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Events

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Partition of Bengal 1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12

People

Theodore Roosevelt age 49
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 49
Emperor - German Empire
Edward VII age 66
King - United Kingdom
Abdul Hamid II age 65
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 72
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 55
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 77
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 38
King - Italy
Armand Fallières age 66
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 36
Emperor - Imperial China
Menelik II age 63
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 33
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 35
Shah - Iran
Afonso Pena age 60
President - Brazil
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 33
Emperor - Korean Empire
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 48
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 39
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 77
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 45
President - International Olympic Committee
Georges Clemenceau age 66
Prime Minister - France
Bernhard von Bülow age 58
Chancellor - German Empire
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 71
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giovanni Giolitti age 65
Prime Minister - Italy
Saionji Kinmochi age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 67
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 75
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles W. Fairbanks age 55
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 3
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 9
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 21
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 6
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 11
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 8
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William Howard Taft age 50
Secretary of War - United States
H. H. Asquith age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Elihu Root age 63
Secretary of State - United States
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 56
Attorney General - United States
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 51
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
George B. Cortelyou age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 58
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Franklin Bell age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
David Lloyd George age 45
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 59
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Arthur Henderson age 44
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Edward Douglass White age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William R. Day age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Joseph McKenna age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Henry Moody age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton age 77
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Sweetman age 63
President - Sinn Féin
Charles Curtis age 48
Senate - United States
Philander C. Knox age 54
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 76
Senate - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 66
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 39
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Carson age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John W. Weeks age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 12
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Barnes age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Evans Hughes age 45
Governor of New York - United States
Claude A. Swanson age 45
Governor of Virginia - United States
James Gillett age 47
Governor of California - United States
Thomas Mitchell Campbell age 51
Governor of Texas - United States
Andrew L. Harris age 72
Governor of Ohio - United States
Austin Lane Crothers age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
Curtis Guild Jr. age 48
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Frank Hanly age 44
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Franklin Fort age 55
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Xenophon Overton Pindall age 34
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Calvin Coolidge age 35
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Richard Olney age 72
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 23
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 60
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 88
New York State Senate - United States
Pius X age 72
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 21
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 27
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 35
King - Norway
Chulalongkorn age 54
King - Thailand
Gustaf V of Sweden age 49
King - Sweden
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 64
King - Denmark
Carol I of Romania age 68
King - Kingdom of Romania
Sobhuza II age 8
King - Eswatini
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 59
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 35
Emir - Afghanistan
Ugyen Wangchuck age 45
King - Bhutan
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 55
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 33
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 65
President - Ecuador
José Figueroa Alcorta age 47
President - Argentina
Cipriano Castro age 49
President - Venezuela
George Tupou II age 33
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 67
King - Cambodia
Pedro Montt age 58
President - Chile
José Pardo y Barreda age 44
President - Peru
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 43
Sultan - Oman
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 62
Viceroy - British Raj
Arthur Barclay age 53
President - Liberia
José Santos Zelayo age 54
President - Nicaragua
Ismael Montes Gamboa age 46
President - Bolivia
Ernst Brenner age 51
President - Switzerland
Pierre Nord Alexis age 87
President - Haiti
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 87
Emir - Qatar
Benigno Ferreira age 62
President - Paraguay
Ramón Cáceres age 41
President - Dominican Republic
Fernando Figueroa age 58
President - El Salvador
Miguel R. Dávila age 51
President - Honduras
Cleto González Víquez age 49
President - Costa Rica
Isa I of Bahrain age 60
Hakim - Bahrain
Rafael Reyes age 58
President - Colombia
Pyotr Stolypin age 45
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Alfred Deakin age 51
Prime Minister - Australia
Wilfrid Laurier age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Nikola Pašić age 62
Prime Minister - Serbia
Arvid Lindman age 45
Prime Minister - Sweden
Antonio Maura age 54
Prime Minister - Spain
Jørgen Løvland age 60
Prime Minister - Norway
Hannes Hafstein age 46
Prime Minister - Iceland
Sándor Wekerle age 59
Prime Minister - Hungary
Jens Christian Christensen age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Aleksandar Malinov age 40
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Georgios Theotokis age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Theo Heemskerk age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Frans Schollaert age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Paul Eyschen age 66
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Joseph Ward age 51
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lazar Tomanović age 62
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley age 40
Governor-General - Australia
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 61
Governor-General - Australia
Adolf Hitler age 18
Albert Einstein age 28
Vladimir Lenin age 37
Mahatma Gandhi age 38
Leo Tolstoy age 79
Joseph Stalin age 29
Pablo Picasso age 26
Charlie Chaplin age 18
Thomas Edison age 61
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 27
Sigmund Freud age 51
Marie Curie age 40
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 26
Rabindranath Tagore age 46
Mao Zedong age 14
Charles de Gaulle age 17
Nikola Tesla age 51
Walt Disney age 6
George Orwell age 4
Ernest Hemingway age 8
Henry Ford age 44
Benito Mussolini age 24
Jean-Paul Sartre age 2
Harry S. Truman age 23
Jawaharlal Nehru age 18
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 17
Woodrow Wilson age 51
John Maynard Keynes age 24
Simone de Beauvoir age 1 month
Niels Bohr age 22
Leon Trotsky age 28
Max Planck age 49
Enrico Fermi age 6
Nikita Khrushchev age 13
Herbert Hoover age 33
Alexander Graham Bell age 61
Hirohito age 6
Claude Monet age 67
Ho Chi Minh age 17
Sun Yat-sen age 41
Florence Nightingale age 87
Konrad Adenauer age 32
Grover Cleveland age 70
Warren G. Harding age 42
Joseph Goebbels age 10