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2005 Constance Baker Motley, American Activist
2005 Jean O'Leary, American Activist 2004 Susan Sontag, "writer, activist", On Photography, dies at 71 2003 Jenifer Estess, activist/producer, founded Project A.L.S, dies at 40 2003 Penny Singleton, actress/labor activist, Blondie, dies at 95 2003 Alija Izetbegovic, Bosniak Activist 2003 Rachel Corrie, American Activist 2001 Mary Whitehouse, British Activist 2001 Maureen Reagan, speaker/activist, dies at 60 2001 Roger Caras, American Activist 2000 David Brower, ecological activist, executive director of the Sierra Club for nearly 20 years, dies at 88 1999 James L. Farmer, Jr., American Activist 1998 Kwame Ture, activist, "born as Stokely Carmichael, he led a number of black organizations", dies at 57 1998 Stokely Carmichael, American Activist 1998 Eldridge Cleaver, American Activist 1996 Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist, dies at 84 1996 Penelope Jessel, politcal activist, dies at 76 1996 John Qace Hardbattle, political activist, dies at 51 1996 Mario Savio, activist, member of Berkeley Free Speech Movement, dies of heart attack at 53 1996 Rio Reiser, born Ralph Christian Mobius, musician, singer, political activist, member of ton Steine Scherben, a famous rock group, wrote Rachhaussong supporting the squatter scene, dies at 46 1996 Martin Corbett, gay activist, dies at 51 1996 Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist, dies at 21 1996 Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61 1996 Tony Hymphris, political activist, dies at 45 1996 Robert Mellors, gay activist, dies at 47 1996 Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86 1996 Amelia Rosselli, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, dies at 65 1996 Olga Havlova, political activist, dies at 63 1996 Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/South African activist, dies at 70 1995 Ahmed Abel-Wadoud Karadawi, academic/activist, dies at 50 1995 Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist, dies at 51 1995 William Kunstler, American Activist 1995 Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist, dies at 66 1995 Fay Honey Knopp, activist, dies at 76 1995 Maggie Kuhn, activist (Gray Panthers), dies at 89 1995 Judith Fluks, Amsterdam's activist, dies 1994 Jerry Rubin, U.S. anti-war activist (Youth Party), dies at 56 1994 Pedro Zamora, aIDS Activist, dies at 22 1994 David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37 1994 Sandy Horn, lesbian Activist, dies at 59 1994 Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist, dies at 65 1994 Cobina W. "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88 1993 Amy Biehl, U.S. activist in South Africa, murdered at 26 1993 Tiny Hofman, Amsterdam activist (Nieuwmarkt), dies at 68 1992 Marion P Ames, U.S., advocate/activist, dies 1991 South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks 1990 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64 1990 Muntu Myeza, South Africa anti-apartheid activist, dies in auto at 39 1990 Ralph Abernathy, American Activist 1990 Harry Bridges, American Activist 1990 Civil Rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln 1989 David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered 1989 Abbie Hoffman, yippie peace activist of the 60's, dies at 52 1988 Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist 1987 Bayard Rustin, U.S. civil rights activist, dies at 77 1986 Ella Baker, American Activist 1986 Anti-apartheid activist Helene Pastoors sentenced to 10 years in South Africa 1986 Dirk de Vroome, Red Giant, Limbourg activist, dies at 60 1986 Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by U.S.S.R., leaves country 1985 Fernando Pereira, military activist, murdered 1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president 1979 A. Philip Randolph, American Activist 1979 Rachel Corrie, American Activist 1977 Alice Paul, American Activist 1977 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason 1974 Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist 1972 Saul Alinsky, American Activist 1972 Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard 1971 A. P. Herbert, British novelist, humorist, playwright and activist at age 81 1971 Whitney M. Young, American Activist 1970 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted 1970 James McClain, U.S. black activist, shot dead 1970 Jonathan P Jackson, U.S. black activist, shot dead 1970 William Christmas, U.S. black activist, shot dead 1970 Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies 1967 Amy Carter, President Carter's daughter/peace activist 1967 A. J. Muste, American Activist 1966 Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi 1965 Viola Gregg Liuzzo, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered 1965 James Reeb, U.S. vicar/civil rights activist, murdered 1965 Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries 1964 Andrew Goodman, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 20 1964 James Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 21 1964 Michael Schwerner, U.S. civil rights activist, murder at 21 1963 Garry Kasparov, born in Azerbaijan, Soviet Union, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist 1960 Bono, born in Dublin, Ireland, born Paul David Hewson, Irish musician, activist, lead vocalist for rock band U2, 54th most successful songwriter in U.K. singles chart history, activism includes Product Red and the ONE campaign 1957 Cindy Sheehan, American Activist 1955 Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81 1955 Michael Pollan, born in Long Island, New York, professor of journalism, U of C, Berkeley, author, columnist, activist, wrote, 'The Omnivore's Dilemma', 'The Botany of Desire', 'In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto' 1955 Joe Doherty, Ireland, IRA activist, jailed in U.S. 1954 Michael Moore, American Activist 1954 Anne Lamott, born in San Fransisco, California, author and activist, wrote 'Grace: Thoughts on Faith' and 'Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith' 1952 Marianne Williamson, born in Houston, Texas, spiritual activist, author, speaker, lecturer, wrote, 'A Course in Miracles', a program about choosing love over fear, 'A Return to Love', breakthrough success attributed to appearance on Oprah Winfrey 1952 Giuliano Ferrara, born in Rome, Italy, activist, atheist, communist turned Centre-Right and pro-life, admired Pope Benedict XVI 1950 Muntu Myeza, South African anti-apartheid activist 1950 Tony Hymphris, political activist 1950 Rio Reiser, born in Berlin, Germany, born Ralph Christian Mobius, musician, singer, political activist, member of ton Steine Scherben, a famous rock group, wrote Rachhaussong supporting the squatter scene 1949 Petra Kelly, German peace activist/MP, Green 1949 Dumisa B Ntsebeza, South African attorney/anti-apartheid activist 1949 Robert Mellors, gay activist 1949 Ingrid Newkirk, British Activist 1949 Mary Antin, Russian Activist 1948 Jean O'Leary, American Activist 1948 Peter Mond, born in England, 4th Baron Melchett, Lord Melchett, heir to Sir Alfred Mond's fortune, Labor Party whip, researched cannabis addition, Greenpeace activist 1948 Anatoly Shcharansky, Soviet human rights activist 1947 Eric Molobi, born in South Africa, activist, ANC 1947 Jim Nollman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Tufts University, composer, musical theater, conceptual artist, environmental activist, recorded interspecies music with wolves, whales, dolphins, deer, elk, desert rats 1946 Stephen, Steve, Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist 1946 Strinivasa Moodley, South African anti-apartheid activist 1946 Catharine MacKinnon, American Activist 1946 Sidney Hillman, American Activist 1946 Candy Lightner, political activist/founder, MADD 1946 Joseph Sobran, American Activist 1945 John Walsh, activist/TV host, America's Most Wanted 1945 Ahmed Abel-Wadoud Karadawi, academic/activist 1945 John Qace Hardbattle, political activist 1945 Alton Maddox, New York black activist/attorney, Tawana Brawley case 1945 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist 1945 Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist, Nobel 1976 1944 Martin Corbett, gay activist 1944 Peter Tosh, born in Westmoreland, Jamaica, musician, singer, guitarist, pianist, activist promoted marijuana legalization, played with Bob Marley, The Wailers 1944 Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist 1944 Annette Lu, bon in Taoyuan Formosa, Taiwanese politician, feminist activist, member, Democratic Progressive Party, former Vice President of the Republic of China 1944 Angela Davis, American Activist 1943 H. Rap Brown, American Activist 1943 James Earl Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist 1943 Jim Hightower, American Activist 1942 Mario Savio, born in New York, New York, activist, member of Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Sproul Plaza steps named Mario Savio Steps, taught mathematics, philosophy, logic at Sonoma State University 1941 Stokely Carmichael, American Activist 1940 Wangari Maathai, Kenyan Activist 1939 Russell Means, American Activist 1939 Benjamin Tucker, American Activist 1939 Marian Wright Edelman, American Activist 1939 Ernst Zundel, German Activist 1938 Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist 1938 Helen Caldicott, born in Melbourne, Australia, physician/anti-war activist 1938 Jerry Rubin, activist, Chicago 7, stockbroker 1936 Abbie Hoffman, aka Free, Yippie/activist/author, Steal this Book 1936 Bobby Seale, American Activist 1936 Sonia Johnson, American Activist 1935 Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., civil rights activist, National Urban League 1935 Sandy Horn, lesbian activist 1933 Emily Murphy, Canadian Activist 1933 Olga Havlova, political activist 1933 Susan Sontag, born in New York City, Susan Rosenblatt, New York, writer, author, filmmaker, philosopher, political activist, 'Against Interpretation' established reputation as 'the Dark Lady of American Letters' 1932 Dick Gregory, comedian/political activist/dietician, Bahamian Diet 1932 Carlene Polite, U.S. dancer/activist/author, Sister X 1932 Sister Vince Otto, mental health activist 1932 Errico Malatesta, Italian Activist 1932 Florence Kelley, American Activist 1931 Ida B. Wells, American Activist 1930 Mother Jones, American Activist 1930 Thomas Sowell, author/activist 1930 Amelia Rosselli, born in Paris, France, poet, of Italian origin, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, wrote prose in English, French and Italian, major work, 'Spazi metrici' 1929 Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist 1929 Edward Carpenter, English Activist 1929 Bruce Kent, British Activist 1929 Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist 1929 Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist 1928 Jack Kevorkian, American Activist 1928 Roger Caras, American Activist 1926 Olympia Brown, American Activist 1926 Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist, National Welfare Rights Association 1926 Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/Soth African activist 1925 Cora Lee Johnson, social activist for rural poor 1925 Alija Izetbegovic, Bosniak Activist 1925 Medgar Evers, American Activist 1924 Althea T L Simmons, human rights activist/chief lobbyist, NAACP 1923 Phyllis Jenkins, literary and theatrical agent community activist 1922 Grace Paley, born in New York, short story writer, political activist, pacifist, poet 1922 Rachel Robinson, social activist, humanitarian, Mrs. Jackie Robinson 1921 Constance Baker Motley, American Activist 1921 Whitney M. Young, American Activist 1921 Alfred Fried, Austrian Activist 1920 James L. Farmer, Jr., American Activist 1920 Penelope Jessel, politcal activist 1919 William Kunstler, American Activist,defense attorney, Chicago 8 1919 Dorothy Kirsten, opera singer/Alzheimer disease activist 1918 Fay Honey Knopp, activist 1917 Helen Suzman, born in South Africa, politician and anti-apartheid activist, served 36 years in parliament 1917 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., born in Ohio, American historian, author, democratic activist, Pulitzer prize recipient 1916 Winson Hudson, community activist, rural Mississippi 1916 Betty Furness, New York City, actress/consumer activist, Studio 1 1915 Aziz Nesin, born in Heybeliada, Istanbul, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, political activist, championed free speech and human rights in Turkey 1914 Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi 1914 Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist, Dark Ghetto 1914 Daniel De Leon, Activist 1913 Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist, bus protestor 1913 Rosa Parks, American Activist 1912 Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist 1912 Dorothy Height, American Activist 1910 Mary Whitehouse, British Activist 1910 Tancredo Neves, Civil rights activist 1909 Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist 1909 Mary Antin, Russian Activist 1909 Saul Alinsky, American Activist 1908 Josh White, born in Greenville, South Carolina, born Joshua Daniel White, guitarist, singer, civil rights activist, unique stylings and techniques inspired Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan 1906 Cobina W. "Coby" Molenaar, Dutch peace activist 1906 Susan B. Anthony, American Activist 1905 Maggie Kuhn, activist/co-founder, Gray Panthers 1903 Ella Baker, American Activist 1902 Harry Bridges, American Activist 1899 Anna Arnold Hedgeman, social activist, New York City cabinet 1898 Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother] 1898 Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator 1898 Robert Purvis, American Activist 1898 Frances E. Willard, American Activist 1898 Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist 1897 Pricilla L Williams, social activist/humanitarian 1896 Jane Wilde, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights, dies 1896 Jane Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights 1893 Lucy Stone, American Activist 1892 Ernestine Rose, Activist 1890 Catherine Booth, American Activist 1890 A. P. Herbert, born in Ashted, Surrey, novelist, humorist, playwright and activist 1889 A. Philip Randolph, American Activist 1885 A. J. Muste, American Activist 1877 Pancho Villa, Mexican Activist 1874 Harold L. Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician 1870 Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Activist 1868 David Wilmot, American Activist 1868 Emily Murphy, Canadian Activist 1866 Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam physician/social activist, dies at 53 1866 Sophonisba Breckenridge, scholar, teacher and social activist 1864 Alfred Fried, Austrian Activist 1863 Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist 1862 Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], U.S. civil rights activist 1862 Ida B. Wells, American Activist 1860 Juliette Gordon Low, activist/founder, Girl Scouts of America 1859 Florence Kelley, American Activist 1854 Benjamin Tucker, American Activist 1853 Errico Malatesta, Italian Activist 1853 Alva Vanderbilt Beaumont, women's rights advocate and activist 1853 Olympia Brown, American Activist 1852 Daniel De Leon, Activist 1844 Edward Carpenter, English Activist 1843 Sojourner Truth leaves New York to begin her career as antislavery activist 1839 Frances E. Willard, American Activist 1837 Mother Jones, American Activist 1830 Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones, activist 1829 Catherine Booth, American Activist 1820 Susan B. Anthony, American Activist 1818 Lucy Stone, American Activist 1817 Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58 1814 Esther Hobart Morris, suffragist/anti-slavery activist 1814 David Wilmot, American Activist 1813 Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam, physician/pharmacist/social activist 1810 Robert Purvis, American Activist 1810 Ernestine Rose, Activist 1807 Prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston 1793 Lucretia Mott, American Activist 1673 Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 1624 Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist 1622 Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist |
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