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Progressive era
1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
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
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
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
1954 Syrian coup d'état
1954-02-01
Civil rights movement
1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
1954-06-18 - 1954-06-27
First Taiwan Strait Crisis
1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence
1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race
1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War
1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott
1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Little Rock Nine
1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1
1957-10-04
Great Leap Forward
1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Great Chinese Famine
1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Laotian Civil War
1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement
1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Guatemalan Civil War
1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement
1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
Vostok 1
1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
Freedom Riders
1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
1961 Syrian coup d'état
1961-09-28
Apollo Program
1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962-10-16 - 1962-10-29
Sino-Indian War
1962-10-20 - 1962-11-21
Socialist Education Movement
1963-01-01 - 1966-01-01
1963 Syrian coup d'état
1963-03-08
Birmingham campaign
1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
1963-06-11
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
1963-08-28
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963-11-22
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964-07-02
Harlem riot of 1964
1964-07-16 - 1964-07-22
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964-08-02
Chicago Freedom Movement
1965-01-01 - 1967-01-01
Selma to Montgomery marches
1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25
Voting Rights Act of 1965
1965-08-06
1966 Syrian coup d'état
1966-02-21 - 1966-02-23
Cultural Revolution
1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War
1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Six-Day War
1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Nigerian Civil War
1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
1967 Plainfield riots
1967-07-14 - 1967-07-16
1967 Detroit riot
1967-07-23 - 1967-07-28
People
Wilhelm II
age 47
Emperor
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German Empire
Calvin Coolidge
age 33
President
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United States
Ho Chi Minh
age 15
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 15
President
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United States
Charles de Gaulle
age 15
President
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France
Winston Churchill
age 31
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Nicholas II of Russia
age 37
Emperor
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Russia
William Howard Taft
age 48
President
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United States
Pol Pot
born 1925-05-19
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Warren G. Harding
age 40
President
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United States
Leonid Brezhnev
born 1906-12-19
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Mehmed V
age 61
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Mehmed VI
age 45
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Clement Attlee
age 23
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Anthony Eden
age 8
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Joseph Stalin
age 27
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Guangxu Emperor
age 34
Emperor
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Imperial China
Puyi
born 1906-02-07
Emperor
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Imperial China
Harry S. Truman
age 21
President
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United States
Franz Joseph I of Austria
age 75
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Nikita Khrushchev
age 11
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Emperor Meiji
age 53
Emperor
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Japan
Chiang Kai-shek
age 18
President
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Republic of China
Lyndon B. Johnson
born 1908-08-27
President
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United States
Gamal Abdel Nasser
born 1918-01-15
President
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Egypt
John F. Kennedy
born 1917-05-29
President
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United States
Adolf Hitler
age 16
Führer
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Germany
Raymond Poincaré
age 45
President
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France
Georges Clemenceau
age 64
Prime Minister
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France
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 24
President
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United States
H. H. Asquith
age 53
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Theodore Roosevelt
age 47
President
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United States
Woodrow Wilson
age 49
President
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United States
Emperor Taishō
age 26
Emperor
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Japan
Lê Duẩn
born 1907-04-07
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Neville Chamberlain
age 36
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
David Lloyd George
age 43
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Carlos Castillo Armas
born 1914-11-04
President
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Guatemala
Souvanna Phouma
age 4
Prime Minister
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Laos
Hirohito
age 4
Emperor
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Japan
Charles I of Austria
age 18
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Herbert Hoover
age 31
President
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United States
Jacobo Árbenz
born 1913-09-14
President
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Guatemala
Charles G. Dawes
age 40
Vice President
-
United States
Charles Curtis
age 46
Vice President
-
United States
John Nance Garner
age 37
Vice President
-
United States
Henry A. Wallace
age 17
Vice President
-
United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 28
Vice President
-
United States
Hubert Humphrey
born 1911-05-27
Vice President
-
United States
Liu Shaoqi
age 7
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Elizabeth II
born 1926-04-21
Queen
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United Kingdom
Mao Zedong
age 12
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Richard Nixon
born 1913-01-09
Vice President
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United States
George VI
age 10
King
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United Kingdom
Edward VIII
age 11
King
-
United Kingdom
Konrad Adenauer
age 30
Chancellor
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Germany
Edward VII
age 64
King
-
United Kingdom
Fidel Castro
born 1926-08-13
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Kim Il-sung
born 1912-04-15
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Charles W. Fairbanks
age 53
Vice President
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United States
James S. Sherman
age 50
Vice President
-
United States
Thomas R. Marshall
age 51
Vice President
-
United States
George V
age 40
King
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United Kingdom
Kurt von Schleicher
age 23
Chancellor
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Germany
Józef Piłsudski
age 38
Prime Minister
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Poland
Joseph Goebbels
age 8
Chancellor
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Germany
Daniel Inouye
born 1924-09-07
Senate
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United States
Robert F. Kennedy
born 1925-11-20
Senate
-
United States
Zhou Enlai
age 7
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Walter Mondale
born 1928-01-05
Senate
-
United States
Melvin Laird
born 1922-09-01
House of Representatives
-
United States
Gerald Ford
born 1913-07-14
House of Representatives
-
United States
Hermann Göring
age 13
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
George H. W. Bush
born 1924-06-12
House of Representatives
-
United States
Robert McNamara
born 1916-06-09
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Nicholas Katzenbach
born 1922-01-17
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Ramsey Clark
born 1927-12-18
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Dong Biwu
age 19
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Soong Ching-ling
age 13
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Zhu De
age 19
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
born 1906-04-10
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
George C. Marshall
age 25
Secretary Of Defense
-
United States
Earl Warren
age 14
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Fred M. Vinson
age 16
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone
age 33
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
Edward Douglass White
age 60
Chief Justice
-
US Judiciary
John Foster Dulles
age 17
Secretary Of State
-
United States
Margaret Thatcher
born 1925-10-13
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Douglas MacArthur
age 26
Chief of Staff of the Army
-
United States
Omar Bradley
age 12
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
-
United States
Deng Xiaoping
age 1
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
Vladimir Lenin
age 35
Chairman
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Soviet Union
Byron White
born 1917-06-08
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 6
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
born 1906-04-25
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
born 1915-01-23
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg
born 1908-08-08
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Abe Fortas
born 1910-06-19
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
born 1908-07-02
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
-
US Judiciary
Ronald Reagan
born 1911-02-06
Governor of California
-
United States
Charles Evans Hughes
age 43
Governor of New York
-
United States
Nelson Rockefeller
born 1908-07-08
Governor of New York
-
United States
Spiro Agnew
born 1918-11-09
Governor Of Maryland
-
United States
John Connally
born 1917-02-27
Governor of Texas
-
United States
Zhao Ziyang
born 1919-10-17
Communist Party of China
Bill Clinton
born 1946-08-19
Democratic Party (United States)
Barack Obama
born 1961-08-04
Democratic Party (United States)
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Rudolf Hess
age 11
Nazi Party
Reinhard Heydrich
age 1
Nazi Party
Martin Bormann
age 5
Nazi Party
Iwane Matsui
age 27
Imperial Japanese Army
Jiang Zemin
born 1926-08-17
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
born 1923-05-27
United States Army
Lee Teng-hui
born 1923-01-15
Imperial Japanese Army
Heinrich Himmler
age 5
Nazi Party
Hu Yaobang
born 1915-11-20
Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
born 1921-02-16
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
born 1907-08-03
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
born 1909-06-23
Communist Party of China
Hu Jintao
born 1942-12-21
Communist Party of China
George S. Patton
age 20
United States Army
William Rehnquist
born 1924-10-01
United States Air Force
Jimmy Carter
born 1924-10-01
United States Navy
Dick Cheney
born 1941-01-30
Republican Party (United States)
Kurt Daluege
age 8
Nazi Party
Lee Yuan-tsu
born 1923-09-24
Kuomintang
Lien Chan
born 1936-08-27
Kuomintang
Stephen Breyer
born 1938-08-15
United States Army
John Lewis
born 1940-02-21
Democratic Party (United States)
John Paul Stevens
born 1920-04-20
United States Navy
David Souter
born 1939-09-17
Republican Party (United States)
Anthony Kennedy
born 1936-07-23
United States Army
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 24
Imperial Japanese Army
Sandra Day O'Connor
born 1930-03-26
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
born 1907-09-19
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
born 1912-05-17
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 11
Republican Party (United States)
George Wallace
born 1919-08-25
United States Army
Wilhelm Frick
age 28
Nazi Party
William H. Webster
born 1924-03-06
Republican Party (United States)
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
United States Navy
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Democratic Party (United States)
Liz Cheney
born 1966-07-28
Republican Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 17
Communist Party of Vietnam
Clark Clifford
born 1906-12-25
United States Navy
James R. Schlesinger
born 1929-02-15
Republican Party (United States)
Robert A. Lovett
age 10
United States Navy
Karl Dönitz
age 14
Nazi Party
John J. Pershing
age 45
United States Army
Jacques Chirac
born 1932-11-29
French Army
Sun Yat-sen
age 39
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
Franz von Papen
age 26
Imperial German Army
Wen Jiabao
born 1942-09-15
Communist Party of China
Li Keqiang
born 1955-07-01
Communist Party of China
James Baker
born 1930-04-28
Democratic Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
born 1954-11-14
Republican Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
born 1910-04-27
Kuomintang
Colin Powell
born 1937-04-05
United States Army
Grover Cleveland
age 68
Democratic Party (United States)
Levi P. Morton
age 81
Republican Party (United States)
Kamala Harris
born 1964-10-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
Republican Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
age 19
United States Army
Raymond A. Spruance
age 19
United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 20
United States Navy
Sun Yun-suan
born 1913-11-10
Kuomintang
Martin Luther King Jr.
born 1929-01-15
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Walther Funk
age 15
Manuel Azaña
age 26
Hans Fritzsche
age 5
Francisco Franco
age 13
Wilhelm Groener
age 38
Erich Ludendorff
age 40
Wilhelm Keitel
age 23
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 2
George W. Bush
born 1946-07-06
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 11
Kliment Voroshilov
age 25
Semyon Timoshenko
age 10
He Yingqin
age 15
Akira Mutō
age 13
Doihara Kenji
age 22
Kōki Hirota
age 27
Naoki Hoshino
age 13
Claus von Stauffenberg
born 1907-11-15
Yuan Shikai
age 46
Mikhail Gorbachev
born 1931-03-02
Hideki Tōjō
age 21
Rosa Parks
born 1913-02-04
Seishirō Itagaki
age 21
Saddam Hussein
born 1937-04-28
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 15
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 3
Heitarō Kimura
age 17
Rodion Malinovsky
age 7
Souphanouvong
born 1909-07-13
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 38
Benito Mussolini
age 22
Kyösti Kallio
age 32
Hjalmar Schacht
age 29
Baldur von Schirach
born 1907-05-09
Paul von Hindenburg
age 58
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 13
Fritz Sauckel
age 11
Alfred Rosenberg
age 13
Erich Raeder
age 29
Hubert Gough
age 35
Jo Ann Robinson
born 1912-04-17
Aung San Suu Kyi
born 1945-06-19
Muhammad Ali
born 1942-01-17
Boris Yeltsin
born 1931-02-01
Tim Berners-Lee
born 1955-06-08
Nikola Tesla
age 49
François Hollande
born 1954-08-12
Nicolas Sarkozy
born 1955-01-28
Kim Jong-il
born 1941-02-16
Nelson Mandela
born 1918-07-18
Mahatma Gandhi
age 36
Albert Einstein
age 26
Clarence M. Kelley
born 1911-10-24
Antonin Scalia
born 1936-03-11
Clarence Thomas
born 1948-06-23
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
born 1933-03-15
Yasser Arafat
born 1929-08-24
Joseph Gallieni
age 56
Warren Christopher
born 1925-10-27
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
Keir Starmer
born 1962-09-02
Boris Johnson
born 1964-06-19
Theresa May
born 1956-10-01
David Cameron
born 1966-10-09
Gordon Brown
born 1951-02-20
Tony Blair
born 1953-05-06
John Major
born 1943-03-29
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 6 months
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
born 1915-11-23
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
born 1908-06-17
Juan José Arévalo
age 1
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
age 68
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Thomas Gage
age 188
Malcolm X
born 1925-05-19
Lawrence Eagleburger
born 1930-08-01
John Roberts
born 1955-01-27
Warren E. Burger
born 1907-09-17
Joseph Joffre
age 54
Emilio De Bono
age 39
Albert Speer
age 10 months
Donald Trump
born 1946-06-14
Yuri Andropov
born 1914-06-15
Julius Streicher
age 20
Alfred Jodl
age 15
Otto Hofmann
age 9
Fritz Todt
age 14
Otto Rasch
age 14
Hans Frank
age 5
Hafez al-Assad
born 1930-10-06
George Shultz
born 1920-12-13
John Schofield
age 74
Eva Braun
born 1912-02-06
Ernst Röhm
age 18
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 21
Ellison Onizuka
born 1946-06-24
Ronald McNair
born 1950-10-21
Zhu Rongji
born 1928-10-23
Zeng Qinghong
born 1939-07-30
Empress Dowager Cixi
age 70
Dan Quayle
born 1947-02-04
Matthias Erzberger
age 30
Ferdinand Foch
age 54
Joseph Chamberlain
age 69
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 26
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 30
Erich von Manstein
age 18
Ōyama Iwao
age 63
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
age 42
Xi Jinping
born 1953-06-15
Cai E
age 23
Leon Trotsky
age 26
Peng Dehuai
age 7
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
Chester W. Nimitz
age 20