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2004 Christopher Reeve, director/actor/advocate, Superman, dies at 52
1997 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at 89 1996 John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate, dies at 56 1994 Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93 1993 Gustavo Brillembourg, Venezuela/U.S. advocate, dies in an accident at 35 1992 Marion P Ames, U.S., advocate/activist, dies 1990 Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46 1982 Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, murdered 1981 South Africa anti apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested 1981 Griffiths Mxenge, South Afr's anti-apartheid advocate, murdered 1976 Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa 1974 [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, Black U.S. advocate in Virg, dies at 83 1963 Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at 79 1950 Milada Horakova, Czechoslovakian advocate/anti fascist, hanged 1944 Taylor Hackford, director, Devil's Advocate 1944 Ben Korthals, advocate/Dutch MP, VVD 1941 Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate 1939 John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate 1936 James Rand, British judge, Advocate General 1934 Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, Unsafe at Any Speed 1932 Dennis Skinner, born in Derbyshire, England, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Bolsover, attended Ruskin College, left-wing supporter, homosexual and pro-choice advocate 1931 Lord Cameron of Lochbroom, lord advocate 1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane 1908 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate 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 1890 [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black U.S. advocate in Virginia 1889 Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate, Nobel 1959 1885 Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder, National Woman's Party 1883 Hubert M E Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier, 1939-45 1883 Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96 1862 John Jay Chapman, U.S. advocate/poet/writer, Learning and Other Essays 1857 Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist 1853 Alva Vanderbilt Beaumont, women's rights advocate and activist 1841 Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate 1838 Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law, Nobel 1911 1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American 1792 Sarah Moore Grimke, American abolitionist/women's rights advocate 1619 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded 1600 Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake 1590 Floris Thin, politician/land advocate of Utrecht, dies 1549 Barthout van Assendelft, 1st land advocate of Holland, dies 1544 Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland |
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