Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Abdullah Yusuf Ali was an Indian-British barrister who wrote a number of books about Islam, including an exegesis of the Qur'an. A supporter of the British war effort during World War I, Ali received the CBE in 1917 for his services to that cause. He died in London in 1953.

14 April 1872

Born on the same birth day (14 April): Arnold J. Toynbee • Augustus Pitt Rivers • Avner Dorman • B. R. Ambedkar • Brad Sinopoli • Carlos Pérez (pitcher) • Christian Älvestam • David Urquhart (bishop) • Hidetaka Suehiro • Inez Andrews • John Appold • Katsuhiro Otomo • Michael Sarris • Miguel Calero • Mikhail Pletnev • Nadine Faustin-Parker • Nicola Berti • Osamu Sato • Patrick Surtain II • Pete Rose • Robert Carlyle • Roberto Ayala • Roberto Mejía • V. Gordon Childe

Born in the same month (April 1872): Aleksandër Stavre Drenova • Alexander Roda Roda • Alice Salomon • C. B. Fry • Forest Ray Moulton • Harry Payne Whitney • John Cameron (footballer, born 1872) • Léon Blum • Princess Margaret of Prussia • Samuel Cate Prescott