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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

Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 58
Baldur von Schirach age 1
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 30
Talaat Pasha age 34
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 32
Albert Kesselring age 22
Joseph Wirth age 29
Wilhelm Marx age 45
Hans Luther age 29
Édouard Herriot age 36
Philipp Scheidemann age 43
William Jennings Bryan age 48
Sveinn Björnsson age 27
Christian Michelsen age 51
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 11
Władysław Sikorski age 27
Franz Halder age 24
Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) age 32
Nobusuke Kishi age 11
Zhu De age 21
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 58
John Diefenbaker age 13
Ioannis Metaxas age 37
Kārlis Ulmanis age 31
Ramon Magsaysay age 1
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 21
Peter I of Serbia age 64
Walther Funk age 18
Fritz Sauckel age 13
Kyösti Kallio age 35
Billy Hughes age 46
Harold Holt age 1 month
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 33
Plutarco Elías Calles age 31
Gabriel Narutowicz age 43
Carol II of Romania age 14
Erich von Falkenhayn age 47
Prince Maximilian of Baden age 41
Fumimaro Konoe age 16
Vasily Blyukher age 18
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 11
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 10
Fuad I of Egypt age 40
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 6
Nicolae Iorga age 37
Rómulo Gallegos age 24
Maurice Gamelin age 36
Georg Michaelis age 51
Georg von Hertling age 65
Constantin Fehrenbach age 56
Hayato Ikeda age 8
Jan Smuts age 38
Chris Watson age 41
Robert Menzies age 13
Lauri Kristian Relander age 25
Francisco Largo Caballero age 38
C. Rajagopalachari age 29
Günther von Kluge age 25
Yakov Sverdlov age 23
Djemal Pasha age 36
Wilhelm Cuno age 32
Yamagata Aritomo age 70
Ichirō Hatoyama age 25
Takeo Fukuda age 3
Ivanoe Bonomi age 34
Hendrik Verwoerd age 7
Zewditu age 32
Fritz Todt age 17
Joseph Chamberlain age 72
Ismail Kemal age 64
Andrew Fisher age 46
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 23
Manuel Roxas age 16
Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio age 6
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 56
Nikolai Vatutin age 6
Nikolai Yudenich age 46
Terauchi Masatake age 56
Hara Takashi age 52
Ernesto Geisel age 1
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 11
Mohammad Hatta age 6
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 12
Marcelo Caetano age 2
Nikola Pašić age 62
Wang Jingwei age 25
Matsukata Masayoshi age 73
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 53
Paul Reynaud age 29
Lê Duẩn age 1
Henry L. Stimson age 41
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 7
Rómulo Betancourt age 7 months
Ignacy Mościcki age 40
José Paciano Laurel age 17
Sergio Osmeña age 30
Luis Carrero Blanco age 4
Rodolfo Graziani age 26
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 14
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 13
U Nu age 1
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 1
Thurgood Marshall age 2 months
James F. Byrnes age 26
Arthur Meighen age 34
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 36
Nikolai Tikhonov age 3
Nilo Peçanha age 40
François Darlan age 27
Emilio De Bono age 42
Arturo Umberto Illia age 8
George Reid age 63
William McMahon age 7 months
Earle Page age 28
Pál Teleki age 28
Mohammad Hidayatullah age 2
Jānis Čakste age 49
Per Albin Hansson age 22
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 31
Saionji Kinmochi age 58
Antonio Salandra age 55
Luigi Facta age 47
Rodrigues Alves age 60
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 25
Julio Argentino Roca age 65
S. M. Bruce age 25
Richard Bedford Bennett age 38
José Figueres Ferrer age 1
Abraham Kuyper age 70
Anastasio Somoza García age 12
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 13
Tanaka Giichi age 44
Tanzan Ishibashi age 24
Sidney Sonnino age 61
Washington Luís age 38
Joseph Cook age 47
Karl Seitz age 39
Michael Hainisch age 50
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 11 months
Mario Scelba age 7
William Tubman age 12
Pedro Lascuráin age 52
Khawaja Nazimuddin age 14
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 21
Hitoshi Ashida age 20
Campos Sales age 67
Artur Bernardes age 33
Avery Brundage age 20
Robert H. Jackson age 16
Fan S. Noli age 26
James Scullin age 32
Arthur Fadden age 14
Ben Chifley age 23
Joseph Lyons age 29