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Pacifist


2000 Alex Comfort, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, 'The New Joy of Sex', dies at 80

1995 Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner, dies at 79

1995 Humphrey Sims Moore, pacifist/journalist, dies at 86

1991 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands

1977 Robert Lowell, U.S. poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60)

1976 Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP (PSP), dies at 62

1972 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87

1967 Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies

1957 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms

1948 Mahatma Gandhi, India's pacifist, assassinated

1944 Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78

1938 Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48

1936 Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize

1924 Paul d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist, dies at 71

1922 Grace Paley, born in New York, short story writer, political activist, pacifist, poet

1921 Miklos Jancso, Vac Hungry, director, Muzsika, Aube, Pacifist

1921 Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies

1920 Alex Comfort, born in England, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, wrote "The Joy of Sex", a scholarly approach to sexual behavior

1917 Robert Lowell, poet and pacifist, Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean

1916 Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner

1914 Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP, PSP

1912 Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies

1909 Humphrey Sims Moore, pacifist/journalist

1894 Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist, War Against War!

1888 Carl von Ossietzky, Germany, journalist/pacifist, Nobel 1935

1887 Rene Cassin, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize 1968

1885 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement

1884 Christina C Bakker-van Bosse, feminist/pacifist

1883 Scott Nearing, U.S. sociologist/pacifist/author, The Good Life

1869 Mahatma Karamchand Ghandi, Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist

1869 Christian Lange, Norway, pacifist/internationalist, Nobel 1921

1867 Emily Green Balch, U.S., sociologist/feminist/pacifist, Nobel 1946

1864 Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist, Nobel 1911

1862 Henry David Thoreau, U.S. writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44

1862 Nicholas Murray Butler, U.S., Columbia University president and pacifist, Nobel 1931

1860 Jane Addams, U.S., pacifist/social worker/feminist, Nobel 1931

1852 Paul H B d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist

1844 Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist, Nobel 1908

1843 Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist, Nobel 1905

1838 Randal Cremer, born in Britain, trade unionist, pacifist, Nobel 1903

1837 Fredrik Bajer, born in Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist, Nobel 1908

1833 Elie Ducommun, born in Switzerland, writer and pacifist, Nobel 1902

1822 Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist, Nobel 1901

1817 Henry David Thoreau, born in Concord, Massachusetts, naturalist/pacifist, Walden Pond


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