Amanullah Khan
1892 – 1960
Afghan

King of Afghanistan. He secured the independence of Afghanistan, but his efforts to Westernize provoked a reaction and he had to flee.

Contemporaries
1874–1952Chaim Weizmann
1922–1995Itzhak Rabin
1919–1980Mohammad Pahlavi
1947–1996Mohammed Najibullah
1898–1978Golda Meir
1900–1989Ayatollah Khomeini
1937–2006Saddam Hussein
1915–1981Moshe Dayan
1913–1992Menachem Begin
1817–1892Baha'u'llah
1928–2000Hafez al Asad
1929–2004Yasser Arafat