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Events

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Progressive era 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
First Balkan War 1912-10-08 - 1913-05-30

People

Woodrow Wilson age 56
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 54
Emperor - German Empire
George V age 47
King - United Kingdom
Raymond Poincaré age 52
President - France
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 43
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 33
Emperor - Japan
Mehmed V age 68
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Albert I of Belgium age 38
Monarch - Belgium
Yuan Shikai age 53
President - Republic of China
Menelik II age 68
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 38
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 15
Shah - Iran
Victoriano Huerta age 62
President - Mexico
Hermes da Fonseca age 58
President - Brazil
José Miguel Gómez age 54
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 53
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 45
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 82
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 50
President - International Olympic Committee
H. H. Asquith age 60
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 56
Chancellor - German Empire
Giovanni Giolitti age 70
Prime Minister - Italy
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Louis Botha age 50
Prime Minister - South Africa
Muhammad Said Pasha age 50
Prime Minister - Egypt
Edward Douglass White age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Thomas R. Marshall age 59
Vice President - United States
Winston Churchill age 38
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 50
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William Jennings Bryan age 53
Secretary Of State - United States
Leonard Wood age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 49
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Reginald McKenna age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Lindley Miller Garrison age 48
Secretary of War - United States
James Clark McReynolds age 51
Attorney General - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 44
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Sun Yat-sen age 46
Chairman - Kuomintang
Ramsay MacDonald age 46
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Andrew Bonar Law age 54
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Charles Evans Hughes age 51
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William R. Day age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Langalibalele Dube age 42
President - African National Congress
Arthur Griffith age 42
President - Sinn Féin
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 31
Assistant Secretary Of The Navy - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 35
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Pius X age 77
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 26
Monarch - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 32
King - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 40
Monarch - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 54
Monarch - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 42
Monarch - Denmark
Carol I of Romania age 74
King - Kingdom of Romania
Vajiravudh age 32
King - Thailand
Sobhuza II age 13
King - Eswatini
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 18
Monarch - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 64
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 40
Emir - Afghanistan
Ugyen Wangchuck age 50
King - Bhutan
Juan Vicente Gómez age 55
President - Venezuela
Roque Sáenz Peña age 62
President - Argentina
Yusef of Morocco age 31
Sultan - Morocco
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 57
President - Uruguay
Manuel de Arriaga age 72
President - Portugal
George Tupou II age 38
Monarch - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 72
King - Cambodia
Ramón Barros Luco age 77
President - Chile
Guillermo Billinghurst age 61
President - Peru
Adolfo Díaz age 37
President - Nicaragua
Eduardo Schaerer age 39
President - Paraguay
Leónidas Plaza age 48
President - Ecuador
Eduard Müller age 64
President - Switzerland
Carlos Eugenio Restrepo age 45
President - Colombia
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 54
President - Costa Rica
Eliodoro Villazón age 65
President - Bolivia
Daniel Edward Howard age 51
President - Liberia
Francisco Bertrand age 46
President - Honduras
Carlos Meléndez Ramírez age 52
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 65
Monarch - Bahrain
José Bordas Valdés age 38
President - Dominican Republic
Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani age 32
Emir - Qatar
Charles Hardinge age 54
Viceroy - British Raj
Eleftherios Venizelos age 48
Prime Minister - Greece
Ismail Kemal age 69
Prime Minister - Albania
Andrew Fisher age 50
Prime Minister - Australia
Robert Borden age 58
Prime Minister - Canada
Gunnar Knudsen age 64
Prime Minister - Norway
Karl Staaff age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 50
Prime Minister - Spain
Hannes Hafstein age 51
Prime Minister - Iceland
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 60
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Klaus Berntsen age 68
Prime Minister - Denmark
Charles de Broqueville age 52
Prime Minister - Belgium
Theo Heemskerk age 60
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Ivan Evstratiev Geshov age 64
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Paul Eyschen age 71
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
László Lukács age 62
Prime Minister - Hungary
Afonso Costa age 42
Prime Minister - Portugal
Janko Vukotić age 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Massey age 57
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Mitar Martinović age 42
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 38
Governor-General - Australia
Albert Jean George Marie Louis Picquié age 59
Governor-General - Madagascar
Adolf Hitler age 24
Albert Einstein age 34
Ronald Reagan age 2
Vladimir Lenin age 43
Mahatma Gandhi age 43
Joseph Stalin age 34
Pablo Picasso age 31
Charlie Chaplin age 24
Thomas Edison age 66
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 32
Sigmund Freud age 57
Marie Curie age 45
Rabindranath Tagore age 52
Mao Zedong age 19
Charles de Gaulle age 22
Nikola Tesla age 56
Walt Disney age 11
George Orwell age 9
Ernest Hemingway age 13
Henry Ford age 49
Benito Mussolini age 29
Jean-Paul Sartre age 7
Mother Teresa age 2
Harry S. Truman age 29
Theodore Roosevelt age 54
Jawaharlal Nehru age 23
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 22
Richard Nixon age 3 months
Alan Turing age 10 months
John Maynard Keynes age 29
Simone de Beauvoir age 5
Niels Bohr age 27
Leon Trotsky age 33
Max Planck age 55
Lyndon B. Johnson age 4
Enrico Fermi age 11
Nikita Khrushchev age 19
Herbert Hoover age 38
Calvin Coolidge age 40
Alexander Graham Bell age 66
Kwame Nkrumah age 3
Hirohito age 12
Claude Monet age 72
Ho Chi Minh age 22
William Howard Taft age 55
Konrad Adenauer age 37
Georges Pompidou age 1
Warren G. Harding age 47
Joseph Goebbels age 15
Leonid Brezhnev age 6
Chiang Kai-shek age 25
Golda Meir age 15
John XXIII age 31
Deng Xiaoping age 8
Alexander Fleming age 31
Francisco Franco age 20
David Ben-Gurion age 26
Milton Friedman age 9 months
Ruhollah Khomeini age 10
Josip Broz Tito age 21
Guglielmo Marconi age 39
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 9
Rosa Parks age 3 months
Sukarno age 11
John Paul I age 6 months
Paul VI age 15
Dag Hammarskjöld age 7
Salvador Allende age 4
Pius XII age 37
John von Neumann age 9
George VI age 17
Pius XI age 55
Heinrich Himmler age 12
Neville Chamberlain age 44
Haile Selassie age 20
Douglas MacArthur age 33
Benedict XV age 58
Erwin Rommel age 21
Carl Benz age 68
Hermann Göring age 20
Rachel Carson age 5
Grigori Rasputin age 44
Edward VIII age 18
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 36
Paul von Hindenburg age 65
Wernher von Braun age 1
Clement Attlee age 30
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 49
George C. Marshall age 32
Enver Hoxha age 4
Abdul Hamid II age 70
Georges Clemenceau age 71
Konstantin Chernenko age 1
Zhou Enlai age 15
Vyacheslav Molotov age 23
Józef Piłsudski age 45
Anthony Eden age 15