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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

Paul Deschanel age 53
Dean Acheson age 15
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 46
Douglas Hyde age 48
Álvaro Obregón age 28
Walter Model age 17
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 70
Shigeru Yoshida age 29
Talaat Pasha age 33
Levi P. Morton age 84
Kurt Schuschnigg age 10
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 1
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger age 60
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb age 31
Albert Kesselring age 22
Joseph Wirth age 28
Wilhelm Marx age 45
Hans Luther age 29
Édouard Herriot age 35
Philipp Scheidemann age 42
William Jennings Bryan age 48
Sveinn Björnsson age 27
Christian Michelsen age 51
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 10
Władysław Sikorski age 27
Franz Halder age 23
Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) age 32
Katsura Tarō age 60
Nobusuke Kishi age 11
Zhu De age 21
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 57
John Diefenbaker age 12
Ioannis Metaxas age 37
Kārlis Ulmanis age 30
Ramon Magsaysay age 8 months
Clara Barton age 86
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery age 61
Gustav Bauer age 38
Heinrich Brüning age 22
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 20
Peter I of Serbia age 63
Walther Funk age 17
Fritz Sauckel age 13
Kyösti Kallio age 35
Billy Hughes age 45
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 33
Plutarco Elías Calles age 30
Gabriel Narutowicz age 43
Carol II of Romania age 14
Erich von Falkenhayn age 46
Prince Maximilian of Baden age 40
Fumimaro Konoe age 16
Vasily Blyukher age 18
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 10
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 10
Fuad I of Egypt age 40
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 6
Nicolae Iorga age 36
Rómulo Gallegos age 23
Maurice Gamelin age 35
Georg Michaelis age 50
Georg von Hertling age 64
Constantin Fehrenbach age 56
Hayato Ikeda age 8
Jan Smuts age 38
Chris Watson age 41
Robert Menzies age 13
Lauri Kristian Relander age 24
Francisco Largo Caballero age 38
C. Rajagopalachari age 29
Günther von Kluge age 25
Yakov Sverdlov age 22
Djemal Pasha age 36
Wilhelm Cuno age 31
Yamagata Aritomo age 69
Ichirō Hatoyama age 25
Takeo Fukuda age 3
Ivanoe Bonomi age 34
Hendrik Verwoerd age 6
Zewditu age 32
Demetrios Vikelas age 73
Fritz Todt age 16
Joseph Chamberlain age 71
Ismail Kemal age 64
Andrew Fisher age 45
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 23
Manuel Roxas age 16
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 5
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 55
Nikolai Vatutin age 6
Nikolai Yudenich age 45
Terauchi Masatake age 56
Hara Takashi age 52
Ernesto Geisel age 9 months
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 11
Mohammad Hatta age 5
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 12
Marcelo Caetano age 1
Wang Jingwei age 25
Matsukata Masayoshi age 73
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 52
Paul Reynaud age 29
Lê Duẩn age 1
Henry L. Stimson age 40
John Curtin age 23
Franz Jonas age 8
Ferenc Szálasi age 11
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 14
Victoriano Huerta age 57
Einar Gerhardsen age 11
Tage Erlander age 6
Rómulo Betancourt age 2 months
Ignacy Mościcki age 40
José Paciano Laurel age 17
Sergio Osmeña age 29
Luis Carrero Blanco age 4
Rodolfo Graziani age 25
Pierre Mendès France age 1
Earl Warren age 17
Peng Dehuai age 9
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 70
Louis St. Laurent age 26
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 13
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 13
U Nu age 11 months
Elpidio Quirino age 17
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 27
Takeo Miki age 1
Venceslau Brás age 40
Georges Bidault age 8
Hans Fritzsche age 8
Yang Shangkun age 9 months
James F. Byrnes age 26
Arthur Meighen age 33
Léon M'ba age 6
Georgios Papandreou age 20
Zalman Shazar age 18
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 7
Robert Nivelle age 51
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf age 55
Maxime Weygand age 41
Kuniaki Koiso age 28
Kijūrō Shidehara age 35
Nikolai Tikhonov age 3
Nilo Peçanha age 40
François Darlan age 26
Emilio De Bono age 42
Arturo Umberto Illia age 7
George Reid age 63
William McMahon age 2 months
Earle Page age 27
Pál Teleki age 28
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 2
Jānis Čakste age 48
Per Albin Hansson age 22
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 30
Antonio Salandra age 54
Luigi Facta age 46
Rodrigues Alves age 59
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 25
Julio Argentino Roca age 64
S. M. Bruce age 25
Richard Bedford Bennett age 37
José Figueres Ferrer age 1
Abraham Kuyper age 70
Anastasio Somoza García age 12
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 12
Tanaka Giichi age 43
Tanzan Ishibashi age 23
Sidney Sonnino age 61
Washington Luís age 38
Joseph Cook age 47
Karl Seitz age 38
Michael Hainisch age 49
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 7 months
Mario Scelba age 6
William Tubman age 12
Pedro Lascuráin age 52
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 13
Wellington Koo age 20
Carlos P. Garcia age 11
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike age 9
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 55
Nobuyuki Abe age 32
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 20
Tetsu Katayama age 20
Hitoshi Ashida age 20
Campos Sales age 67
Artur Bernardes age 32
Avery Brundage age 20
Robert H. Jackson age 16
Fan S. Noli age 26
James Scullin age 31
Arthur Fadden age 14
Ben Chifley age 22
Joseph Lyons age 28
Adolf Schärf age 18
Theodor Körner age 35
Joaquín Balaguer age 1
Giuseppe Pella age 6