Nathan David Saatchi (24 December 1907 – 31 May 2000) was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Iraq, then part of the Ottoman Empire. The name "Saatchi" (sā'ātchi), which means "watchmaker", originates from Ottoman Turkish (Saat: Originally from Arabic, -çi: Turkish suffix meaning maker in context). He was a businessman and textile merchant who moved from

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...

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. In 1936, he married Daisy Ezair, and they had four sons, including

Maurice Saatchi Maurice Nathan Saatchi, Baron Saatchi ( ar, موريس ساعتجي ; born 21 June 1946) is a British-Iraqi businessman, and with his brother, Charles, co-founder of the advertising agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and M&C Saatchi. Early life Mauric ...

and Charles Saatchi. He died on 31 May 2000 and is buried at Golders Green Jewish Cemetery.

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