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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Atahualpa
Royalty
c. 1502 29-Aug-1533 Incan king ransomed, killed by Pizarro
Kofi Awoonor
Poet
13-Mar-1935   Rediscovery
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Head of State
16-Nov-1904 11-May-1996 First President of Nigeria, 1963-66
Hastings Banda
Head of State
1898 25-Nov-1997 First President of Malawi
Victor L. Berger
Politician
28-Feb-1860 7-Aug-1929 Socialist Rep. from Wisconsin
Anne Braden
Activist
28-Jul-1924 6-Mar-2006 Southern Civil Rights Activist
Charles Bradlaugh
Activist
26-Sep-1833 30-Jan-1891 Atheistic Iconoclast
Richard G. Butler
Activist
23-Feb-1918 8-Sep-2004 Founder of the Aryan Nations
Robert Capa
Photographer
22-Oct-1913 25-May-1954 War photographer
Thomas Cartwright
Religion
c. 1535 27-Dec-1603 English Puritan divine
Michel Chartrand
Labor Leader
20-Dec-1916 12-Apr-2010 Quebec nationalist labor activist
Father Charles Coughlin
Religion
25-Oct-1891 27-Oct-1979 Radio opponent of FDR
Kim Dae-Jung
Head of State
3-Dec-1925 18-Aug-2009 South Korean President, 1998-2003
Honoré Daumier
Artist
20-Feb-1808 11-Feb-1879 Caricaturist and satirist
Eamon de Valera
Head of State
14-Oct-1882 29-Aug-1975 President of Ireland, 1959-73
Eugene V. Debs
Labor Leader
5-Nov-1855 20-Oct-1926 Labor leader ran for President five times
Daniel Defoe
Author
Sep-1660 24-Apr-1731 Robinson Crusoe
Floyd Dell
Journalist
28-Jun-1887 23-Jul-1969 Moon-Calf
Max Eastman
Author
12-Jan-1883 25-Mar-1969 Socialist writer, later embraced McCarthyism
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Mathematician
21-Mar-1768 16-May-1830 Fourier series
Peter Fraser
Head of State
28-Aug-1884 5-Aug-1950 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1940-49
Mahatma Gandhi
Activist
2-Oct-1869 30-Jan-1948 Proselytizer of nonviolence
William M. Gwin
Politician
9-Oct-1805 3-Sep-1885 US Senator from California
Big Bill Haywood
Labor Leader
4-Feb-1869 18-May-1928 Industrial Workers of the World
Jesus Christ
Religion
c. 4 BC 7-Apr-30 AD Carpenter, evangelist
Ben Jonson
Playwright
11-Jun-1572 6-Aug-1637 Volpone
Rosa Luxemburg
Activist
5-Mar-1871 15-Jan-1919 Co-Founder, Communist Party of Germany
Ricardo Flores Magón
Anarchist
16-Sep-1873 21-Nov-1922 Agitator behind Mexican revolution
Elijah Muhammad
Religion
7-Oct-1897 25-Feb-1975 Nation of Islam
Daniel O'Connell
Politician
6-Aug-1775 15-May-1847 Irish hero, called The Liberator
Titus Oates
Criminal
15-Sep-1649 12-Jul-1705 Popish Plot
Thomas Paine
Activist
29-Jan-1737 8-Jun-1809 Common Sense
Georgios Papadopoulos
Head of State
5-May-1919 27-Jun-1999 Dictator of Greece, 1967-73
Leyla Qasim
Activist
1952 5-Dec-1974 Kurdish martyr
Jack Reed
Activist
22-Oct-1887 19-Oct-1920 Ten Days That Shook the World
William E. Riker
Religion
1873 3-Dec-1969 Holy City cult leader
José Rizal
Activist
19-Jun-1861 30-Dec-1896 Philippine national hero
Bertrand Russell
Mathematician
18-May-1872 2-Feb-1970 Mathematician, atheist, and social critic
Flavio Sosa
Politician
1953   Jailed APPO councilman
Wole Soyinka
Playwright
13-Jul-1934   Politically-charged Nigerian author
Sukarno
Head of State
6-Jun-1901 21-Jun-1970 President of Indonesia, 1945-67
Mahmoud Muhammad Taha
Religion
c. 1909 18-Jan-1985 Progressive Islamic theologian
Anna Walentynowicz
Activist
13-Aug-1929 10-Apr-2010 Catalyst for the Solidarnosc union
John Wilkes
Politician
17-Oct-1725 26-Dec-1797 Colorful London radical
John Peter Zenger
Journalist
c. 1697 28-Jul-1746 Sedition against the Crown


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