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Events

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
Progressive era 1896 - 1916

People

Theodore Roosevelt age 44
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 44
Emperor - German Empire
Edward VII age 61
King - United Kingdom
Abdul Hamid II age 60
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 68
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 50
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 72
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 33
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 31
Emperor - Imperial China
Émile Loubet age 64
President - France
Menelik II age 58
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 28
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 50
Emperor - Korean Empire
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 50
Shah - Iran
Rodrigues Alves age 54
President - Brazil
Tomás Estrada Palma age 67
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 43
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 34
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 72
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 40
President - International Olympic Committee
Arthur Balfour age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bernhard von Bülow age 53
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 76
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 62
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Peng Dehuai age 4
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 17
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 1
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 7
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 3
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Elihu Root age 58
Secretary of War - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 66
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John Hay age 64
Secretary of State - United States
Philander C. Knox age 49
Attorney General - United States
L. M. Shaw age 54
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 43
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 64
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 66
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William R. Day age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Joseph McKenna age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran age 54
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles W. Fairbanks age 50
Senate - United States
Russell A. Alger age 67
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 71
Senate - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 61
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Curtis age 43
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 13
House of Representatives - United States
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Carson age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lord George Hamilton age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Harcourt age 75
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 7
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 66
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeff Davis age 40
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Walter Smith age 58
Governor of Maryland - United States
George Pardee age 45
Governor of California - United States
S. W. T. Lanham age 56
Governor of Texas - United States
Benjamin Odell age 49
Governor of New York - United States
Andrew Jackson Montague age 40
Governor of Virginia - United States
George K. Nash age 60
Governor of Ohio - United States
John L. Bates age 43
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Franklin Murphy age 57
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Winfield T. Durbin age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
Warren G. Harding age 37
Ohio Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 67
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 85
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 18
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 55
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 83
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 93
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 16
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 22
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 49
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 85
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 74
King - Sweden
George Curzon age 44
Viceroy - British Raj
Carol I of Romania age 64
King - Kingdom of Romania
Sobhuza II age 3
King - Eswatini
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 85
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 54
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 30
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 59
President - Argentina
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 25
Sultan - Morocco
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 46
President - Uruguay
Eduardo López de Romaña age 56
President - Peru
Cipriano Castro age 44
President - Venezuela
George Tupou II age 28
King - Tonga
Germán Riesco age 48
President - Chile
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 38
Sultan - Oman
José Manuel Pando age 53
President - Bolivia
José Santos Zelayo age 49
President - Nicaragua
José Manuel Marroquín age 75
President - Colombia
Leónidas Plaza age 37
President - Ecuador
Pierre Nord Alexis age 82
President - Haiti
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 82
Emir - Qatar
Adolf Deucher age 72
President - Switzerland
Juan Antonio Escurra age 43
President - Paraguay
Garretson W. Gibson age 70
President - Liberia
Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra age 58
President - Costa Rica
Pedro José Escalón age 56
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 55
Hakim - Bahrain
Lerotholi age 67
King - Lesotho
Juan Ángel Arias Boquín age 43
President - Honduras
Ahmed bin Muhammed Al Thani age 50
Emir - Qatar
Edmund Barton age 54
Prime Minister - Australia
Wilfrid Laurier age 61
Prime Minister - Canada
Abraham Kuyper age 65
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Erik Gustaf Boström age 61
Prime Minister - Sweden
Dimitrie Sturdza age 70
Prime Minister - Romania
Theodoros Deligiannis age 83
Prime Minister - Greece
Richard Seddon age 57
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Otto Blehr age 56
Prime Minister - Norway
Francisco Silvela age 59
Prime Minister - Spain
Johan Henrik Deuntzer age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Stoyan Danev age 45
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Paul Eyschen age 61
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Kálmán Széll age 59
Prime Minister - Hungary
Paul de Smet de Naeyer age 59
Prime Minister - Belgium
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 57
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson age 50
Governor-General - Australia
Adolf Hitler age 13
Albert Einstein age 24
Vladimir Lenin age 32
Mahatma Gandhi age 33
Leo Tolstoy age 74
Joseph Stalin age 24
Pablo Picasso age 21
Charlie Chaplin age 13
Thomas Edison age 56
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 22
Sigmund Freud age 46
Marie Curie age 35
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 21
Rabindranath Tagore age 41
Mao Zedong age 9
Charles de Gaulle age 12
Nikola Tesla age 46
Walt Disney age 1
Ernest Hemingway age 3
Henry Ford age 39
Benito Mussolini age 19
Harry S. Truman age 18
Jawaharlal Nehru age 13
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 12
Woodrow Wilson age 46
John Maynard Keynes age 19
Niels Bohr age 17
Leon Trotsky age 23
Max Planck age 44
Dmitri Mendeleev age 69
Enrico Fermi age 1
Nikita Khrushchev age 8
Herbert Hoover age 28
Calvin Coolidge age 30
Alexander Graham Bell age 56
Hirohito age 1
Claude Monet age 62
Ho Chi Minh age 12
Sun Yat-sen age 36
Florence Nightingale age 82
William Howard Taft age 45
Konrad Adenauer age 27
Grover Cleveland age 66
Joseph Goebbels age 5
Chiang Kai-shek age 15
Golda Meir age 4
John XXIII age 21
Alexander Fleming age 21
Francisco Franco age 10
David Ben-Gurion age 16
Ruhollah Khomeini age 6 months
Josip Broz Tito age 10
Guglielmo Marconi age 28
Sukarno age 1
Paul VI age 5
Pius XII age 27