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Events on Friday 4 August 1922 1
1881 – 1922Enver Pasha (1881-1922)Died 4 August 1922, aged 40Enver Pasha, the Ottoman military and political leader who had been a principal architect of the empire's entry into the First World War, was killed in battle near Dushanbe while leading Basmachi forces against the Red Army in Central Asia. He had fled Turkey after the empire's defeat and sought to build a pan-Turkic movement. His death ended one of the more dramatic post-war careers among former Ottoman leaders.