy
born 1936-07-23
Clarence Thomas
born 1948-06-23
Stephen Breyer
born 1938-08-15
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
born 1933-03-15
Yasser Arafat
born 1929-08-24
Gamal Abdel Nasser
born 1918-01-15
Joseph Gallieni
age 35
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
Ellison Onizuka
born 1946-06-24
Zhu Rongji
born 1928-10-23
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
born 1918-07-17
Gennady Yanayev
born 1937-08-26
Konstantin Chernenko
born 1911-09-24
John Major
born 1943-03-29
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 47
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Thomas Gage
age 166
Malcolm X
born 1925-05-19
Jo Ann Robinson
born 1912-04-17
Colin Powell
born 1937-04-05
Aung San Suu Kyi
born 1945-06-19
Muhammad Ali
born 1942-01-17
Konrad Adenauer
age 9
Boris Yeltsin
born 1931-02-01
Nikola Tesla
age 28
Jacques Chirac
born 1932-11-29
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
Warren E. Burger
born 1907-09-17
Joseph Joffre
age 33
Anthony Eden
born 1897-06-12
Emilio De Bono
age 18
Albert Speer
born 1905-03-19
Donald Trump
born 1946-06-14
Gerald Ford
born 1913-07-14
Yuri Andropov
born 1914-06-15
Julius Streicher
born 1885-02-12
Alfred Jodl
born 1890-05-10
George B. McClellan
age 58
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
John Schofield
age 53
Eva Braun
born 1912-02-06
Zeng Qinghong
born 1939-07-30
Soong Ching-ling
born 1893-01-27
Zhu De
born 1886-12-01
Empress Dowager Cixi
age 49
Nelson Rockefeller
born 1908-07-08
Dan Quayle
born 1947-02-04
Matthias Erzberger
age 9
Ferdinand Foch
age 33
Joseph Chamberlain
age 48
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 5
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 9
Erich von Manstein
born 1887-11-24
Ōyama Iwao
age 42
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
age 21
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
born 1906-04-10
Robert McNamara
born 1916-06-09
Fidel Castro
born 1926-08-13
Cai E
age 2
Hubert Humphrey
born 1911-05-27
Spiro Agnew
born 1918-11-09
Leon Trotsky
age 5
Peng Dehuai
born 1898-10-24
Ernst Röhm
born 1887-11-28