In 2007 Agassi, Muhammad Ali, Lance Armstrong, Warrick Dunn, Jeff Gordon, Mia Hamm, Tony Hawk, Andrea Jaeger, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Mario Lemieux, Alonzo Mourning and Cal Ripken, Jr. founded the charity Athletes for Hope, which helps professional athletes get involved in charitable causes and aims to inspire all people to volunteer and support their communities.

* 1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before ( citing religious reasons ), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.

* 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.

* 1919 – Dina Wadia, Pakistani daughter Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The Imam Hasan Ali Shah was born in 1804 in Kahak, Iran to Shah Khalil Allah, the 45th Ismaili Imam, and Bibi Sarkara, the daughter of Muhammad Sadiq Mahallati ( d. 1815 ), a poet and a Ni ‘ mat Allahi Sufi.

He was succeeded by his eldest son Hasan Ali Shah, also known as Muhammad Hasan, who became the 46th Imam.

Soon after the accession of Muhammad Shah Qajar to the throne of his grandfather, Fath Ali Shah, the Imam Hasan Ali Shah was appointed governor of Kerman in 1835.

Despite the service he rendered to the Qajar government, Hasan Ali Shah was dismissed from the governorship of Kerman in 1837, less than two years after his arrival there, and was replaced by Firuz Mirza Nusrat al-Dawla, a younger brother of Muhammad Shah Qajar.

He managed to gather an army in Mahallat which alarmed Muhammad Shah, who travelled to Delijan near Mahallat to determine the truth of the reports about Hasan Ali Shah.

Hasan Ali Shah was eventually forced to leave for Calcutta in April 1847, where he remained until he received news of the death of Muhammad Shah Qajar.

He was called ' Al-Siddiq ' ( the truthful ') by Muhammad after he believed him in the event of Isra and Mi ' raj when other people didn't, and Ali confirmed that title several times.

* 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.

* 1970 – Ali Shaheed Muhammad, American rapper and producer ( A Tribe Called Quest, The Ummah, and Lucy Pearl )

Abbas II was the great-great-grandson of Muhammad Ali,

Category: Muhammad Ali Dynasty

In February 1903, two followers of Muhammad ` Alí, including Badi ' u ' llah and Siyyid ` Aliy-i-Afnan, broke with Muhammad ` Ali and wrote books and letters giving details of Muhammad ` Ali's plots and noting that what was circulating about ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was fabrication.

Also in 1904, Muhammad ` Ali continued his accusations against ` Abdu ' l-Bahá which caused an Ottoman commission summoning ` Abdu ' l-Bahá to answer the accusations levelled against him.

From 1831 to 1841, Palestine was under the rule of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty of Egypt.

The monument was given by Muhammad Ali of Egypt in 1819 in recognition of the battle of 1798 and the campaign of 1801 but not erected on the Victoria Embankment until 1878.

If one has to name a famous boxer, they are more likely to name Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, since their fame expanded beyond the sport itself.

Continued civil war allowed an Albanian named Muhammad Ali Pasha to ascend to the role of commander and eventually, with the approval of the religious establishment, viceroy of Egypt in 1805.

Until his death in 1848, Muhammad Ali Pasha instituted a number of social and economic reforms that earned him the title of founder of modern Egypt.

* 1887 – Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman ( b. 1826 )

Having consolidated his conquests in Syria ( 1831 – 38 ), Ibrahim Pasha, son of the viceroy of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, made the fatal mistake of trying to disarm the Christians and Druzes of the Lebanon and to draft the latter into his army.

Following the revolt, Muhammad Pasha, the son of Muhammad Ali, expelled nearly 10, 000 of the local peasants to Egypt, while bringing loyal Arab peasants from Egypt and discharged soldiers to settle the coastline of Palestine, northern Jordan Valley was settled by his Sudanese troops.

He disarmed the Druze and allied with France, governing in the name of the Egyptian Pasha Muhammad Ali, who entered Lebanon and formally took overlordship in 1832.

The Ottomans assigned the task of bringing Mecca back under Ottoman control to their powerful Khedive ( viceroy ) of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha.

Muhammad Ali Pasha successfully returned Mecca to Ottoman control in 1813.

* December 1 – Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh, tyrannical Governor of Jerusalem, is forced out.

* July 9 – Muhammad Ali Pasha founds his dynasty in Egypt.

During his stay, the Khedive of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, offered the two obelisks standing at the entrance of Luxor Temple to France in 1829, but only one was transported to Paris where it now stands on the Place de la Concorde.

The Wāli and self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, Muhammad Ali Pasha, offered to donate it to the British Museum, but the museum declined the offer because of the difficult task of shipping the huge statue to London.

Muhammad Ali Pasha, Ottoman wali ( governor ) of Egypt 1805-49, whose expedition to the Peloponnese precipitated Great Power intervention in the Greek conflict.

He persuaded his powerful wali ( viceroy ) of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha ( ruled 1805-49 ), who was technically his vassal but in practice semi-independent, to deploy his Western-trained and equipped army and navy against the Greeks.

Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt | Ibrahim Pasha, the son of a renegade ethnic-Greek mother from Thrace, who was adopted as a child by the Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali when the latter married his mother and brought up as a Muslim.

British admiral Codrington ( centre ) negotiating with Muhammad Ali Pasha in the latter's palace in Alexandria, Egypt ( 1828 ).

Muhammad Ali, who became Pasha of Egypt in 1805, introduced the first national flag of Egypt, red with three white crescents, each accompanied by a white star.

The khedive of Egypt, especially in the dynasty initiated by Muhammad Ali Pasha ( 1805 – 1848 ).

Muhammad Ali Pasha's grandson, Ismail Pasha, subsequently received the title of Khedive which was almost an equivalent to viceroy.

* Convention of London ( 1840 ), which granted Muhammad Ali Pasha hereditary control over Egypt

Damad Gurcu Muhammad Halil Rifat Pasha ( 1795-4 March 1856 ), Ambassador to Russia 1829-1830, Naval C-in-C 1830-1832, 1843-1845, 1847-1848 and 1854-1855, Supreme C-in-C 1836-1838 and 1839-1840, Governor-General of Anatolia 1852.

Damad Muhammad Said Pasha ( b. at Bursa, 1798 ; d. at Constantinople, December 1868 ), Supreme C-in-C 1838-1839 and 1846-1848, Naval C-in-C 1840-1841, sometime Minister for Commerce, son of Bursali Alyanak ' Ali Effendi.