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Events

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

People

William Howard Taft age 51
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 50
Emperor - German Empire
Edward VII age 67
King - United Kingdom
Abdul Hamid II age 66
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Leopold II of Belgium age 74
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 56
Emperor - Japan
Puyi age 3
Emperor - Imperial China
Porfirio Díaz age 78
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 39
King - Italy
Armand Fallières age 67
President - France
Menelik II age 64
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 34
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 36
Shah - Iran
Afonso Pena age 61
President - Brazil
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 35
Emperor - Korean Empire
José Miguel Gómez age 50
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 49
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 40
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 78
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 46
President - International Olympic Committee
Georges Clemenceau age 67
Prime Minister - France
H. H. Asquith age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Bernhard von Bülow age 59
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Giolitti age 66
Prime Minister - Italy
Boutros Ghali age 63
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 76
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
James S. Sherman age 53
Vice President - United States
David Lloyd George age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Philander C. Knox age 55
Secretary of State - United States
Reginald McKenna age 45
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 52
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Jacob M. Dickinson age 58
Secretary of War - United States
Franklin MacVeagh age 71
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
J. Franklin Bell age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Winston Churchill age 34
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 60
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Arthur Henderson age 45
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Edward Douglass White age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William R. Day age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Sweetman age 64
President - Sinn Féin
Charles Curtis age 49
Senate - United States
John Nance Garner age 40
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas R. Marshall age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
Charles Evans Hughes age 47
Governor of New York - United States
Pius X age 73
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 22
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 28
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 36
King - Norway
Chulalongkorn age 55
King - Thailand
Gustaf V of Sweden age 50
King - Sweden
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 65
King - Denmark
Carol I of Romania age 70
King - Kingdom of Romania
Sobhuza II age 9
King - Eswatini
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 60
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 36
Emir - Afghanistan
Ugyen Wangchuck age 46
King - Bhutan
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 57
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Juan Vicente Gómez age 51
President - Venezuela
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 34
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 66
President - Ecuador
Augusto Leguía age 46
President - Peru
José Figueroa Alcorta age 48
President - Argentina
George Tupou II age 34
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 68
King - Cambodia
Pedro Montt age 59
President - Chile
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 63
Viceroy - British Raj
Arthur Barclay age 54
President - Liberia
José Santos Zelayo age 55
President - Nicaragua
Ismael Montes Gamboa age 47
President - Bolivia
Emiliano González Navero age 47
President - Paraguay
Adolf Deucher age 78
President - Switzerland
Ramón Cáceres age 42
President - Dominican Republic
Fernando Figueroa age 59
President - El Salvador
François C. Antoine Simon age 65
President - Haiti
Miguel R. Dávila age 52
President - Honduras
Cleto González Víquez age 50
President - Costa Rica
Isa I of Bahrain age 61
Hakim - Bahrain
Rafael Reyes age 59
President - Colombia
Pyotr Stolypin age 47
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Andrew Fisher age 46
Prime Minister - Australia
Wilfrid Laurier age 67
Prime Minister - Canada
Arvid Lindman age 46
Prime Minister - Sweden
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 44
Prime Minister - Romania
Gunnar Knudsen age 60
Prime Minister - Norway
Antonio Maura age 55
Prime Minister - Spain
Niels Neergaard age 54
Prime Minister - Denmark
Sándor Wekerle age 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
Aleksandar Malinov age 41
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Georgios Theotokis age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Theo Heemskerk age 56
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Frans Schollaert age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Paul Eyschen age 67
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Björn Jónsson age 62
Prime Minister - Iceland
Joseph Ward age 53
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lazar Tomanović age 63
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley age 41
Governor-General - Australia
Adolf Hitler age 20
Albert Einstein age 30
Vladimir Lenin age 39
Mahatma Gandhi age 39
Leo Tolstoy age 80
Joseph Stalin age 30
Pablo Picasso age 27
Charlie Chaplin age 20
Thomas Edison age 62
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 28
Sigmund Freud age 52
Marie Curie age 41
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 27
Rabindranath Tagore age 47
Mao Zedong age 15
Charles de Gaulle age 18
Nikola Tesla age 52
Walt Disney age 7
George Orwell age 5
Ernest Hemingway age 9
Henry Ford age 45
Benito Mussolini age 25
Jean-Paul Sartre age 3
Harry S. Truman age 24
Theodore Roosevelt age 50
Jawaharlal Nehru age 19
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 18
Woodrow Wilson age 52
John Maynard Keynes age 25
Simone de Beauvoir age 1
Niels Bohr age 23
Leon Trotsky age 29
Max Planck age 51
Lyndon B. Johnson age 7 months
Enrico Fermi age 7
Nikita Khrushchev age 15
Herbert Hoover age 34
Calvin Coolidge age 36
Alexander Graham Bell age 62
Hirohito age 7
Claude Monet age 68
Ho Chi Minh age 18
Sun Yat-sen age 42
Florence Nightingale age 88
Konrad Adenauer age 33
Warren G. Harding age 43
Joseph Goebbels age 11
Leonid Brezhnev age 2
Chiang Kai-shek age 21
Golda Meir age 10
John XXIII age 27
Deng Xiaoping age 4
Alexander Fleming age 27
Francisco Franco age 16
David Ben-Gurion age 22
Ruhollah Khomeini age 6
Josip Broz Tito age 16
Guglielmo Marconi age 34
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 4
Sukarno age 7
Paul VI age 11
Dag Hammarskjöld age 3
Salvador Allende age 9 months
Pius XII age 33
John von Neumann age 5
George VI age 13
Pius XI age 51
Heinrich Himmler age 8
Neville Chamberlain age 40
Haile Selassie age 16
Douglas MacArthur age 29
Benedict XV age 54
Erwin Rommel age 17
Carl Benz age 64
Hermann Göring age 16
Rachel Carson age 1
Grigori Rasputin age 40
George V age 43
Edward VIII age 14
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 32
Paul von Hindenburg age 61
Clement Attlee age 26
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 45
Harriet Tubman age 87
George C. Marshall age 28
Enver Hoxha age 6 months
Zhou Enlai age 11
Vyacheslav Molotov age 19
Józef Piłsudski age 41
Anthony Eden age 11
Philippe Pétain age 53
Emiliano Zapata age 29
Harold Macmillan age 15
Ibn Saud age 33
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 244
António de Oliveira Salazar age 19
Juan Perón age 13
T. E. Lawrence age 20
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 2
Ludwig Erhard age 12
Jomo Kenyatta age 15
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 15
Karl Dönitz age 17