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20th-century Muslims

  • Cat StevensSteven Demetre Georgiou stood on the rooftop above his family's restaurant in Marylebone, London. He listened to musicals drifting from Denmark Street below.
  • Muhammad AliOn the 17th of January 1942, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Odessa Grady Clay and Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr.
  • Malcolm XMalcolm Little was born on the 19th of May 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was the fourth child of Earl and Louise Little. His father served as a Baptist lay…
  • Sheikh Mujibur RahmanOn the 17th of March 1920, a boy named Sheikh Mujib was born in the village of Tungipara. His father held about 100 bighas of cultivable land and served as a…