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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

Luigi Cadorna age 57
Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer age 51
Pietro Frugoni age 57
Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta age 39
Archduke Eugen of Austria age 45
Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten age 47
Andrey Selivanov age 61
Roberto Brusati age 58
Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi age 52
Johannes Frießner age 16
Maximilian Fretter-Pico age 16
Issa Pliyev age 4
Nicolae Macici age 21
Roy Geiger age 23
Hermann von Eichhorn age 60
Sadae Inoue age 21
Otto Liman von Sanders age 53
Kunio Nakagawa age 10
Adam Nieniewski age 22
Cevat Çobanlı age 37
Rudolf von Bünau age 17
Vladimir Stoychev age 16
Lucjan Żeligowski age 42
Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet age 38
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 35
Leberecht Maass age 44
Émile Dossin de Saint-Georges age 54
Augustin Édouard Michel du Faing d'Aigremont age 53
Hans Hartwig von Beseler age 58
Paul von Rennenkampf age 54
Eleanor Roosevelt age 23
Victor Deguise age 52
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby age 47
René Cassin age 21
John Peters Humphrey age 3
Friedrich Sixt von Armin age 56
P. C. Chang age 16
Arthur Arz von Straußenburg age 51
Charles Malik age 2
Paul Maistre age 50
Charles Townshend age 47
Harold Courtenay Armstrong age 17
Taytu Betul age 57
Émile Fayolle age 56
Karl von Einem age 55
Bruno von Mudra age 57
Sakallı Nureddin Paşa age 35
George Washington Goethals age 50
Halil Kut age 26
Edward Smith age 58
Kâzım Karabekir age 26
J. Bruce Ismay age 45
Geoffrey Scoones age 15
Thomas Andrews age 35
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty age 37
Maximilian von Prittwitz age 59
August von Mackensen age 58
George Dominic Murray age 19
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig age 47
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy age 45
William Pulteney age 47
Georg von der Marwitz age 52
José Miaja age 30
Otto von Moser age 48
Vicente Rojo Lluch age 13
Hugo von Kathen age 52
Karl von Bülow age 62
Max von Hausen age 61
Charles Lanrezac age 56
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince age 26
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon age 12
Vittorio Ambrosio age 29
Shigeyoshi Inoue age 18
Takeo Takagi age 16
Chūichi Hara age 19
William Halsey Jr. age 25
Thomas Cassin Kinkaid age 20
Arthur Currie age 32
Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 42
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 39
Nikolay Ivanov age 57
Anton von Saltza age 64
Alexei Evert age 51
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen age 52
Viktor Dankl von Krasnik age 53
Robert Brooke-Popham age 29
Arthur Percival age 20
William H. Rupertus age 18
Paul J. Mueller age 15
Kuroki Tamemoto age 64
Oku Yasukata age 61
Alexander von Kaulbars age 64
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson age 44
Lucian Truscott age 13
Anatoly Stessel age 60
Dewa Shigetō age 52
Kamimura Hikonojō age 59
Nikolai Nebogatov age 59
Nogi Maresuke age 58
Oskar Victorovich Stark age 62
Pavel Petrovich Ukhtomsky age 60
Silvestras Žukauskas age 47
Tōgō Heihachirō age 60
Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev age 65
Zinovy Rozhestvensky age 59
Antonio Aranda age 19
José Enrique Varela age 17
Walter Krueger age 27
Robert L. Eichelberger age 22
José Moscardó Ituarte age 29
Mario Roatta age 21
Annibale Bergonzoli age 23
Radomir Putnik age 61
Stepa Stepanović age 52
Zeki Kolaç age 46
Pierre Ruffey age 57
Fernand de Langle de Cary age 59
Jean-Marie Degoutte age 42
James Harbord age 42
Richard von Conta age 51
Nikolai Ruzsky age 54
Sergei Sheydeman age 50
Archibald James Murray age 48
Charles Macpherson Dobell age 39
Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein age 38
Rüştü Sakarya age 31
Edhem Pasha age 57
Mikhail Zasulich age 64
Nikolai Kashtalinsky age 59
Song Shilun age 10 months
Simon Bolivar Buckner age 85
Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen age 45
Josias von Heeringen age 58
Augustin Dubail age 57
Édouard de Castelnau age 56
Denis Auguste Duchêne age 45
Masami Kobayashi age 18
Fidel Dávila Arrondo age 30
Juan Yagüe Blanco age 16
Shunroku Hata age 29
Toshizō Nishio age 26
Hunter Liggett age 51
Joseph Theodore Dickman age 50
Max von Gallwitz age 56
Georg Fuchs age 51
Eduard von Below age 51
Kim Chaek age 4
Herbert Lawrence age 47
Harry Chauvel age 43
Edward Chaytor age 40
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell age 51
Bryan Mahon age 46
Piet Cronjé age 71
Kootjie Snyman age 70
Petrus Johannes Liebenberg age 51
Francisco García-Escámez age 15
Carlos Asensio Cabanillas age 11
Hasan Riza Pasha age 37
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 66
Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro age 37
Radomir Vešović age 37
Nikola Ivanov age 47
Georgi Vazov age 48
Abdullah Kölemen age 62
Mehmed Şükrü Paşa age 52
Petar Bojović age 50
Anastasios Papoulas age 51
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark age 26
Victor d'Urbal age 49
Oskar Gripenberg age 70
Oskar von Hutier age 50
Georg Bruchmüller age 44
Luigi Capello age 49
Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen age 62
Georgios Hatzianestis age 44
Nikolaos Trikoupis age 40
Kimon Digenis age 37
Alexander Fok age 64
Constantin Prezan age 47
George White age 73
Christiaan de Wet age 53
Mahmud Muhtar Paşa age 40
Karl Jessen age 56
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano age 33
Francisco de Borbón y de la Torre age 26
Agustín Muñoz Grandes age 12
Juan Vigón age 27
Nazim Pasha age 60
Constantine I of Greece age 40
Hasan Tahsin Pasha age 63
Konstantinos Sapountzakis age 62
Dimitrios Matthaiopoulos age 47
Mehmet Esat Bülkat age 45
Mehmet Vehip Kaçı age 33
Jacques Massu age 2 months
John Monash age 43
Walter Braithwaite age 42
Hans Carl Adolph von Carlowitz age 50
Ildefonso Puigdengolas age 32
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri age 1 month