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Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
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Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

1929 – 2020 · aged 91

Emir of Kuwait (1929–2020)

Born
16 Jun 1929 · Kuwait City
Died
29 Sept 2020 · Rochester
Part ofHistory of Kuwaitc. 1700 – todayKuwait633 CE – todayIslam557 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 105 years
  1. 16 Jun 1929BornBorn in Kuwait City
  2. 1962 – 1964RoleMinister of Information
  3. 1963 – 2003RoleMinister of Foreign Affairs
  4. 1978 – 1991RoleDeputy Prime Minister of Kuwait
  5. 1981 – 1985RoleMinister of Information
  6. 2003 – 2006RolePrime Minister of Kuwait
  7. 2006 – 2020RoleEmir of Kuwait
  8. 2006AwardOrder of Independence
  9. 2008AwardCollar of the Spanish Order of the Civil Merit
  10. 2010AwardGrand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  11. 2013AwardOrder of Jerusalem
  12. 29 Sept 2020DiedDied in Rochester

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1929 – 2020).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Arabic: الشيخ صباح الأحمد الجابر الصباح, romanized: ash-Shaykh Ṣabāḥ al-ʾAḥmad al-Jābir aṣ-Ṣabāḥ; 16 June 1929 – 29 September 2020) was Emir of Kuwait from 24 January 2006 until his death in 2020. He was also prime minister of Kuwait from 2003 to 2006.

He was the fourth son of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

Text from the Wikipedia article Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, CC BY-SA 4.0

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