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Events

Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
East African campaign (World War I) 1914-08-03 - 1918-11-25
Caucasus campaign 1914-11-02 - 1918-10-30
Macedonian front 1915-10-21 - 1918-09-30
Arab Revolt 1916-06-10 - 1918-10-25
Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Battle of Passchendaele 1917-07-31 - 1917-11-10
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo 1917-08-18 - 1917-09-12

People

Woodrow Wilson age 60
President - United States
Wilhelm II age 58
Emperor - German Empire
George V age 52
King - United Kingdom
Raymond Poincaré age 57
President - France
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 47
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 38
Emperor - Japan
Mehmed V age 72
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Charles I of Austria age 30
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Albert I of Belgium age 42
King - Belgium
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 19
Shah - Iran
Zewditu age 41
Empress - Ethiopia
Venceslau Brás age 49
President - Brazil
Hussein Kamel of Egypt age 63
Sultan - Sultanate of Egypt
Feng Guozhang age 58
President - Republic of China
Mario García Menocal age 50
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 57
President - Guatemala
Venustiano Carranza age 57
President - Mexico
Pierre de Coubertin age 54
President - International Olympic Committee
David Lloyd George age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Georg Michaelis age 60
Chancellor - German Empire
Terauchi Masatake age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Paolo Boselli age 79
Prime Minister - Italy
Louis Botha age 54
Prime Minister - South Africa
Edward Douglass White age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Thomas R. Marshall age 63
Vice President - United States
Andrew Bonar Law age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Robert Lansing age 52
Secretary Of State - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 53
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Newton D. Baker age 45
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 52
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Eric Geddes age 41
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Hugh L. Scott age 63
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Thomas Watt Gregory age 55
Attorney General - United States
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Winston Churchill age 42
Minister of Munitions - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 64
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Arthur Henderson age 53
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William R. Day age 68
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sefako Makgatho age 56
President - African National Congress
Arthur Griffith age 46
President - Sinn Féin
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 35
Assistant Secretary Of The Navy - United States
Warren G. Harding age 51
Senate - United States
Charles Curtis age 57
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 39
House of Representatives - United States
John Nance Garner age 48
House of Representatives - United States
Benedict XV age 62
Pope - Vatican City
Alfonso XIII age 31
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 37
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 45
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 59
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 46
King - Denmark
Ferdinand I of Romania age 52
King - Kingdom of Romania
Vajiravudh age 36
King - Thailand
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 67
President - Argentina
Sobhuza II age 18
King - Eswatini
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 23
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 68
Prince - Monaco
Habibullah Khan age 45
Emir - Afghanistan
Ugyen Wangchuck age 55
King - Bhutan
William, Prince of Albania age 41
King - Albania
Bernardino Machado age 66
President - Portugal
Yusef of Morocco age 35
Sultan - Morocco
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 31
Sultan - Oman
George Tupou II age 43
King - Tonga
Sisowath of Cambodia age 77
King - Cambodia
Juan Luis Sanfuentes age 58
President - Chile
José Pardo y Barreda age 53
President - Peru
Feliciano Viera age 45
President - Uruguay
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford age 49
Viceroy - British Raj
Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados age 48
President - Costa Rica
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno age 57
President - Ecuador
Edmund Schulthess age 49
President - Switzerland
Victorino Márquez Bustillos age 58
Provisional President - Venezuela
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 46
President - Nicaragua
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 62
Emir - Qatar
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave age 54
President - Haiti
Manuel Franco age 46
President - Paraguay
José Vicente Concha age 50
President - Colombia
Jose Gutierrez Guerra age 48
President - Bolivia
Daniel Edward Howard age 56
President - Liberia
Francisco Bertrand age 50
President - Honduras
Carlos Meléndez Ramírez age 56
President - El Salvador
Isa I of Bahrain age 69
Hakim - Bahrain
Alexander Kerensky age 36
Minister-Chairman - Russian Provisional Government
Eleftherios Venizelos age 53
Prime Minister - Greece
Billy Hughes age 54
Prime Minister - Australia
Robert Borden age 63
Prime Minister - Canada
Eduardo Dato age 61
Prime Minister - Spain
Ion I. C. Brătianu age 53
Prime Minister - Romania
Carl Swartz age 59
Prime Minister - Sweden
Gunnar Knudsen age 68
Prime Minister - Norway
Vasil Radoslavov age 63
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Jón Magnússon age 58
Prime Minister - Iceland
Sándor Wekerle age 68
Prime Minister - Hungary
Charles de Broqueville age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pieter Cort van der Linden age 71
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Afonso Costa age 46
Prime Minister - Portugal
William Massey age 61
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Léon Kauffman age 48
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Evgenije Popović age 75
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 57
Governor-General - Australia
Martial Merlin age 57
Governor-General - Madagascar
Adolf Hitler age 28
Albert Einstein age 38
Ronald Reagan age 6
Vladimir Lenin age 47
Mahatma Gandhi age 47
Joseph Stalin age 38
Pablo Picasso age 35
Charlie Chaplin age 28
Thomas Edison age 70
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 36
Sigmund Freud age 61
John F. Kennedy age 2 months
Marie Curie age 49
Rabindranath Tagore age 56
Mao Zedong age 23
Charles de Gaulle age 26
Nikola Tesla age 61
Walt Disney age 15
George Orwell age 14
Ernest Hemingway age 18
Henry Ford age 54
Benito Mussolini age 34
Jean-Paul Sartre age 12
Mother Teresa age 7
Harry S. Truman age 33
Theodore Roosevelt age 58
Jawaharlal Nehru age 27
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 26
Richard Nixon age 4
Alan Turing age 5
John Maynard Keynes age 34
Simone de Beauvoir age 9
Niels Bohr age 31
Leon Trotsky age 37
Max Planck age 59
Lyndon B. Johnson age 9
Gerald Ford age 4
Enrico Fermi age 15
Nikita Khrushchev age 23
Herbert Hoover age 43
Calvin Coolidge age 45
Alexander Graham Bell age 70
Kwame Nkrumah age 7
Hirohito age 16
Claude Monet age 76
Ho Chi Minh age 27
Sun Yat-sen age 50
William Howard Taft age 59
Konrad Adenauer age 41
Georges Pompidou age 6
Joseph Goebbels age 19
Leonid Brezhnev age 10
Chiang Kai-shek age 29
Golda Meir age 19
John XXIII age 35
Deng Xiaoping age 13
François Mitterrand age 10 months
Alexander Fleming age 36
Francisco Franco age 24
David Ben-Gurion age 30
Milton Friedman age 5
Ruhollah Khomeini age 14
Josip Broz Tito age 25
Guglielmo Marconi age 43
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 13
Rosa Parks age 4
Sukarno age 16
John Paul I age 4
Paul VI age 19
Willy Brandt age 3
Dag Hammarskjöld age 12
Salvador Allende age 9
Pius XII age 41
John von Neumann age 13
George VI age 21
Pius XI age 60
Heinrich Himmler age 16
Neville Chamberlain age 48
Augusto Pinochet age 1
Haile Selassie age 25
Yuri Andropov age 3
Douglas MacArthur age 37
Erwin Rommel age 25
Carl Benz age 72
Hermann Göring age 24
Rachel Carson age 10
Edward VIII age 23
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 40
Paul von Hindenburg age 69
Wernher von Braun age 5
Clement Attlee age 34
George C. Marshall age 36
Enver Hoxha age 8
Abdul Hamid II age 74
Georges Clemenceau age 75
Konstantin Chernenko age 5
Zhou Enlai age 19
Vyacheslav Molotov age 27