British Empire, British Cape Colony, Natal Colony, British Raj, Australia, Canada, New Zealand ⚔ Orange Free State, South African Republic, Boer foreign volunteers
Key battles
Siege of Mafeking (1899)
Battle of Magersfontein (1899)
Siege of Ladysmith (1899)
Battle of Colenso (1899)
Battle of Stormberg (1899)
Battle of Spion Kop (1900)
Battle of Paardeberg (1900)
Who lived through the Second Boer War
Well-known people alive during 1899–1902:
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) — dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, main instigator of World War II (1889–1945)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) — German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) — founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) — Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) — Russian author (1828–1910)
Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) — leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) — Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) — English comic actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) — British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) — founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
Mark Twain (1835–1910) — American author and humorist (1835–1910)
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) — American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) — Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) — president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1882–1945)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) — Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
Marie Curie (1867–1934) — Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) — Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) — Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) — 1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) — Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) — French general and statesman (1890–1970)
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) — Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
Walt Disney (1901–1966) — American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) — American author and journalist (1899–1961)