Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Political Activists, including Annie Besant, Emmeline Pankhurst, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman and Kasturba Gandhi.
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Emma Goldman27 June 1869, American
Writer
Kasturba Gandhi11 April 1869, Indian
Wife of Mahatama Gandhi
Emmeline Pankhurst04 July 1858, British
Leader of the British Suffragette Movement
Annie Besant01 October 1847, British
Member of the London School Board
Jane Addams06 September 1860, American
Mahadev Govind Ranade18 January 1842, Indian
Judge, Social Reformer
Mary McLeod Bethune10 July 1875, American
Educator
Alexander Berkman21 November 1870, French, Russian
Editor
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan06 February 1890, Pakistani
Political and Spiritual Leader
Alexander Herzen06 April 1812, Russian
Father of Russian socialism
Edith Cowan02 August 1861, Australian
Social Campaigner
Anna Howard Shaw14 February 1847, American
Leader of the women's suffrage movement in the
A. J. Muste08 January 1885, American
Clergyman & Political Activist
Catherine Helen Spence31 October 1825, Australian
Author, Journalist & Politician
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
Sakamoto Ryōma03 January 1836, Japanese
Japanese samurai
Earl Browder20 May 1891, American
Political leader
Zitkala-Sa22 February 1876, American
Writer
Mirabehn22 November 1892, Indian, British
Political Activist
Edward Bellamy26 March 1850, American
Journalist
Charles Joseph Bonaparte09 June 1851, French, Italian, American
Lawyer
Tina Modotti17 August 1896, Italian
Photographer
Michael Davitt25 March 1846, Northern Irish
Political leader
Ricardo Flores Magón16 September 1873, Mexican
Political figure
Max Eastman04 January 1883, American
Novelist
Compton Mackenzie17 January 1883, British, Scottish
Writer
Namık Kemal21 December 1840, Turkish
Writer
Edmund Ruffin05 January 1794, American
Soldier
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst22 September 1880, British
Militant
Eoin O'Duffy28 January 1890, Irish
Political Activist
Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire12 May 1802, French
Journalist