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Ricky Ponting is one of Australia's greatest ever.

He led Australia to two unbeaten ICC Cricket World Cup triumphs, in 2003 and 2007

He was Player of the Match in the inaugural T20I, when he scored 98* against New Zealand

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Allama Iqbal joined the Muslim League in 1908 in London and in the subcontinent in 1922.

His 1930 Presidential Address to the All-India Muslim League was delivered on December 29, 1930, in Allahabad.

Iqbal, the National Poet of Pakistan.

He was born on November 9, 1877, in Sialkot.

He was died on April 21, 1938, in Lahore.

He is buried at the Tomb of Allama Iqbal in Lahore.

Explanation

Iyad bin Amin Madani is a Saudi politician who served in different cabinet posts.

He was the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation from 2014 to November 2016.

He was the first Saudi official to hold that position.

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Ms. Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing.

She was an English social reformer.

She was born on 12 May 1820 in Italy.

She died on 13 August 1910 in England

Awards

• Royal Red Cross (1883)
• Lady of Grace of the Order of St John (LGStJ) (1904)
• Order of Merit (1907)

Additional information 

she was a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War 

In this war, she organized to care for wounded soldiers.

Crimean War (Oct 1853- Feb 1856) was fought between The Russians and the British, French and Ottoman Turkish

Explanation

The Buddha was a philosopher, mendicant, meditator, spiritual teacher, and religious leader who lived in ancient India.

He is revered as the founder of the world religion of Buddhism, and worshipped by most Buddhist schools as the Enlightened One who has transcended Karma and escaped the cycle of birth and rebirth.

Buddha Born: Lumbini, Nepal

Buddha Died: Kushinagar, India

Buddha Full name: Siddhartha Gautama