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Born Aug 8, 1925 · Šamac, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Awards: King Faisal International Prize in Service to Islam, Grand Order of Queen Jelena, Order of State of Republic of Turkey, Order of Independence, Order of Merit, Order of the Crown of the Realm, Order of Isabella the Catholic, Nishan-e-Pakistan
Alija Izetbegović, the former president of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a Muslim thinker, was born in 1925 in the town of Bosanski Šamac, Bosnia and Herzegovina.