Key Figures of West Asia in WW

List of People: West Asia

During the World Wars, West Asia became a battleground of imperial decline and nationalism. Key figures like Enver Pasha and Talat Pasha led the Ottoman war effort, while Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and İsmet İnönü forged modern Turkey. Their actions dismantled old empires and reshaped the region.

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Year	West Asia
1844	Birth of Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid (Location: Istanbul, Turkey (then Constantinople, Çırağan Palace))
1853	Birth of Musa al-Husayni (Location: Jerusalem (present-day Palestine/Israel region))
1861	Birth of Mehmed Vahdeddin Han bin Abdülmecid (Location: Present-day Istanbul, Republic of Turkey (then Constantinople during the Ottoman Empire). His birthplace is said to be Dolmabahçe Palace.)
1872	Birth of Ahmet Cemal (Location: Mytilene on Lesbos Island, present-day Hellenic Republic (called Midilli during the Ottoman Empire).)
1874	Birth of Mehmed Talat (Location: Edirne, Republic of Turkey (then Ottoman territory). Some sources list his birthplace as present-day Kardzhali, Bulgaria, but the Edirne theory is confirmed in multiple research materials and official encyclopedias.) Birth of Chaim Weizmann (Location: Motol (present-day Brest Region, Republic of Belarus))
1875	Birth of Hashim al-Atassi (Location: Homs, Syria)
1876	Birth of Mustafa Fevzi (Location: Istanbul, Republic of Turkey. Born in Cihangir, located in the present-day Beyoğlu district.)
1879	Birth of Ibrahim Hananu (Location: Kafr Takharim (Kafr Takharim / كفر تخاريم), Syria)
1880	Birth of Zeev Jabotinsky (Location: Odesa (present-day Ukraine)) Birth of Vladimir Jabotinsky (Location: Odesa (present-day Ukraine)) Birth of Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar (Location: Syrian Arab Republic, Damascus)
1881	Birth of Mustafa Kemal (Location: Thessaloniki, Hellenic Republic (then Selanik in Ottoman territory).)
1882	Birth of Raghib al-Nashashibi (Location: Jerusalem (present-day Palestine/Israel region)) Birth of İsmail Enver (Location: Istanbul, Republic of Turkey. Born in the Divanyolu district of the Old City.)
1883	Birth of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (Location: Jableh (present-day Latakia Governorate, Syria))
1884	Birth of Mustafa İsmet (Location: İzmir, Republic of Turkey (then called Smyrna in Ottoman territory).)
1886	Birth of Emile Eddé (Location: Syrian Arab Republic, Damascus) Birth of Faisal I (Location: Taif, Saudi Arabia (English sources sometimes state Mecca)) Birth of David Ben-Gurion (Location: Płońsk (present-day Masovian Voivodeship, Republic of Poland))
1890	Birth of Bishara al-Khuri (Location: Lebanese Republic, Reshmaya (Aley District). Some sources give Beirut as his birth_place)
1891	Birth of Sultan al-Atrash (Location: Al-Qurayya (Al-Qurayya / al-Qrayya), Syria, a town located south of Suwayda) Birth of Shukri al-Quwatli (Location: Syrian Arab Republic, Damascus)
1894	Birth of Riyad al-Sulh (Location: Lebanese Republic, Sidon (Saida). Some sources state he was born in Tyre (Sour)) Birth of Moshe Sharett (Location: Kherson, Ukraine)
1895	Birth of Amin al-Husayni (Location: Jerusalem (present-day Palestine/Israel region))
1898	Birth of Golda Meir (Location: Kyiv (present-day Ukraine))
1904	Birth of Antoun Saadeh (Location: Dhour Choueir (Lebanon, Matn District))
1908	Birth of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (Location: Jerusalem (listed as Ottoman Jerusalem on English Wikipedia and Istanbul on PalQuest))
1918	Death of Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid
1922	Death of Ahmet Cemal Death of İsmail Enver
1926	Death of Mehmed Vahdeddin Han bin Abdülmecid
1933	Death of Faisal I
1934	Death of Musa al-Husayni
1935	Death of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Death of Ibrahim Hananu
1940	Death of Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar Death of Zeev Jabotinsky Death of Vladimir Jabotinsky
1943	Death of Mehmed Talat
1948	Death of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni
1949	Death of Antoun Saadeh Death of Emile Eddé
1950	Death of Mustafa Fevzi
1951	Death of Raghib al-Nashashibi Death of Riyad al-Sulh
1952	Death of Chaim Weizmann
1953	Death of Mustafa Kemal
1960	Death of Hashim al-Atassi
1964	Death of Bishara al-Khuri
1965	Death of Moshe Sharett
1967	Death of Shukri al-Quwatli
1973	Death of David Ben-Gurion Death of Mustafa İsmet
1974	Death of Amin al-Husayni
1978	Death of Golda Meir
1982	Death of Sultan al-Atrash

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