Saddam Hussein — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Saddam Hussein; used for entity facts only. It gives his official birth on 28 April 1937 at al-Awja near Tikrit, to a peasant Sunni Arab family, with a footnote stating that his real date of birth was never recorded and is believed to fall between 1935 and 1939. It covers his rise, presidency, the Faith Campaign from 1993, his trial, and his execution by hanging at Baghdad on 30 December 2006. The Sunni reference in its text is to his family of birth; no text in the article names his own school.