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Events

Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
Progressive era 1896 - 1916

People

Édouard Herriot age 24
Leo von Caprivi age 65
Philipp Scheidemann age 31
William Jennings Bryan age 36
Sveinn Björnsson age 15
Christian Michelsen age 39
Władysław Sikorski age 15
Franz Halder age 12
Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) age 20
Katsura Tarō age 48
Zhu De age 9
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 46
John Diefenbaker age 10 months
Ioannis Metaxas age 25
Kārlis Ulmanis age 18
Clara Barton age 74
Gustav Bauer age 26
Heinrich Brüning age 10
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 8
Peter I of Serbia age 52
Walther Funk age 5
Fritz Sauckel age 1
Kyösti Kallio age 23
Billy Hughes age 33
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 21
Plutarco Elías Calles age 18
Gabriel Narutowicz age 31
Carol II of Romania age 2
Erich von Falkenhayn age 34
Prince Maximilian of Baden age 29
Fumimaro Konoe age 4
Vasily Blyukher age 6
Fuad I of Egypt age 28
Nicolae Iorga age 25
Rómulo Gallegos age 12
Maurice Gamelin age 23
Georg Michaelis age 38
Georg von Hertling age 52
Constantin Fehrenbach age 44
Giovanni Giolitti age 53
Jan Smuts age 26
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 24
Chris Watson age 29
Robert Menzies age 1
Lauri Kristian Relander age 13
Francisco Largo Caballero age 26
C. Rajagopalachari age 17
Günther von Kluge age 13
Yakov Sverdlov age 11
Djemal Pasha age 24
Wilhelm Cuno age 20
Yamagata Aritomo age 58
Ichirō Hatoyama age 13
Ivanoe Bonomi age 22
Zewditu age 20
Demetrios Vikelas age 61
Fritz Todt age 4
Ismail Kemal age 52
Andrew Fisher age 33
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 11
Manuel Roxas age 4
Nikolai Yudenich age 34
Terauchi Masatake age 44
Hara Takashi age 40
Francesco Crispi age 77
Bartolomé Mitre age 75
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 6 months
Nikola Pašić age 50
Wang Jingwei age 13
Matsukata Masayoshi age 61
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 41
Paul Reynaud age 17
Henry L. Stimson age 28
John Curtin age 11
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 2
Victoriano Huerta age 45
Ignacy Mościcki age 28
José Paciano Laurel age 5
Sergio Osmeña age 17
Rodolfo Graziani age 14
Charles Evans Hughes age 34
Earl Warren age 5
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 58
Louis St. Laurent age 14
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 2
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 1
Elpidio Quirino age 5
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 15
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 55
Venceslau Brás age 28
James F. Byrnes age 14
Arthur Meighen age 22
Georgios Papandreou age 8
Zalman Shazar age 6
Robert Nivelle age 39
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 43
Maxime Weygand age 29
Kuniaki Koiso age 16
Kijūrō Shidehara age 23
Nilo Peçanha age 28
François Darlan age 15
Emilio De Bono age 30
George Reid age 51
Earle Page age 16
Pál Teleki age 16
Jānis Čakste age 36
Per Albin Hansson age 10
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 19
Saionji Kinmochi age 46
Antonio Salandra age 43
Luigi Facta age 34
Rodrigues Alves age 48
Afonso Pena age 48
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 13
Habibullah Khan age 24
Julio Argentino Roca age 53
S. M. Bruce age 13
Ugyen Wangchuck age 34
Richard Bedford Bennett age 26
Abraham Kuyper age 58
Anastasio Somoza García age 6 months
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 1
Tanaka Giichi age 32
Tanzan Ishibashi age 11
Sidney Sonnino age 49
Washington Luís age 26
Joseph Cook age 35
Karl Seitz age 26
Michael Hainisch age 38
William Tubman age 8 months
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 44
Pedro Lascuráin age 40
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 2
Wellington Koo age 8
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 22
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 43
Nobuyuki Abe age 20
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 8
Tetsu Katayama age 9
Hitoshi Ashida age 8
Campos Sales age 55
Artur Bernardes age 21
Avery Brundage age 8
Apolinario Mabini age 32
Robert H. Jackson age 4
Fan S. Noli age 14
James Scullin age 19
Arthur Fadden age 2
Ben Chifley age 10
Joseph Lyons age 16
Adolf Schärf age 6
Theodor Körner age 23
Kazys Grinius age 29
Óscar Carmona age 26
Juan Negrín age 4
Hugo Sperrle age 11
Katō Takaaki age 36
Saitō Makoto age 37
Kantarō Suzuki age 28
Paolo Boselli age 58
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 28
Dwight F. Davis age 17
Mark W. Clark age 3 months
Epitácio Pessoa age 31
Hussein Kamel of Egypt age 42
John Hay age 57
Robert Borden age 42
Jorge Alessandri age 2 months
Arturo Alessandri age 27
Saad Zaghloul age 39
Väinö Tanner age 15
Mihály Károlyi age 21
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 11
Adolfo de la Huerta age 15
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 5
Takahashi Korekiyo age 42
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 69
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 9
Félix Gouin age 11
Kōki Hirota age 18
Aimo Cajander age 17
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 26
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe age 36
Teófilo Braga age 53
Petru Groza age 11
Zhang Zuolin age 21
Juan Vicente Gómez age 39
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 11
James Longstreet age 75
Vasily Chapayev age 9
J. Sigfrid Edström age 25
Al Smith age 22
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 28
Robert Lansing age 31
William, Prince of Albania age 20
István Tisza age 35
Thorvald Stauning age 22
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 3
Ali Fethi Okyar age 16
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 27