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- Birth nameElijah Poole
- Elijah Muhammad was born on October 7, 1897 in Sandersville, Georgia, USA. He was married to Clara Evans. He died on February 25, 1975 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- SpouseClara Evans(May 2, 1917 - 1972) (her death, 8 children)
- Passed away in the week of the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, his former protégé.
- Folliwing his death, he was interred at Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens in Glenwood, Cook County, Illinois.
- Father of Herbert Muhammad and Wallace D. Muhammad.
- Founder and leader of the Nation of Islam (1934-75).
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