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Saddam Hussain
Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, 1937, in the village of Al-Awja, near Tikrit, Iraq. He was the second of three sons born to a shepherd father and a housewife mother. Saddam's family was poor, and he had to work hard to support himself from a young age.