1957

• July 30: Born in Riyadh to Yemeni bricklayer cum construction magnate Mohammed bin Laden and his fourth wife, reported variously as a Syrian or Palestinian woman.¹
• He is the 17 ^th of Mohammed’s reported 52 children and the only child of his mother. ²

1968

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