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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
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02

People

Queen Victoria age 80
Queen - United Kingdom
William McKinley age 56
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 40
Emperor - German Empire
Abdul Hamid II age 57
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 64
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 46
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 69
President - Mexico
Umberto I of Italy age 55
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 28
Emperor - Imperial China
Émile Loubet age 60
President - France
Menelik II age 55
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 25
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 47
Emperor - Korean Empire
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 46
Shah - Iran
Campos Sales age 58
President - Brazil
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 39
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 31
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 69
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 36
President - International Olympic Committee
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 69
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Yamagata Aritomo age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 80
Chancellor - German Empire
Luigi Pelloux age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 66
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Garret Hobart age 55
Vice President - United States
Peng Dehuai age 10 months
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 13
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 3
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Elihu Root age 54
Secretary of War - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 63
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John Hay age 60
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 54
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen age 68
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Lyman J. Gage age 63
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 61
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
John W. Griggs age 50
Attorney General - United States
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 63
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Joseph McKenna age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 60
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford age 70
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Charles H. Allen age 51
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Charles W. Fairbanks age 47
Senate - United States
Redfield Proctor age 68
Senate - United States
Stephen B. Elkins age 57
Senate - United States
David Lloyd George age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Curtis age 39
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 43
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 76
House of Representatives - United States
Fred M. Vinson age 9
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Carson age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 41
House of Representatives - United States
Reginald McKenna age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lord George Hamilton age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Harcourt age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Alexander McClernand age 87
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Theodore Roosevelt age 40
Governor of New York - United States
Henry T. Gage age 46
Governor of California - United States
Daniel Webster Jones age 59
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James Hoge Tyler age 53
Governor of Virginia - United States
Joseph D. Sayers age 58
Governor of Texas - United States
Asa S. Bushnell age 65
Governor of Ohio - United States
Lloyd Lowndes Jr. age 54
Governor of Maryland - United States
James A. Mount age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
Foster McGowan Voorhees age 42
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Richard Olney age 64
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 81
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 15
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 52
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 79
New York State Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 89
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 13
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 19
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 46
King - Thailand
Emilio Aguinaldo age 30
President - Philippines
Christian IX of Denmark age 81
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 70
King - Sweden
George Curzon age 40
Viceroy - British Raj
Carol I of Romania age 60
King - Kingdom of Romania
Abdur Rahman Khan age 59
Emir - Afghanistan
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 82
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 50
Prince - Monaco
Julio Argentino Roca age 56
President - Argentina
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 21
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 57
President - Ecuador
Eduardo López de Romaña age 52
President - Peru
George Tupou II age 25
King - Tonga
Emilio Aceval age 45
President - Paraguay
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren age 48
President - Chile
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 35
Sultan - Oman
José Santos Zelayo age 45
President - Nicaragua
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 78
Emir - Qatar
Manuel Antonio Sanclemente age 86
President - Colombia
Tomás Regalado age 37
President - El Salvador
William D. Coleman age 57
President - Liberia
Isa I of Bahrain age 51
Hakim - Bahrain
Tirésias Simon Sam age 64
President - Haiti
Terencio Sierra age 59
President - Honduras
Lerotholi age 63
King - Lesotho
Ahmed bin Muhammed Al Thani age 46
Emir - Qatar
Wilfrid Laurier age 57
Prime Minister - Canada
Erik Gustaf Boström age 57
Prime Minister - Sweden
Richard Seddon age 54
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Francisco Silvela age 55
Prime Minister - Spain
Georgios Theotokis age 55
Prime Minister - Greece
Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino age 67
Prime Minister - Romania
Hugo Egmont Hørring age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Nicolaas Pierson age 60
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Paul Eyschen age 58
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Kálmán Széll age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Pedro Paterno age 42
Prime Minister - Philippines
Paul de Smet de Naeyer age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Johannes Steen age 72
Prime Minister - Norway
Vladan Đorđević age 54
Prime Minister - Serbia
Dimitar Grekov age 52
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 46
Prime Minister - Nepal
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 53
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Adolf Hitler age 10
Albert Einstein age 20
Vladimir Lenin age 29
Mahatma Gandhi age 29
Leo Tolstoy age 71
Joseph Stalin age 20
Pablo Picasso age 17
Charlie Chaplin age 10
Winston Churchill age 24
Friedrich Nietzsche age 54
Thomas Edison age 52
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 18
Sigmund Freud age 43
Marie Curie age 31
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 17
Rabindranath Tagore age 38
Mao Zedong age 5
Charles de Gaulle age 8
Nikola Tesla age 43
Ernest Hemingway age 1 month
Henry Ford age 36
Benito Mussolini age 16
Harry S. Truman age 15
Jawaharlal Nehru age 9
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 8
Woodrow Wilson age 42
John Maynard Keynes age 16
Niels Bohr age 13
Leon Trotsky age 19
Max Planck age 41
Dmitri Mendeleev age 65
Giuseppe Verdi age 86
Nikita Khrushchev age 5
Herbert Hoover age 25
Calvin Coolidge age 27
Alexander Graham Bell age 52
Claude Monet age 58
Ho Chi Minh age 9
Sun Yat-sen age 32
Florence Nightingale age 79
William Howard Taft age 42
Konrad Adenauer age 23
Grover Cleveland age 62
Warren G. Harding age 33
Joseph Goebbels age 1
Chiang Kai-shek age 11
Golda Meir age 1
John XXIII age 17
Benjamin Harrison age 66
Alexander Fleming age 18
Francisco Franco age 6
David Ben-Gurion age 12
Josip Broz Tito age 7
Guglielmo Marconi age 25
Paul VI age 1
Pius XII age 23
George VI age 3
Pius XI age 42
Neville Chamberlain age 30
Pius X age 64
Haile Selassie age 7
Douglas MacArthur age 19
Benedict XV age 44
Erwin Rommel age 7
Carl Benz age 54
Hermann Göring age 6