Martin Luther King Jr.15 January 1929, American
Civil Rights Activist
Malcolm X19 May 1925, American
Activist
Muhammad Ali17 January 1942, American
Ben Shapiro15 January 1984, American
Political Commentator, Public Speaker
Tucker Carlson16 May 1969, American
Journalist
James Baldwin02 August 1924, American
Novelist
Shaun King17 September 1979, American
Writer
Frederick Douglass01 February 1818, American
American orator
Fred Hampton30 August 1948, American
Activist
Woody Harrelson23 July 1961, American
Actor, Activist
Mark Ruffalo22 November 1967, American
Actor
Noam Chomsky07 December 1928, American
Linguist
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.17 January 1954, American
Environment Activist & Attorney
Bryan Stevenson14 November 1959, American
Lawyer
Julian Assange03 July 1971, Australian, Ecuadorian
Computer programmer
Kim Seok-jin04 December 1992, South Korean
Singer
Ronan Farrow19 December 1987, American
Journalist, Activist, Human Rights Lawyer
Medgar Evers02 July 1925, American
Zack de la Rocha12 January 1970, American
W. E. B. Du Bois23 February 1868, Ghanaian
Civil Rights Activists
Alexei Navalny04 June 1976, Russian
Lawyer
Stokely Carmichael29 June 1941, Guinean, Trinidadian, American
Jeffrey Wright07 December 1965, American
Actor
Jesse Jackson08 October 1941, American
Civil Rights Activist
Martin Luther King III23 October 1957, American
Activist
Russell Simmons04 October 1957, American
Founder of the hip-hop music label Def Jam
Rick Harrison22 March 1965, American
Businessman
George Takei20 April 1937, American
Actor, Activist
Bob Geldof05 October 1951, Irish
Singer
Victor Hugo26 February 1802, French
Author & Poet
Nathuram Godse19 May 1910, Indian
Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
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Serj Tankian21 August 1967, Lebanese, American
Singer-songwriter
Garry Kasparov13 April 1963, Russian
Chess Player
Ralph Nader27 February 1934, American
Political Activist, Attorney
Michael Moore23 April 1954, American
Documentary Filmmaker
Thomas Paine29 January 1737, British, American
Founding Father of the United States
Arvind Kejriwal16 August 1968, Indian
Anti Corruption Activist, Politician
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Dennis Weaver04 June 1924, American
Actor
Jack London12 January 1876, American
Author
Harvey Milk22 May 1930, American
Cesar Chavez31 March 1927, American
Civil Rights Activist
Michael Bolton26 February 1953, American
Singer, Songwriter
Paul Robeson09 April 1898, American
Singer, Actor & Civil Rights Activist
Will Geer09 March 1902, American
Actor
Solomon Northup10 July 1807, American
Author
Saul Alinsky30 January 1909, American
Community Organizer
Gary Burghoff24 May 1943, American
Actor
Abbie Hoffman30 November 1936, American
Anti-War Activist
Craig Kielburger17 December 1982, Canadian
Canadian Author
Mike Farrell06 February 1939, American
Actor
Steve Biko18 December 1946, South African
Anti-apartheid Activist
Rick Santorum10 May 1958, American
American Politician, Attorney
Matt McGorry12 April 1986, American
Actor
Sean Hepburn Ferrer17 July 1960, Swiss
Film Producer
Ryan White06 December 1971, American
Activist
Jason Ralph07 April 1986, American
Actor
Sargent Shriver09 November 1915, American
Politician
Burt Ward06 July 1945, American
Actor
Ken Carter13 February 1959, American
Coach
Sean Pertwee04 June 1964, British
Actor
Zbigniew Brzezinski28 March 1928, Polish, American
Former Diplomat, Political Scientist
James Weldon Johnson17 June 1871, American
Author
Tom Hayden11 December 1939, American
Political Activist
Clayton Kershaw19 March 1988, American
Baseball Pitcher
Joshua Wong13 October 1996, Chinese, Hong Konger
Political Activist
Jean-Paul Marat24 May 1743, Swiss, French
Physician
Will Estes21 October 1978, American
Actor
A. Philip Randolph15 April 1889, American
Leader of the African-American civil-rights
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.29 November 1908, American
Politician & Civil Rights Activist
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark26 May 1968, Danish
Eldest Son of Queen of Denmark Margrethe II
Daniel Ellsberg07 April 1931, American
Activist
Hosea Williams05 January 1926, American
Civil Rights Leader
Ron Kovic04 July 1946, American
Anti-War Activist
Olaudah Equiano1745 AD, Central African
Anti Slavery Activist
Ron Silver02 July 1946, American
Actor
Ai Weiwei28 August 1957, Chinese
Artist
Mario Vargas Llosa28 March 1936, Peruvian
Writer
Quinton Aaron15 August 1984, American
Actor
Kailash Satyarthi11 January 1954, Indian
Child Rights Activist
Anna Hazare15 June 1937, Indian
Ricky Tomlinson26 September 1939, British
Actor
Dashiell Hammett27 May 1894, American
Novelist
William O. Douglas16 October 1898, American
Former Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
William Lloyd Garrison12 December 1805, American
Abolitionist
Eustace Conway15 September 1961, American
Naturalist
James Farmer12 January 1920, American
Civil Rights Activist
Ryan Merriman10 April 1983, American
Actor
Blake McIver Ewing27 March 1985, American
Singer
Lyndon LaRouche08 September 1922, American
Political Activist
Benjamin Banneker09 November 1731, American
Compiler of Almanacs
Giuseppe Mazzini22 June 1805, Italian
Liu Xiaobo28 December 1955, Chinese
Chinese Human Rights Activist
Jerry Falwell11 August 1933, American
Pastor