Jamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt die was born on January 15, 1918, 2.5 months after the Balfour Declaration was signed on November 2, 1917. When Egypt supposedly gained its independence from Britain on February 28, 1922, Nasser was 4 years old, he was 36 years old when he became Prime Minister in 1954 and 38 years old when he became President in 1956 and 52 years old when he died in 1970.