Key Figures of World War I

World War I: List of People

World War I was shaped by political leaders and military commanders. Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination sparked the conflict, Kaiser Wilhelm II drove imperial German strategy, and Tsar Nicholas II’s downfall led to the collapse of the Russian Empire, redrew European powers.

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Year	List of People
1584	Birth of Charles de Lorme (Location: Moulins, France)
1678	Death of Charles de Lorme
1830	Birth of Franz Joseph I (Location: Vienna (Austria))
1831	Birth of Friedrich III (Location: Potsdam, Germany)
1841	Birth of Georges Clemenceau (Location: Mouilleron-en-Pareds (now Mouilleron-Saint-Germain), France)
1843	Birth of Georg von Hertling (Location: Darmstadt (Germany))
1850	Birth of Horatio Herbert Kitchener (Location: Near Listowel, Ireland (Ballylongford, County Kerry))
1852	Birth of Herbert Henry Asquith (Location: Morley, West Yorkshire, England (now part of the City of Leeds))
1854	Birth of Paul Ehrlich (Location: Strzelin (Poland))
1856	Birth of Sigmund Freud (Location: Příbor (present-day Czech Republic)) Birth of Archduke Friedrich (Location: Židlochovice (present-day Czech Republic, near Brno)) Birth of Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (Location: Hohenfinow (Brandenburg, Germany))
1857	Birth of Georg Michaelis (Location: Haynau (now Chojnów, Poland))
1858	Birth of Max Planck (Location: Kiel (present-day Germany)) Birth of Andrew Bonar Law (Location: Kingston, New Brunswick, Canada (present-day Rexton)) Birth of Andrew Bonar Law (Location: Five Rivers, New Brunswick, Canada (formerly Kingston))
1859	Birth of Wilhelm II (Location: Berlin (Germany)) Birth of Alexandre Millerand (Location: Paris, France)
1860	Birth of Raymond Poincaré (Location: Bar-le-Duc, France)
1862	Birth of Aristide Briand (Location: Nantes, France)
1863	Birth of David Lloyd George (Location: Manchester, England) Birth of Joseph Caillaux (Location: Le Mans, France) Birth of Leopold Berchtold (Location: Vienna (present-day Austria)) Birth of Archduke Eugen (Location: Židlochovice (present-day Czech Republic, near Brno)) Birth of René Viviani (Location: Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria) Birth of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Location: Graz (present-day Austria))
1866	Birth of Romain Rolland (Location: Clamecy (Nièvre, France))
1867	Birth of Max von Baden (Location: Baden-Baden (Germany)) Birth of Marie Curie (Location: Warsaw, Poland)
1868	Birth of Sophie Chotek (Location: Stuttgart (present-day Baden-Württemberg, Germany))
1871	Birth of Ernest Rutherford (Location: Brightwater, Tasman District, New Zealand)
1872	Birth of Paul Langevin (Location: Paris, France)
1873	Birth of Henri Barbusse (Location: Asnières-sur-Seine (present-day Hauts-de-Seine, France)) Birth of Alexis Carrel (Location: Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France)
1874	Birth of Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (Location: Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England (Blenheim Palace))
1878	Birth of Lise Meitner (Location: Vienna (Austria))
1879	Birth of Albert Einstein (Location: Ulm (present-day Germany))
1886	Birth of Siegfried Sassoon (Location: Matfield (present-day Borough of Tunbridge Wells, Kent))
1887	Birth of Rupert Brooke (Location: Rugby (Warwickshire, England)) Birth of Erwin Schrödinger (Location: Vienna (present-day Austria)) Birth of Charles I (Location: Persenbeug-Gottsdorf (present-day Lower Austria, Austria))
1888	Death of Friedrich III
1890	Birth of Danilo Ilić (Location: Sarajevo (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)) Birth of Isaac Rosenberg (Location: Bristol (England))
1892	Birth of Zita of Bourbon-Parma (Location: Camaiore (present-day Tuscany, Italy, Capezzano Pianore area))
1893	Birth of Wilfred Owen (Location: Oswestry, Shropshire, England)
1894	Birth of Gavrilo Princip (Location: Bosansko Grahovo (present-day Obljaj village, Bosansko Grahovo municipality, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina))
1895	Birth of Nedeljko Čabrinović (Location: Sarajevo (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)) Birth of Robert Graves (Location: London (Wimbledon))
1914	Death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Death of Sophie Chotek
1915	Death of Danilo Ilić Death of Rupert Brooke Death of Paul Ehrlich
1916	Death of Nedeljko Čabrinović Death of Horatio Herbert Kitchener Death of Franz Joseph I
1918	Death of Isaac Rosenberg Death of Gavrilo Princip Death of Wilfred Owen
1919	Death of Georg von Hertling
1921	Death of Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
1922	Death of Charles I
1923	Death of Andrew Bonar Law Death of Andrew Bonar Law
1925	Death of René Viviani
1928	Death of Herbert Henry Asquith
1929	Death of Max von Baden Death of Georges Clemenceau
1932	Death of Aristide Briand
1934	Death of Marie Curie Death of Raymond Poincaré
1935	Death of Henri Barbusse
1936	Death of Georg Michaelis Death of Archduke Friedrich
1937	Death of Ernest Rutherford
1939	Death of Sigmund Freud
1941	Death of Wilhelm II
1942	Death of Leopold Berchtold
1943	Death of Alexandre Millerand
1944	Death of Alexis Carrel Death of Joseph Caillaux Death of Romain Rolland
1945	Death of David Lloyd George
1946	Death of Paul Langevin
1947	Death of Max Planck
1954	Death of Archduke Eugen
1955	Death of Albert Einstein
1961	Death of Erwin Schrödinger
1965	Death of Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1967	Death of Siegfried Sassoon
1968	Death of Lise Meitner
1985	Death of Robert Graves
1989	Death of Zita of Bourbon-Parma

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