Ovadia Yosef
Scholar
Ovadia Yosef was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and a founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party. Wikipedia
Born: September 23, 1920, Baghdad, Iraq
Died: October 7, 2013 (age 93 years), Jerusalem
Children: Yitzhak Yosef, Ya'akov Yosef, Adina Bar-Shalom, and more
Spouse: Margalit Yosef (m. 1944–1994)
Parents: Yaakov Ben Ovadia and G'orgia Ovadia
Grandchildren: Yonatan Yosef and Ovadja Josef
Buried: October 7, 2013, Sanhedriya Cemetery, Jerusalem