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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

Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein age 1
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll age 60
Louise, Princess Royal age 41
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood age 10
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark age 1
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 8
Robert Borden age 53
Jorge Alessandri age 11
Arturo Alessandri age 39
Saad Zaghloul age 51
Väinö Tanner age 27
Mihály Károlyi age 33
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 2
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 23
Adolfo de la Huerta age 26
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 17
Takahashi Korekiyo age 53
D. F. Malan age 33
Café Filho age 9
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 20
Félix Gouin age 23
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny age 19
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby age 46
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia age 54
Kōki Hirota age 30
Aimo Cajander age 29
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 37
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe age 48
Teófilo Braga age 65
Petru Groza age 23
Zhang Zuolin age 33
Juan Vicente Gómez age 50
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 23
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 1
Vasily Chapayev age 21
Ye Jianying age 10
Artur da Costa e Silva age 8
J. Sigfrid Edström age 37
Karl Hermann Frank age 10
Gotthard Heinrici age 21
Alexei Kuropatkin age 60
Princess Charlotte of Prussia age 47
Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom age 39
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten age 1
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 2 months
Al Smith age 34
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 40
Souvanna Phouma age 6
Robert Lansing age 43
William, Prince of Albania age 32
Jigme Wangchuck age 3
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 8
István Tisza age 46
Thorvald Stauning age 34
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 15
Ali Fethi Okyar age 27
Phạm Văn Đồng age 2
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 39
Trường Chinh age 1
Katō Tomosaburō age 47
Hermes da Fonseca age 52
Stafford Cripps age 18
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 16
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli age 52
Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta age 39
Paul von Rennenkampf age 53
J. Bruce Ismay age 45
William Halsey Jr. age 25
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia age 15
Archduchess Gisela of Austria age 51
Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 31
Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta age 8
W. Averell Harriman age 16
Thomas E. Dewey age 6
Roque Sáenz Peña age 57
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 4
Aleksandar Stamboliyski age 29
Tomás Estrada Palma age 72
Jaan Tõnisson age 39
Alexandros Zaimis age 52
Seán T. O'Kelly age 25
Emilio Portes Gil age 17
Alexandru Averescu age 49
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski age 9
Kiyoura Keigo age 58
Okada Keisuke age 40
Senjūrō Hayashi age 32
Mitsumasa Yonai age 28
Guy Mollet age 2
Ferruccio Parri age 18
Robert Todd Lincoln age 64
Delfim Moreira age 39
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 32
Andrew Mellon age 53
Mehdi Bazargan age 7 months
Otto Liman von Sanders age 53
Yves Congar age 4
Empress Nagako age 5
Alexander Samsonov age 48
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope age 25
Mikhail Alekseyev age 50
Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria age 39
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 23
Prince Louis of Battenberg age 53
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester age 6
Kurt Daluege age 10
Matthias Erzberger age 32
Raymond A. Spruance age 21
Tôn Đức Thắng age 19
Frank Forde age 17
Leopold Figl age 5
Gaston Eyskens age 3
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 9
Lauri Ingman age 39
Alexandros Papagos age 24
Zoltán Tildy age 18
Gyula Gömbös age 21
Johan Nygaardsvold age 28
Bernardino Machado age 57
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 5
Ibrahim Abboud age 7
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim age 19
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 42
Hamaguchi Osachi age 38
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 69
Luigi Luzzatti age 67
René Viviani age 44
Sisavang Vatthana age 4 months
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria age 38
Prince George of Greece and Denmark age 38
Maria Pia of Savoy age 60
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone age 25
Elisabeth of Romania age 13
Charles Tupper age 86
Ōyama Iwao age 65
Joseph Gallieni age 58
Christian Herter age 13
José Félix Uriburu age 39
Agustín Pedro Justo age 32
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 25
Karl-August Fagerholm age 6
Döme Sztójay age 25
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 16
Yusef of Morocco age 26
John Lyng age 2
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 4
Sidónio Pais age 35
Américo Tomás age 13
Siaka Stevens age 2
Benjamin Sheares age 8 months
Li Zongren age 17
Christian Rakovsky age 34
Ho Chong age 12
Eduardo Dato age 51
Hugh Dowding age 25
Alessandro Fortis age 65
Louis Botha age 45
Fevzi Çakmak age 32
Charles Dupuy age 56
Nereu Ramos age 19
Matvei Zakharov age 9
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty age 37
Nogi Maresuke age 58
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia age 75
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia age 49
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg age 77
Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark age 36
Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark age 32
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst age 23
Princess Louise of Prussia age 69
Prince Henry of Prussia (born 1862) age 45
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta age 4
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse age 39
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark age 2
Mackenzie Bowell age 84
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha age 63
Ahmed Izzet Pasha age 44
Wilhelm Groener age 40
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 7
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 39
John McEwen age 8
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 30
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 29
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 1
Otto Strandman age 32
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 21
Martti Miettunen age 11 months
Adone Zoli age 20
H. C. Hansen age 1
Gustavs Zemgals age 36
Camille Chamoun age 8
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 18
Francisco León de la Barra age 44
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 31
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 30
Oscar Torp age 14
Titu Maiorescu age 68
Rickard Sandler age 24
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 35
Felix Hamrin age 33