Babur

Babur was born on 14 February 1483 in Andijan in the Fergana Valley, a descendant of Timur through his father and of Genghis Khan through his mother, and took the throne of Fergana at twelve.

He took and lost Samarkand several times; after Shaybani Khan drove him from Transoxiana he seized Kabul in 1504, and in 1526 he defeated the Sultan of Delhi at Panipat, founding the Mughal Empire in India.

Also a fine poet, he wrote his memoirs, the Baburnama, in Chagatai Turkic — one of the most candid autobiographies in world literature. A park-museum in Andijan bears his name.