LOCATION

Population:
2,000,000

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bashar al-Assad	Head of State	11-Sep-1965		President of Syria
Damascius	Philosopher	480 AD	?	Last Neoplatonist philosopher
John of Damascus	Religion	c. 676 AD	4-Dec-749 AD	Early scholastic church father

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Hafez al-Assad	Head of State	6-Oct-1930	10-Jun-2000	President of Syria, 1971-2000
Ibn Al-Baitar	Botanist	c. 1197	c. 1248	Muslim botanist and pharmacist
Naaman Belkind	Spy	1889	16-Dec-1917	Israeli spy
Henry Thomas Buckle	Historian	24-Nov-1821	29-May-1862	History of Civilisation in England
Eli Cohen	Spy	26-Dec-1924	18-May-1965	Israel's greatest spy
Imad Fayez Mugniyah	Terrorist	7-Dec-1962	12-Feb-2008	Hezbollah International terror wing
Saladin	Royalty	c. 1137	4-Mar-1193	Retook Jerusalem in 1187

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