Harriet Tubman29 February 1822, American
Abolitionist
Frederick Douglass01 February 1818, American
American orator
W. E. B. Du Bois23 February 1868, Ghanaian
Civil Rights Activists
Margaret Sanger14 September 1879, American
Educator
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Susan B. Anthony15 February 1820, American
Women’s Rights Activist
Victor Hugo26 February 1802, French
Author & Poet
Ida B. Wells16 July 1862, American
Journalist
Jack London12 January 1876, American
Author
Paul Robeson09 April 1898, American
Singer, Actor & Civil Rights Activist
Solomon Northup10 July 1807, American
Author
Emma Goldman27 June 1869, American
Writer
Emmeline Pankhurst04 July 1858, British
Leader of the British Suffragette Movement
James Weldon Johnson17 June 1871, American
Author
Alice Paul11 January 1885, American
Suffragist and Feminist
Annie Besant01 October 1847, British
Member of the London School Board
A. Philip Randolph15 April 1889, American
Leader of the African-American civil-rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton12 November 1815, American
Women’s Rights Activist
Kasturba Gandhi11 April 1869, Indian
Wife of Mahatama Gandhi
Emily Davison11 October 1872, British
Activist
Dorothy Day08 November 1897, American
William Lloyd Garrison12 December 1805, American
Abolitionist
Giuseppe Mazzini22 June 1805, Italian
Jane Addams06 September 1860, American
Mary McLeod Bethune10 July 1875, American
Educator
Nana Saheb19 May 1824, Indian
Peshwa of the Maratha Empire
Jeannette Rankin11 June 1880, American
First Woman Elected to U.S Congress
Marie Stopes15 October 1880, British
Paleobotanist & Women’s Rights Activists
Henry Dunant08 May 1828, Swiss
Founder of the Red Cross
Aldo Leopold11 January 1887, American
Mary Edwards Walker26 November 1832, American
Surgeon, Feminist, Activist
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Jacob Riis03 May 1849, American
Margaret Fuller23 May 1810, American
Carrie Chapman Catt09 January 1859, American
Women’s Rights Activists
Millicent Fawcett11 June 1847, British
Suffragist
Alexander Berkman21 November 1870, French, Russian
Editor
Mahadev Govind Ranade18 January 1842, Indian
Judge, Social Reformer
Mary Harris Jones01 August 1837, American
Labor and Community Organizer
Samuel Gompers27 January 1850, British, American
Labor leader, Cigar Maker
A. J. Muste08 January 1885, American
Clergyman & Political Activist
Lucy Stone13 August 1818, American
Women's Rights Activist
Kate Sheppard10 March 1847, New Zealander
Women's Suffrage Leader
Mary Church Terrell23 September 1863, American
Civil Rights Activist
Bertha von Suttner09 June 1843, Austrian
Pacifist, First Woman to Receive the Nobel Peace
Carl von Ossietzky03 October 1889, German
German Pacifist & Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Edith Cowan02 August 1861, Australian
Social Campaigner
Alexander Herzen06 April 1812, Russian
Father of Russian socialism
Emily Murphy14 March 1868, Canadian
First Female Magistrate in Canada
Caroline Chisholm30 May 1808, British
Immigrant Welfare Activist
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan06 February 1890, Pakistani
Political and Spiritual Leader
Josephine Butler13 April 1828, British
Social Worker
Frédéric Passy20 May 1822, French
Economist & Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Matilda Joslyn Gage24 March 1826, American
Abolitionist, Freethinker, Author
Lillian Wald10 March 1867, American
Humanitarian, Nurse, Activist
Anna Howard Shaw14 February 1847, American
Leader of the women's suffrage movement in the
Caroline Norton22 March 1808, British
Author
Prudence Crandall03 September 1803, American
Connecticut's official State Heroine
Anna Julia Cooper10 August 1858, American
Author, Educator
Emily Greene Balch08 January 1867, American
Social Activist
Nora Stanton Blatch Barney30 September 1883, American
Civil Engineer, Architect, Women’s Rights
Catherine Helen Spence31 October 1825, Australian
Author, Journalist & Politician
Ammon Hennacy24 July 1893, American
Christian Anarchist, Social Activist
Pearl Buck26 June 1892, American
American writer
Randal Cremer18 March 1828, British
British Pacifist & Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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
Wendell Willkie18 February 1892, American
Lawyer
Victoria Woodhull23 September 1838, American
Politician
Harry Hopkins17 August 1890, American
Politician
Sakamoto Ryōma03 January 1836, Japanese
Japanese samurai
Carrie Nation25 November 1846, American
Activist
Joe Hill07 October 1879, American
Songwriter, Trade unionist
Gifford Pinchot11 August 1865, American
Forestry scientist
David Starr Jordan19 January 1851, American
Botanist, Peace activist, Zoologist,
Surendranath Banerjee10 November 1848, Indian
Politician
Marjory Stoneman Douglas07 April 1890, American
Journalist
Maud Gonne21 December 1866, Irish, British
Actress
Bipin Chandra Pal07 November 1858, Indian
Writer
Earl Browder20 May 1891, American
Political leader
Buenaventura Durruti14 July 1896, Spanish
Anarcho-syndicalist, Anarchist, Trade unionist
Ferdinand Lassalle11 April 1825, German, Polish
Writer, Politician, Economist, Lawyer, Philosopher
Bill Haywood04 February 1869, American
Activist
Beatrice Webb22 January 1858, British
Sociologist
Zitkala-Sa22 February 1876, American
Writer
Errico Malatesta14 December 1853, Italian
Activist, Writer, Revolutionary, Journalist, Trade
Bogd Khan1869 AD, Mongolian
Mongolian head of state
Karađorđe16 November 1768, Serbian
Revolutionary
Rebecca Latimer Felton10 June 1835, American
Writer
John Mercer Langston14 December 1829, American
Attorney
Mirabehn22 November 1892, Indian, British
Political Activist
William Monroe Trotter07 April 1872, American
Editor
Emily Hobhouse09 April 1860, British
British Social Worker