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Events

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Partition of Bengal 1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12
Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01

People

William Howard Taft age 53
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 52
Emperor - German Empire
George V age 46
King - United Kingdom
Emperor Meiji age 58
Emperor - Japan
Puyi age 5
Emperor - Imperial China
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 41
King - Italy
Mehmed V age 66
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Albert I of Belgium age 36
King - Belgium
Armand Fallières age 69
President - France
Menelik II age 67
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 37
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 13
Shah - Iran
Hermes da Fonseca age 56
President - Brazil
Francisco León de la Barra age 48
President - Mexico
José Miguel Gómez age 53
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 51
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 43
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 81
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 48
President - International Olympic Committee
H. H. Asquith age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 54
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Giolitti age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Louis Botha age 48
Prime Minister - South Africa
Muhammad Said Pasha age 48
Prime Minister - Egypt
Edward Douglass White age 65
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
James S. Sherman age 55
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 6
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 12
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 25
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 9
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 15
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 11
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill age 36
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry L. Stimson age 43
Secretary of War - United States
Leonard Wood age 50
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Philander C. Knox age 58
Secretary of State - United States
Reginald McKenna age 48
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 55
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Franklin MacVeagh age 73
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Arthur Balfour age 63
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Ramsay MacDonald age 44
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Charles Evans Hughes age 49
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 66
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
William R. Day age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Joseph McKenna age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Griffith age 40
President - Sinn Féin
Elihu Root age 66
Senate - United States
Charles Curtis age 51
Senate - United States
Stanley Baldwin age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 42
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 75
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James F. Byrnes age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Carson age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John W. Weeks age 51
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 57
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. Mitchell Palmer age 39
House of Representatives - United States
J. R. Clynes age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 16
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Shortt age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Barnes age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Woodrow Wilson age 54
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Thomas R. Marshall age 57
Governor of Indiana - United States
Judson Harmon age 65
Governor of Ohio - United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 29
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 75
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 26
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 64
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 91
New York State Senate - United States
Pius X age 76
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 25
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 30
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 39
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 53
King - Sweden
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 68
King - Denmark
Carol I of Romania age 72
King - Kingdom of Romania
Vajiravudh age 30
King - Thailand
Sobhuza II age 12
King - Eswatini
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 62
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 39
Emir - Afghanistan
Ugyen Wangchuck age 49
King - Bhutan
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 59
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Juan Vicente Gómez age 54
President - Venezuela
Roque Sáenz Peña age 60
President - Argentina
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 55
President - Uruguay
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 36
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 69
President - Ecuador
Augusto Leguía age 48
President - Peru
George Tupou II age 37
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 70
King - Cambodia
Ramón Barros Luco age 76
President - Chile
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 47
Sultan - Oman
Adolfo Díaz age 36
President - Nicaragua
Arthur Barclay age 57
President - Liberia
Marc-Emile Ruchet age 57
President - Switzerland
Liberato Marcial Rojas age 40
President - Paraguay
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 90
Emir - Qatar
Pablo Arosemena age 74
President - Panama
Carlos Eugenio Restrepo age 43
President - Colombia
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 52
President - Costa Rica
Ramón Cáceres age 44
President - Dominican Republic
Eliodoro Villazón age 63
President - Bolivia
Manuel Enrique Araujo age 45
President - El Salvador
François C. Antoine Simon age 67
President - Haiti
Francisco Bertrand age 44
President - Honduras
Isa I of Bahrain age 63
Hakim - Bahrain
Charles Hardinge age 53
Viceroy - British Raj
Pyotr Stolypin age 49
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Eleftherios Venizelos age 46
Prime Minister - Greece
Andrew Fisher age 48
Prime Minister - Australia
Wilfrid Laurier age 69
Prime Minister - Canada
Teófilo Braga age 68
Prime Minister - Portugal
Arvid Lindman age 48
Prime Minister - Sweden
José Canalejas age 57
Prime Minister - Spain
Klaus Berntsen age 67
Prime Minister - Denmark
Charles de Broqueville age 50
Prime Minister - Belgium
Károly Khuen-Héderváry age 62
Prime Minister - Hungary
Wollert Konow age 66
Prime Minister - Norway
Theo Heemskerk age 59
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Petre P. Carp age 74
Prime Minister - Romania
Ivan Evstratiev Geshov age 62
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Paul Eyschen age 69
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Kristján Jónsson age 59
Prime Minister - Iceland
Joseph Ward age 55
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lazar Tomanović age 65
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 36
Governor-General - Australia
Albert Jean George Marie Louis Picquié age 57
Governor-General - Madagascar
Zaifeng, Prince Chun age 28
Prince Regent - Imperial China
Adolf Hitler age 22
Albert Einstein age 32
Ronald Reagan age 5 months
Vladimir Lenin age 41
Mahatma Gandhi age 41
Joseph Stalin age 32
Pablo Picasso age 29
Charlie Chaplin age 22
Thomas Edison age 64
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 30
Sigmund Freud age 55
Marie Curie age 43
Rabindranath Tagore age 50
Mao Zedong age 17
Charles de Gaulle age 20
Nikola Tesla age 55
Walt Disney age 9
George Orwell age 8
Ernest Hemingway age 12
Henry Ford age 48
Benito Mussolini age 28
Jean-Paul Sartre age 6
Mother Teresa age 11 months
Harry S. Truman age 27
Theodore Roosevelt age 52
Jawaharlal Nehru age 21
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 20
John Maynard Keynes age 28
Simone de Beauvoir age 3
Niels Bohr age 25
Leon Trotsky age 31
Max Planck age 53
Lyndon B. Johnson age 2
Enrico Fermi age 9
Nikita Khrushchev age 17
Herbert Hoover age 37
Calvin Coolidge age 39
Alexander Graham Bell age 64
Kwame Nkrumah age 1
Hirohito age 10
Claude Monet age 70
Ho Chi Minh age 21
Sun Yat-sen age 44