Harriet Tubman1820 AD, American
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
Margaret Sanger14 September 1879, American
Birth Control Activist
Emma Goldman27 June 1869, American
Writer
Susan B. Anthony15 February 1820, American
Women’s Rights Activist
Annie Besant01 October 1847, British
Member of the London School Board
Paul Robeson09 April 1898, American
Singer, Actor & Civil Rights Activist
Kasturba Gandhi11 April 1869, Indian
Wife of Mahatama Gandhi
Ida B. Wells16 July 1862, American
Journalist
Emmeline Pankhurst04 July 1858, British
Leader of the British Suffragette Movement
Solomon Northup10 July 1807, American
Author
Jane Addams06 September 1860, American
Mary Harris Jones01 August 1837, American
Labor and Community Organizer
Elizabeth Cady Stanton12 November 1815, American
Women’s Rights Activist
Dorothy Day08 November 1897, American
Giuseppe Mazzini22 June 1805, Italian
Emily Davison11 October 1872, British
Activist
William Lloyd Garrison12 December 1805, American
Abolitionist
Jacob Riis03 May 1849, American
Mahadev Govind Ranade18 January 1842, Indian
Judge, Social Reformer
Jeannette Rankin11 June 1880, American
First Woman Elected to U.S Congress
Aldo Leopold11 January 1887, American
Alice Paul11 January 1885, American
Suffragist and Feminist
Henry Dunant08 May 1828, Swiss
Founder of the Red Cross
Mary Edwards Walker26 November 1832, American
Surgeon, Feminist, Activist
A. Philip Randolph15 April 1889, American
Leader of the African-American civil-rights
Marie Stopes15 October 1880, British
Paleobotanist & Women’s Rights Activists
Margaret Fuller23 May 1810, American
Kate Sheppard10 March 1847, New Zealander
Women's Suffrage Leader
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Edith Cowan02 August 1861, Australian
Social Campaigner
Samuel Gompers27 January 1850, British, American
Labor leader, Cigar Maker
James Weldon Johnson17 June 1871, American
Author
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan06 February 1890, Pakistani
Political and Spiritual Leader
Alexander Berkman21 November 1870, French, Russian
Editor
Lucy Stone13 August 1818, American
Women's Rights Activist
Millicent Fawcett11 June 1847, British
Suffragist
Caroline Chisholm30 May 1808, British
Immigrant Welfare Activist
Carrie Chapman Catt09 January 1859, American
Women’s Rights Activists
Carl von Ossietzky03 October 1889, German
German Pacifist & Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Lillian Wald10 March 1867, American
Humanitarian, Nurse, Activist
Alexander Herzen06 April 1812, Russian
Father of Russian socialism
Bertha von Suttner09 June 1843, Austrian
Pacifist, First Woman to Receive the Nobel Peace
Mary Church Terrell23 September 1863, American
Civil Rights Activist
Josephine Butler13 April 1828, British
Social Worker
Matilda Joslyn Gage24 March 1826, American
Abolitionist, Freethinker, Author
Caroline Norton22 March 1808, British
Author
Emily Murphy14 March 1868, Canadian
First Female Magistrate in Canada
Prudence Crandall03 September 1803, American
Connecticut's official State Heroine
Anna Howard Shaw14 February 1847, American
Leader of the women's suffrage movement in the
Emily Greene Balch08 January 1867, American
Social Activist
Frédéric Passy20 May 1822, French
Economist & Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Catherine Helen Spence31 October 1825, Australian
Author, Journalist & Politician
A. J. Muste08 January 1885, American
Clergyman & Political Activist
Ammon Hennacy24 July 1893, American
Christian Anarchist, Social Activist
Randal Cremer18 March 1828, British
British Pacifist & Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Anna Julia Cooper10 August 1858, American
Author, Educator
Pearl Buck26 June 1892, American
American writer
Nora Stanton Blatch Barney30 September 1883, American
Civil Engineer, Architect, Women’s Rights
Rosalie Edge03 November 1877, American
Women’s Right Activist & Environmentalist
Angelina Grimke20 February 1805, American
Abolitionist, Women's Rights Activist
Motilal Nehru06 May 1861
Lawyer
Jim Corbett25 July 1875, British
Writer, Hunter, Naturalist
Marcelo H. del Pilar30 August 1850, Filipino
Journalist, Writer
Joe Hill07 October 1879, American
Songwriter, Trade unionist
Carrie Nation25 November 1846, American
Activist
Anna Leonowens05 November 1834, British
Writer
Marjory Stoneman Douglas07 April 1890, American
Journalist, Feminist
Buenaventura Durruti14 July 1896, Spanish
Anarcho-syndicalist, Anarchist, Trade unionist
Ferdinand Lassalle11 April 1825, German, Polish
Writer, Politician, Economist, Lawyer, Philosopher
Errico Malatesta14 December 1853, Italian
Activist, Writer, Revolutionary, Journalist, Trade
David Starr Jordan19 January 1851, American
Botanist, Peace activist, Zoologist,
Lydia Maria Child11 February 1802, American
Novelist, Poet, Journalist, Writer
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
Thomas Holmes1817 AD, American
Mortician
Victoria Claflin Woodhull23 September 1838, American
Died at 89 (1838-1927)
Ōmi Komaki11 May 1894, Japanese
Translator, Writer, University teacher
José Julián Martí Pérez28 January 1853, Cuban
Ernestine Louise Rose13 January 1810, Polish
Died at 82 (1810-1892)