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Events

American Indian Wars 1609 - 1924
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Mahdist War 1881-06-29 - 1899-11-24
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
Cuban War of Independence 1895-02-24 - 1898-08-12
Progressive era 1896 - 1916

People

Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford age 70
Eugene Meyer age 21
Carlos Eugenio Restrepo age 29
Charles Erwin Wilson age 7
Duff Cooper age 7
George Henry Williams age 74
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 33
Isamu Chō age 2
Pascual Orozco age 15
Otto von Knobelsdorff age 11
Alexander Kutepov age 14
Gérard Leman age 46
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch age 9
Felix Graf von Bothmer age 44
Mihail Savov age 39
Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer age 40
Vladimir Stoychev age 5
Émile Fayolle age 45
George Washington Goethals age 39
Shigeyoshi Inoue age 7
Anatoly Stessel age 49
Silvestras Žukauskas age 36
Archibald James Murray age 37
Édouard de Castelnau age 45
Fidel Dávila Arrondo age 19
Piet Cronjé age 60
Ronglu age 61
William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood age 31
Nakayama Yoshiko age 61
Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg age 52
George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg age 45
Vladimir Paley age 7 months
Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia age 10
Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin age 39
Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir age 19
Nazikeda Kadın (wife of Mehmed VI) age 30
Şehzade Osman Fuad age 2
Alexander M. Patch age 7
Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg age 18
Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1879–1962) age 17
Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1862–1933) age 34
Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans age 28
Lord Leopold Mountbatten age 8
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895–1903) age 2
Johan Ehrnrooth age 63
Kliment of Tarnovo age 56
Gyula Szapáry age 64
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos age 65
Theodor Rosetti age 60
Julio Herrera y Obes age 56
Duncan Stewart age 64
Tomás Gomensoro Albín age 87
Guillermo Tell Villegas age 74
Francisco García Calderón age 63
Harry F. Byrd age 10
İbrahim Edhem Pasha
Ali Rıza Pasha age 37
Vlastimil Tusar age 16
Ali bin Hamud age 13
Khalifa bin Harub age 18
Akira Mutō age 4
Sulejman Delvina age 12
Isaac Isaacs age 42
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 25
Andrei Toshev age 30
Dimitar Petkov age 38
Dobry Bozhilov age 13
Juan Esteban Montero age 18
Enrique Olaya Herrera age 16
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 83
José Vicente Concha age 30
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 38
León Cortés Castro age 14
Ramón Cáceres age 30
Horacio Vásquez age 36
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 9
Tomás Regalado age 35
Noe Ramishvili age 16
Konstantinos Logothetopoulos age 19
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas age 4
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos age 6
Carlos Herrera y Luna age 40
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 8
Louis Eugene Roy age 36
Élie Lescot age 13
Julio Lozano Díaz age 12
Yasin Hashimi age 15
Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun age 18
Hugo Celmiņš age 19
Garretson W. Gibson age 65
Janko Vukotić age 31
Ba U age 10
Walter Nash age 15
George Forbes age 28
William Massey age 41
Johannes Steen age 70
Augusto de Vasconcelos age 29
Vladan Đorđević age 52
Karl Kobelt age 6
Rudolf Minger age 15
Karl Scheurer age 24
Robert Haab age 32
Ernest Chuard age 40
Robert Comtesse age 50
Eduard von Steiger age 16
Hans Streuli age 5
Enrico Celio age 8
Ludwig Forrer age 52
Felix Calonder age 33
Arthur Hoffmann age 40
Khalid al-Azm age 2
Aleksander Prystor age 23
Julian Nowak age 32
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 15
Juan Bautista Gaona age 52
Albino Jara age 20
Alexander Ramsey age 82
Harry Hines Woodring age 10
Robert P. Patterson age 6
Wilbur Wright age 30
George B. Cortelyou age 35
Charles Foster age 69
John G. Carlisle age 63
Harry M. Daugherty age 37
Michele Bianchi age 14
Komura Jutarō age 41
Prince Komatsu Akihito age 51
Roman Kondratenko age 39
Hugo Österman age 4
Ludwig von Falkenhausen age 52
Walter Short age 17
Keith Park age 5
Maximilian Fretter-Pico age 5
Arthur Currie age 21
Nikolay Ivanov age 46
Nikolai Nebogatov age 48
Wilgelm Vitgeft age 49
Robert L. Eichelberger age 11
José Moscardó Ituarte age 18
Annibale Bergonzoli age 12
Augustin Dubail age 46
Nazim Pasha age 49
Rikichi Andō age 13
Pascual Cervera y Topete age 58
Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia age 4
Hayranidil Kadın age 50
Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) age 10
Sabiha Sultan age 3
Ahmad Nami age 24
Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov age 60
Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria age 74
Mikhail Dragomirov age 66
Carl Gustav Fleischer age 13
Pak Yŏnghyo age 36
Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1842–1906) age 55
Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau age 73
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1896) age 9 months
Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria age 30
Archduchess Maria Henrietta of Austria age 14
Archduchess Isabella of Austria age 8
Princess Isabella of Croÿ age 41
Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria age 8
Archduke Leo Karl of Austria age 4
Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1875–1964) age 22
Prince Konrad of Bavaria age 13
Leonid Sobolev age 53
Dimitar Grekov age 49
József Szlávy age 78
Æneas Mackay Jr. age 58
István Bittó age 75
Gijsbert van Tienhoven age 56
Rafael Zaldívar age 63
Sotirios Sotiropoulos age 77
Joan Röell age 53
Hilary R. W. Johnson age 60
John Burns age 38
George C. Perkins age 58
David B. Hill age 54
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland age 78
Hugh Dalton age 10
John Marshall Harlan age 64
Ahmed Cevat Şakir Pasha
Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire age 64
Antonio Borrero age 69
František Udržal age 31
Jan Malypetr age 23
Jan Černý age 23
Jan Šrámek age 27
Kingorō Hashimoto age 7
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson age 45
Jose Gutierrez Guerra age 27
Eliodoro Villazón age 49
Petar Gudev age 34
Pencho Zlatev age 13
Dimitar Stanchov age 34
Konstantin Muraviev age 4
Carlos Dávila age 9
Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra age 53
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 18
Ado Birk age 13