Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, also known as Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 until the Surname Law of 1934, was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping progressive reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrializing nation. Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism.

19 May 1881

Born on the same birth day (19 May): Bert van Marwijk • Diego Forlán • Harry W. Brown (pilot) • Heather Watson • Hōchū Ōtsuka • Johann Jakob Froberger • John Lee (placekicker) • Malcolm X • Manuel Almunia • Michael Carcone • Mickey Newbury • Nicholas Winton • Oliver Letwin

Born in the same month (May 1881): Al Cabrera • Georg von Küchler • George E. Wiley • George Murray Hulbert • Harry J. Capehart • Jan van Gilse • Joseph Forshaw (athlete) • Lima Barreto • Lionel Hill • May 26 • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin • Theodore von Kármán