Habib Elghanian

Habib (Habibollah) Elghanian was a prominent Iranian Jewish businessman and philanthropist who served as the president of the Tehran Jewish Society and acted as the symbolic head of the Iranian Jewish community in the 1970s. On 9 May 1979, Elghanian was executed by firing squad in Tehran, Iran.

5 April 1912

Born on the same birth date (5 April 1912): Antonio Ferri • Bill Roberts (athlete) • Carlos Guastavino • István Örkény • Jehan Buhan • John Le Mesurier

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Born in the same month (April 1912): Bill Roberts (athlete) • Eve Arnold • Georg Siimenson • Glenn T. Seaborg • Hamengkubuwono IX • Jacques de Bourbon-Busset • Jehan Buhan • John Le Mesurier • Kaneto Shindo • Kim Il Sung • Lev Kopelev • Makar Honcharenko • Marcel Camus • Odette Hallowes • Richard Carlson (actor) • Robert Doisneau • Ruth Osburn • William Congdon • Zohra Sehgal