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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 45
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 44
Emperor - German Empire
Edward VII age 62
King - United Kingdom
Abdul Hamid II age 61
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 68
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 51
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 73
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 33
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 32
Emperor - Imperial China
Émile Loubet age 64
President - France
Menelik II age 59
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 29
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 51
Emperor - Korean Empire
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 50
Shah - Iran
Rodrigues Alves age 55
President - Brazil
Tomás Estrada Palma age 68
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 43
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 35
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 73
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 40
President - International Olympic Committee
Arthur Balfour age 55
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bernhard von Bülow age 54
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 77
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 63
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Peng Dehuai age 5
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 2
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
John Hay age 65
Secretary of State - United States
Philander C. Knox age 50
Attorney General - United States
L. M. Shaw age 55
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 44
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 40
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 67
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William R. Day age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Joseph McKenna age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles W. Fairbanks age 51
Senate - United States
Russell A. Alger age 67
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 72
Senate - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 62
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 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Curtis age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James S. Sherman age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
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 37
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 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 47
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 76
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 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 8
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 67
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Warren G. Harding age 38
Ohio Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 68
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 85
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 19
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 56
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 84
New York State Senate - United States
Pius X age 68
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 17
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 23
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 50
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 4
King - Eswatini
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 86
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 54
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 31
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 60
President - Argentina
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 25
Sultan - Morocco
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 47
President - Uruguay
Cipriano Castro age 45
President - Venezuela
George Tupou II age 29
King - Tonga
Germán Riesco age 49
President - Chile
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 39
Sultan - Oman
José Manuel Pando age 53
President - Bolivia
José Santos Zelayo age 50
President - Nicaragua
José Manuel Marroquín age 76
President - Colombia
Leónidas Plaza age 38
President - Ecuador
Pierre Nord Alexis age 83
President - Haiti
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 82
Emir - Qatar
Adolf Deucher age 72
President - Switzerland
Juan Antonio Escurra age 44
President - Paraguay
Garretson W. Gibson age 71
President - Liberia
Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra age 59
President - Costa Rica
Pedro José Escalón age 56
President - El Salvador
Manuel Bonilla age 54
President - Honduras
Isa I of Bahrain age 55
Hakim - Bahrain
Lerotholi age 67
King - Lesotho
Ahmed bin Muhammed Al Thani age 50
Emir - Qatar
Alfred Deakin age 47
Prime Minister - Australia
Wilfrid Laurier age 61
Prime Minister - Canada
Abraham Kuyper age 66
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Erik Gustaf Boström age 61
Prime Minister - Sweden
Dimitrie Sturdza age 70
Prime Minister - Romania
José Pardo y Barreda age 39
Prime Minister - Peru
Richard Seddon age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde age 55
Prime Minister - Spain
Dimitrios Rallis age 59
Prime Minister - Greece
Károly Khuen-Héderváry age 54
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Henrik Deuntzer age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Racho Petrov age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Paul Eyschen age 62
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Paul de Smet de Naeyer age 60
Prime Minister - Belgium
Francis Hagerup age 50
Prime Minister - Norway
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 57
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson age 51
Governor-General - Australia
Adolf Hitler age 14
Albert Einstein age 24
Vladimir Lenin age 33
Mahatma Gandhi age 34
Leo Tolstoy age 75
Joseph Stalin age 24
Pablo Picasso age 22
Charlie Chaplin age 14
Thomas Edison age 56
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 22
Sigmund Freud age 47
Marie Curie age 35
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 21
Rabindranath Tagore age 42
Mao Zedong age 9
Charles de Gaulle age 12
Nikola Tesla age 47
Walt Disney age 1
George Orwell age 4 months
Ernest Hemingway age 4
Henry Ford age 40
Benito Mussolini age 20
Harry S. Truman age 19
Jawaharlal Nehru age 13
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 13
Woodrow Wilson age 46
John Maynard Keynes age 20
Niels Bohr age 18
Leon Trotsky age 23
Max Planck age 45
Dmitri Mendeleev age 69
Enrico Fermi age 2
Nikita Khrushchev age 9
Herbert Hoover age 29
Calvin Coolidge age 31
Alexander Graham Bell age 56
Hirohito age 2
Claude Monet age 62
Ho Chi Minh age 13
Sun Yat-sen age 36
Florence Nightingale age 83
William Howard Taft age 46
Konrad Adenauer age 27
Grover Cleveland age 66
Joseph Goebbels age 5
Chiang Kai-shek age 15
Golda Meir age 5
John XXIII age 21
Alexander Fleming age 22
Francisco Franco age 10
David Ben-Gurion age 17
Ruhollah Khomeini age 1
Josip Broz Tito age 11
Guglielmo Marconi age 29
Sukarno age 2
Paul VI age 6
Pius XII age 27
George VI age 7
Pius XI age 46
Heinrich Himmler age 3
Neville Chamberlain age 34
Haile Selassie age 11
Douglas MacArthur age 23
Benedict XV age 48
Erwin Rommel age 11
Carl Benz age 58