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Abd al-Wahhab Marjan
Abdul-Wahab Mirjan (1909–1964) (Arabic: عبد الوهاب مرجان) served as prime minister of Iraq (December 15, 1957 – March 3, 1958) at the time of that country's short-lived union with Jordan, which was formalized on February 14, 1958. A relative...
Date of death:
- Mar 15, 1964
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Nuri as-Said
Nuri Pasha al-Said (1888 – July 15, 1958) (Arabic: نوري السعيد) was an Iraqi politician during the British Mandate and during the Kingdom of Iraq. He served in various key cabinet positions, and served seven terms as Prime Minister of Iraq.
From...
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- Jul 15, 1958
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Al-Kindī
Abu Yusuf Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Sabbah al-Kindī (Arabic: ابو يوسف يعقوب بن اسحاق الصبّاح الكندي, Latin: Alkindus) (c. 801–873 CE), known as "the Philosopher of the Arabs", was a Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician, physician, and musician. Al...
Date of death:
- 873 C.E.
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Ibrahim ibn Sinan
Ibrahim ibn Sinan ibn Thābit ibn Qurra (908, Baghdad – 946, Baghdad) was a Syriac speaking Mandean from Harran in northern Mesopotamia/Assyria. He was mathematician and astronomer who studied geometry and in particular tangents to circles. He also...
Date of death:
- 946 C.E.
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Casey Sheehan
Casey Austin Sheehan (May 29, 1979–April 4, 2004) was a Specialist in the United States Army who was killed by enemy action while serving in the Iraq War. He is the son of Patrick Sheehan, a sales representative, and Cindy Sheehan, who subsequently...
Date of death:
- Apr 4, 2004
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Ali of Hejaz
Ali bin Hussein, (Arabic: علي بن الحسين) GBE (1879–1935) was King of Hejaz and Grand Sharif of Mecca from October 1924 until December 1925. He was the eldest son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali, the first modern King of Hejaz, and a scion of the...
Date of death:
- 1935
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Sérgio Vieira de Mello
Sérgio Vieira de Mello (15 March 1948 – 19 August 2003) was a Brazilian United Nations employee who worked for the UN for more than 34 years, earning respect and praise around the world for his efforts in the humanitarian and political programs of...
Date of death:
- Aug 19, 2003
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Faisal II of Iraq
Faisal II (Arabic: الملك فيصل الثاني Al-Malik Fayṣal Ath-thānī) (2 May 1935 – 14 July 1958) was the last King of Iraq. He reigned from 4 April 1939 until July 1958, when he was killed during the 14 July Revolution together with several members of...
Date of death:
- Jul 14, 1958
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Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and spy who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to...
Date of death:
- Jul 12, 1926
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Paul Ray Smith
Paul Ray Smith (September 24, 1969 – April 4, 2003) was a United States Army Sergeant First Class who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Operation Iraqi Freedom. While serving with B Company, 11th Engineer Battalion, 3rd...
Date of death:
- Apr 4, 2003
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Arshad al-Umari
Arshad Pasha al-Umari (1888–1978) (Arabic: أرشد العمري) was born in Mosul, Iraq on April 8, 1888, when his father was Mayor of Mosul. He obtained his high school degree in 1904 when he was 16 years old. After finishing high school at Mosul he left...
Date of death:
- 1978
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Frederick Stanley Maude
Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude KCB, CMG, DSO (24 June 1864 – 18 November 1917) was a British commander, most famous for his efforts in Mesopotamia during World War I and for conquering Baghdad in 1917.
Maude was born in Gibraltar...
Date of death:
- Nov 18, 1917
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Nasir al-Din Tusi
Khawaja Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Ṭūsī (Persian: محمد بن محمد بن الحسن طوسی) (born 18 February 1201 in Ṭūs, Khorasan – died on 26 June 1274 in al-Kāżimiyyah district of metropolitan Baghdad), better known as Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (Persian:...
Date of death:
- Jun 26, 1274
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Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (Arabic أحمد حسن البكر 'Aḥmad Ḥasan al-Bakr; 1 July 1914 – 4 October 1982) was the fourth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 17 July 1968 until 16 July 1979. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba...
Date of death:
- Oct 4, 1982
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Abdul Karim Qassim
Abd al-Karim Qasim (Arabic: عبد الكريم قاسم `Abd al-Karīm Qāsim) (21 November 1914 – 9 February 1963), was a nationalist Iraqi Army general who seized power in a 1958 coup d'état, wherein the Iraqi monarchy was eliminated. He ruled the country as...
Date of death:
- Feb 9, 1963
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Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
Barzan Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti (February 17, 1951 – January 15, 2007) (also known as Barazan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Barasan Ibrahem Alhassen, and Barzan Hassan) (Arabic: برزان إبراهيم الحسن التكريتي; Barzān Ibrāhīm al-Ḥasan at-Tikrītī) was one of...
Date of death:
- Jan 15, 2007
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Khalil al-Zahawi
Khalil al-Zahawi (Arabic: خليل الزهاوي; 1946 - 25 May 2007) was one of Iraq's most prominent Arabic calligraphers. An ethnic Kurd and a native of Diyala Governorate, he began studying calligraphy in 1959, and moved to Baghdad in 1963, where he gave...
Date of death:
- May 25, 2007
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Taha Yassin Ramadan
Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi (February 22, 1938 – March 20, 2007) (Arabic: طه ياسين رمضان الجزراوي) was a prominent Iraqi Kurd, serving as Vice President of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003.
In October 2002, four...
Date of death:
- Mar 20, 2007
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Theodore S. Westhusing
Colonel Theodore S. Westhusing (November 17, 1960 – June 5, 2005), a West Point professor of English and Philosophy, volunteered to serve in Iraq in late 2004 and died in Baghdad from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound in June 2005. At the...
Date of death:
- Jun 5, 2005
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María Inés Ortiz
Captain María Inés Ortiz (1967–July 10, 2007), was the first American nurse to die in combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom and the first Army nurse to die in combat since the Vietnam War.
Ortiz's parents, Jorge and Iris Ortiz moved from Puerto Rico...
Date of death:
- Jul 10, 2007
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Mahmud Barzanji
Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji or Mahmud Berzenji (1878 – October 9, 1956) was the leader of a series of Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq. He was sheikh of a Qadiriyah Sufi family from the city of Sulaymaniyah, which is now in Iraqi...
Date of death:
- Oct 9, 1956
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Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa
Abū-Muhammad Abd-Allāh Rūzbeh ibn Dādūya/Dādōē (Persian: ابومٰحَمَّد عبدالله روزبه بن دادویه), known as Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Arabic: ابن المقفع), Ibn Muqaffa (Persian: ابن مقفع Ebn-e Moqaffa), or in Persian Rūzbeh pūr-e Dādūya (Persian: روزبِه پورِ...
