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Events

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

People

Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 31
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 30
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 3
Otto Strandman age 33
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 23
Martti Miettunen age 2
Adone Zoli age 21
H. C. Hansen age 2
Gustavs Zemgals age 38
Camille Chamoun age 9
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 20
Francisco León de la Barra age 46
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 32
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 31
Oscar Torp age 16
Titu Maiorescu age 69
Rickard Sandler age 25
Carl Gustaf Ekman age 36
Felix Hamrin age 34
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 26
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld age 47
Shukri al-Quwatli age 17
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 53
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 20
John French age 56
Giovanni Messe age 25
Tommaso Tittoni age 53
Zhang Xueliang age 8
José Linhares age 23
Carlos Luz age 15
Maxwell D. Taylor age 7
William D. Leahy age 34
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 50
James Forrestal age 17
Li Yuanhong age 44
Viktor Chernov age 35
Ugo Cavallero age 28
Lothar Rendulic age 21
Radomir Putnik age 62
Princess Patricia of Connaught age 23
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick age 21
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia age 32
Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907–1938) age 2
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–1969) age 3
Andrés Avelino Cáceres age 73
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 30
Warren E. Burger age 1
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim age 18
Julius Raab age 17
Achille Van Acker age 11
Laureano Gómez age 20
Gerardo Machado age 37
Jüri Uluots age 19
Juho Vennola age 37
Mauno Pekkala age 19
Kaarlo Castrén age 49
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
Gustav Ritter von Kahr age 46
Feng Yuxiang age 26
Choe Yong-gon age 9
Jisaburō Ozawa age 22
Kâzım Karabekir age 27
Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg age 43
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia age 48
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia age 50
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 22
Mamoru Shigemitsu age 22
Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy age 66
Kim Hyong-jik age 15
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce age 71
Sanford B. Dole age 65
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
Wincenty Witos age 35
Manuel Odría age 11
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort age 23
Luigi Pelloux age 70
C. R. Swart age 14
Lij Iyasu age 14
Sicco Mansholt age 11 months
Franz von Hipper age 45
Paul Blobel age 15
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner age 55
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts age 76
Husband E. Kimmel age 27
Svetozar Boroević age 52
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen age 53
Carlo Sforza age 37
Empress Shōken age 60
Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark age 21
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland age 25
Eduard Dietl age 19
Wanrong age 2
Frederick II of Baden age 52
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine age 43
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria age 25
Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867–1944) age 42
Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont age 48
Prince John of the United Kingdom age 4
José Evaristo Uriburu age 77
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. age 21
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
Alexander Vandegrift age 22
Masaharu Homma age 21
Prince Leopold of Bavaria age 63
Archduke Joseph August of Austria age 37
Karl von Bülow age 63
Stepa Stepanović age 53
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia age 49
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia age 43
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958) age 19
Princess Viktoria of Prussia age 43
Princess Margaret of Prussia age 37
Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria age 67
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha age 30
Aspasia Manos age 12
Princess Mafalda of Savoy age 6
Mahmud Shevket Pasha age 53
Seishirō Itagaki age 24
Friedrich Jeckeln age 14
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