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Events

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 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31

People

Theodore Roosevelt age 44
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 44
Emperor - German Empire
Edward VII age 61
King - United Kingdom
Abdul Hamid II age 60
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 68
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 50
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 72
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 33
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 31
Emperor - Imperial China
Émile Loubet age 64
President - France
Menelik II age 58
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 28
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 50
Emperor - Korean Empire
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 50
Shah - Iran
Rodrigues Alves age 54
President - Brazil
Tomás Estrada Palma age 67
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 43
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 35
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 72
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 40
President - International Olympic Committee
Arthur Balfour age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bernhard von Bülow age 54
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 76
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 62
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Elihu Root age 58
Secretary of War - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 66
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John Hay age 64
Secretary Of State - United States
Philander C. Knox age 50
Attorney General - United States
L. M. Shaw age 54
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 43
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 64
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 66
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William R. Day age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles W. Fairbanks age 51
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 28
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 40
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Curtis age 43
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Warren G. Harding age 37
Ohio Senate - United States
Leo XIII age 93
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 17
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 22
Queen - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 49
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 85
King - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 74
King - Sweden
George Curzon age 44
Viceroy - British Raj
Carol I of Romania age 64
King - Kingdom of Romania
Sobhuza II age 3
King - Eswatini
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 85
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 54
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 30
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 59
President - Argentina
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 25
Sultan - Morocco
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 47
President - Uruguay
Eduardo López de Romaña age 56
President - Peru
Cipriano Castro age 44
President - Venezuela
George Tupou II age 28
King - Tonga
Germán Riesco age 49
President - Chile
José Manuel Pando age 53
President - Bolivia
José Santos Zelayo age 49
President - Nicaragua
José Manuel Marroquín age 75
President - Colombia
Leónidas Plaza age 38
President - Ecuador
Pierre Nord Alexis age 82
President - Haiti
Adolf Deucher age 72
President - Switzerland
Juan Antonio Escurra age 44
President - Paraguay
Garretson W. Gibson age 71
President - Liberia
Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra age 59
President - Costa Rica
Pedro José Escalón age 56
President - El Salvador
Manuel Bonilla age 53
President - Honduras
Isa I of Bahrain age 55
Hakim - Bahrain
Lerotholi age 67
King - Lesotho
Ahmed bin Muhammed Al Thani age 50
Emir - Qatar
Edmund Barton age 54
Prime Minister - Australia
Wilfrid Laurier age 61
Prime Minister - Canada
Abraham Kuyper age 65
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Erik Gustaf Boström age 61
Prime Minister - Sweden
Dimitrie Sturdza age 70
Prime Minister - Romania
Theodoros Deligiannis age 83
Prime Minister - Greece
Richard Seddon age 57
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Otto Blehr age 56
Prime Minister - Norway
Francisco Silvela age 59
Prime Minister - Spain
Johan Henrik Deuntzer age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Stoyan Danev age 45
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Paul Eyschen age 61
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Kálmán Széll age 59
Prime Minister - Hungary
Paul de Smet de Naeyer age 60
Prime Minister - Belgium
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 57
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson age 50
Governor-General - Australia
Adolf Hitler age 14
Albert Einstein age 24
Vladimir Lenin age 33
Mahatma Gandhi age 33
Leo Tolstoy age 74
Joseph Stalin age 24
Pablo Picasso age 21
Charlie Chaplin age 14
Thomas Edison age 56
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 22
Sigmund Freud age 47
Marie Curie age 35
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 21
Rabindranath Tagore age 42
Mao Zedong age 9
Charles de Gaulle age 12
Nikola Tesla age 46
Walt Disney age 1
Ernest Hemingway age 3
Henry Ford age 39
Benito Mussolini age 19
Harry S. Truman age 19
Jawaharlal Nehru age 13
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 12
Woodrow Wilson age 46
John Maynard Keynes age 19
Niels Bohr age 17
Leon Trotsky age 23
Max Planck age 45
Dmitri Mendeleev age 69
Enrico Fermi age 1
Nikita Khrushchev age 9
Herbert Hoover age 28
Calvin Coolidge age 30
Alexander Graham Bell age 56
Hirohito age 2
Claude Monet age 62
Ho Chi Minh age 13
Sun Yat-sen age 36
Florence Nightingale age 83
William Howard Taft age 45
Konrad Adenauer age 27
Grover Cleveland age 66
Joseph Goebbels age 5
Chiang Kai-shek age 15
Golda Meir age 5
John XXIII age 21
Alexander Fleming age 21
Francisco Franco age 10
David Ben-Gurion age 16
Ruhollah Khomeini age 7 months
Josip Broz Tito age 11
Guglielmo Marconi age 29
Sukarno age 1
Paul VI age 5
Pius XII age 27
George VI age 7
Pius XI age 45
Heinrich Himmler age 2
Neville Chamberlain age 34
Pius X age 68
Haile Selassie age 10
Douglas MacArthur age 23
Benedict XV age 48
Erwin Rommel age 11
Carl Benz age 58
Hermann Göring age 10
Grigori Rasputin age 34
George V age 37
Edward VIII age 8
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 26
Paul von Hindenburg age 55
Clement Attlee age 20
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 39
Harriet Tubman age 81
George C. Marshall age 22
Georges Clemenceau age 61
Empress Dowager Cixi age 67
Zhou Enlai age 5
Vyacheslav Molotov age 13
Józef Piłsudski age 35
Anthony Eden age 5
Philippe Pétain age 47
Emiliano Zapata age 23
Harold Macmillan age 9
Ibn Saud age 27
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 238
António de Oliveira Salazar age 14
Juan Perón age 7
T. E. Lawrence age 14
Susan B. Anthony age 83
Ludwig Erhard age 6
Jomo Kenyatta age 9
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 10
Karl Dönitz age 11
Fulgencio Batista age 2
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 35
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 14
Syngman Rhee age 28
Rudolf Hess age 9
George S. Patton age 17
Hideki Tojo age 18
İsmet İnönü age 18
Bernard Montgomery age 15
Gustav Stresemann age 25
Reza Shah age 25
Rajendra Prasad age 18