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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 52
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 50
Emperor - German Empire
Edward VII age 68
King - United Kingdom
Leopold II of Belgium age 74
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 57
Emperor - Japan
Puyi age 3
Emperor - Imperial China
Porfirio Díaz age 79
President - Mexico
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 40
King - Italy
Mehmed V age 65
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Armand Fallières age 68
President - France
Menelik II age 65
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 35
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 11
Shah - Iran
Nilo Peçanha age 42
President - Brazil
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 35
Emperor - Korean Empire
José Miguel Gómez age 51
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 50
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 41
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 79
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 46
President - International Olympic Committee
H. H. Asquith age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 53
Chancellor - German Empire
Katsura Tarō age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Giolitti age 67
Prime Minister - Italy
Sidney Sonnino age 62
Prime Minister - Italy
Boutros Ghali age 63
Prime Minister - Egypt
Melville Fuller age 76
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
James S. Sherman age 54
Vice President - United States
David Lloyd George age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Philander C. Knox age 56
Secretary of State - United States
Reginald McKenna age 46
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 53
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Jacob M. Dickinson age 58
Secretary of War - United States
Franklin MacVeagh age 72
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
J. Franklin Bell age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Winston Churchill age 35
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 61
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Arthur Henderson age 46
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Edward Douglass White age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William R. Day age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Sweetman age 65
President - Sinn Féin
Charles Curtis age 49
Senate - United States
John Nance Garner age 41
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 74
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 23
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 29
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 37
King - Norway
Chulalongkorn age 56
King - Thailand
Gustaf V of Sweden age 51
King - Sweden
Frederik VIII of Denmark age 66
King - Denmark
Carol I of Romania age 70
King - Kingdom of Romania
Sobhuza II age 10
King - Eswatini
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 61
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 37
Emir - Afghanistan
Ugyen Wangchuck age 47
King - Bhutan
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 57
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Juan Vicente Gómez age 52
President - Venezuela
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco age 34
Sultan - Morocco
Eloy Alfaro age 67
President - Ecuador
Augusto Leguía age 46
President - Peru
José Figueroa Alcorta age 49
President - Argentina
George Tupou II age 35
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 69
King - Cambodia
Pedro Montt age 60
President - Chile
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto age 64
Viceroy - British Raj
Arthur Barclay age 55
President - Liberia
José Santos Zelayo age 56
President - Nicaragua
Emiliano González Navero age 48
President - Paraguay
Adolf Deucher age 78
President - Switzerland
Ramón Cáceres age 43
President - Dominican Republic
Eliodoro Villazón age 61
President - Bolivia
Fernando Figueroa age 60
President - El Salvador
François C. Antoine Simon age 66
President - Haiti
Miguel R. Dávila age 53
President - Honduras
Cleto González Víquez age 51
President - Costa Rica
Ramón González Valencia age 58
President - Colombia
Isa I of Bahrain age 61
Hakim - Bahrain
Pyotr Stolypin age 47
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Alfred Deakin age 53
Prime Minister - Australia
Wilfrid Laurier age 68
Prime Minister - Canada
Nikola Pašić age 64
Prime Minister - Serbia
Arvid Lindman age 47
Prime Minister - Sweden
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 45
Prime Minister - Romania
Gunnar Knudsen age 61
Prime Minister - Norway
Carl Theodor Zahle age 43
Prime Minister - Denmark
Sándor Wekerle age 61
Prime Minister - Hungary
Segismundo Moret age 76
Prime Minister - Spain
Aleksandar Malinov age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Theo Heemskerk age 57
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Frans Schollaert age 58
Prime Minister - Belgium
Paul Eyschen age 68
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Björn Jónsson age 63
Prime Minister - Iceland
Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis age 60
Prime Minister - Greece
Joseph Ward age 53
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lazar Tomanović age 64
Prime Minister - Montenegro
William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley age 42
Governor-General - Australia
Adolf Hitler age 20
Albert Einstein age 30
Vladimir Lenin age 39
Mahatma Gandhi age 40
Leo Tolstoy age 81
Joseph Stalin age 31
Pablo Picasso age 28
Charlie Chaplin age 20
Thomas Edison age 62
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 28
Sigmund Freud age 53
Marie Curie age 42
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 27
Rabindranath Tagore age 48
Mao Zedong age 15
Charles de Gaulle age 19
Nikola Tesla age 53
Walt Disney age 8
George Orwell age 6
Ernest Hemingway age 10
Henry Ford age 46
Benito Mussolini age 26
Jean-Paul Sartre age 4
Harry S. Truman age 25
Theodore Roosevelt age 51
Jawaharlal Nehru age 20
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 19
Woodrow Wilson age 52
John Maynard Keynes age 26
Simone de Beauvoir age 1
Niels Bohr age 24
Leon Trotsky age 30
Max Planck age 51
Lyndon B. Johnson age 1
Enrico Fermi age 8
Nikita Khrushchev age 15
Herbert Hoover age 35
Calvin Coolidge age 37
Alexander Graham Bell age 62
Kwame Nkrumah age 2 months
Hirohito age 8
Claude Monet age 69
Ho Chi Minh age 19
Sun Yat-sen age 43
Florence Nightingale age 89
Konrad Adenauer age 33
Warren G. Harding age 44
Joseph Goebbels age 12
Leonid Brezhnev age 2
Chiang Kai-shek age 22
Golda Meir age 11
John XXIII age 28
Deng Xiaoping age 5
Alexander Fleming age 28
Francisco Franco age 17
David Ben-Gurion age 23
Ruhollah Khomeini age 7
Josip Broz Tito age 17
Guglielmo Marconi age 35
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 5
Sukarno age 8
Paul VI age 12
Dag Hammarskjöld age 4
Salvador Allende age 1
Pius XII age 33
John von Neumann age 5
George VI age 14
Pius XI age 52
Heinrich Himmler age 9
Neville Chamberlain age 40
Haile Selassie age 17
Douglas MacArthur age 29
Benedict XV age 55
Erwin Rommel age 18
Carl Benz age 65
Hermann Göring age 16
Rachel Carson age 2
Grigori Rasputin age 40
George V age 44
Edward VIII age 15
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 32
Paul von Hindenburg age 62
Clement Attlee age 26
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 46
Harriet Tubman age 87
George C. Marshall age 28
Enver Hoxha age 1
Abdul Hamid II age 67
Georges Clemenceau age 68
Zhou Enlai age 11
Vyacheslav Molotov age 19
Józef Piłsudski age 42
Anthony Eden age 12
Philippe Pétain age 53
Emiliano Zapata age 30
Harold Macmillan age 15
Ibn Saud age 33
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 245
António de Oliveira Salazar age 20
Juan Perón age 14
T. E. Lawrence age 21
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 3