| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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 |
