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Also Known As Rashīd ʿĀlī al-Gailānī • Rashīd ʿĀlī al-Kaylānī • Rashid Ali al-Gīlānī
Born 1892 • Baghdad • Ottoman Empire
Died August 28, 1965 (aged 73) • Beirut • Lebanon
Title / Office prime minister (1941), Iraq • prime minister (1940-1941), Iraq • prime minister (1933), Iraq
Faisal II
king of Iraq
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein
president of Iraq
Nouri al-Maliki
Nouri al-Maliki
prime minister of Iraq
Tariq Aziz
Iraqi public official
Ibrahim al-Jaafari
prime minister of Iraq
Ayad Allawi
Ayad Allawi
prime minister of Iraq
Faisal I
Faisal I
king of Iraq
Nuri al-Said
Nuri al-Said
Iraqi statesman
ʿAbd al-Karīm Qāsim
prime minister of Iraq
Talabani, Jalal
Jalal Talabani
president of Iraq
Uday Hussein
Uday Hussein
Iraqi official
ʿAbd al-Salām ʿĀrif
president of Iraq
Jamil al-Midfaʿi
Iraqi statesman
ʿAlī Ḥasan al-Majīd
ʿAlī Ḥasan al-Majīd
Iraqi official
Zangī
Iraqi ruler
Qusay Hussein
Qusay Hussein
Iraqi official
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bazzāz
Iraqi leader
Aḥmad Ḥasan al-Bakr
president of Iraq
ʿAbd al-Ilāh
ʿAbd al-Ilāh
Iraqi prince
Bakr Ṣidqī
Iraqi general