Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, 1937. This group of images traces his life from the late 1940s to his recent trial.
Saddam Hussein appeared in this undated childhood photo provided by the Iraqi government in 1987 to Action for Children, a newsletter of the non-governmental organizations comiteee on UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund). At age 22, he engaged in his first known act of political violence -- an attempt to assassinate Iraq's military ruler, General Abdel Karim Qassem.
This is a November 26, 1971 photo of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who ruled Iraq from 1979 until he was deposed by US forces in 2003.
In another undated photo, Saddam Hussein showed Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz an automatic rifle during a meeting in Baghdad. King Fahd bin Abdul died in Aug. 2005.
Saddam Hussein embraced his daughter Rana in an undated photo from the private archive of an official photographer for the regime.
Saddam Hussein in front of his birthplace in the town of Tikrit with sons (left to right) Uday and Qusay, daughters Hala and Ragad, and first wife Sajda Kher Alain (fourth from right). The undated photo is from the private archive of an official regime photographer.
Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was decorated with a medal presented to him by his deputy Izzat Ibrahim in Baghdad in this May 12, 1999 photo.
The infamous hole near Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit where he was hiding at the time of his arrest in Dec. 2003.
This photo of a ragged, captured Saddam Hussein in Dec. 2003 created worldwide stir.
A bailiff attempted to silence Saddam Hussein, who yelled at the court while the verdict of his trial was delivered in Baghdad on Nov. 5, 2006. The court sentenced Hussein to death for his role in the 1982 slayings of 148 Shi'ite Muslims from a town where assassins had tried to kill him.
An Iraqi read a newspaper dedicated to the news of Saddam Hussein’s death sentence appeal rejection in Baghdad on Wednesday.
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