Sir Mohammed Iqbal
1875 – 1938
Pakistani

Poet. He supported the creation of a separate Muslim state on the Indian sub-continent, which eventually emerged as Pakistan.

Contemporaries
1918–2005Zhao Ziyang
1924–1988Muhammad Zia ul-Haq
1893–1976Mao Zedong
1895–1976Lin Yu-tang
1923–2015Lee Kuan Yew
1866–1925Sun Yixian
1884–1943Isoroku Yamamoto
1904–1997Deng Xiaoping
1856–1930Sir Joseph Ward
1862–1902Vivekananda
1889–1970Jessie Street
1816–1885Ram Singh
1891–1962Hu Shih
1848–1934Kate Sheppard
1877–1936Ettie Rout
1883–1959Kitaoji Rosanjin
1879–1950Maharishi Ramana
1836–1886Ramakrishna
1888–1975Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
1887–1945Vidkun Quisling
1873–1929Liang Qichao
1914–1991Jiang Qing
1926–1998Pol Pot
1900–1990Vijaya Pandit
1861–1931Motilal Nehru
1889–1964Jawaharlal Nehru
1879–1949Sarojini Naidu
1852–1912Mutsuhito
1925–1970Yukio Mishima
1917–1989Ferdinand Marcos
1904–1986Ding Ling
1848–1920Louisa Lawson
1911–1990Le Duc Tho
1910–1998Akira Kurosawa
1895–1986Jiddu Krishnamurti
1877–1957Aga Khan III
1888–1960Toyohiko Kagawa
1904–2005Ba Jin
1876–1948Muhammad Ali Jinnah
1887–1975Jiang Jièshí
1864–1917Elsie Inglis
1893–1981Fusaye Ichikawa
1919–2008Sir Edmund Hillary
Born 1935Dalai Lama
1912–2013Vo Nguyen Giap
1909–1959Errol Flynn
1898–1975Zhou Enlai
1888–1927Li Dazhao
1886–1976Zhu De
1911–1984Douglas Cooper
1892–1969Ho Chi-Minh
1916–1991Paul Brickhill
1897–c. 1945Subhas Bose
1922–1999Neville Bonner
1915–1995A. J. Birch
1895–1982Vinoba Bhave
1916–2000Sirimavo Bandaranaike
1933–2009Cory Aquino
1905–2004Mulk Raj Anand
1893–1956Bhimrao Ambedkar
Born 1933Akihito