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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 73
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 55
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 78
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 38
King - Italy
Armand Fallières age 66
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 37
Emperor - Imperial China
Menelik II age 64
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 34
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 36
Shah - Iran
Afonso Pena age 60
President - Brazil
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 34
Emperor - Korean Empire
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 48
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 40
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 78
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 45
President - International Olympic Committee
Georges Clemenceau age 66
Prime Minister - France
H. H. Asquith age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bernhard von Bülow age 59
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Giolitti age 65
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 68
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 75
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles W. Fairbanks age 56
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 4
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 22
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 7
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 12
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
David Lloyd George age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Elihu Root age 63
Secretary of State - United States
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 57
Attorney General - United States
Reginald McKenna age 45
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 52
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
George B. Cortelyou age 46
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Luke Edward Wright age 62
Secretary of War - United States
J. Franklin Bell age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Winston Churchill age 33
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 60
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 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Joseph McKenna age 65
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 78
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Sweetman age 64
President - Sinn Féin
Charles Curtis age 48
Senate - United States
Philander C. Knox age 55
Senate - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 66
Senate - United States
Stanley Baldwin age 41
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 72
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 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John W. Weeks age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 13
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 40
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 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 43
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 52
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 46
Governor of New York - United States
Claude A. Swanson age 46
Governor of Virginia - United States
James Gillett age 47
Governor of California - United States
Thomas Mitchell Campbell age 52
Governor of Texas - United States
Andrew L. Harris age 72
Governor of Ohio - United States
Austin Lane Crothers age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States
Curtis Guild Jr. age 48
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Frank Hanly age 45
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Franklin Fort age 56
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Xenophon Overton Pindall age 35
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Calvin Coolidge age 36
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Richard Olney age 73
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 24
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 61
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 88
New York State Senate - United States
Pius X age 73
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 22
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 28
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 36
King - Norway
Chulalongkorn age 54
King - Thailand
Gustaf V of Sweden age 50
King - Sweden
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 65
King - Denmark
Carol I of Romania age 69
King - Kingdom of Romania
Sobhuza II age 9
King - Eswatini
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 59
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 36
Emir - Afghanistan
Ugyen Wangchuck age 46
King - Bhutan
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 56
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 33
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 66
President - Ecuador
José Figueroa Alcorta age 47
President - Argentina
Cipriano Castro age 49
President - Venezuela
George Tupou II age 34
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 68
King - Cambodia
Pedro Montt age 59
President - Chile
José Pardo y Barreda age 44
President - Peru
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 44
Sultan - Oman
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 63
Viceroy - British Raj
Arthur Barclay age 54
President - Liberia
José Santos Zelayo age 54
President - Nicaragua
Ismael Montes Gamboa age 46
President - Bolivia
Ernst Brenner age 51
President - Switzerland
Emiliano González Navero age 47
President - Paraguay
Pierre Nord Alexis age 88
President - Haiti
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 87
Emir - Qatar
Ramón Cáceres age 41
President - Dominican Republic
Fernando Figueroa age 59
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 46
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Alfred Deakin age 52
Prime Minister - Australia
Wilfrid Laurier age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Arvid Lindman age 45
Prime Minister - Sweden
Gunnar Knudsen age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Antonio Maura age 55
Prime Minister - Spain
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 41
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Georgios Theotokis age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Theo Heemskerk age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Frans Schollaert age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Paul Eyschen age 67
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Joseph Ward age 52
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lazar Tomanović age 63
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Petar Velimirović age 60
Prime Minister - Serbia
William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley age 41
Governor-General - Australia
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 61
Governor-General - Australia
Adolf Hitler age 19
Albert Einstein age 29
Vladimir Lenin age 38
Mahatma Gandhi age 38
Leo Tolstoy age 80
Joseph Stalin age 29
Pablo Picasso age 26
Charlie Chaplin age 19
Thomas Edison age 61
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 27
Sigmund Freud age 52
Marie Curie age 40
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 26
Rabindranath Tagore age 47
Mao Zedong age 14
Charles de Gaulle age 17
Nikola Tesla age 52
Walt Disney age 6
George Orwell age 5
Ernest Hemingway age 9
Henry Ford age 45
Benito Mussolini age 25
Jean-Paul Sartre age 3
Harry S. Truman age 24
Jawaharlal Nehru age 18
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 17
Woodrow Wilson age 51
John Maynard Keynes age 25
Simone de Beauvoir age 7 months
Niels Bohr age 22
Leon Trotsky age 28
Max Planck age 50
Lyndon B. Johnson age 0 months
Enrico Fermi age 6
Nikita Khrushchev age 14
Herbert Hoover age 34
Alexander Graham Bell age 61
Hirohito age 7
Claude Monet age 67
Ho Chi Minh age 18
Sun Yat-sen age 41
Florence Nightingale age 88
William Howard Taft age 50
Konrad Adenauer age 32
Warren G. Harding age 42
Joseph Goebbels age 10