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1995 Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro, doctor/social reformer, dies at 79

1960 Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at 71

1920 Marre, reformer of the bar

1916 Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro, doctor/social reformer

1915 Gopal Krishna Gokhale, India's social reformer/politician, dies

1888 Tojohiko Kagawa, Japan, Christian-social reformer, Grain of Wheat

1888 Toyohiko Kagawa, born in Kobe, Japan, Christian social reformer

1871 Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies

1858 Ramabai Dongre' Medhavi, India, social reformer

1855 Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies

1846 Adrian van de Ende, vicar/protestant reformer, dies at 77

1841 Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate

1839 Helene Mercier, Dutch author/social reformer

1839 Henry George, land reformer/writer, Progress and Poverty

1838 Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement

1838 Martin Woodhull Victoria Chaflin, U.S., feminist/reformer, Woodhull

1838 Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, Ohio, feminist/reformer/free love

1834 Peter H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformer/founder, Free Parish

1828 Josephine Elizabeth Butler, social reformer

1821 Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader

1811 Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer

1811 Daniel A. Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church

1808 Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer

1805 Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer

1804 Ottho G Heldring, Dutch vicar/reformer, Heldring Institutions

1800 Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer

1785 Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey, 1808 - 1839, Westernizer/reformer

1780 Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse

1771 Sydney Smith, Woodford Essex, preacher/reformer/author

1769 Hakuin Ekaku, Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan

1612 Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)

1600 John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies

1564 Jean Caulvin, John Calvin, priest/church reformer, dies at 54

1560 Philipp Melanchton (Schwazerd), church reformer, dies at 63

1560 Peder Palladus, Danish church reformer (Visitasbog), dies at about 56

1557 Michael Agricola, Finnish theologist/church reformer/bishop, dies

1552 Laurentius Andreae, Lars Andersson, Swedish church reformer, dies

1548 Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer, dies at 44

1546 Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62

1542 Leo Judae, Swiss pastor/church reformer

1541 Wolfgang Capito, Kopfel, German church reformer, dies at 63

1540 Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48

1531 Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss church reformer (Zwinglianen), dies

1530 Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43

1529 Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake

1525 Johannes Pistorius, Bakker, RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26

1525 John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake

1525 Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague

1523 Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake

1523 John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake

1509 John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian

1504 Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer

1497 Philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer, Augsburgse Confessie

1492 Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory, humanist and reformer

1489 Thomas Cranmer, England, archbishop/reformer/martyr

1481 Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer

1452 Girolamo Savonarola, monk/reformer/dictator of Florence, 1494-98

1419 Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague and throw Catholic councillors out the windows

1384 John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies

1381 St. Colette, abbess/reformer, Poor Clares

1358 Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies

838 Babak, Persian social/religious reformer, martyred

766 Chrodegang, church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50

468 Pope Hilarius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)


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