Harriet Tubman1820 AD, American
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Frederick Douglass01 February 1818, American
American orator
W. E. B. Du Bois23 February 1868, Ghanaian
Civil Rights Activists
Victor Hugo26 February 1802, French
Author & Poet
Jack London12 January 1876, American
Author
Susan B. Anthony15 February 1820, American
Women’s Rights Activist
Margaret Sanger14 September 1879, American
Birth Control Activist
Kasturba Gandhi11 April 1869, Indian
Wife of Mahatama Gandhi
Emma Goldman27 June 1869, American
Writer
Paul Robeson09 April 1898, American
Singer, Actor & Civil Rights Activist
Annie Besant01 October 1847, British
Member of the London School Board
Emmeline Pankhurst04 July 1858, British
Leader of the British Suffragette Movement
Ida B. Wells16 July 1862, American
Journalist
Jane Addams06 September 1860, American
Solomon Northup10 July 1807, American
Author
Elizabeth Cady Stanton12 November 1815, American
Women’s Rights Activist
Mary Harris Jones01 August 1837, American
Labor and Community Organizer
Emily Davison11 October 1872, British
Activist
Dorothy Day08 November 1897, American
Jacob Riis03 May 1849, American
William Lloyd Garrison12 December 1805, American
Abolitionist
Giuseppe Mazzini22 June 1805, Italian
Alice Paul11 January 1885, American
Suffragist and Feminist
Jeannette Rankin11 June 1880, American
First Woman Elected to U.S Congress
Mahadev Govind Ranade18 January 1842, Indian
Judge, Social Reformer
Henry Dunant08 May 1828, Swiss
Founder of the Red Cross
Aldo Leopold11 January 1887, American
A. Philip Randolph15 April 1889, American
Leader of the African-American civil-rights
Margaret Fuller23 May 1810, American
Mary McLeod Bethune10 July 1875, American
Educator
Mary Edwards Walker26 November 1832, American
Surgeon, Feminist, Activist
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Marie Stopes15 October 1880, British
Paleobotanist & Women’s Rights Activists
Samuel Gompers27 January 1850, British, American
Labor leader, Cigar Maker
Millicent Fawcett11 June 1847, British
Suffragist
Carrie Chapman Catt09 January 1859, American
Women’s Rights Activists
James Weldon Johnson17 June 1871, American
Author
Lucy Stone13 August 1818, American
Women's Rights Activist
Kate Sheppard10 March 1847, New Zealander
Women's Suffrage Leader
Carl von Ossietzky03 October 1889, German
German Pacifist & Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Alexander Berkman21 November 1870, French, Russian
Editor
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan06 February 1890, Pakistani
Political and Spiritual Leader
Edith Cowan02 August 1861, Australian
Social Campaigner
Lillian Wald10 March 1867, American
Humanitarian, Nurse, Activist
Bertha von Suttner09 June 1843, Austrian
Pacifist, First Woman to Receive the Nobel Peace
Nana Saheb19 May 1824, Indian
Peshwa of the Maratha Empire
Alexander Herzen06 April 1812, Russian
Father of Russian socialism
Matilda Joslyn Gage24 March 1826, American
Abolitionist, Freethinker, Author
Caroline Chisholm30 May 1808, British
Immigrant Welfare Activist
Josephine Butler13 April 1828, British
Social Worker
Emily Murphy14 March 1868, Canadian
First Female Magistrate in Canada
Mary Church Terrell23 September 1863, American
Civil Rights Activist
Caroline Norton22 March 1808, British
Author
Anna Howard Shaw14 February 1847, American
Leader of the women's suffrage movement in the
Frédéric Passy20 May 1822, French
Economist & Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Emily Greene Balch08 January 1867, American
Social Activist
Prudence Crandall03 September 1803, American
Connecticut's official State Heroine
Catherine Helen Spence31 October 1825, Australian
Author, Journalist & Politician
Randal Cremer18 March 1828, British
British Pacifist & Nobel Peace Prize Winner
A. J. Muste08 January 1885, American
Clergyman & Political Activist
Ammon Hennacy24 July 1893, American
Christian Anarchist, Social Activist
Pearl Buck26 June 1892, American
American writer
Nora Stanton Blatch Barney30 September 1883, American
Civil Engineer, Architect, Women’s Rights
Anna Julia Cooper10 August 1858, American
Author, Educator
Rosalie Edge03 November 1877, American
Women’s Right Activist & Environmentalist
Angelina Grimke20 February 1805, American
Abolitionist, Women's Rights Activist
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.13 September 1887, American
Military Leader
Prescott Bush15 May 1895, American
Politician
Joe Hill07 October 1879, American
Songwriter, Trade unionist
Gifford Pinchot11 August 1865, American
Forestry scientist
Bipin Chandra Pal07 November 1858, Indian
Writer
Wendell Willkie18 February 1892, American
Lawyer
Marcelo H. del Pilar30 August 1850, Filipino
Journalist, Writer
Carrie Nation25 November 1846, American
Activist
Anna Leonowens05 November 1834, British
Writer
Marjory Stoneman Douglas07 April 1890, American
Journalist, Feminist
Sakamoto Ryōma03 January 1836, Japanese
Japanese samurai
Harry Hopkins17 August 1890, American
Politician
Maud Gonne21 December 1866, Irish, British
Actress
Earl Browder20 May 1891, American
Political leader
Bill Haywood04 February 1869, American
Activist
Buenaventura Durruti14 July 1896, Spanish
Anarcho-syndicalist, Anarchist, Trade unionist
Zitkala-Sa22 February 1876, American
Writer
Mirabehn22 November 1892, Indian, British
Political Activist
Lydia Maria Child11 February 1802, American
Novelist, Poet, Journalist, Writer
Errico Malatesta14 December 1853, Italian
Activist, Writer, Revolutionary, Journalist, Trade
Ferdinand Lassalle11 April 1825, German, Polish
Writer, Politician, Economist, Lawyer, Philosopher
David Starr Jordan19 January 1851, American
Botanist, Peace activist, Zoologist,
Carter Glass04 January 1858, American
Politician
Nellie McClung20 October 1873, Canadian
Novelist, Writer, Politician, Human rights
Hjalmar Branting23 November 1860, Swedish
Politician, Diplomat, Journalist
Anna Louise Strong24 November 1885, American
Writer, Journalist, Activist, Trade unionist
Roger Nash Baldwin21 January 1884, American
Sociologist, Trade unionist
W.E.B. Du Bois1868 AD, American
Journalist, Educator, Civil Rights Activist
Friedrich August von Hayek08 May 1899, Austrian
Hilda Doolittle10 September 1886, American
Poet