Ignatius Zakka I

Ignatius Zakka I Iwas was the 122nd reigning Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and, as such, Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church. Also known by his traditional episcopal name, Severios, he was enthroned as patriarch on 14 September 1980 in St. George's Patriarchal Cathedral in Damascus. He succeeded Ignatius Ya`qub III. As is traditional for the head of the church, Mor Severios adopted the name Ignatius.

21 April 1933

Born on the same birth date (21 April 1933): Easley Blackwood Jr. • Edelmiro Amante

Born on the same birth day (21 April): Ben Zinn • Iggy Pop • Joc Pederson • Joe McCarthy (baseball manager) • Norman Parkinson • Odd Lindbäck-Larsen • Phillip Longman • Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten • Ricky Berens • Tony Danza

Born in the same month (April 1933): Arno Allan Penzias • Barbara Holland • Ben Nighthorse Campbell • Brian Hewson • Easley Blackwood Jr. • Ed Charles • Fern Michaels • Gian Maria Volonté • James Lockhart (historian) • Marquitos (footballer, born 1933) • Miodrag Radulovacki • Montserrat Caballé • Paddy Hopkirk • Sakıp Sabancı