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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 Rachel Corrie, American Activist

2003 Alija Izetbegovic, Bosniak Activist

2001 Maureen Reagan, speaker/activist, dies at 60

2001 Roger Caras, American Activist

2001 Mary Whitehouse, British 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, dies of heart attack at 53

1996 Baron Baker, activist, dies at 71

1996 Kim Besly, activist, dies at 69

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 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 Rev 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 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

1986 Ella Baker, American Activist

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 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

1957 Cindy Sheehan, American Activist

1955 Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81

1955 John Gilmore, Activist

1955 Joe Doherty, Ireland, IRA activist, jailed in U.S.

1954 Michael Moore, American Activist

1950 Muntu Myeza, South African anti-apartheid activist

1950 Tony Hymphris, political activist

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 Anatoly Shcharansky, Soviet human rights activist

1947 Eric Molobi, born in South Africa, activist, ANC

1946 Stephen, Steve, Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist

1946 Strinivasa Moodley, South African anti-apartheid activist

1946 Sidney Hillman, American Activist

1946 Candy Lightner, political activist/founder, MADD

1946 Joseph Sobran, American Activist

1946 Catharine MacKinnon, 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 Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist

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, activist

1941 Stokely Carmichael, American Activist

1940 Wangari Maathai, Kenyan Activist

1939 Tom Hayden, 60's activist/Mr Jane Fonda/, Rep-D-Ca

1939 Benjamin Tucker, American Activist

1939 Marian Wright Edelman, American Activist

1939 Ernst Zundel, German Activist

1939 Russell Means, American 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 Olga Havlova, political activist

1933 Emily Murphy, Canadian Activist

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 Thomas Sowell, author/activist

1930 Mother Jones, American Activist

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 Kim Besly, activist

1926 Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist, Natl Welfare Rights Assn

1926 Olympia Brown, American Activist

1926 Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/Soth African activist

1925 Baron Baker, 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 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

1916 Winson Hudson, community activist, rural Mississippi

1916 Betty Furness, New York City, actress/consumer activist, Studio 1

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

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

1893 Lucy Stone, American Activist

1892 Ernestine Rose, Activist

1890 Catherine Booth, American 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

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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