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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

Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 8
Jean Monnet age 8
Paul Kruger age 71
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) age 49
John Foster Dulles age 9
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 32
Sergei Witte age 48
Vajiravudh age 16
Manuel L. Quezon age 18
Fedor von Bock age 16
Émile Loubet age 58
Risto Ryti age 8
Giovanni Gronchi age 9
Antanas Smetona age 23
Georgy Lvov age 35
Bolesław Bierut age 5
Jean Casimir-Perier age 49
Arthur Henderson age 33
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 47
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini age 2
Paul Deschanel age 42
Dean Acheson age 4
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 35
Douglas Hyde age 37
Álvaro Obregón age 17
Walter Model age 6
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 59
Shigeru Yoshida age 18
Talaat Pasha age 22
Walther von Brauchitsch age 15
René Cassin age 10
Edward Smith age 47
Victoria, Princess Royal age 56
Maud of Wales age 27
Levi P. Morton age 73
Olga Nikolaevna of Russia age 1
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 49
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 20
Albert Kesselring age 11
Joseph Wirth age 17
Wilhelm Marx age 34
Hans Luther age 18
Édouard Herriot age 25
Leo von Caprivi age 66
Philipp Scheidemann age 32
Alexander of Greece age 4
William Jennings Bryan age 37
Sveinn Björnsson age 16
Christian Michelsen age 40
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 0 months
Władysław Sikorski age 16
Franz Halder age 13
Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) age 21
Katsura Tarō age 49
Nobusuke Kishi age 8 months
Tōgō Heihachirō age 49
Konstantin von Neurath age 24
Zhu De age 10
Adlai Stevenson I age 61
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 47
John Diefenbaker age 1
Ioannis Metaxas age 26
Kārlis Ulmanis age 19
Venustiano Carranza age 37
Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia age 2 months
Clara Barton age 75
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 50
Gustav Bauer age 27
Heinrich Brüning age 11
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 9
Peter I of Serbia age 53
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig age 36
Genrikh Yagoda age 5
Princess Alice of Battenberg age 12
Walther Funk age 6
Fritz Sauckel age 2
Kyösti Kallio age 24
Billy Hughes age 34
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 22
Plutarco Elías Calles age 19
Gabriel Narutowicz age 32
Carol II of Romania age 3
Archibald Wavell age 14
Erich von Falkenhayn age 35
Prince Maximilian of Baden age 30
Fumimaro Konoe age 5
Vasily Blyukher age 7
Fuad I of Egypt age 29
August von Mackensen age 47
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg age 29
Marie of Romania age 21
Nicolae Iorga age 26
Rómulo Gallegos age 13
Maurice Gamelin age 24
Georg Michaelis age 39
Georg von Hertling age 53
Constantin Fehrenbach age 45
Giovanni Giolitti age 54
Jan Smuts age 27
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 25
Kirill Meretskov age 2 months
Italo Balbo age 1
Edward Rydz-Śmigły age 11
Nicholas I of Montenegro age 55
Lew Wallace age 70
Oswald Mosley age 8 months
Chris Watson age 30
Robert Menzies age 2
Lauri Kristian Relander age 14
Francisco Largo Caballero age 27
C. Rajagopalachari age 18
Günther von Kluge age 14
Yakov Sverdlov age 12
Djemal Pasha age 25
Wilhelm Cuno age 21
Yamagata Aritomo age 59
Ichirō Hatoyama age 14
Ivanoe Bonomi age 23
Zewditu age 21
Demetrios Vikelas age 62
Allen Dulles age 4
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark age 15
Andrey Vyshinsky age 13
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia age 18
Zita of Bourbon-Parma age 5
Alice Paul age 12
Fritz Todt age 5
Ismail Kemal age 53
Andrew Fisher age 34
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 12
Manuel Roxas age 5
Nikolai Yudenich age 35
Terauchi Masatake age 45
Hara Takashi age 41
Francesco Crispi age 78
Ludwig III of Bavaria age 52
Bartolomé Mitre age 76
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 3 months
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 1
Nikola Pašić age 51
Wang Jingwei age 14
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 42
Paul Reynaud age 18
Olga Constantinovna of Russia age 45
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine age 32
Maria Christina of Austria age 39
Charlotte of Belgium age 57
Allan Octavian Hume age 68
Henry L. Stimson age 29
John Curtin age 12
Ferenc Szálasi age 7 months
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 3
Victoriano Huerta age 46
Einar Gerhardsen age 3 months
Ignacy Mościcki age 29
José Paciano Laurel age 6
Sergio Osmeña age 18
Harold Alexander age 5
Rodolfo Graziani age 15
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince age 15
Roland Freisler age 3
Victoria of Baden age 35
Spyridon Louis age 24
Charles Evans Hughes age 35
Earl Warren age 6
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 59
Louis St. Laurent age 15
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 3
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 2
Elpidio Quirino age 6
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 16
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 56
Venceslau Brás age 29
Ludwig Beck age 17
Vasily Sokolovsky age 1 month
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin age 3
Armando Diaz age 35
Ernest Bevin age 16
Otto, King of Bavaria age 49
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein age 38
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom age 40
Kate Sheppard age 50
James F. Byrnes age 15
Arthur Meighen age 23
Georgios Papandreou age 9
Zalman Shazar age 7
Robert Nivelle age 40
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 44
Maxime Weygand age 30
Kuniaki Koiso age 17
Kijūrō Shidehara age 24
Nilo Peçanha age 29
François Darlan age 16
Li Hongzhang age 74
Ferdinand Schörner age 5
Tomoyuki Yamashita age 11
Luigi Cadorna age 46
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia age 15
Sophia of Prussia age 27
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom age 51