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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
First flight of the Wright Flyer 1903-12-17

People

Theodore Roosevelt age 45
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 44
Emperor - German Empire
Edward VII age 62
King - United Kingdom
Abdul Hamid II age 61
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 68
Monarch - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 51
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 73
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 34
King - Italy
Guangxu Emperor age 32
Emperor - Imperial China
Émile Loubet age 65
President - France
Menelik II age 59
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 29
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 51
Emperor - Korean Empire
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 50
Shah - Iran
Rodrigues Alves age 55
President - Brazil
Tomás Estrada Palma age 68
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 44
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 35
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 73
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 40
President - International Olympic Committee
Arthur Balfour age 55
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bernhard von Bülow age 54
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Giolitti age 61
Prime Minister - Italy
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 63
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 70
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Elihu Root age 58
Secretary of War - United States
John Hay age 65
Secretary Of State - United States
Philander C. Knox age 50
Attorney General - United States
L. M. Shaw age 55
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 44
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 67
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edward Douglass White age 58
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 29
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 40
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Curtis age 43
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Warren G. Harding age 38
Ohio Senate - United States
Pius X age 68
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 17
Monarch - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 23
King - Netherlands
Chulalongkorn age 50
King - Thailand
Christian IX of Denmark age 85
Monarch - Denmark
Oscar II of Sweden age 74
Monarch - Norway
George Curzon age 44
Viceroy - British Raj
Carol I of Romania age 64
King - Kingdom of Romania
Sobhuza II age 4
King - Eswatini
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 86
Monarch - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 55
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 31
Emir - Afghanistan
Julio Argentino Roca age 60
President - Argentina
Abdelaziz of Morocco age 25
Sultan - Morocco
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 47
President - Uruguay
Cipriano Castro age 45
President - Venezuela
George Tupou II age 29
Monarch - Tonga
Germán Riesco age 49
President - Chile
José Manuel Pando age 54
President - Bolivia
José Santos Zelayo age 50
President - Nicaragua
José Manuel Marroquín age 76
President - Colombia
Leónidas Plaza age 38
President - Ecuador
Pierre Nord Alexis age 83
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 54
President - Honduras
Isa I of Bahrain age 55
Monarch - Bahrain
Lerotholi age 68
King - Lesotho
Ahmed bin Muhammed Al Thani age 50
Emir - Qatar
Alfred Deakin age 47
Prime Minister - Australia
Wilfrid Laurier age 62
Prime Minister - Canada
Abraham Kuyper age 66
Prime Minister - Netherlands
István Tisza age 42
Prime Minister - Hungary
Erik Gustaf Boström age 61
Prime Minister - Sweden
Antonio Maura age 50
Prime Minister - Spain
Dimitrie Sturdza age 70
Prime Minister - Romania
José Pardo y Barreda age 39
Prime Minister - Peru
Richard Seddon age 58
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Georgios Theotokis age 59
Prime Minister - Greece
Johan Henrik Deuntzer age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Racho Petrov age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Paul Eyschen age 62
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Paul de Smet de Naeyer age 60
Prime Minister - Belgium
Francis Hagerup age 50
Prime Minister - Norway
Božo Petrović-Njegoš age 57
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson age 51
Governor-General - Australia
Adolf Hitler age 14
Albert Einstein age 24
Vladimir Lenin age 33
Mahatma Gandhi age 34
Leo Tolstoy age 75
Joseph Stalin age 25
Pablo Picasso age 22
Charlie Chaplin age 14
Thomas Edison age 56
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 22
Sigmund Freud age 47
Marie Curie age 36
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 21
Rabindranath Tagore age 42
Mao Zedong age 9
Charles de Gaulle age 13
Nikola Tesla age 47
Walt Disney age 2
George Orwell age 5 months
Ernest Hemingway age 4
Henry Ford age 40
Benito Mussolini age 20
Harry S. Truman age 19
Jawaharlal Nehru age 14
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 13
Woodrow Wilson age 46
John Maynard Keynes age 20
Niels Bohr age 18
Leon Trotsky age 24
Max Planck age 45
Dmitri Mendeleev age 69
Enrico Fermi age 2
Nikita Khrushchev age 9
Herbert Hoover age 29
Calvin Coolidge age 31
Alexander Graham Bell age 56
Hirohito age 2
Claude Monet age 63
Ho Chi Minh age 13
Sun Yat-sen age 37
Florence Nightingale age 83
William Howard Taft age 46
Konrad Adenauer age 27
Grover Cleveland age 66
Joseph Goebbels age 6
Chiang Kai-shek age 16
Golda Meir age 5
John XXIII age 22
Alexander Fleming age 22
Francisco Franco age 11
David Ben-Gurion age 17
Ruhollah Khomeini age 1
Josip Broz Tito age 11
Guglielmo Marconi age 29
Sukarno age 2
Paul VI age 6
Pius XII age 27
George VI age 8
Pius XI age 46
Heinrich Himmler age 3
Neville Chamberlain age 34
Haile Selassie age 11
Douglas MacArthur age 23
Benedict XV age 49
Erwin Rommel age 12
Carl Benz age 59
Hermann Göring age 10
Grigori Rasputin age 34
George V age 38
Edward VIII age 9
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 26
Paul von Hindenburg age 56
Clement Attlee age 20
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 40
Harriet Tubman age 81
George C. Marshall age 22
Georges Clemenceau age 62
Empress Dowager Cixi age 68
Zhou Enlai age 5
Vyacheslav Molotov age 13
Józef Piłsudski age 36
Anthony Eden age 6
Philippe Pétain age 47
Emiliano Zapata age 24
Harold Macmillan age 9
Ibn Saud age 27
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 239
António de Oliveira Salazar age 14
Juan Perón age 8
T. E. Lawrence age 15
Susan B. Anthony age 83
Ludwig Erhard age 6
Jomo Kenyatta age 10
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 10
Karl Dönitz age 12
Fulgencio Batista age 2
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 36
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 15
Syngman Rhee age 28
Rudolf Hess age 9
George S. Patton age 18
Hideki Tojo age 18
İsmet İnönü age 19
Bernard Montgomery age 16
Gustav Stresemann age 25
Reza Shah age 25
Rajendra Prasad age 19
Alexander Kerensky age 22
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 28