Anwar Sadat

Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. In 1978, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter, for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize.

25 December 1918

Born on the same birth day (25 December): Avu-chan • Benjamin Pierce (governor) • Chris Richard (basketball) • Francesco Marinoni • Francis Aveling • Hilary Spurling • Irish McCalla • Noël Coypel • Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes • Quentin Crisp • Ram Narayan • Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira • Thomas Halyburton • William Demby • Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah

Born in the same month (December 1918): Abdul Haris Nasution • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Anatoly Tarasov • Anne Gwynne • B. K. S. Iyengar • Chihiro Iwasaki • Clinton Adams • Dave Bartholomew • Donald Regan • Georgios Rallis • Helmut Schmidt • Jean Marchand • Jeff Chandler • Joe Williams (jazz singer) • John Celardo • Kurt Waldheim • Lee Rich • Olga Lopes-Seale • Professor Longhair • Tauba Biterman