✦ History

Explore July 7, 1908

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

Events

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Progressive era 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Partition of Bengal 1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12
Young Turk Revolution 1908-07-03 - 1908-07-24

People

Theodore Roosevelt age 49
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 49
Emperor - German Empire
Edward VII age 66
King - United Kingdom
Abdul Hamid II age 65
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 73
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 55
Emperor - Japan
Porfirio Díaz age 77
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 38
King - Italy
Armand Fallières age 66
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 36
Emperor - Imperial China
Menelik II age 63
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 34
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 36
Shah - Iran
Afonso Pena age 60
President - Brazil
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 34
Emperor - Korean Empire
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 48
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 40
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 77
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 45
President - International Olympic Committee
Georges Clemenceau age 66
Prime Minister - France
H. H. Asquith age 55
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bernhard von Bülow age 59
Chancellor - German Empire
Giovanni Giolitti age 65
Prime Minister - Italy
Saionji Kinmochi age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 68
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 75
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles W. Fairbanks age 56
Vice President - United States
David Lloyd George age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Elihu Root age 63
Secretary Of State - United States
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 57
Attorney General - United States
Reginald McKenna age 45
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 51
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
George B. Cortelyou age 45
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Luke Edward Wright age 61
Secretary of War - United States
J. Franklin Bell age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Winston Churchill age 33
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 59
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Arthur Henderson age 44
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Edward Douglass White age 62
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William R. Day age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Sweetman age 63
President - Sinn Féin
Charles Curtis age 48
Senate - United States
John Nance Garner age 39
House of Representatives - United States
James S. Sherman age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Evans Hughes age 46
Governor of New York - United States
Calvin Coolidge age 36
Massachusetts House Of Representatives - United States
Pius X age 73
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 22
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 27
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 35
King - Norway
Chulalongkorn age 54
King - Thailand
Gustaf V of Sweden age 50
King - Sweden
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 65
King - Denmark
Carol I of Romania age 69
King - Kingdom of Romania
Sobhuza II age 8
King - Eswatini
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 59
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 36
Emir - Afghanistan
Ugyen Wangchuck age 46
King - Bhutan
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 56
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 33
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 66
President - Ecuador
José Figueroa Alcorta age 47
President - Argentina
Cipriano Castro age 49
President - Venezuela
George Tupou II age 34
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 67
King - Cambodia
Pedro Montt age 59
President - Chile
José Pardo y Barreda age 44
President - Peru
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 63
Viceroy - British Raj
Arthur Barclay age 53
President - Liberia
José Santos Zelayo age 54
President - Nicaragua
Ismael Montes Gamboa age 46
President - Bolivia
Ernst Brenner age 51
President - Switzerland
Emiliano González Navero age 47
President - Paraguay
Pierre Nord Alexis age 87
President - Haiti
Ramón Cáceres age 41
President - Dominican Republic
Fernando Figueroa age 59
President - El Salvador
Miguel R. Dávila age 51
President - Honduras
Cleto González Víquez age 49
President - Costa Rica
Isa I of Bahrain age 60
Hakim - Bahrain
Rafael Reyes age 58
President - Colombia
Pyotr Stolypin age 46
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Alfred Deakin age 51
Prime Minister - Australia
Wilfrid Laurier age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Nikola Pašić age 62
Prime Minister - Serbia
Arvid Lindman age 45
Prime Minister - Sweden
Gunnar Knudsen age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Antonio Maura age 55
Prime Minister - Spain
Hannes Hafstein age 46
Prime Minister - Iceland
Sándor Wekerle age 59
Prime Minister - Hungary
Jens Christian Christensen age 51
Prime Minister - Denmark
Aleksandar Malinov age 41
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Georgios Theotokis age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Theo Heemskerk age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Frans Schollaert age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Paul Eyschen age 66
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Joseph Ward age 52
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lazar Tomanović age 62
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley age 41
Governor-General - Australia
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 61
Governor-General - Australia
Adolf Hitler age 19
Albert Einstein age 29
Vladimir Lenin age 38
Mahatma Gandhi age 38
Leo Tolstoy age 79
Joseph Stalin age 29
Pablo Picasso age 26
Charlie Chaplin age 19
Thomas Edison age 61
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 27
Sigmund Freud age 52
Marie Curie age 40
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 26
Rabindranath Tagore age 47
Mao Zedong age 14
Charles de Gaulle age 17
Nikola Tesla age 52
Walt Disney age 6
George Orwell age 5
Ernest Hemingway age 8
Henry Ford age 44
Benito Mussolini age 24
Jean-Paul Sartre age 3
Harry S. Truman age 24
Jawaharlal Nehru age 18
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 17
Woodrow Wilson age 51
John Maynard Keynes age 25
Simone de Beauvoir age 6 months
Niels Bohr age 22
Leon Trotsky age 28
Max Planck age 50
Enrico Fermi age 6
Nikita Khrushchev age 14
Herbert Hoover age 33
Alexander Graham Bell age 61
Hirohito age 7
Claude Monet age 67
Ho Chi Minh age 18
Sun Yat-sen age 41
Florence Nightingale age 88
William Howard Taft age 50
Konrad Adenauer age 32
Warren G. Harding age 42
Joseph Goebbels age 10
Leonid Brezhnev age 1
Chiang Kai-shek age 20
Golda Meir age 10
John XXIII age 26
Deng Xiaoping age 3
Alexander Fleming age 26
Francisco Franco age 15
David Ben-Gurion age 21
Ruhollah Khomeini age 5
Josip Broz Tito age 16
Guglielmo Marconi age 34
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 4
Sukarno age 7
Paul VI age 10
Dag Hammarskjöld age 2
Salvador Allende age 0 months
Pius XII age 32
John von Neumann age 4
George VI age 12
Pius XI age 51
Heinrich Himmler age 7
Neville Chamberlain age 39
Haile Selassie age 15
Douglas MacArthur age 28
Benedict XV age 53
Erwin Rommel age 16
Carl Benz age 63
Hermann Göring age 15
Rachel Carson age 1
Grigori Rasputin age 39
George V age 43
Edward VIII age 14
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 31
Paul von Hindenburg age 60
Clement Attlee age 25
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 44
Harriet Tubman age 86
George C. Marshall age 27
Empress Dowager Cixi age 72
Zhou Enlai age 10
Vyacheslav Molotov age 18
Józef Piłsudski age 40
Anthony Eden age 11
Philippe Pétain age 52
Emiliano Zapata age 28
Harold Macmillan age 14
Ibn Saud age 32
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 243
António de Oliveira Salazar age 19
Juan Perón age 12
T. E. Lawrence age 19
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 1
Ludwig Erhard age 11
Jomo Kenyatta age 14
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 15
Karl Dönitz age 16