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Mojo Nixon

Mojo Nixon, born Neill Kirby McMillan Jr. (1957–2024), American cowpunk and psychobilly singer of "Elvis Is Everywhere" and "Don Henley Must Die," MTV figure, SiriusXM Outlaw Country host, died on the Outlaw Country Cruise.

Mojo Rawley

Mojo Rawley, ring name of Dean Jonathan Muhtadi (دين مُهتدي), born 1986, is a retired American wrestler and ex-NFL defensive lineman. Won the 2017 Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal with Rob Gronkowski's help, was a 7-time WWE 24/7 Champion, and now runs Paragon Talent Group.

Mojtaba Khamenei

Mojtaba Khamenei (سید مجتبی حسینی خامنه‌ای) is an Iranian Shia cleric who became supreme leader of Iran in March 2026, succeeding his father Ali Khamenei.

Mojtaba Minovi

Mojtaba Minovi (مجتبی مینوی, 1903–1977) was an Iranian literary scholar, editor, and translator who, with Mohammad Qazvini, led the application of Western textual criticism to classical Persian texts.

Oct 10, 2026

Mojżesz Presburger

Mojżesz Presburger (1904–1943) was a Polish student of mathematics who proved in 1929 that arithmetic with addition but no multiplication is decidable, a result now known as Presburger arithmetic.

Sep 19, 2026

Moka

Moka (모카), born Sakai Moka in Fukuoka, Japan, is a Japanese singer and member of the K-pop girl group ILLIT, which debuted in March 2024 with the hit "Magnetic".

Moka pot

Moka pot: Italian stovetop coffee maker, also caffettiera or Moka Express. Steam pressure pushes water through coffee grounds. Invented 1933 by Alfonso Bialetti with Luigi de Ponti; strong concentrated coffee, weaker than espresso.

Oct 15, 2026

Moka power plant

The Moka power plant (真岡発電所) is a 1,248 MW gas-fired power station in Moka, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, owned by Kobe Steel and selling all output to Tokyo Gas.

Sep 23, 2026

Mokal

Mokal (मोकल) was a Maharana of Mewar in medieval Rajasthan, son and successor of Rana Lakha, who reigned from 1421 until his assassination by two uncles in 1433.

Mokambo

Mokambo is a rural commune in Sakania territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo, on the Zambian border near Mufulira; a customs post town dependent on ZESCO power, with Wasansa stadium, water and road projects.

Mokele-mbembe

Mokele-mbembe, also called Jago-nini or N'yamala, is a legendary water beast of Congo Basin folklore, glossed as 'one who stops the flow of rivers'; over 50 expeditions have found no verifiable evidence of the alleged sauropod-like animal.

Mokelumne Aqueduct

The Mokelumne Aqueduct is a system of three large steel pipelines operated by the East Bay Municipal Utility District, carrying water from Pardee Reservoir to serve about 1.4 million people.

Oct 15, 2026

Moken houseboat

The Moken houseboat, called the kabang, is the traditional wooden dwelling-boat of the Moken, sea nomads of the Mergui Archipelago, where families lived aboard most of the year.

Mokgweetsi Masisi

Mokgweetsi Masisi, Botswana's fifth president (2018-2024) and BDP leader, former teacher and UNICEF employee, vice president under Ian Khama; lost the 2024 election to Duma Boko's UDC, ending 58 years of BDP rule.

Sep 23, 2026

Mokhasa grants

Mokhasa grants (मोखसा) were assignments of villages, lands, or dues in South India, held by military commanders and revenue officers and surviving into the twentieth century.

Mokhtar Dahari

Mokhtar Dahari (Mohd Mokhtar bin Dahari, 1953–1991), nicknamed SuperMokh, Malaysian centre-forward for Selangor and Malaysia; FIFA-recognized 89 goals in 142 caps, third all-time in men's international scoring.

Mokhtar Ould Djay

Mokhtar Ould Djay (El Moctar Ould Djay, Mokhtar Ould Diay), born 1973, Mauritanian statistician-economist and Prime Minister since 2 August 2024 under President Ghazouani; former finance minister, SNIM head, reappointed October 2026.

Sep 24, 2026

Mokji state

Mokji state (목지국) was a small state of Mahan in the Samhan period of Korea, whose ruler, the Jinwang, headed the Mahan league before Baekje's rise.

Mokjong of Goryeo

Mokjong of Goryeo (목종), personal name Wang Song, was the seventh king of Goryeo, reigning from 997 until the coup of Gang Jo deposed and killed him in 1009.

Mokk (historical province)

Mokk (Մոկք, Moks, Moxoene) was the fifth and smallest province of ancient Greater Armenia, formed in the 3rd century from part of Aghdznik; later an Ottoman sanjak of Van with an autonomous Armenian melikdom.

Sep 29, 2026

Mokken scale

Mokken scale analysis is a nonparametric item response theory procedure testing whether dichotomous or polytomous items form an ordinal, hierarchical scale, using scalability coefficients and monotonicity assumptions.

Mokksha

Mokksha (Pritha Sengupta), Indian actress and classical dancer from Barrackpore, Kolkata, active in Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada cinema; known for Kallanum Bhagavathiyum (2023), Karma (2020), Lucky Lakshman (2022), and the RG Kar protest visibility.

Mokmin Simseo

Mokmin Simseo (목민심서, "The Heart of Governing the People") is an 1818 handbook for provincial magistrates by the Joseon scholar Jeong Yak-yong, written in exile at Gangjin.

Sep 24, 2026

Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba

Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba (蒙古襲来絵詞) is a Kamakura-period illustrated handscroll commissioned by the warrior Takezaki Suenaga to record his service in the Mongol invasions of 1274 and 1281.

Mokosha Mons

Mokosha Mons is a 270-km-diameter mountain (mons) on Venus at 57.7°N, 255.0°E in quadrangle V-6, IAU-named in 1985 for the East Slavic main goddess, mapped as a broad volcanic shield with a summit depression.

Mokotów

Mokotów (Mokotowo) is Warsaw's most populous left-bank district, incorporated in 1916, with about 220,000 residents, five M1 metro stations, the Służewiec office hub, and parks including Pole Mokotowskie and Królikarnia.

Mokpo

Mokpo (목포) is a port city in southwestern South Korea at the mouth of the Yeongsangang River, opened as Korea's fourth treaty port on 1 October 1897, with about 214,500 residents, a 41.3 km² harbor, and a modern-history tourism base for the Sinan archipelago.

Mokrani family

The Mokrani family, also rendered Muqrani or Ouled Mokrane, was an Algerian ruling lineage that held the Kalâa of Beni Abbès and led the great 1871 revolt.

Sep 25, 2026

Mokrani Revolt

The Mokrani Revolt (ثورة المقراني) was an 1871 uprising against French colonial rule in Algeria, led by Muhammad al-Muqrani and joined by the Rahmaniyya Sufi order.