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Events

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Progressive era 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Partition of Bengal 1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12

People

Jean Rey age 5
Iwane Matsui age 29
Wang Zhen (general) age 0 months
Frank Jack Fletcher age 23
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 21
Bogdan Filov age 25
Sisowath Monivong age 32
Norodom Suramarit age 12
Kaarel Eenpalu age 19
Juho Sunila age 32
Rafael Paasio age 4
Noe Zhordania age 40
István Dobi age 9
Ferenc Münnich age 21
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 23
Joseph Bech age 21
Francisco S. Carvajal age 37
Manuel Gomes da Costa age 45
Carl Swartz age 49
Chen Cheng age 11
Manuel Odría age 10
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort age 21
Luigi Pelloux age 69
Lij Iyasu age 13
Kimon Georgiev age 25
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 8
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 6
V. J. Sukselainen age 1
Edward Akufo-Addo age 1
Michael Stasinopoulos age 4
László Bárdossy age 17
Géza Lakatos age 18
Ólafur Thors age 16
Louis Beel age 6
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 14
Manuel de Arriaga age 67
Armand Călinescu age 14
Nils Edén age 36
Yen Chia-kan age 2
Hsu Shih-chang age 52
Cao Kun age 45
Feng Guozhang age 49
Khuang Aphaiwong age 5
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 20
Ignacy Daszyński age 41
Augusto Leguía age 45
Eduardo López de Romaña age 61
José Canalejas age 53
Alejandro Lerroux age 44
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 63
John A. Costello age 16
Rauf Orbay age 26
Seishirō Itagaki age 23
Friedrich Jeckeln age 13
Fred M. Vinson age 18
Thomas Gage age 190
Juan José Arévalo age 3
Essad Toptani age 45
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 21
Victorino de la Plaza age 67
Johann Schober age 33
Ignaz Seipel age 31
Hubert Pierlot age 24
Jean Duvieusart age 8
Camille Huysmans age 36
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 0 months
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou age 17
Jorge Ubico age 29
Béla Miklós age 17
Hans Hedtoft age 5
Fouad Chehab age 6
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 14
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 19
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 2
Oscar von Sydow age 34
Ernst Trygger age 50
Karl Staaff age 48
Hashim al-Atassi age 32
Seni Pramoj age 2
Raúl Leoni age 3
Władysław Grabski age 33
Arnulfo Arias age 6
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 14
Liu Bocheng age 15
Claire Lee Chennault age 14
J. B. M. Hertzog age 42
Dušan Simović age 25
Anton Korošec age 36
Courtney Hodges age 21
John W. Foster age 72
Bainbridge Colby age 38
Nasrullah Khan age 34
Ramón Castillo age 34
Boutros Ghali age 62
Ants Piip age 24
Edwin Linkomies age 13
Theodoros Pangalos age 30
Nikolaos Plastiras age 24
Xenophon Zolotas age 4
Georgios Kondylis age 28
Spyridon Lambros age 57
Miklós Kállay age 21
Erik Eriksen age 5
Dirk Jan de Geer age 37
Charles D. B. King age 33
Jørgen Løvland age 60
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 24
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 21
Nicholas Golitsyn age 58
Ivan Goremykin age 68
Aparicio Méndez age 3
Aleksander Zawadzki age 8
Maciej Rataj age 24
Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro age 18
William Gopallawa age 10
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 45
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 20
Georg Stumme age 21
Matthew Ridgway age 13
He Long age 12
Manlio Brosio age 10
Dragiša Cvetković age 15
J. Lawton Collins age 12
Leonard Wood age 47
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 24
Eduardo Lonardi age 11
Michael Mayr age 44
Alfons Gorbach age 9
Georges Theunis age 35
Paul van Zeeland age 14
Aleksandar Tsankov age 28
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 16
José Miguel Gómez age 49
Mario García Menocal age 41
Galo Plaza age 2
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 13
Alexandros Koryzis age 23
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 54
Tiburcio Carías age 32
Sándor Garbai age 29
István Friedrich age 24
Kálmán Darányi age 22
Erik Scavenius age 30
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 13
Edwin Barclay age 26
Antanas Merkys age 21
Peder Kolstad age 29
António José de Almeida age 41
Ion G. Duca age 28
Iuliu Maniu age 35
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 36
Husni al-Za'im age 11
H. H. Kung age 26
Yen Hsi-shan age 24
Sanya Dharmasakti age 1
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada age 23
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 1
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 6
José Félix Estigarribia age 20
Óscar R. Benavides age 32
Don Stephen Senanayake age 23
Diego Martínez Barrio age 24
Miles Dempsey age 11
Dirk Stikker age 11
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 31
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby age 67
Rab Butler age 5
Doihara Kenji age 24
Harlan F. Stone age 35
Richard Olney age 72
Robert Bacon age 47
Philander C. Knox age 55
Omer Nishani age 21
Rudolf Ramek age 27
Andrey Lyapchev age 41
Johannes Vares age 18
Antti Tulenheimo age 28
Reino Kuuskoski age 1
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 10
Rafael Erich age 28
Ralf Törngren age 9
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 5
Károly Huszár age 25
Gyula Károlyi age 37
Béla Imrédy age 16
Hermann Jónasson age 11
Alexander Bustamante age 24
Hendrikus Colijn age 38
Jan Eduard de Quay age 6
Riad Al Solh age 15
Jens Hundseid age 25
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 22
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 55
Boris Stürmer age 59
Fredrik von Otter age 75
Giuseppe Motta age 36
Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena age 21
Eleazar López Contreras age 25
Eusebio Ayala age 32
Santiago Casares Quiroga age 24