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Events

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01

People

William Howard Taft age 55
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 53
Emperor - German Empire
George V age 47
King - United Kingdom
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 42
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 33
Emperor - Japan
Mehmed V age 67
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Albert I of Belgium age 37
King - Belgium
Francisco I. Madero age 38
President - Mexico
Yuan Shikai age 53
President - Republic of China
Armand Fallières age 70
President - France
Menelik II age 68
Emperor - Ethiopia
Abbas II of Egypt age 38
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 14
Shah - Iran
Hermes da Fonseca age 57
President - Brazil
José Miguel Gómez age 54
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 52
President - Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia age 44
Emperor - Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 82
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Pierre de Coubertin age 49
President - International Olympic Committee
H. H. Asquith age 60
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Raymond Poincaré age 52
Prime Minister - France
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 55
Chancellor - German Empire
Giovanni Giolitti age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
Saionji Kinmochi age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Louis Botha age 49
Prime Minister - South Africa
Muhammad Said Pasha age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Edward Douglass White age 66
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
James S. Sherman age 56
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 8
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 13
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 26
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 11
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 16
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 12
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill age 37
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry L. Stimson age 44
Secretary of War - United States
Leonard Wood age 51
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Philander C. Knox age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Reginald McKenna age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Franklin MacVeagh age 74
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 44
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Sun Yat-sen age 45
Chairman - Kuomintang
Ramsay MacDonald age 45
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Andrew Bonar Law age 54
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Charles Evans Hughes age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 67
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
William R. Day age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Joseph McKenna age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Charles Hobhouse age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Langalibalele Dube age 41
President - African National Congress
Arthur Griffith age 41
President - Sinn Féin
Elihu Root age 67
Senate - United States
Charles Curtis age 52
Senate - United States
Arthur Balfour age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stanley Baldwin age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 43
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Henderson age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Chamberlain age 76
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James F. Byrnes age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Carson age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Carter Glass age 54
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John W. Weeks age 52
House of Representatives - United States
William Henry Moody age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. Mitchell Palmer age 40
House of Representatives - United States
J. R. Clynes age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 17
House of Representatives - United States
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Shortt age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Keir Hardie age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Barnes age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Woodrow Wilson age 55
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Thomas R. Marshall age 58
Governor of Indiana - United States
Hiram Johnson age 46
Governor of California - United States
Judson Harmon age 66
Governor of Ohio - United States
Phillips Lee Goldsborough age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
Oscar Branch Colquitt age 50
Governor of Texas - United States
Eugene Foss age 53
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William Hodges Mann age 69
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Washington Donaghey age 56
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Alden Dix age 51
Governor of New York - United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 30
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 77
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 28
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton age 65
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 92
New York State Senate - United States
Pius X age 77
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 26
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 32
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 40
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 54
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 41
King - Denmark
Carol I of Romania age 73
King - Kingdom of Romania
Vajiravudh age 31
King - Thailand
Sobhuza II age 13
King - Eswatini
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 18
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 63
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 40
Emir - Afghanistan
Ugyen Wangchuck age 50
King - Bhutan
Juan Vicente Gómez age 55
President - Venezuela
Roque Sáenz Peña age 61
President - Argentina
Yusef of Morocco age 30
Sultan - Morocco
José Batlle y Ordóñez age 56
President - Uruguay
Manuel de Arriaga age 72
President - Portugal
Augusto Leguía age 49
President - Peru
George Tupou II age 38
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 72
King - Cambodia
Ramón Barros Luco age 77
President - Chile
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi age 48
Sultan - Oman
Adolfo Díaz age 37
President - Nicaragua
Eduardo Schaerer age 38
President - Paraguay
Leónidas Plaza age 47
President - Ecuador
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thani age 91
Emir - Qatar
Pablo Arosemena age 75
President - Panama
Carlos Eugenio Restrepo age 45
President - Colombia
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 53
President - Costa Rica
Ludwig Forrer age 67
President - Switzerland
Eliodoro Villazón age 64
President - Bolivia
Tancrède Auguste age 56
President - Haiti
Daniel Edward Howard age 51
President - Liberia
Manuel Enrique Araujo age 46
President - El Salvador
Manuel Bonilla age 63
President - Honduras
Isa I of Bahrain age 64
Hakim - Bahrain
Charles Hardinge age 54
Viceroy - British Raj
Eleftherios Venizelos age 48
Prime Minister - Greece
Andrew Fisher age 50
Prime Minister - Australia
Robert Borden age 58
Prime Minister - Canada
Titu Maiorescu age 72
Prime Minister - Romania
José Canalejas age 58
Prime Minister - Spain
Karl Staaff age 52
Prime Minister - Sweden
Hannes Hafstein age 50
Prime Minister - Iceland
Vladimir Kokovtsov age 59
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Russian Empire
Klaus Berntsen age 68
Prime Minister - Denmark
Charles de Broqueville age 51
Prime Minister - Belgium
Theo Heemskerk age 60
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Jens Bratlie age 56
Prime Minister - Norway
Ivan Evstratiev Geshov age 63
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Paul Eyschen age 71
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
László Lukács age 61
Prime Minister - Hungary
William Massey age 56
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Duarte Leite age 48
Prime Minister - Portugal
Mitar Martinović age 42
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Marko Trifković age 48
Prime Minister - Serbia
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman age 37
Governor-General - Australia
Albert Jean George Marie Louis Picquié age 59
Governor-General - Madagascar
Adolf Hitler age 23
Albert Einstein age 33
Ronald Reagan age 1
Vladimir Lenin age 42
Mahatma Gandhi age 42
Joseph Stalin age 33
Pablo Picasso age 30
Charlie Chaplin age 23
Thomas Edison age 65
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 31
Sigmund Freud age 56
Marie Curie age 44
Rabindranath Tagore age 51
Mao Zedong age 18
Charles de Gaulle age 21
Nikola Tesla age 56
Walt Disney age 10
George Orwell age 9
Ernest Hemingway age 13
Henry Ford age 49
Benito Mussolini age 29
Jean-Paul Sartre age 7
Mother Teresa age 2
Harry S. Truman age 28
Theodore Roosevelt age 53
Jawaharlal Nehru age 22
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 21
Alan Turing age 2 months
John Maynard Keynes age 29
Simone de Beauvoir age 4
Niels Bohr age 26
Leon Trotsky age 32
Max Planck age 54