2015 Event The Japanese Diet enacts a defense policy allowing the nation's troops to aid allies in conflicts that also threaten Japan; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe supports the law, but it is opposed by many who wish to maintain the country's pacifist constitution 2000 Death Alex Comfort, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, 'The New Joy of Sex', dies at 80 1995 Death Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner, dies at 79 1995 Death Humphrey Sims Moore, pacifist/journalist, dies at 86 1991 Event Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands 1977 Death Robert Lowell, U.S. poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60) 1976 Death Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP (PSP), dies at 62 1972 Death Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87 1967 Death Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies 1957 Event Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms 1953 Birthday Andree van Es, born in Den Haag, Netherlands, politician, member, House of Representatives, GreenLeft and Pacifist Socialist Party, director-general of Government and Kingdom Relations 1944 Death Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78 1938 Death Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48 1936 Event Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize 1924 Death Paul d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist, dies at 71 1922 Birthday Grace Paley, born in New York, short story writer, political activist, pacifist, poet 1921 Birthday Miklos Jancso, Vac Hungry, director, Muzsika, Aube, Pacifist 1921 Death Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies 1920 Birthday Alex Comfort, born in England, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, wrote "The Joy of Sex", a scholarly approach to sexual behavior 1917 Birthday Robert Lowell, poet and pacifist, Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean 1916 Birthday Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner 1914 Birthday Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP, PSP 1912 Death Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies 1909 Birthday Humphrey Sims Moore, pacifist/journalist 1894 Birthday Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist, War Against War! 1888 Birthday Carl von Ossietzky, Germany, journalist/pacifist, Nobel 1935 1887 Birthday Rene Cassin, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize 1968 1885 Birthday Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement 1884 Birthday Christina C Bakker-van Bosse, feminist/pacifist 1883 Birthday Scott Nearing, U.S. sociologist/pacifist/author, The Good Life 1869 Birthday Mahatma Karamchand Ghandi, Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist 1869 Birthday Christian Lange, Norway, pacifist/internationalist, Nobel 1921 1867 Birthday Emily Green Balch, U.S., sociologist/feminist/pacifist, Nobel 1946 1864 Birthday Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist, Nobel 1911 1862 Death Henry David Thoreau, U.S. writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44 1862 Birthday Nicholas Murray Butler, U.S., Columbia University president and pacifist, Nobel 1931 1860 Birthday Jane Addams, U.S., pacifist/social worker/feminist, Nobel 1931 1852 Birthday Paul H B d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist 1844 Birthday Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist, Nobel 1908 1843 Birthday Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist, Nobel 1905 1838 Birthday Randal Cremer, born in Britain, trade unionist, pacifist, Nobel 1903 1837 Birthday Fredrik Bajer, born in Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist, Nobel 1908 1833 Birthday Elie Ducommun, born in Switzerland, writer and pacifist, Nobel 1902 1822 Birthday Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist, Nobel 1901 1817 Birthday Henry David Thoreau, born in Concord, Massachusetts, naturalist/pacifist, Walden Pond
