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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
First Italo-Ethiopian War 1895-01-13 - 1896-10-23
Progressive era 1896 - 1916

People

Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 31
Sergei Witte age 47
Vajiravudh age 15
Manuel L. Quezon age 18
Fedor von Bock age 15
Émile Loubet age 57
Risto Ryti age 7
Giovanni Gronchi age 8
Antanas Smetona age 22
Georgy Lvov age 34
Bolesław Bierut age 4
Jean Casimir-Perier age 48
Arthur Henderson age 32
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 46
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 1
Charles W. Fairbanks age 44
Paul Deschanel age 41
Dean Acheson age 3
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 34
Douglas Hyde age 36
Álvaro Obregón age 16
Walter Model age 5
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 58
Shigeru Yoshida age 17
Talaat Pasha age 22
Walther von Brauchitsch age 14
René Cassin age 9
Edward Smith age 46
Victoria, Princess Royal age 55
Maud of Wales age 26
Garret Hobart age 52
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia age 9 months
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 48
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 20
Albert Kesselring age 10
Joseph Wirth age 16
Wilhelm Marx age 33
Hans Luther age 17
Édouard Herriot age 24
Leo von Caprivi age 65
Philipp Scheidemann age 31
Alexander of Greece age 3
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
Tōgō Heihachirō age 48
Konstantin von Neurath age 23
Zhu De age 9
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 46
John Diefenbaker age 11 months
Ioannis Metaxas age 25
Kārlis Ulmanis age 19
Venustiano Carranza age 36
Clara Barton age 74
Gustav Bauer age 26
Heinrich Brüning age 10
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 9
Peter I of Serbia age 52
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig age 35
Genrikh Yagoda age 4
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 11
Walther Funk age 6
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
Archibald Wavell age 13
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
August von Mackensen age 46
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg age 28
Marie of Romania age 20
Nicolae Iorga age 25
Rómulo Gallegos age 12
Maurice Gamelin age 23
Georg Michaelis age 39
Georg von Hertling age 53
Constantin Fehrenbach age 44
Giovanni Giolitti age 53
Jan Smuts age 26
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 24
Italo Balbo age 2 months
Edward Rydz-Śmigły age 10
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 54
Lew Wallace age 69
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
Allen Dulles age 3
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark age 14
Andrey Vyshinsky age 12
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia age 17
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 4
Alice Paul age 11
Fritz Todt age 4
Ismail Kemal age 52
Andrew Fisher age 34
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
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 51
Bartolomé Mitre age 75
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 7 months
Nikola Pašić age 50
Wang Jingwei age 13
Matsukata Masayoshi age 61
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 41
Paul Reynaud age 17
Olga Constantinovna of Russia age 45
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine age 31
Maria Christina of Austria age 38
Charlotte of Belgium age 56
Allan Octavian Hume age 67
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
Harold Alexander age 4
Rodolfo Graziani age 14
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince age 14
Roland Freisler age 2
Victoria of Baden age 34
Spyridon Louis age 23
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
Venceslau Brás age 28
Ludwig Beck age 16
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin age 2
Armando Diaz age 34
Ernest Bevin age 15
Otto, King of Bavaria age 48
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 37
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 39
Kate Sheppard age 49
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
Li Hongzhang age 73
Ferdinand Schörner age 4
Tomoyuki Yamashita age 10
Luigi Cadorna age 46
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 14
Sophia of Prussia age 26
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 50
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine age 33
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
Tadamichi Kuribayashi age 5