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Jalal Talabani
Born: November 12, 1933
Died: October 3, 2017 (aged 83)
Bio: Jalal Talabani was a leading Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the sixth President of Iraq from 2005 to 2014. He was the first non-Arab president of Iraq, although Abdul Karim Qasim was of partial Kurdish heritage.