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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

Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 4
Yusef of Morocco age 14
Sidónio Pais age 24
Américo Tomás age 1
Li Zongren age 6
Christian Rakovsky age 23
Ho Chong age 4 months
Eduardo Dato age 40
Hugh Dowding age 14
Giuseppe Saracco age 74
Alessandro Fortis age 53
Louis Botha age 33
Fevzi Çakmak age 20
Charles Dupuy age 44
Nereu Ramos age 7
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty age 25
Nogi Maresuke age 46
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 63
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia age 38
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 66
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia age 25
Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark age 24
Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark age 20
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 11
Princess Louise of Prussia age 57
Prince Henry of Prussia (born 1862) age 34
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden age 69
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse age 27
Mackenzie Bowell age 72
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha age 51
Ahmed Izzet Pasha age 32
Wilhelm Groener age 28
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 27
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 18
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 17
Otto Strandman age 20
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 10
Adone Zoli age 8
Gustavs Zemgals age 25
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 7
Francisco León de la Barra age 33
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 19
Oscar Torp age 3
Titu Maiorescu age 56
Rickard Sandler age 12
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 23
Felix Hamrin age 21
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 12
Arvid Lindman age 33
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 34
Shukri al-Quwatli age 4
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 40
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 7
John French age 43
Giovanni Messe age 12
Tommaso Tittoni age 40
José Linhares age 10
Carlos Luz age 2
William D. Leahy age 21
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 37
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 25
James Forrestal age 4
Keir Hardie age 40
Li Yuanhong age 31
Viktor Chernov age 22
Ugo Cavallero age 15
Lothar Rendulic age 8
Osman Nuri Pasha age 64
Radomir Putnik age 49
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia age 49
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 10
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick age 8
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia age 19
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 60
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 17
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 5
Julius Raab age 4
Laureano Gómez age 7
Gerardo Machado age 24
Jüri Uluots age 6
Juho Vennola age 24
Mauno Pekkala age 6
Kaarlo Castrén age 36
István Bethlen age 21
Nuri as-Said age 8
Alberts Kviesis age 14
Bechara El Khoury age 6
Augustinas Voldemaras age 13
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 25
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 32
Octavian Goga age 15
T. V. Soong age 4
Heungseon Daewongun age 75
Alexander von Kluck age 50
Pyotr Krasnov age 26
Joseph Stilwell age 13
J. G. Strijdom age 3
W. T. Cosgrave age 16
Gustav Ritter von Kahr age 33
Feng Yuxiang age 13
Jisaburō Ozawa age 9
Enomoto Takeaki age 59
Kâzım Karabekir age 14
Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 30
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia age 35
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia age 37
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 9
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 9
Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy age 53
Kim Hyong-jik age 2
Carlos Pellegrini age 49
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 58
Sanford B. Dole age 52
Iwane Matsui age 18
Frank Jack Fletcher age 11
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 9
Bogdan Filov age 13
Sisowath Monivong age 20
Norodom Suramarit age 5 months
Kaarel Eenpalu age 8
Juho Sunila age 21
Noe Zhordania age 28
Ferenc Münnich age 9
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 11
Joseph Bech age 9
Francisco S. Carvajal age 25
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 21
Manuel Gomes da Costa age 33
Carl Swartz age 38
Wincenty Witos age 22
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort age 10
Luigi Pelloux age 57
C. R. Swart age 1
Lij Iyasu age 1
Franz von Hipper age 32
Paul Blobel age 2
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner age 42
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 63
Husband E. Kimmel age 14
Svetozar Boroević age 39
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen age 40
Alfred von Waldersee age 64
Carlo Sforza age 24
Empress Shōken age 47
Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark age 8
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 12
Eduard Dietl age 6
Frederick II of Baden age 39
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine age 30
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 12
Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867–1944) age 29
Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont age 35
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. age 8
Kimon Georgiev age 14
László Bárdossy age 5
Géza Lakatos age 6
Ólafur Thors age 4
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 2
Manuel de Arriaga age 56
Armand Călinescu age 3
Nils Edén age 24
Hsu Shih-chang age 40
Cao Kun age 33
Feng Guozhang age 37
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 9
Ignacy Daszyński age 29
Augusto Leguía age 33
Eduardo López de Romaña age 49
José Canalejas age 42
Alejandro Lerroux age 32
John A. Costello age 5
Rauf Orbay age 15
Nubar Pasha age 71
Alexander Vandegrift age 9
Masaharu Homma age 8
Prince Leopold of Bavaria age 50
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 24
Karl von Bülow age 50
Stepa Stepanović age 40
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia age 36
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia age 30
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958) age 6
Frederick Francis III age 45
Princess Viktoria of Prussia age 30
Princess Margaret of Prussia age 24
Princess Francisca of Brazil age 72
Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria age 54
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 17
Luis Sáenz Peña age 74
Robert Themptander age 52
Mahmud Shevket Pasha age 40
Seishirō Itagaki age 11
Friedrich Jeckeln age 1
Thomas Gage age 178
Essad Toptani age 33
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 9
José Figueroa Alcorta age 35
Victorino de la Plaza age 55
Manuel Quintana age 60
Johann Schober age 21