2014 Event Israel reopens Jerusalem's Temple Mount a day after closing it to visitors in the wake of the shooting of activist Yehudah Glick; however, security restrictions have been applied to Muslim men seeking to pray at the site 2014 Event Israel closes visitation to Jerusalem's Temple Mount, citing security concerns after the shooting of Israeli activist Yehudah Glick; Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas claims that the action is a 'declaration of war' 2014 Event Prominent Chinese legal activist, Xu Zhiyong, is sentenced to four years in prison; convicted of 'gathering a crowd to disturb public order,' the case is seen as evidence that Communist Party leaders wish to expunge any challenges to the power or leadership 2013 Event Canada awards Pakistani educational activist Malala Yousafzai honorary citizenship 2013 Event The group of hackers known as Anonymous, hacks into the U.S. Sentencing Commission website as a response to the suicide of Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, and internet activist 2012 Event Noam Chomsky, a Jewish-American philosopher, linguist and human rights activist, visits Gaza for the first time, attending a seminar with Gazan thinkers and intellectuals 2012 Event The Dutch non-profit organization's Women on Waves abortion rights activist ship, which provides abortions and related medical services to women from countries with restrictive abortion laws, was blocked from entering Morocco's port of Smir 2011 Event U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promotes democratic reforms in her meeting with Burma's top pro-democracy activist, Aung San Suu Kyi 2011 Event Right-to-die activist Jack Kevorkian dies in Royal Oak, Michigan; his death caused by pneumonia and kidney problems 2010 Event An Iranian woman convicted of adultery is sentenced to death by stoning; Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi tries to stop this barbaric act 2010 Event Two men on motorcycles fatally shot Pedro Alcantara de Souza, a Brazilian land reform activist, five times in the head while he tried to ride his bicycle in Para 2005 Death Constance Baker Motley, American Activist 2005 Death Jean O'Leary, American Activist 2004 Death Susan Sontag, "writer, activist", On Photography, dies at 71 2003 Death Jenifer Estess, activist/producer, founded Project A.L.S, dies at 40 2003 Death Penny Singleton, actress/labor activist, Blondie, dies at 95 2003 Death Alija Izetbegovic, Bosniak Activist 2003 Death Rachel Corrie, American Activist 2001 Death Mary Whitehouse, British Activist 2001 Death Maureen Reagan, speaker/activist, dies at 60 2001 Death Roger Caras, American Activist 2000 Death David Brower, ecological activist, executive director of the Sierra Club for nearly 20 years, dies at 88 1999 Death James L. Farmer, Jr., American Activist 1998 Death Kwame Ture, activist, "born as Stokely Carmichael, he led a number of black organizations", dies at 57 1998 Death Stokely Carmichael, American Activist 1998 Death Eldridge Cleaver, American Activist 1996 Death Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist, dies at 84 1996 Death Penelope Jessel, politcal activist, dies at 76 1996 Death John Qace Hardbattle, political activist, dies at 51 1996 Death Mario Savio, activist, member of Berkeley Free Speech Movement, dies of heart attack at 53 1996 Death 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 Death Martin Corbett, gay activist, dies at 51 1996 Death Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61 1996 Death Robert Mellors, gay activist, dies at 47 1996 Death Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86 1996 Death Amelia Rosselli, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, dies at 65 1996 Death Olga Havlova, political activist, dies at 63 1996 Death Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/South African activist, dies at 70 1995 Death Ahmed Abel-Wadoud Karadawi, academic/activist, dies at 50 1995 Death Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist, dies at 51 1995 Death William Kunstler, American Activist 1995 Death Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist, dies at 66 1995 Death Fay Honey Knopp, activist, dies at 76 1995 Death Maggie Kuhn, activist (Gray Panthers), dies at 89 1995 Death Judith Fluks, Amsterdam's activist, dies 1994 Death Jerry Rubin, U.S. anti-war activist (Youth Party), dies at 56 1994 Death Pedro Zamora, aIDS Activist, dies at 22 1994 Death David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37 1994 Death Sandy Horn, lesbian Activist, dies at 59 1994 Death Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist, dies at 65 1994 Death Cobina W. "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88 1993 Death Amy Biehl, U.S. activist in South Africa, murdered at 26 1993 Death Tiny Hofman, Amsterdam activist (Nieuwmarkt), dies at 68 1992 Death Marion P Ames, U.S., advocate/activist, dies 1991 Event South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks 1990 Death Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64 1990 Death Muntu Myeza, South Africa anti-apartheid activist, dies in auto at 39 1990 Death Ralph Abernathy, American Activist 1990 Death Harry Bridges, American Activist 1990 Event Civil Rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln 1989 Death David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered 1989 Death Abbie Hoffman, yippie peace activist of the 60's, dies at 52 1988 Death Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist 1987 Death Bayard Rustin, U.S. civil rights activist, dies at 77 1986 Death Ella Baker, American Activist 1986 Event Anti-apartheid activist Helene Pastoors sentenced to 10 years in South Africa 1986 Death Dirk de Vroome, Red Giant, Limbourg activist, dies at 60 1986 Event Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by U.S.S.R., leaves country 1985 Death Fernando Pereira, military activist, murdered 1985 Event Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president 1979 Death A. Philip Randolph, American Activist 1979 Birthday Rachel Corrie, American Activist 1977 Death Alice Paul, American Activist 1977 Event Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason 1972 Death Saul Alinsky, American Activist 1972 Event Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard 1971 Death A. P. Herbert, British novelist, humorist, playwright and activist at age 81 1971 Death Whitney M. Young, American Activist 1970 Event Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted 1970 Death James McClain, U.S. black activist, shot dead 1970 Death Jonathan P Jackson, U.S. black activist, shot dead 1970 Death William Christmas, U.S. black activist, shot dead 1970 Death Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies 1967 Birthday Amy Carter, President Carter's daughter/peace activist 1967 Birthday Serj Tankian, born in Beirut, Lebanon, singer, songwriter, rhythm guitarist, political activist, Grammy-Award winning band, System of a Down 1967 Death A. J. Muste, American Activist 1966 Event Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi 1965 Death Viola Gregg Liuzzo, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered 1965 Death James Reeb, U.S. vicar/civil rights activist, murdered 1965 Death Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries 1964 Death Andrew Goodman, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 20 1964 Death James Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 21 1964 Death Michael Schwerner, U.S. civil rights activist, murder at 21 1963 Birthday Garry Kasparov, born in Azerbaijan, Soviet Union, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist 1962 Birthday Michelle Shocked, born in Dallas, Texas, singer, songwriter, political activist, created label, Mighty Sound, song 'When I Grow Up' featured in an ad for Kaiser Permanente 1960 Birthday 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 Birthday Cindy Sheehan, American Activist 1955 Death Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81 1955 Birthday 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 Birthday Joe Doherty, Ireland, IRA activist, jailed in U.S. 1954 Birthday Al Sharpton, born in Brooklyn, New York, African American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, 2004 candidate for President, host of 'Keepin' It Real' radio show 1954 Birthday Michael Moore, American Activist 1954 Birthday Anne Lamott, born in San Fransisco, California, author and activist, wrote 'Grace: Thoughts on Faith' and 'Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith' 1953 Birthday Richard Stallman, born in New York City, New York, computer programmer, software freedom activist, set up the Free Software Foundation 1952 Birthday 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 Birthday Giuliano Ferrara, born in Rome, Italy, activist, atheist, communist turned Centre-Right and pro-life, admired Pope Benedict XVI 1950 Birthday Muntu Myeza, South African anti-apartheid activist 1950 Birthday 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 Birthday Petra Kelly, German peace activist/MP, Green 1949 Birthday Dumisa B Ntsebeza, South African attorney/anti-apartheid activist 1949 Birthday Robert Mellors, gay activist 1949 Birthday Ingrid Newkirk, British Activist 1949 Death Mary Antin, Russian Activist 1948 Birthday Jean O'Leary, American Activist 1948 Birthday 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 Birthday Anatoly Shcharansky, Soviet human rights activist 1947 Birthday Eric Molobi, born in South Africa, activist, ANC 1947 Birthday 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 Birthday Stephen, Steve, Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist 1946 Birthday Strinivasa Moodley, South African anti-apartheid activist 1946 Birthday Catharine MacKinnon, American Activist 1946 Death Sidney Hillman, American Activist 1946 Birthday Candy Lightner, political activist/founder, MADD 1946 Birthday Joseph Sobran, American Activist 1945 Birthday John Walsh, activist/TV host, America's Most Wanted 1945 Birthday Ahmed Abel-Wadoud Karadawi, academic/activist 1945 Birthday John Qace Hardbattle, political activist 1945 Birthday Alton Maddox, New York black activist/attorney, Tawana Brawley case 1945 Birthday Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist 1945 Birthday Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist, Nobel 1976 1944 Birthday Martin Corbett, gay activist 1944 Birthday Peter Tosh, born in Westmoreland, Jamaica, musician, singer, guitarist, pianist, activist promoted marijuana legalization, played with Bob Marley, The Wailers 1944 Birthday Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist 1944 Birthday Annette Lu, bon in Taoyuan Formosa, Taiwanese politician, feminist activist, member, Democratic Progressive Party, former Vice President of the Republic of China 1944 Birthday Angela Davis, American Activist 1943 Birthday H. Rap Brown, American Activist 1943 Birthday James Earl Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist 1943 Birthday Jim Hightower, American Activist 1942 Birthday 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 Birthday Stokely Carmichael, American Activist 1940 Birthday Wangari Maathai, Kenyan Activist 1939 Birthday Russell Means, American Activist 1939 Death Benjamin Tucker, American Activist 1939 Birthday Marian Wright Edelman, American Activist 1939 Birthday Ernst Zundel, German Activist 1938 Birthday Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist 1938 Birthday Helen Caldicott, born in Melbourne, Australia, physician/anti-war activist 1938 Birthday Jerry Rubin, activist, Chicago 7, stockbroker 1936 Birthday Abbie Hoffman, aka Free, Yippie/activist/author, Steal this Book 1936 Birthday Bobby Seale, American Activist 1936 Birthday Sonia Johnson, American Activist 1935 Birthday Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., civil rights activist, National Urban League 1935 Birthday Sandy Horn, lesbian activist 1933 Death Emily Murphy, Canadian Activist 1933 Birthday Olga Havlova, political activist 1933 Birthday 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 Birthday Dick Gregory, comedian/political activist/dietician, Bahamian Diet 1932 Birthday Carlene Polite, U.S. dancer/activist/author, Sister X 1932 Birthday Sister Vince Otto, mental health activist 1932 Death Errico Malatesta, Italian Activist 1932 Death Florence Kelley, American Activist 1931 Death Ida B. Wells, American Activist 1930 Death Mother Jones, American Activist 1930 Birthday Thomas Sowell, author/activist 1930 Birthday 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 Birthday Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist 1929 Death Edward Carpenter, English Activist 1929 Birthday Bruce Kent, British Activist 1929 Birthday Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist 1929 Birthday Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist 1928 Birthday Jack Kevorkian, American Activist 1928 Birthday Roger Caras, American Activist 1926 Death Olympia Brown, American Activist 1926 Birthday Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist, National Welfare Rights Association 1926 Birthday Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/Soth African activist 1925 Birthday Cora Lee Johnson, social activist for rural poor 1925 Birthday Alija Izetbegovic, Bosniak Activist 1925 Birthday Medgar Evers, American Activist 1924 Birthday Althea T L Simmons, human rights activist/chief lobbyist, NAACP 1923 Birthday Phyllis Jenkins, literary and theatrical agent community activist 1922 Birthday Grace Paley, born in New York, short story writer, political activist, pacifist, poet 1922 Birthday Rachel Robinson, social activist, humanitarian, Mrs. Jackie Robinson 1921 Birthday Constance Baker Motley, American Activist 1921 Birthday Whitney M. Young, American Activist 1921 Death Alfred Fried, Austrian Activist 1920 Birthday James L. Farmer, Jr., American Activist 1920 Birthday Penelope Jessel, politcal activist 1919 Birthday William Kunstler, American Activist,defense attorney, Chicago 8 1919 Birthday Dorothy Kirsten, opera singer/Alzheimer disease activist 1918 Birthday Fay Honey Knopp, activist 1917 Birthday Helen Suzman, born in South Africa, politician and anti-apartheid activist, served 36 years in parliament 1917 Birthday Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., born in Ohio, American historian, author, democratic activist, Pulitzer prize recipient 1916 Birthday Winson Hudson, community activist, rural Mississippi 1916 Birthday Betty Furness, New York City, actress/consumer activist, Studio 1 1915 Birthday Aziz Nesin, born in Heybeliada, Istanbul, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, political activist, championed free speech and human rights in Turkey 1914 Birthday Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi 1914 Birthday Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist, Dark Ghetto 1914 Death Daniel De Leon, Activist 1913 Birthday Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist, bus protestor 1913 Birthday Rosa Parks, American Activist 1912 Birthday Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist 1912 Birthday Dorothy Height, American Activist 1910 Birthday Mary Whitehouse, British Activist 1910 Birthday Tancredo Neves, Civil rights activist 1909 Birthday Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist 1909 Birthday Mary Antin, Russian Activist 1909 Birthday Saul Alinsky, American Activist 1908 Birthday 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 Birthday Cobina W. "Coby" Molenaar, Dutch peace activist 1906 Death Susan B. Anthony, American Activist 1905 Birthday Maggie Kuhn, activist/co-founder, Gray Panthers 1903 Birthday Ella Baker, American Activist 1902 Birthday Harry Bridges, American Activist 1899 Birthday Anna Arnold Hedgeman, social activist, New York City cabinet 1898 Birthday Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother] 1898 Birthday Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator 1898 Death Robert Purvis, American Activist 1898 Death Frances E. Willard, American Activist 1898 Birthday Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist 1897 Birthday Pricilla L Williams, social activist/humanitarian 1896 Death Jane Wilde, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights, dies 1896 Birthday Jane Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights 1893 Death Lucy Stone, American Activist 1892 Death Ernestine Rose, Activist 1890 Death Catherine Booth, American Activist 1890 Birthday A. P. Herbert, born in Ashted, Surrey, novelist, humorist, playwright and activist 1889 Birthday A. Philip Randolph, American Activist 1885 Birthday A. J. Muste, American Activist 1877 Birthday Pancho Villa, Mexican Activist 1874 Birthday Harold L. Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician 1870 Birthday Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Activist 1868 Death David Wilmot, American Activist 1868 Birthday Emily Murphy, Canadian Activist 1866 Death Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam physician/social activist, dies at 53 1866 Birthday Sophonisba Breckenridge, scholar, teacher and social activist 1864 Birthday Alfred Fried, Austrian Activist 1863 Birthday Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist 1862 Birthday Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], U.S. civil rights activist 1862 Birthday Ida B. Wells, American Activist 1860 Birthday Juliette Gordon Low, activist/founder, Girl Scouts of America 1859 Birthday Florence Kelley, American Activist 1854 Birthday Benjamin Tucker, American Activist 1853 Birthday Errico Malatesta, Italian Activist 1853 Birthday Alva Vanderbilt Beaumont, women's rights advocate and activist 1853 Birthday Olympia Brown, American Activist 1852 Birthday Daniel De Leon, Activist 1844 Birthday Edward Carpenter, English Activist 1843 Event Sojourner Truth leaves New York to begin her career as antislavery activist 1839 Birthday Frances E. Willard, American Activist 1837 Birthday Mother Jones, American Activist 1830 Birthday Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones, activist 1829 Birthday Catherine Booth, American Activist 1820 Birthday Susan B. Anthony, American Activist 1818 Birthday Lucy Stone, American Activist 1817 Death Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58 1814 Birthday Esther Hobart Morris, suffragist/anti-slavery activist 1814 Birthday David Wilmot, American Activist 1813 Birthday Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam, physician/pharmacist/social activist 1810 Birthday Robert Purvis, American Activist 1810 Birthday Ernestine Rose, Activist 1807 Death Prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston 1793 Birthday Lucretia Mott, American Activist 1673 Death Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 1624 Event Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist 1622 Birthday Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist
