Mohamed Atta
Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta was an Egyptian terrorist hijacker for al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, he was the ringleader of the September 11 attacks and served as the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, which he crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the coordinated suicide attacks. Aged 33, he was the oldest of the 19 hijackers who took part in the mission.
1 September 1968
Born on the same birth day (1 September): Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi • Abdul Haq Ansari • An Yu-jin • Beano Cook • Burn Gorman • Christopher Ferguson • Craig McLachlan • Cuttino Mobley • Duško Ivanović • Father Chrysanthus • James Gordon Bennett Sr. • Leonel Suárez • Othmar Schoeck • Raffaele Giammaria • Salah Mohsen • Zendaya
Born in the same month (September 1968): Anastacia • Big Daddy Kane • Brad Wilk • Darius de Haas • Darrell Russell (dragster driver) • Dennis Scott (basketball) • Kevin Buzzard • Marc Anthony • Rob Moroso • Saeed Anwar • Upendra (actor) • Yvette Fielding