Historical figures in Khartoum
The atlas holds 15 people and 20 moments here, from 1898 to 2010. The most recorded lives are Gamal Abdel Nasser, Winston Churchill and Osama bin Laden. Among them Political Leaders, Historians and Jurists, across the Space Age and the Cold War.
Notable people
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
in 1967
1 moment here
Algerian politician, diplomat, and president. Born in Oujda, he joined the National Liberation Army during the Algerian War, served as Algeria's…
Amelia Earhart
in 1937
1 moment here
American aviator and author. Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, became a leading aviation pioneer, crossed the Atlantic as a passenger in 1928,…
Anwar Sadat
from 1938 to 1972
2 moments here
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian army officer, Free Officer, politician, and president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.…
Audrey Hepburn
in 1989
1 moment here
British actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn (Audrey Kathleen Ruston) was born in Brussels, raised across Belgium, England and the Netherlands,…
Desmond Tutu
in 2007
1 moment here
South African Anglican bishop, theologian, anti-apartheid activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Archbishop of Cape Town, and chair of South Africa’s…
Dorothy Hodgkin
in 1970
1 moment here
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…
Gamal Abdel Nasser
from 1941 to 1970
3 moments here
Egyptian army officer, leader of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, and president of Egypt from 1954 until his death.…
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
in 2002
1 moment here
Malian politician known as IBK. He was born in Koutiala, studied and worked in Mali, Senegal, and France, served as Mali’s ambassador to Côte…
Idriss Déby
in 2010
1 moment here
Chadian military officer and politician who led the Patriotic Salvation Movement to power in December 1990 and served as Chad's president from 1991…
Milton Obote
in 1971
1 moment here
Apollo Milton Obote was a Ugandan politician who served as prime minister from 1962 to 1966 and as president from 1966 to 1971 and from 1980 to 1985.…
Muammar Gaddafi
in 2010
1 moment here
Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from the 1969 coup until his overthrow and killing during…
Nelson Mandela
in 1962
1 moment here
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, lawyer and statesman. Mandela helped lead the African National Congress, co-founded its armed wing,…
Osama bin Laden
in 1992
2 moments here
Saudi-born founder and first emir of al-Qaeda. His documented movements include childhood and education in Saudi Arabia and England; militant…
Theodore Roosevelt
in 1910
1 moment here
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858–1919) was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909.…
Winston Churchill
from 1898 to 1907
2 moments here
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) was a British soldier, journalist, author and statesman whose career ranged from imperial campaigns in…
Moments
- 1898 Charges at Omdurman Winston Churchill
- 1907 Inspects Khartoum during African tour Winston Churchill
- 1910 Reached Khartoum after African expedition Theodore Roosevelt
- 1937 Second world-flight attempt: Khartoum Amelia Earhart
- 1938 Signal Corps posting in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Anwar Sadat
- 1941 Army posting in Khartoum Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 1962 Flies onward to Khartoum Nelson Mandela
- 1967 Arab heads-of-state conference in Khartoum Abdelaziz Bouteflika
- 1967 Arab League Summit after Six-Day War Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 1970 Sudanese Independence Day visit Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 1970 Lectures while examining in Khartoum Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1971 Rebel organization in Sudan Milton Obote
- 1972 Meeting with Gaafar Nimeiry Anwar Sadat
- 1989 Operation Lifeline mission in Sudan Audrey Hepburn
- 1992 Base in Khartoum Osama bin Laden
- 1992 Move to Sudan Osama bin Laden
- 2002 African Parliamentary Union conference Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
- 2007 The Elders mission to Sudan Desmond Tutu
- 2010 Visit to Khartoum Idriss Déby
- 2010 Meeting in Khartoum Muammar Gaddafi