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Events

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Progressive era 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Partition of Bengal 1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12

People

István Bethlen age 34
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 5
Nuri as-Said age 21
Alberts Kviesis age 27
Bechara El Khoury age 19
Augustinas Voldemaras age 26
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 3
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 8
Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 38
Octavian Goga age 28
T. V. Soong age 17
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 9
Ismail al-Azhari age 8
Alexander von Kluck age 63
Pyotr Krasnov age 39
Joseph Stilwell age 26
J. G. Strijdom age 16
W. T. Cosgrave age 29
Jean Rey age 7
Iwane Matsui age 31
Wang Zhen (general) age 1
Frank Jack Fletcher age 24
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 22
Bogdan Filov age 26
Sisowath Monivong age 33
Norodom Suramarit age 13
Kaarel Eenpalu age 21
Juho Sunila age 34
Rafael Paasio age 6
Noe Zhordania age 41
István Dobi age 10
Ferenc Münnich age 22
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 24
Joseph Bech age 22
Francisco S. Carvajal age 38
Manuel Gomes da Costa age 46
Carl Swartz age 51
Chen Cheng age 12
Manuel Odría age 11
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort age 23
Luigi Pelloux age 70
Lij Iyasu age 14
Sicco Mansholt age 11 months
Kimon Georgiev age 27
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 9
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 7
V. J. Sukselainen age 2
Edward Akufo-Addo age 3
Michael Stasinopoulos age 6
László Bárdossy age 18
Géza Lakatos age 19
Ólafur Thors age 17
Louis Beel age 7
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 15
Manuel de Arriaga age 69
Armand Călinescu age 16
Nils Edén age 38
Yen Chia-kan age 3
Hsu Shih-chang age 53
Cao Kun age 46
Feng Guozhang age 50
Khuang Aphaiwong age 7
Şükrü Saracoğlu age 22
Ignacy Daszyński age 42
Eduardo López de Romaña age 62
José Canalejas age 55
Alejandro Lerroux age 45
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 64
John A. Costello age 18
Rauf Orbay age 28
Seishirō Itagaki age 24
Friedrich Jeckeln age 14
Fred M. Vinson age 19
Thomas Gage age 191
Juan José Arévalo age 4
Essad Toptani age 46
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 22
Victorino de la Plaza age 68
Johann Schober age 34
Ignaz Seipel age 33
Hubert Pierlot age 25
Jean Duvieusart age 9
Camille Huysmans age 38
Guillermo León Valencia age 3 months
Carlos Lleras Restrepo age 1
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou age 18
Jorge Ubico age 30
Béla Miklós age 19
Hans Hedtoft age 6
Fouad Chehab age 7
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 15
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg age 20
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali age 4
Oscar von Sydow age 36
Ernst Trygger age 51
Karl Staaff age 49
Hashim al-Atassi age 33
Seni Pramoj age 4
Raúl Leoni age 4
Cipriano Castro age 50
Władysław Grabski age 35
Arnulfo Arias age 8
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 15
Liu Bocheng age 16
Claire Lee Chennault age 15
J. B. M. Hertzog age 43
Dušan Simović age 26
Anton Korošec age 37
Courtney Hodges age 22
John W. Foster age 73
Bainbridge Colby age 39
Nasrullah Khan age 35
Ramón Castillo age 35
Ants Piip age 25
Edwin Linkomies age 14
Theodoros Pangalos age 31
Nikolaos Plastiras age 25
Xenophon Zolotas age 5
Georgios Kondylis age 29
Spyridon Lambros age 58
Miklós Kállay age 22
Sutan Sjahrir age 5 months
Erik Eriksen age 6
Dirk Jan de Geer age 38
Charles D. B. King age 34
Jørgen Løvland age 61
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 26
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 22
Nicholas Golitsyn age 59
Ivan Goremykin age 69
Adib Shishakli age 7 months
Aparicio Méndez age 4
Aleksander Zawadzki age 9
Maciej Rataj age 25
Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro age 20
William Gopallawa age 11
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones age 46
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 21
Georg Stumme age 23
Matthew Ridgway age 14
He Long age 13
Manlio Brosio age 12
Dragiša Cvetković age 16
J. Lawton Collins age 13
Leonard Wood age 48
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 25
Eduardo Lonardi age 12
Michael Mayr age 45
Alfons Gorbach age 10
Georges Theunis age 36
Paul van Zeeland age 15
Aleksandar Tsankov age 30
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 17
Mario García Menocal age 42
Galo Plaza age 3
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 14
Alexandros Koryzis age 24
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 55
Tiburcio Carías age 33
Sándor Garbai age 30
István Friedrich age 26
Kálmán Darányi age 23
Erik Scavenius age 32
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 14
Edwin Barclay age 27
Antanas Merkys age 22
Peder Kolstad age 30
António José de Almeida age 43
Ion G. Duca age 29
Iuliu Maniu age 36
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod age 37
Husni al-Za'im age 12
H. H. Kung age 27
Yen Hsi-shan age 26
Sanya Dharmasakti age 2
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada age 25
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 2
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 8
José Félix Estigarribia age 21
Óscar R. Benavides age 33
Don Stephen Senanayake age 24
Diego Martínez Barrio age 25
Miles Dempsey age 12
Dirk Stikker age 12
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 33
Rab Butler age 6
Doihara Kenji age 26
Harlan F. Stone age 36
Richard Olney age 73
Robert Bacon age 49
Omer Nishani age 22
Rudolf Ramek age 28
Gualberto Villarroel age 8 months
Andrey Lyapchev age 42
Johannes Vares age 19
Antti Tulenheimo age 29
Reino Kuuskoski age 2
Reino Ragnar Lehto age 11
Rafael Erich age 30
Ralf Törngren age 10