LOCATION

Population:
9,000,000

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
University of Tehran	1934

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Shohreh Aghdashloo	Actor	11-May-1952		House of Sand and Fog
Borzou Daragahi	Journalist	c. 1966		Los Angeles Times reporter
Salar Kamangar	Business	c. 1977		CEO of YouTube
Omid Kordestani	Business	19-Oct-1963		Executive Chairman of Twitter
Robert Mehrabian	Business	31-Jul-1941		CEO of Teledyne
Mohammed Mossadegh	Head of State	19-May-1882	5-Mar-1967	Prime Minister of Iran, 1951-53
Barbet Schroeder	Film Director	26-Apr-1941		Murder by Numbers
Soraya Serajeddini	Activist	1960	24-Jul-2006	Kurdish activist
Shah of Iran	Royalty	26-Oct-1919	27-Jul-1980	Last Shah of Iran
Farah M. Walters	Business	1945		CEO of UHHS, 1992-2002

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ayatollah Khomeini	Religion	24-Sep-1902	3-Jun-1989	Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh	Head of State	19-May-1882	5-Mar-1967	Prime Minister of Iran, 1951-53
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	Head of State	25-Aug-1934	8-Jan-2017	President of Iran, 1989-97

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