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Gilded Age
1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
Progressive era
1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
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
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
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
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941-12-07
Pacific War
1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
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
1949 Syrian coup d'état
1949-03-29
Korean War
1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Second Battle of Seoul
1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
Korean Armistice Agreement
1953-07-27
1953 Iranian coup d'état
1953-08-15 - 1953-08-19
People
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 18
President
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United States
Joseph Stalin
age 21
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 9
President
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United States
Nicholas II of Russia
age 31
Emperor
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Russia
Winston Churchill
age 25
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Warren G. Harding
age 34
President
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United States
Harry S. Truman
age 15
President
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United States
Emperor Meiji
age 47
Emperor
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Japan
Chiang Kai-shek
age 12
President
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Republic of China
Mehmed V
age 55
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Mehmed VI
age 39
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Clement Attlee
age 17
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Calvin Coolidge
age 27
President
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United States
William Howard Taft
age 42
President
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United States
Mao Zedong
age 6
Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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Communist Party of China
H. H. Asquith
age 47
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Adolf Hitler
age 11
Führer
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Germany
Ho Chi Minh
age 9
President
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Vietnam
David Lloyd George
age 37
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Franz Joseph I of Austria
age 69
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Nikita Khrushchev
age 6
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Wilhelm II
age 41
Emperor
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German Empire
Charles I of Austria
age 12
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
William McKinley
age 57
President
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United States
Theodore Roosevelt
age 41
President
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United States
Woodrow Wilson
age 43
President
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United States
Emperor Taishō
age 20
Emperor
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Japan
Herbert Hoover
age 25
President
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United States
Guangxu Emperor
age 28
Emperor
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Imperial China
Georges Clemenceau
age 58
Prime Minister
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France
Souvanna Phouma
born 1901-10-07
Prime Minister
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Laos
Puyi
born 1906-02-07
Emperor
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Imperial China
Hirohito
born 1901-04-29
Emperor
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Japan
Jacobo Árbenz
born 1913-09-14
President
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Guatemala
Raymond Poincaré
age 39
President
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France
Neville Chamberlain
age 31
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Richard Nixon
born 1913-01-09
Vice President
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United States
Kim Il-sung
born 1912-04-15
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Alben W. Barkley
age 22
Vice President
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United States
Henry A. Wallace
age 11
Vice President
-
United States
John Nance Garner
age 31
Vice President
-
United States
Charles Curtis
age 40
Vice President
-
United States
Edward VII
age 58
King
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United Kingdom
Edward VIII
age 5
King
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United Kingdom
Queen Victoria
age 80
Queen
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United Kingdom
Charles G. Dawes
age 34
Vice President
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United States
James S. Sherman
age 44
Vice President
-
United States
Charles W. Fairbanks
age 47
Vice President
-
United States
Kurt von Schleicher
age 18
Chancellor
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Germany
Thomas R. Marshall
age 46
Vice President
-
United States
Joseph Goebbels
age 2
Chancellor
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Germany
Elizabeth II
born 1926-04-21
Queen
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United Kingdom
Konrad Adenauer
age 24
Chancellor
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Germany
George VI
age 4
King
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United Kingdom
George V
age 34
King
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United Kingdom
Józef Piłsudski
age 32
Prime Minister
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Poland
Zhou Enlai
age 2
Premier
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People's Republic of China
John F. Kennedy
born 1917-05-29
Senate
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United States
Hubert Humphrey
born 1911-05-27
Senate
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
born 1908-08-27
Senate
-
United States
Hermann Göring
age 7
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Gerald Ford
born 1913-07-14
House of Representatives
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United States
Melvin Laird
born 1922-09-01
House of Representatives
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United States
John Foster Dulles
age 12
Secretary Of State
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United States
Edward Douglass White
age 54
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone
age 27
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Fred M. Vinson
age 10
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
George C. Marshall
age 19
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Omar Bradley
age 7
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
-
United States
Douglas MacArthur
age 20
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Vladimir Lenin
age 30
Chairman
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Soviet Union
Charles Evans Hughes
age 38
Governor of New York
-
United States
Earl Warren
age 9
Governor of California
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United States
Iwane Matsui
age 21
Imperial Japanese Army
Lee Teng-hui
born 1923-01-15
Imperial Japanese Army
John J. Pershing
age 39
United States Army
Deng Xiaoping
born 1904-08-22
Communist Party of China
George H. W. Bush
born 1924-06-12
Republican Party (United States)
Ronald Reagan
born 1911-02-06
Republican Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
born 1946-08-19
Democratic Party (United States)
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Henry Kissinger
born 1923-05-27
United States Army
Jiang Zemin
born 1926-08-17
Communist Party of China
Martin Bormann
born 1900-06-17
Nazi Party
Reinhard Heydrich
born 1904-03-07
Nazi Party
Rudolf Hess
age 5
Nazi Party
Heinrich Himmler
born 1900-10-07
Nazi Party
William Rehnquist
born 1924-10-01
United States Air Force
Dick Cheney
born 1941-01-30
Republican Party (United States)
Kurt Daluege
age 2
Nazi Party
George S. Patton
age 14
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
age 14
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
Jimmy Carter
born 1924-10-01
United States Navy
Lien Chan
born 1936-08-27
Kuomintang
Liu Shaoqi
age 1
Communist Party of China
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 18
Imperial Japanese Army
John Paul Stevens
born 1920-04-20
United States Navy
David Souter
born 1939-09-17
Republican Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 8
Nazi Party
Sandra Day O'Connor
born 1930-03-26
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
born 1907-09-19
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
born 1908-07-02
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
born 1912-05-17
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 5
Republican Party (United States)
Robert A. Lovett
age 4
United States Navy
William H. Webster
born 1924-03-06
Republican Party (United States)
George Wallace
born 1919-08-25
United States Army
John Lewis
born 1940-02-21
Democratic Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
born 1908-08-08
Democratic Party (United States)
Potter Stewart
born 1915-01-23
Republican Party (United States)
William J. Brennan Jr.
born 1906-04-25
United States Army
Franz von Papen
age 20
Imperial German Army
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 11
Communist Party of Vietnam
Clark Clifford
born 1906-12-25
United States Navy
James R. Schlesinger
born 1929-02-15
Republican Party (United States)
Wilhelm Frick
age 23
Nazi Party
Charles de Gaulle
age 9
French Army
Daniel Inouye
born 1924-09-07
Democratic Party (United States)
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
Sun Yat-sen
age 33
Kuomintang
Wen Jiabao
born 1942-09-15
Communist Party of China
James Baker
born 1930-04-28
Democratic Party (United States)
Walter Mondale
born 1928-01-05
United States Army
Byron White
born 1917-06-08
Democratic Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
born 1910-04-27
Kuomintang
Grover Cleveland
age 63
Democratic Party (United States)
Lee Yuan-tsu
born 1923-09-24
Kuomintang
Sun Yun-suan
born 1913-11-10
Kuomintang
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 14
United States Navy
Raymond A. Spruance
age 13
United States Navy
Levi P. Morton
age 75
Republican Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
age 13
United States Army
Francisco Franco
age 7
Alfred Rosenberg
age 7
Erich Raeder
age 24
Hubert Gough
age 29
Hans Fritzsche
born 1900-04-21
Walther Funk
age 9
Manuel Azaña
age 20
George W. Bush
born 1946-07-06
Kliment Voroshilov
age 19
Semyon Timoshenko
age 5
Naoki Hoshino
age 8
He Yingqin
age 10
Lê Duẩn
born 1907-04-07
Kōki Hirota
age 22
Chester W. Nimitz
age 15
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 5
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 16
Doihara Kenji
age 16
Wilhelm Keitel
age 17
Akira Mutō
age 7
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
born 1903-10-04
Claus von Stauffenberg
born 1907-11-15
Yuan Shikai
age 40
Mikhail Gorbachev
born 1931-03-02
Martin Luther King Jr.
born 1929-01-15
Hideki Tōjō
age 15
Rosa Parks
born 1913-02-04
Benjamin Harrison
age 66
Robert F. Kennedy
born 1925-11-20
Saddam Hussein
born 1937-04-28
Ruhollah Khomeini
born 1902-09-24
Seishirō Itagaki
age 15
Souphanouvong
born 1909-07-13
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 10
Heitarō Kimura
age 11
Rodion Malinovsky
age 1
Pol Pot
born 1925-05-19
Benito Mussolini
age 16
Leonid Brezhnev
born 1906-12-19
Paul von Hindenburg
age 52
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 32
Kyösti Kallio
age 27
Hjalmar Schacht
age 23
Baldur von Schirach
born 1907-05-09
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 7
Fritz Sauckel
age 5
Erich Ludendorff
age 35
Wilhelm Groener
age 32
Jacques Chirac
born 1932-11-29
Kim Jong-il
born 1941-02-16
Nelson Mandela
born 1918-07-18
Mahatma Gandhi
age 30
Albert Einstein
age 21
John Marshall Harlan II
age 11 months
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 51
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
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
born 1918-07-17
Narendra Modi
born 1950-09-17
Gennady Yanayev
born 1937-08-26
Konstantin Chernenko
born 1911-09-24
Gordon Brown
born 1951-02-20
Tony Blair
born 1953-05-06
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
Juan José Arévalo
born 1904-09-10
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
age 62
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Thomas Gage
age 182
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
Boris Yeltsin
born 1931-02-01
Nikola Tesla
age 43
Leon Trotsky
age 20
Peng Dehuai
age 1
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
Warren E. Burger
born 1907-09-17
Joseph Joffre
age 48
Anthony Eden
age 2
Emilio De Bono
age 34
Albert Speer
born 1905-03-19
Donald Trump
born 1946-06-14
Yuri Andropov
born 1914-06-15
Julius Streicher
age 15
Alfred Jodl
age 9
Otto Hofmann
age 4
Fritz Todt
age 8
Otto Rasch
age 8
Hans Frank
born 1900-05-23
Hafez al-Assad
born 1930-10-06
George Shultz
born 1920-12-13
Margaret Thatcher
born 1925-10-13
John Schofield
age 68
Eva Braun
born 1912-02-06
Ernst Röhm
age 12
Ronald McNair
born 1950-10-21
Zhu Rongji
born 1928-10-23
Zeng Qinghong
born 1939-07-30
Soong Ching-ling
age 7
Zhu De
age 13
Empress Dowager Cixi
age 64
Nelson Rockefeller
born 1908-07-08
Dan Quayle
born 1947-02-04
Matthias Erzberger
age 24
Ferdinand Foch
age 48
Joseph Chamberlain
age 63
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 20
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 24
Erich von Manstein
age 12
Ōyama Iwao
age 57
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
age 36
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
born 1906-04-10
Robert McNamara
born 1916-06-09
Fidel Castro
born 1926-08-13
Xi Jinping
born 1953-06-15
Cai E
age 17
Spiro Agnew
born 1918-11-09