Hassan al-Banna
1906 – 1949
Egyptian

Religious leader. He founded the Muslim Brotherhood, an influential and controversial Islamic fundamentalist movement in Egypt. After the Brotherhood was charged with the assassination of the Prime Minister in 1948, he was murdered.

Contemporaries
1906–1996Sir Laurens van der Post
Born 1938Ngugi wa Thiong'o
1915–1997Joseph Wolpe
Born 1931Desmond Tutu
1917–2009Helen Suzman
Born 1944Mongane Serote
1906–2001Léopold Senghor
1918–1981Anwar Sadat
1922–1999Julius Nyerere
1909–1972Kwame Nkrumah
1918–1970Gamal Nasser
1930–1997Sese Mobutu
Born 1937Haile Mengistu
1918–2013Nelson Mandela
1925–1985Alex La Guma
1937–1986Bessie Head
1942–1993Chris Hani
1925–1982Ruth First
Born 1944Buchi Emecheta
Born 1939Breyten Breytenbach
Born 1927Sydney Brenner
1921–1996Eddine Bokassa
Born 1945Allan Boesak
1932–1973Abebe Bikila
1946–1977Stephen Biko
1918–2012Ahmed Ben Bella
1925–2003Idi Amin