Ahmed III ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثالث Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > āli < u > s </ u >) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 30 / 31, 1673 – July 1, 1736 )</ span > was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 87 ).

* 1673 – Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1736 )

** Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan ( b. 1673 )

* 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

Ahmed I ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد اول Aḥmed-i evvel, ) or Ahmed Bakhti ( April 18, 1590 – November 22, 1617 ) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 until his death in 1617.

Ahmed II Khan Ghazi ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثانى Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > ānī ) < span dir =" ltr ">( February 25, 1643 – February 6, 1695 )</ span > was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1691 to 1695.

Ahmed II was born at Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ibrahim I ( 1640 – 48 ) by Valide Sultan Khadija Muazzez, and succeeded his brother Suleiman II ( 1687 – 91 ) in 1691.

Ahmed voluntarily led his nephew Mahmud I ( 1730 – 54 ) to the seat of sovereignty and paid allegiance to him as Sultan of the Empire.

* 1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.

* 1590 – Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor ( d. 1617 )

* 2010 – Israr Ahmed, Pakistani-Islamic theologian ( b. 1932 )

He was the son of sultan Ahmed III ( 1703 – 30 ) and succeeded his brother Mustafa III ( 1757 – 74 ) on January 21, 1774.

His sons were: Mustafa IV ( 1807 – 08 ) ( his son by Ayşe Seniyeperver ), Mahmud II ( 1808 – 39 ) ( his son by Naksh-i-Dil Haseki ), Murad, Nusret, Mehmed, Ahmed, and Süleyman.

A former law student and muezzin, Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Nami ( Arabic: أحمد بن عبد الله النامي, ; also transliterated as Alnami ) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 7, 1977 – September 11, 2001 )</ span > was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi (, ) ( October 11, 1980 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

* 1984 – Ahmed Barusso, Ghanaian footballer

* 1945 – Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.

* 1543 – Battle of Wayna Daga – A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.

* 1936 – K. S. Nissar Ahmed, Kannada Poet

* 1946 – Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel laureate

* December 30 – Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1736 )

Hansi was under Maratha rule in 1736 and after 3rd battle of Panipat in 1761 was lost to Ahmed Shah Abdali.

Next were films such as The Winds of the Aures ( 1965 ) of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Patrol To The East ( 1972 ) of Amar Laskri, Prohibited Area of Ahmed Lallem, ( 1972 ), The Opium and the stick of Ahmed Rachedi, or The Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ) which is an Algerian-Italian film selected three times at the Oscars.

Today Ahmed I is remembered mainly for the construction of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque ( also known as the Blue Mosque ), one of the masterpieces of Islamic architecture.

Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi was a legendary Ottoman aviator of 17th-century Constantinople ( present day Istanbul ), purported in the writings of Evliya Çelebi to have achieved sustained unpowered flight.

Evliyâ Çelebi's account of the exploits of Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi is only three sentences long ( of a ten volume work ), but the story has great currency in Turkey.

Mushtaq Ahmed ( Pakistan ),

The Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social ( PRDS ), led by President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya, has dominated Mauritanian politics since the country's first multi-party elections in April 1992 following the approval by referendum of the current constitution in July 1991.

He was born in the Manisa Palace, the brother of Ahmed I ( 1603 – 17 ), who died because of typhus at a young age.

Murad IV was born in Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ahmed I ( 1603 – 17 ) and the ethnic Greek Valide Sultan Kösem Sultan ( also known as Mahpeyker ), originally named Anastasia.

They were identified as Luttif Afif ( Issa ), the leader ( three of Issa's brothers were also reportedly members of Black September, two of them in Israeli jails ), his deputy Yusuf Nazzal ( Tony ), and junior members Afif Ahmed Hamid ( Paolo ), Khalid Jawad ( Salah ), Ahmed Chic Thaa ( Abu Halla ), Mohammed Safady ( Badran ), Adnan Al-Gashey ( Denawi ), and his cousin Jamal Al-Gashey ( Samir ).

A half-brother of Ahmed, Yahya, resented his accession to the Ottoman throne in 1603, and spent his life scheming to become Sultan.

In 1710 he convinced the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III to declare war against Russia, and the Ottoman forces under Baltacı Mehmet Pasha won a major victory at the Battle of Prut.

Forced against his will into war with Russia, Ahmed III came nearer than any Ottoman sovereign before or since to breaking the power of his northern rival, whose armies his grand vizier Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha succeeded in completely surrounding at the Pruth River Campaign in 1711.

Ahmed III left the finances of the Ottoman Empire in a flourishing condition, which had remarkably been obtained without excessive taxation or extortion procedures.

* The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman: Melek Ahmed Pasha ( 1588-1662 ) as Portrayed in Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels.

* A feature length film, " Istanbul Beneath My Wings " ( İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında, 1996 ) concerns the lives of Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, his brother Lagari Hasan Çelebi, and the Ottoman society in the early 17th century, as witnessed and narrated by Evliyâ Çelebi.

In 1711, Ahmed Karamanli, an Ottoman cavalry officer, seized power and founded the Karamanli dynasty, which would last 124 years.

* 1695 – Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II.

His third oldest son, Yahya, is of interest to some because he reportedly converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and campaigned for a good part of his life to gain the Ottoman Imperial throne, to which his younger brother Ahmed I succeeded to in 1603.

) Charles XII persuaded the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III to declare war on Russia, which resulted in the Ottoman victory at the Pruth River Campaign of 1710 – 1711.

Piri Reis ( full name Hacı Ahmed Muhiddin Piri-Hadji Ahmed Muhiddin Piri, Ahmet ibn-i el-Haç Mehmet El Karamani ; Reis was a Turkish military rank akin to that of captain ) was an Ottoman admiral, geographer and cartographer born between 1465 and 1470, and died in 1554 or 1555.