885 Notable Peacemakers Throughout History

"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." Matthew 5:9.

This web page lists famous peacemakers in birth order, thus enabling the visualization of contemporary groups & ever changing patterns of "peace work" over the years.
Use your computer's search function to find any given peacemaker. Names in red are linked to other pages of this website.
Names in black are linked to biographies outside this website, usually Wikipedia.

Click here for Wikipedia's list of peace activists.
Click here for list of "Architects of Peace" maintained at Santa Clara University.
Click here for monuments about Mahatma Gandhi. | Click here for monuments about Martin Luther King, Jr.
Click here for monuments about all other Nobel Peace Prize laureates (& some Literature Prize laureates).
Click here for monuments about Quaker peacemakers. | Click here for international peace conferences.
Click here for names of all 144 recipients of the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award.
Click here for names of recipients of the annual Community of Christ International Peace Award.
Click here for quotations from famous peacemakers -- from the Pacifist Memorial, Sherborn, Massachsetts (USA).
Click here for list of 50 contemporary peacemakers by Susan Skog, author of "Peace in Our Lifetime."
Click here for a "Guide to the Political Left" (1,318 biographies by right wing authors)
Click here for information about Josephson, Harold, ed. by (1985), "The biographical dictionary of modern peace leaders," Greenwood Press, pp. 1133, which has biographies of about 750 peacemakers, spanning the period 1800-1950.

Click here for an interactive list and shetches of more than 1,000 "Heroes for a Culture of Peace." Click here for a smiliar list of "Heroes for a Better World."

Click here for the names of 1,000 women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 by an international secretariat in Bern (Switzerland).

Click here for photographs of these 42 famous peacemakers (all of whom are also listed below in birth order).

Jane Addams, Muhammad Ali, Joan Baez, Judi Bari, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Fr. Roy Bourgois, Helen Caldicott, Cesar Chavez, Ernesto Cortes, The Dalai Lama, Dorothy Day, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Mahatma Gandhi, Thich Nhat Hanh, Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi, The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ron Kovic, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Thomas Merton, A. J. Muste, Fridtjof Nansen, Linus Pauling, Peace Pilgrim, Sr. Helen Prejean, Jeanette Rankin, Bishop Oscar Romero, Bertrand Russell, Albert Schweitzer, Chief Seattle, Pete Seeger, Tom Slick, Samantha Smith, The Rev. Leon Sullivan, Emma Tenayuca, Mother Teresa, Henry David Thoreau, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Lech Walesa, Elie Wiesel, Jody Williams, and Leyla Zana.

P = Pacifist | CO = Conscientious objector | = African or African descent
= Hindu | = Buddhist | = Muslim | = Jewish | = Christian | = Quaker (Friend) | = Unitarian and/or Universalist
= Member of Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) - founded in 1914.
= Member of Woman's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF) - founded in 1915.
= Sailed on Henry Ford's "Peace Ship" (1915-1916) or on a Nuclear Testing Protest Boat (1958-1962).
= Member of War Resisters International (WRL) - founded in 1921 -
and/or Committee for Non-Violent Action (CNVA) - founded in 1957 (merged in 1968).
= Member of Catholic Worker Movement - founded in 1933.
= Member of World Federalist Movement (WFM) - reorganized in 1947.
= Member of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - founded in 1957.
= Member of Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) - founded in 1957 (now Peace Action).
= Associated with International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) - founded in 1992.
= Member of Peace & Justice Studies Association (PJSA) - founded in 2001 - or other peace scholar.

= US President, Vice President, Secretary of State or other US government official.
= Related to the United Nations | = Related to the Red Cross.
= Related to Hiroshima and/or Nagasaki (Japan).
= Spent time in jail, prison or house arrest. | = Victim of Nazi Germany.
= Article in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace edited by Nigel Young (2010) - Complete list
= One of the "The Elders" (of 13 convened by Nelson Mandela in 2007 or since). - Complete list
= Named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association (AHA). - Complete list

= Received Presidental Medal of Freedom from the US Government.
= Received Courage of Conscience Award from the Peace Abbey, Sherborn, Massachusetts (USA).
= Received Freedom Award from National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, Tennessee (USA).
= Received Gandhi Peace Award from Promoting Enduring Peace, New Haven, Connecticut (USA).
= Received International Peace Award from Community of Christ, Independence, Missouri (USA).
= Received Nobel Prize (Norway & Sweden) - Complete list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates, plus some others.
= Received National Women's Hall of Fame induction, Seneca Falls, New York (USA).
= Received Right Livelihood Award, Stockholm, (Sweden) - sometimes called the Alternative Nobel Prize.
= Received Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
= Received Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, Boston, Massachusetts (USA).
= One of 1,000 Peace Women named for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.

FAMOUS PEACEMAKERS (birth order):
c599-527 BCE - Mahavira - Established the central tenets of Jainism including non-viloence toward all living beings. P
c563-483 BCE - Siddhartha Gautama - The Buddha. Described Nirvana as the perfect peace of a mind that's free from ignorance, greed, hatred & other "defilements." P
c551-479 BCE - Confucius - Social philosopher. Emphasized personal & governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice & sincerity.
c304–232 BCE - Ashoka - Emperor. Devotee of ahimsa (nonviolence), love, truth, tolerance & vegetarianism. P
c6 BCE-c35 AD - Jesus of Nazareth - The Christ. Preached "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." P
c370-415 AD - Hypatia - First notable female mathematician. Assassinated by Christian mob. A symbol of martryed Reason, feminism & Classical paganism.

1075-1115 - Magnus Erlendsson - First Earl of Orkney. Saint Magnus. Refused to fight in a Viking raid on Anglesey, stayed on board ship singing psalms. First CO?
1098-1179 - Hildegard of Bingen - Composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary & polymath. Wrote first surviving morality play.
1181-1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi - Friar & preacher. Founded the Franciscan Order. Patron saint of animals.

1466-1536 - Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam - Humanist, priest & theologian. Inventor of "peace." Wrote "Dulce Bellus Inexpertis" in 1517.
1478-1535 - Saint Thomas More - Lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman & humanist. Coined "utopia."
1493-1540 - Juan Luis Vives - First scholar to analyze the psyche directly. Supported children's education.

1511-1553 - Michael Servetus - Theologian, physician, cartographer & humanist. In Protestant Reformation. Nontrinitarian. Burned at the stake in Geneva.
1583-1645 - Hugo Grotius - Jurist, philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright & poet. Wrote "On the Law of War & Peace" in 1625.
1591-1643 - Anne Hutchinson - "Courageous exponent of civil liberty & religious toleration." Click here for monuments in Massachusetts (USA).
1592-1670 - Jan Amos Comenius - Educator. Last bishop of Unity of the Brethren. Early champion of universal education. "Father of modern education."

1603-1683 - Roger Williams - Theologian. First American proponent of religious freedom & separation of church & state..
1611-1660 - Mary Dyer - Quaker martyr. Click here for Quaker monuments.
1624-1691 - George Fox - Religious dissenter. Founded Quakerism after climbing Hill of Vision.
1632-1677 - Baruch Spinoza - Rationalist. Laid groundwork for 18th century Enlightenment & modern biblical criticism.
1644-1718 - William Penn - Quaker. Early champion of democracy & religious freedom. Founded Pennsylvania.
1654-1725 - John Bellers - Education & peace theorist. Wrote "Some Reasoms for an European State..." in 1710. Friend of Wm. Penn.
1658-1743 - Abbé de Saint-Pierre - Writer & radical. One of the first to propose an intl. organisation for maintaining peace.
1673-1743 - Cornelius van Bynkershoek - Jurist & legal theorist. Contributed to international law, particularly Law of the Sea.
1694-1778 - Voltaire - Writer & philosopher. Advocated civil liberties including freedom of religion & free trade.

1711-1776 - David Hume - Scottish philosopher, historian, economist & essayist. Empiricist. Wrote "A Treatise of Human Nature" in 1739.
1712-1778 - Jean Jacques Rousseau - Philosopher. For religious toleration. Influenced French & Am. Revolutions. Wrote "Emile" in 1762.

1714-1770 - George Whitefield - Popular Anglican minister. Helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain & America. A founder of Methodism.
1715-1779 - Israel Pemberton, Jr. - A founder of Friendly Assn for Regaining & Preserving Peace with the Indians in 1756.
1720-1772 - John Woolman - Opposed slavery. Wrote "Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes" in 1754.
1724-1804 - Immanuel Kant - Philosopher. Wrote "Towards Perpetual Peace" in 1795.
1725-1807 - John Newton - Click here for monuments related to slavery.
1729-1797 - Edmund Burke. See statue in Washington, DC (USA).
1731-1809 - Benjamin Banneker - African-American surveyor & mathematician.
1733-1804 - Joseph Priestley - Minister & scientist. Discovered oxygen.
c1735-1807 - Prince Hall - Abolitionist. Founder of "Black Freemasonry."
1737-1809 - Thomas Paine - Wrote "Common Sense" in 1776 & "Rights of Man" in 1791.
1741-1815 - John Murray - Founder of Universalism in America. Husband of Judith Sargent Murray (qv).
1743-1826 - Thomas Jefferson - Wrote the US Declaration of Independence in 1776. 3rd US president 1801-09.
1745-1813 - Benjamin Rush - Doctor. Proposed Dept. of Peace. Click here for monuments in Pennsylvania (USA).
c1745-1797 - Olaudah Equiano - Abolitionist. Former Slave.
1748-1832 - Jeremy Bentham - Theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law. Influenced the development of welfarism.

1751-1820 - Judith Sargent Stevens Murray. Wife of John Murray (qv).
1751-1836 - James Madison - Introduced the US Bill of Rights in 1789. 4th US president 1809-17.
1759-1833 - William Wilberforce - Click here for monuments related to slavery.
1759-1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft - Wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" in 1792.
1760-1846 - Thomas Clarkson - Abolitionist. Helped found Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1787.
1769-1811 - William Emerson - Pastor. Founded Philosophical Society & Boston Athenaeum. Father of Ralph Waldo Emerson (qv).
1771-1858 - Robert Owen - Reformer. Helped found New Lanark (Scotland) in 1786. Founded New Harmony, Indiana (USA) c.1824.
1774-1852 - David Low Dodge - Teacher & factory manager. Helped found world's first peace society in New York in 1815.
1775-1863 - Lyman Beecher - Presbyterian. Co-founder of American Temperance Society. Father of many other peacemakers (qv).
1778-1841 - William Ladd - One of the earliest American anti-war activists. Founded American Peace Society in New York in 1828.
1780-1845 - Elizabeth Fry - Helped make treatment of prisoners more humane. Depicted on Ł5 note since 2002.
1780-1849 - Edward Hicks - Painted many versions of "Peaceable Kingdom." Click here for peace art.
1781-1869 - Rebecca Gratz - Educator & philanthropist. Established Female Assn. for the Relief of Women & Children in 1801.
1782-1839 - Jean-Jaques de Sellon - Built Temple of Friendship & Peace in 1820. Created Société de la Paix de Genčve in 1830.
1786-1866 - Chief Seattle (Si'ahl) - Reputed for speech c.1854 advocating Native American rights & environmental values.
1787-1875 - Guillaume Henri Dufour - Army officer, engineer & topographer. Click here for monuments related to the Red Cross.
1789-1839 - Benjamin Lundy - Abolitionist. Established several anti-slavery newspapers. Started the abolutionist movement in 1815.

1793-1859 - Joseph Sturge - Abolitionist. Funded British & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (now Anti-Slavery International).
1793-1880 - Lucretia Coffin Mott. - Abolitionist, social reformer & proponent of women's rights. Click here for Quaker monuments.

1795-1852 - Frances Wright - Freethinker & abolitionist. Founded interracial commune of Nashoba in Tennessee (USA) in 1825.
1795-1884 - Joshua Reed Giddings - Statesman from Ohio. Prominent opponent of slavery.

1796-1859 - Horace Mann - Advocate of educaton reform & women's rights. First president of Antioch College.

1797-1856 - Heinrich Heine - Romantic poet. Wrote "Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people" in 1821.
c1797-1883 - Sojourner Truth - Abolitionist & women's rights activist. Born into slavery. Delivered "Ain't I a Woman?" speech in 1851.

1799-1872 - Joseph Pease - Railway manager. First Quaker MP. President of the Peace Society 1860-1872.

1800-1859 - John Brown - Abolitionist. Led Pottawatomie Massacre & Harpers Ferry Raid. Called "misguided fanatic" by A.Lincoln.
1800-1889 - Erastus Hussey - Leading abolitionist. "Stationmaster" on Underground Railroad. A Republican Party founder.

1801-1876 - Samuel Gridley Howe - Educator of the blind. Husband of Julia Ward Howe (qv).

1802-1887 - Dorothea Dix - Activist on behalf of the indigent insane.

1803-1844 - Flora Tristan - Socialist writer & activist. A founder of modern feminism. Paul Gauguin's grandmother.
1803-1880 - Adin Ballou - Minister, pacifist & socialist. Founded the Hopedale Community in 1842.
1803-1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Lecturer, essayist & poet. Leader of Transcendentalist movement. Champion of individualism.

1804-1865 - Richard Cobden - Helped found Anti-Corn Law League. Click here for peace monuments in England.
1804-1878 - George Thompson - Abolitionist & civil rights advocate.
1804-1865 - William Gaskell - Education reformer. Husband of novelist Elizabeth Gaskell.

1805-1879 - Angelina Grimké Weld - Abolitionist & suffragist.
1805-1879 - William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionist. Helped found American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 in Philadelphia.

1806-1873 - John Stuart Mill - Philosopher & proponent of utilitarianism. Contributed to social theory & political theory.
1806-1875 - Martha Coffin Wright. - Abolitionist & women's rights advocate. Sister of Lucretia Coffin Mott.

1809-1965 - Abraham Lincoln - 16th US president 1861-65. Led the USA through the Civil War. Preserved the Union while ending slavery.

1810-1850 - Margaret Fuller Ossoli - Transcendentalist. Wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century in 1845.
1810-1860 - Theodore Parker - Preacher, abolitionist & Transcendentalist. Supported John Brown (qv).
1810-1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell - Novelist & short story writer. Wrote about the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor.
1810-1879 - Elihu Burritt - Opposed slavery, worked for temperance & tried to achieve world peace.
1810-1892 - Ernestine Louise Polowsky Rose - Feminist, freethinker & atheist. Intellectual force behind women's rights movement.
1810-1898 - Robert Purvis - African-American abolitionist..

1811-1984 - Wendell Phillips - Abolitionist & advocate for Native Americans. Namesake of William Lloyd Garrison's son.
1811-1889 - John Bright - Helped found Anti-Corn Law League. Click here for monuments related to slavery.
1811-1996 - Harriet Beecher Stowe - Abolitionist. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. Sister of Henry Ward Beecher (qv).

1812-1888 - Henry Richard - Secretary of the Peace Society 1848-1885. Called "The Apostle of Peace." See below.

1813-1887 - Henry Ward Beecher - Clergyman, social reformer & abolitionist. Tried for adultery. "The Most Famous Man in America.

1814-1882 - Henry Whitney Bellows - Unitarian minister. Planner & only president of US Sanitary Commission 1861-1878.

1815-1874 - Charles Gilpin - Orator, politician & railway director. Published proceedings of 1848 & 1850 peace conferences.
1815-1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Suffragist. Presented "Declaration of Sentiments" to first women's rights convention in 1848.

1816-1884 - William Wells Brown - Abolitionist & writer. Former slave.

1817-1862 - Henry David Thoreau - Transcendentalist. Wrote "Resistance to Civil Government" in 1849 & "Walden" in 1854.
1817-1892 - Bahá'u'lláh - Founder of the Bahá'í Faith. Prophetic fulfilment of Bábism & eschatological expectations of Islam, Christianity & other religions. P

c1818-1895 - Frederick Douglass - Abolitionist. Former slave. Wrote "classic" autobiography in 1845. See slavery monuments.

1819-1897 - Julia Ward Howe - Abolitionist. Wrote "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in 1862. Wife of Samuel Gridley Howe (qv).

1820-1871 - Alice Cary - Sister of Phoebe Cary (qv). Poet. First president of Sorosis, 1st professional women's club in USA. See Jane Cunningham Croly.
1820-1906 - Susan B. Anthony - Suffragist. Pivotal role in women's rights movement. Averaged 75-100 speeches per year.
1820-1910 - Florence Nightengale - Nurse. Dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" during Crimean War.
1820-1913 - Harriet Tubman - African-American abolitionist & humanitarian. Helped run Underground Railroad. See slavery monuments.

1821-1912 - Clara Barton - Teacher, nurse & humanitarian. Organized American Red Cross in 1881.

1822-1903 - Olmsted, Frederick Law - Journalist & social critic. "Father of Am landscape architecture." Exec Sec of US Sanitary Commission.
1822-1912 - Frédéric Passy - Economist. Co-founded the Interparliamentary Union in 1889. 1901 with Henri Dunant

1823-1892 - Ernest Renan - Philosopher. Defined nationhood in 1882 ("avoir fait de grandes choses ensemble, vouloir en faire encore").
1823-1911 - Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Minister, author & militant abolitionist. Colonel in 1st federal African-American regiment.
1823-1912 - Robert Collyer - Clergyman. Opposed slavery. Worked for US Sanitary Commission during Civil War.

1824-1864 - Thomas Starr King - Minister & orator. Helped keep California in USA. Helped organize US Sanitary Commission.
1824-1871 - Phoebe Cary - Sister of Alice Cary (qv). Poet & champion of women's rights.
1824-1894 - Ranald MacDonald - Adventurer. First person to teach English in Japan. Click here for Japanese-American monuments.
1824-1907 - Hodgson Pratt - Pacifist. Founded the International Arbitration & Peace Association in 1880.

1826-1894 - John Bedford Leno - Chartist, radical, poet & printer. Leader of Reform League. Called "Burns of Labour" & "poet of the poor."
1826-1910 - Gustave Moynier - Jurist & social activist. Co-founded "Intl. Committee for Relief to the Wounded." Rival of Henry Dunant.

1828-1908 - Randal Cremer - MP & pacifist. Co-founded the Interparliamentary Union in 1889. 1903
1828-1910 - Henri Dunant - Businessman. Organized ICRC in 1863. Received first Nobel Peace Prize. 1901 with Frédéric Passy
1828-1910 - Leo Tolstoy - Novelist. Wrote "War & Peace" in 1869 & "Anna Karenina" in 1877. Helped Doukhobors move to Canada. P

1829-1901 - Jane Cunningham Croly - Born in England. Organized Sorosis, 1st professional women's club in USA, New York City, 1868.
1829-1912 - Auguste Beernaert - Attended Hague Peace Conferences in 1899 & 1907. Helped found Permanent Court of Arbitration. 1909

1830-1913 - Alfred H. Love - Helped found Universal Peace Union (UPU) in 1866 & headed it until his death.

1832-1907 - Moncure Daniel Conway - Abolitionist & author. Minister of South Place Ethical Society in London (England).

1833-1896 - Alfred Nobel - Industrialist. Click here for monuments related to the Nobel Peace Prize.
1833-1899 - Robert G. Ingersoll - Orator during "Golden Age of Freethought." Noted for broad range of culture & defense of agnosticism.
1833-1906 - Elie Ducommun - First director of International Peace Bureau (IPB) in 1891. 1902 with Albert Gobat
1833-1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta - Journalist & pacifist. See statue in Milan (Italy). 1907 with Louis Renault

1835-1910 - Mark Twain. Humorist. Author, orator & political satirist. "Father of American literature."
1835-1919 - Andrew Carnegie - Philantrophist. Built Pan American Union (Washington, DC, 1910) & Peace Palace (The Hague 1913).
1835-1926 - Olympia Brown - Suffragist. First ordained woman minister in USA (Universalist). Voted in 1920 at age 85.

1836-1902 - Jan Bloch - Banker. Wrote "La Guerre Future" in 1898. Operated world's first peace museum in Lucerne, Switzerland.

1837-1922 - Fredrik Bajer - A founder & 1st president of International Peace Bureau. 1908 with Klas Pontus Arnoldson
1837-1930 - Mary Harris "Mother" Jones - Labor & community organizer. Co-founded Industrial Workers of the World.

1838-1913 - Tobias M. C. Asser - Jurist. Created Permanent Court of Arbitration at 1st Hague Peace Conference in 1899. 1911 with Alfred Fried
1838-1914 - Edwin Ginn - Rich textbook publisher. Established World Peace Foundation in 1910. Rival of Andrew Carnegie.
1838-1927 - Victoria Chaflin Woodull - Suffragist. Colorful & notorious symbol for women's rights. Exposed Henry Ward Beecher (qv).

1839-1897 - Henry George - Economist & "single tax" theorist. Inspired communities lke Arden, Delaware, & Fairhope, Alabama.
1839-1903 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos - Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, lawyer, sociologist & independence advocate. Known as "Citizen of the Americas."

1841-1932 - Ferdinand Buisson - Academic, pacifist & Socialist. Directed Human Rights League 1914-1926. 1927 with Ludwig Quidde

1842-1910 - Wlliam James - Psychologist & philosopher. Wrote about education, religious experience, mysticism & pragmatism.
1842-1932 - Anna Elizabeth Dickinson - Orator, abolitionist & suffragist. First woman to speak before the US Congress.

1843-1914 - Baroness Bertha von Suttner - Radical pacifist. First woman to receive Nobel Peace Prize. Wrote "Lay Down Your Arms!" in 1889. 1905
1843-1914 - Albert Gobat - First secretary general of Interparliamentary Union. 1902 with Élie Ducommun
1843-1918 - Louis Renault - Jurist & educator. Famous ionternational arbitrator. 1907 with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta.
1843-1918 - Jenkin Lloyd Jones - Organized 1st Parliament of the World's Religions (Chicago 1893) & Abraham Lincoln Centre (1905).

1844-1916 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson - Author, politician & pacifist. First head of Swedish Peace & Arbitration Society in 1883. 1908 w/Fredric Bajer

1845-1927 - William O. McDowell - Financeer. Founded SAR in 1889. Initiated Columbian Liberty Bell in 1893. Nobel Peace Prize nominee in 1913.
1845-1937 - Senator Elihu Root - President of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1910-1925. 1912

1846-1919 - Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis - Lutheran preacher who lost his faith, then started a political fight for workers. First socialist in Dutch parliament. P

1847-1898 - Christoph Moritz von Egidy - Prussian officer, pacifist, Christian reformer & moral philosopher. Wrote "I Have Dared It." Memorial in Potsdam. P
1847-1916 - Benjamin Franklin Trueblood - Gen. Sec. of American Peace Society 1892-1915. Wrote The Federation of the World in 1899.
1847-1919 - Anna Howard Shaw - Physician. Leader of suffrage movement & League to Enforce Peace. First female Methodist minister in USA.
1847-1929 - Dame Milicent Fawcett - Suffragist & early feminist. Worked with Emily Hobhouse (qv).
1847-1934 - Kate Sheppard - Most prominent member of suffrage movement in New Zealand (first country to introduce universal suffrage).

1848-1887 - Albert Parsons - Labor leader. Hanged after the Haymarket Riot (Chicago 1886). Husband of Lucy González Parsons (qv).

1849-1912 - William Thomas Stead - Journalist. Same peace monument in London (Victoria Embankment) & New York City (Central Park).

1850-1924 - Samuel Gompers - Cigar maker. Founded American Federation of Labor (AFofL) & its president 1886-1894 & 1895-1924.

1851-1925 - Léon Bourgeois - Statesman. President of the Council of the League of Nations after WW-I. 1920
1851-1926 - Lizzie Crozier French - Suffragist in Tennessee (last state to ratify 19th Amendment in 1920). See Tennessee monuments.
1851-1931 - David Starr Jordan - President of Indiana Univ., Stanford Univ., World Peace Foundation & World Peace Conf. Eugenicist.
1852-1924 - Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant - Diplomat & politician. Advocate of international arbitration. 1909
1853-1942 - Lucy González Parsons - Labor leader. Probably born a slave. Outlived husband Albert Parsons (qv) by 55 years.

1854-1929 - Aletta Jacobs - Organized Women's Peace Congress in 1915. Helped found Women's Intl. League for Peace & Freedom.
1854-1943 - Henri La Fontaine - Intl. lawyer. President of Intl. Peace Bureau 1907-1943. Received Nobel Peace Prize. 1913

1855-1926 - Eugene V. Debs - Socialist. Repeated presidential candidate. Co-founded Industrial Workers of the World.
1855-1944 - Fannie Barrier Williams - Addressed Parliament of the World's Religions in 1893 about the "Colored Race."
1855-1947 - Richard Robert Wright - Army officer, college pres, banker & civil rights advocate. Born a slave. Created National Freedom Day.

1856-1915 - Keir Hardie - A primary founder of the Independent Labour Party as well as the Labour Party.
1856-1924 - Woodrow Wilson - US President 1913-21. Helped found the League of Nations in 1919. 1919
1856-1937 - Frank Billings Kellogg - US Secretary of State 1925-29. Co-authored Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1928. 1929
1856-1940 - Harriot Stanton Blatch - Suffragist. Daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
1856-1963 - Arthur Judson Brown - Presbyterian clergyman, missionary & prolific author. Attended world conferences in 1910 & 1925.

1857-1892 - Ueki Emori - Part of Freedom & People's Rights Movement. Honored at Kyoto Museum for World Peace.
1857-1930 - William Howard Taft - US President 1909-13. Founded League to Enforce Peace & wrote "The US & Peace" in 1914.
1857-1935 - Frank A.Miller - Founded Mission Inn in Riverside, California, & World Affairs Council of Inland Southern California.
1857-1938 - Clarence Darrow - Lawyer. Leader of American Civil Liberties Union. Defended Leopold & Loeb in 1924 & John Scopes in 1925.
1857-1941 - Robert Baden-Powell - Army officer. Founded the Scout Movement in 1907.
1857-1942 - Charles M. Sheldon - Congregational minister. Leader of Social Gospel Movement. Introduced "What Would Jesus Do?" (WWJD).

1858-1919 - Theodore Roosevelt -- US president 1901-09. Received Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating end to Russo-Japanese War. 1906
1858-1919 - Rachel Foster Avery - Suffragist. Organized the International Council of Women in 1888.
1858-1928 - Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst - Suffragist. "One of 100 Most Important People of 20th Century." Mother of Christabel, Sylvia & Adele (qv).
1858-1941 - Ludwig Quidde - Pacifist. Opposed German militarism from Emperor Wilhelm II to Hitler. P 1927 with Ferdnand Buisson
1858-1942 - George Mathias Paraf-Javai - Intransigent individualist. Founded Ligue Antimilitariste. Wrote "Les faux droits de l'homme et les vrais" in 1907. P
1858-1943 - Beatrice Webb - Economist & social reformer. Co-founded London School of Economics. Coined "collective bargaining." Wife of Sidney Webb (qv).

1859-1940 - George Lansbury - Socialist politician. Called "Public Pacifist Number One." P
1859-1947 - Sidney Webb - Socialist, economist & reformer. With George Bernard Shaw made the Fabian Society pre-eminent. Husband of Beatrice Webb (qv).
1859-1947 - Carrie Chapman Catt - Suffragist & peace activist. Founded League of Women Voters & International Alliance of Women.
1859-1952 - John Dewey - Philosopher, psychologist, educational reformer & atheist. Influenced education & social reform.

1859-1914 - Jean Jaures - Socialist. Assassinated at outbreak of World War-I. P
1859-1940 - George Lansbury - Politician, socialist, Christian pacifist & newspaper editor. P

1860-1925 - Hjalmar Branting - See Branting Monument in Stockholm (Sweden). 1921 with Christian Lange
1860-1926 - Emily Hobhouse - See below. Sister of Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse. Worked with Dame Milicent Fawcett.
1860-1935 - Jane Addams - Pioneer settlement worker. Founded Hull House & WILPF. 1931 with Nicholas Murray Butler
1860-1935 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Sociologist, writer, utopian feminist & advocate of euthanasia. "Chose chloroform over cancer" for herself.
1860-1945 - Sidney Gulick - Missionary. Caused US & Japan to exchange dolls. Click here for Japanese-American monuments.

1861-1925 - Rudolf Steiner - Philosopher, social thinker, architect & esotericist. Created Anthroposophy & Waldorf education.
1861-1930 - Fridtjof Nansen - Click here for monuments related to the Nobel Peace Prize. 1922

1862-1931 - Ida Bell Wells-Barnett - Journalist, newspaper editor & early leader of civil rights movement. A founder of the NAACP in 1909.
1862-1932 - Aristide Briand - Co-authored the Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1928. 1926 with Gustav Stresemann
1862-1947 - Nicholas Murray Butler - Diplomat & educator. President Carnegie Endowment for Intl Peace. 1931 with Jane Addams
1862-1955 - Zonia Baber - Wrote "Peace Symbols" about peace monuments for the WILPF.
1862-1951 - Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor - Labor organizer & long-time activist in the socialist & communist movements.

1863-1902 - Swami Vivekananda - Introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions at Chicago (USA) in 1893.
1863-1927 - Shiga Shigetaka - Widely traveled geographer & internationalist. Popularized the Japanese landscape.
1863-1935 - Arthur Henderson - Held many politcal offices. Chaired the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1932-34. 1934
1863-1937 - Sir Austen Chamberlain - Architect of Locarno Treaties to preserve peace after WW-I. 1925 with Charles G. Dawes
1863-1937 - Pierre de Coubertin - Pedagogue & historian. Founded International Olympic Committee. Father of modern Olympic Games.
1863-1944 - Victor Basch - Professor & Zionist. President of Ligue des droits de l'homme 1926-1944.
1863-1947 - Mary Emma Woolley - Peace activist & suffragist. First female student at Brown Univ. Pres of Mount Holyoke College.
1863-1947 - Henry Ford - Famous industrialist. Chartered "Peace Ship" (Dec. 1915-Jan. 1916) to end World War I.
1863-1952 - George Santayama - Writer. Best known for "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

1864-1921 - Émile Arnaud - Lawyer, notary & writer. Proposed the term "pacifism' in 1901 to summarize the peace movement in general. P
1864-1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried - Pacifist, publicist & journalist. Co-founded German peace movement. P 1911 with Tobias Asser
1864-1929 - Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse. Liberal politician. Brother of Emily Hobhouse (qv).
1864-1958 - Robert Cecil - Lawyer, politician & diplomat. Architects of the League of Nations in 1919. 1937

1865-1915 - Edith Cavell - Nurse. Executed in Belgium for allowing German prisoners to escape.
1865-1931 - Othilie Tonning - Social activist. Oslo town councillor. Her work in slums led to 70 institutions managed by the Salvation Army.
1865-1945 - Monsignor John A. Ryan - Catholic theologian. Promoted "social justice".
1865-1951 - Charles G. Dawes. See Dawes house in Evanston, Illinois (USA). 1925 with Sir Austen Chamberlain
1865-1955 - John Raleigh Mott - Leader of YMCA & World Student Christian Federation. CPU in 1914. 1946 with Emily Greene Balch
1865-1959 - Laurence Housman - "Grand Old Man" of pacifist movement. Opened Housmans Bookshop in 1945. P

1866-1931 - Nathan Soderblom - Archbishop of Uppsala. Hosted Universal Christian Conference on Life & Work in 1925. 1930
1866-1944 - Romain Rolland - Dramatist, novelist, essayist & mystic. Received Nobel Prize for Literature. P 1915
1866-1957 - James P. Warbasse - Surgeon. Founded & directed the Cooperative League of the USA 1916-1941. 1955

1867-1945 - Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz - Painter & sculptor of the victims of poverty, hunger & war.
1867-1954 - William Pierson Merrill - Presbyterian minister. First president of Church Peace Union in 1914.
1867-1961 - Emily Greene Balch - Academic, writer & pacifist. P 1946 with John Raleigh Mott

1868-1942 - Paul Percy Harris - Attorney. Founded Rotary International in 1905. Planted Friendship Trees in nearly 50 cities worldwide.
1868-1944 - Paul Otlet - Author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer & peace activist. "Father of information science." Wrote "La Fin de la Guerre" in 1914.
1868-1947 - Anna B. Eckstein - Teacher & pacifist. Sponsored by Edwin Ginn (qv). Attended many peace conferences. Born & died in Germany. P
1868-1951 - Émile-Auguste Chartier (Alain) - Philosopher, journalist & pacifist. P
1868-1960 - C. Judson Herrick - Biologist & humanist. 1956
1868-1963 - W.E.B. DuBois - Civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author & editor.

1869-1938 - Christian Lange - Historian & political scientist. Foremost exponent of internationalism. 1921 with Hjalmar Branting
1869-1940 - Emma Goldman - Anarchist. Created "Mother Earth" magazaine in 1906.
1869-1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Leader of Indian independence movement. Pioneer of satyagraha. P Posthumous
1869-1970 - Alice Hamilton - Peace activist & first woman on faculty of Harvard Medical School.

1870-1926 - Hendrik Coenraad Dresselhuys - Politician. Chaired Nederlandsche Anti-Oorlog Raad (NAOR) & tried to stop WW-I.
1870-1952 - Maria Montessori - Created the Montessori system of education.
1870-1957 - Arthur F. Bentley - Political scientist & philosopher. Contributed to the development of a behavioral methodology of political science. 1954

1871-1944 - Tsunesaburo Makiguchi - Educator. Founded Soka Gakkai in 1930. Opposed Japanese militarism in WW-II. P
1871-1955 - Cordell Hull - Longest serving US Secretary of State. "Father of the United Nations." 1945

1872-1950 - Leon Blum - Socialist theoretician. Three times prime minister of France.
1872-1951 - Hamilton Holt - Editor. CPU & LEP in 1914. President of Rollins College. Built anti-war monument on campus in 1938.
1872-1967 - Sir Norman Angell - Helped found Union of Democratic Control in 1914. 1933
1872-1970 - Bertrand Russell - Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian & social critic. P 1950

1873-1945 - Alfred Salter - Doctor & Labour MP. Opposed RAF bombing. Wrote "The Religion of a CO." Statue on bench in Bermondsey. CO

1874-1940 - Lewis Wickes Hine - Sociologist. Used camera as a tool for social reform. Helped change US child labor laws.
1874-1942 - Shaver Woodsworth - Methodist minister. Pacifist. Pioneer in the Canadian social democratic movement. P
1874-1947 - Nicholas Roerich - Artist, mystic, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler & public figure. Created Banner of Peace. 1935
1874-1964 - Herbert Hoover - Mining engineer. Chaired Commission for Relief in Belgium 1914-19. Fought Flood of 1927. US president 1929-33.

1875-1908 - Albert Libertad - Individualist anarchist militant & writer. Edited the influential anarchist publication l’Anarchie. P
1875-1944 - Lola Maverick Lloyd - Friend of Rosika Schwimmer (qv). Mother of Georgia Lloyd (qv).
1875-1955 - Mary McLeod Bethune - Educator & civil rights leader. Started what became Bethune-Cookman Univ. Advised FDR.
1875-1955 - Thomas Mann - Novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist & essayist. 1929
1875-1956 - Anton J. Carlson - Physiologist. 1953
1875-1965 - Albert Schweitzer - Theologian, organist & physician. Missionary in Africa. Promoted "Reverance for Life." 1952

1876-1928 - Eglantyne Jebb - Social reformer. Founded Save the Children in 1919.
1876-1956 - Maude Royden. Founded the Society for the Ministry of Women.
1876-1958 - Mary Ritter Beard - Historian & suffragist. Friend of Rosika Schwimmer (qv).

1877-1933 - Henry Hodgkin - Co-founded FOR (England) in 1914. First director of Pendle Hill (USA) in 1930.
1877-1948 - Kate Richards O'Hare - Socialist. Anti-war activist during World War I.
1877-1948 - Rosika Schwimmer - World federalistst. Born in Hungary and lived in USA but became stateless.
1877-1949 - Peter Maurin. Co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Dorothy Day (qv).
1877-1964 - Jeanne Melin - Pacifist. Worked for peace & women's rights. "Conferenciere remarquable, organisatrice infatigable." P
1877-1968 - Oscar Riddle - Biologist. Devout atheist. Convinced that religion is a serious threat to scientific advancement. 1958

1878-1916 - Francis Sheehy-Skeffington - Suffragist, pacifist & writer. Click here for monuments in Ireland. P
1878-1919 - Charles John Cobb - Conscientious objector. Imprisoned five times between 1916 & 1919. CO
1878-1929 - Gustav Stresemann - Liberal politician. Chancellor & Foreign Minister during Weimar Republic. 1926 with Aristide Briand
1878-1929 - Kästle, Klaus (20xx & ongoing), One World - Nations Online.
1878-1942 - Janusz Korczak - Doctor & educator. Acccompanied Jewish orphans to Treblinka where he was murdered.
1878-1959 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas - Academic & politician. First Latin American to receive Nobel Peace Prize. 1936
1878-1965 - Martin Buber - Philosopher. Best known for the I-Thou & I-It distinctions. Moved to Israel.
1878-1968 - Upton Sinclair - Author & "muckraker." Wrote "The Jungle" in 1906..
1878-1975 - Arthur Ernest Morgan - Civil engineer. Headed Antioch College 1920-36, TVA 1933-38 & intentional communities 1948. P

1879-1945 - Pierre Creesole - Founded Service Civil International in 1920.
1879-1954 - Leon Jouhaux - Trade union leader. 1951
1879-1955 - Albert Einsten - Physicist. Opposed WW-I. Did peace work in 1930s. Issued Russell-Einstein Manifesto in 1955. P 1921
1879-1958 - Lionel Charlton - Air Commodore in RAF. Objected to bombing of Iraqi villages in 1923. CO
1879-1964 - John Haynes Holmes - Minister & social activist. Declared Gandhi "The Greatest Man in the World" in April 1921. 1961
1879-1966 - Margaret Sanger - Suffrigist. Coined "birth control" in 1914. Founded American Birth Control League in 1921. 1957

1880-1937 - Richard (Dick) Shepard - Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Committed pacifist. Helped found Peace Pledge Union in 1934. P
1880-1958 - Christabel Pankhurst - Daughter of Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst (qv). Suffragist. Buried in California.
1880-1971 - Lord Boyd Orr - Teacher, doctor, biologist & politician. 1st Director-General of UN Food & Agriculture Org. 1949
1880-1973 - Jeannette Rankin - Pacifist. 1st woman in US Congress. Voted against US entry into World Wars I and II. See below. P

1881-1928 - Crystal Eastman - Co-founded Women's Peace Party in 1915 & American Civil Liberties Union in 1920.
1881-1942 - Titus Brandsma - Catholic priest & philosophy professor. "Apostle of Peace." Vehemently opposed Nazi ideology. Killed at Dachau.
1881-1953 - Lewis Fry Richardson - Scientist & pacifist. Used math to improve weather forecasting & to determine the causes of war. P
1881-1963 - Pope John XXIII - Author of the encyclical Pacem in Terris in 1963. 2004

1882-1944 - Arthur Stanley Eddington - Astrophysicist. Conscientious objector during WW-I. Validated Einstein's Theory of Relativity. CO
1882-1945 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Also known as FDR. 32nd President of USA 1933–1945. Husband of Eleanor Roosevelt (qv).
1882-1950 - John Rabe - Businessman. Tried to stop Japanese atrocities during the Nanking Massacre. "The Good Nazi."
1882-1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst - Daughter of Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst (qv). Suffragist. Communist, then devoted to anti-fascism. Buried in Ethiopia.
1882-1967 - Greenville Clark - Wrote "World Peace Through World Law" in 1958 with Louis B. Sohn.
1882-1973 - Jacques Maritain - Catholic philosopher. A drafter of Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Friend of Saul Alinsky (qv).

1883-1931 - Kahlil Gibran - Artist, poet & philospoher. Wrote The Prophet in 1923.
1883-1938 - Bartholomeus (Bart) de Ligt - Click here for monuments in the Netherlands.
1883-1958 - Bishop George Bell - Theologian, ecumentalist & Member House of Lords. Condemned aerial bombing in WW-II.
1883-1979 - Cyrus S. Eaton. Investment banker. Founded the Pugwash Conferences which received the Nobel Peace Prize. 1995
1883-1983 - Scott Nearing - Husband of Helen Knothe Nearing with whom he co-authored "Living the Good Life" in 1954.

1884-1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt - Wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (qv). 1960
1884-1965 - Clarence E. Pickett - Directed AFSC which received Nobel Peace Prize. Click here. . 1947
1884-1966 - Kees Boeke - Helped start FOR, SCI & WRI at his home in Bilthoven. Wrote "Cosmic View" in 1957.
1884-1968 - Norman Thomas - Six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. 1967

1885-1961 - Adele Pankhurst - Daughter of Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst (qv). Suffragist. Communist. Buried in Australia.
1885-1962 - Charles Francis Potter - Advocate of women’s rights, birth control, civil divorce laws, humanism, euthansia & end to capital punishment.
1885-1967 - A. J. Muste - Clergyman & political activist. Worked in labor, pacifist & civil rights movements. P 1966
1885-1968 - Muriel Lester - Operated Kingsley Hall in London (where Gandhi stayed in 1931).
1885-1969 - Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze - Co-founded Fellowship of Reconciliation with Henry Hodgkin in 1914.
1885-1974 - Richard Gregg - Philosopher of nonviolence. Lived with Scott & Helen Nearing. Influenced MLK, Aldous Huxley, Bayard Rustin & Robert Swann. P
1885-1985 - Nichidatsu Fujii - Founded the Nipponzan-Myohoji order of Buddhism. Called Guruji by Gandhi. Click here for Peace Pagodas.

1886-1916 - Inez Milholland Boissevain - Suffragist, labor lawyer & opponent of World War I. P
1886-1918 - Randolph Bourne - Public intellectual. Wrote "War is the Health of the State." Died at age 32. See RBI & antiwar.com.
1886-1941 - Minnie Vautrin - Missionary. Saved many women during the Nanking Massacre in 1937-38. Suicide in Indianapolis.
1886-1954 - Ellen Starr Brinton - Feminist & internationalist. First curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection (USA).
1886-1965 - Paul Tillich - Theologian & existentialist philosopher. Wrote Courage to Be in 1952 & Systematic Theology in 1951–63.
1886-1967 - Radhabinod Pal - Only dissenter on Japanese war crimes tribunal in 1946. Honored at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.
1886-1977 - Ralph Borsodi - Decentralist & communitarian. Wrote "This Ugly Civilization" in 1929. Founded School of Living.

1887-1944 - Max Josef Metzger - Priest. Established the German Catholics’ Peace Assn. in 1919. Executed by Nazis.
1887-1967 - Sir Julian Huxley - Evolutionary biologist. Sec Zoo. Society of London. 1st Director UNESCO. A World Wildlife Fund founder. 1962
1887-1976 - Rene Cassin - Jurist, law prof & judge. Formed pacifist veterans Union Fédérale. Memorial in Forbach (France). P 1968

1888-1942 - Emil Flusser - Pediatrician. His 1932 "War as Illness" (w/forward by Albert Einstein) said war is a physic epidemic.
1888-1976 - Theodore Lentz - Wrote "Towards a Science of Peace" (1955) & "Towards A Technology of Peace" (1972).
1888-1988 - Fenner Brockway - Click here for monuments in England.

1889-1938 - Carl von Ossietzky. Journalist. Exposed Germany's Treaty of Versailles violations. Opposed Hitler. P 1935
1889-1952 - Stafford Cripps - Labour politicial & ambassador. Opposed appeasement with Nazi Germany. Negotiated with Gandhi in India. P
1889-1968 - Pitirim Sorokin - Political activist in Russia. Then founded Dept of Sociology at Harvard. Called communism a "pest of man."
1889-1979 - A. Philip Randolph - Civil rights leader. Founded Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Video | Museum 1970
1889-1982 - Philip Noel-Baker - Politician, diplomat & academic. Athlete. Renowned campaigner for disarmament. P 1959

1890-1967 - Herman J. Muller - Geneticist & educator. Frequently warned about radioactive fallout. 1946 1963
1890-1970 - Quincy Wright - Political scientist. Pioneering work in intl law & intl relations. Wrote "A study of war" in 1942.
1890-1988 - Khan Addul Ghaffar Khan - Pashtun political & spiritual leader. Lifelong pacifist. Opposed British Rule in India. P

1891-1939 - Mark Gurtler - Artist. Became consciencious objector & painted anti-war "Merry Go Round" in 1916. CO
1891-1942 - Edith Stein - German-Jewish philosopher, nun, martyr & saint of the RC Church. Holocaust victim.
1891-1949 - Damaskinos Papandreou - Archbishop of Athens. Only senior churchman in Nazi occupied Europe to condemn Holocaust.
1891-1950 - José Brocca - Pacifist & humanitarian. Sought non-violent ways to resist fascism during the Spanish Civil War. P
1891-1960 - Zora Neale Hurston - Folklorist & novelist. Worked in NY, Florida, Jamaica & Honduras. Politically conservative.
1891-1971 - Reinhold Neibur - Theologian & commentator on public affairs. Archetypal intellectual of the Cold War era.

1892-1973 - Pearl S. Buck - Writer. Lived in China until 1934. Her novel The Good Earth won Pulitzer Prize in 1932. 1938
1892-1982 - Archibald MacLeish - Poet & author. Wrote "The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak" about 1941.
1892-1984 - Martin Niemöller - Anti-Nazi theologian & Lutheran pastor. Wrote "First they came for the.." in 1946.
1892-1986 - Herbert W. Armstrong - Radio evangelist. Preached British Israelism. "Ambassador without portfolio for world peace."

1893-1918 - Wilfred Owen - Soldier. Leading poet of WW-I. Wrote on horrors of trenches & gas warfare. See below.
1893-1970 - Vera Brittain - Writer, feminist & pacifist. Wrote Testament of Youth in 1933. P
1893-1971 - Dan West - Brethren founder of the Heifer Project.
1893-1988 - Spurgeon Milton Keeny - Directed UNICEF & family planning in Asia. UN relief in Italy & Russia. YMCA in Siberia, Estonia & Poland.

1894-1943 - Maria Restituta Kafka - Nun & nurse. Beheaded by Nazis. .
1894-1967 - Ernest Friedrich - Created Anti-War Museum, Berlin (Germany), in 1925.
1894-1977 - Pierre-Marie Theas - Resisted Nazi occupation. First Bishop President of Pax Christi in 1945.

1895-1961 - John T. Neufeld - CO sentenced to 15 years hard labor at Fort Lavenworth. Paroled to do dairy work & released after 5 months. Mennonite pastor. CO
1895-1967 - Gladdys Muir - Brethern. Founded world's first peace studies program at Manchester College, Indiana, leading to many others.
1895-1982 - Vinova Bhave - Advocate of nonviolence & human rights. Considered to be spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi.
1895-1983 - R. Buckminster Fuller - Systems theorist, author, designer & futurist. Second president of Mensa. Invented the geodesic dome. 1969
1895-1986 - Jiddu Krishnamurti - Writer & speaker on philosophical & spiritual issues.
1895-2001 - Floyd Schmoe - Peace activist. Built houses in Hiroshima (1949-52) & Sadako Sasaki Peace Park in Seattle (1990). See Aki Kurose. P

1896-1971 - George Brock Chisholm - Medical practitioner. First Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO). Advocated religious tolerance. 1959
1896-1978 - Truus Wijsmuller-Meijer - War hero & resistance fighter. Probably 2nd greatest savior of Jews (after Raoul Wallenberg).
1896-1980 - Gaston Bouthoul - Sociologue français spécialiste du phénomčne de la guerre.
1896-1984 - Ralph T. Templin - Acquainted with Gandhi in India & with Ralph Borsodi in USA (New York state).

1897-1944 - Jane Haining - Missionary. Cared for Jewish children in Budapest. Killed at Auschwitz. One of only 10 Holocaust victims from Scotland.
1897-1957 - Shoghi Effendi - Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith. Developed the Bahá'í World Centre in Haifa (Israel). P
1897-1972 - Lester Bowles Pearson - Organized UN Emergency Force to resolve Suez Canal Crisis. Only Canadian recipient of Nobel Peace Prize. 1957
1897-1980 - Dorothy Day - Journalist & social activist. Co-founded Catholic Worker Movement with Peter Maurin (qv). 1975
1897-1993 - Marian Anderson - Celebrated Contralto. Sang at Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after DAR refused use of Constitution Hall.

1898-1940 - Hermann Stöhr - Pacifist & anti-Nazi resistance fighter. P
1898-1964 - Leó Szilárd - Atomic scientist. Drafted Einstein letter warning President Truman about German A-bomb in 1939. 1960
1898-1967 - Chief Albert Lutuli - Anti-apartheid movement (South Africa). 1960
1898-1970 - Erich Maria Remarque - Wrote anti-war "All Quiet on the Western Front" in 1929 & Three Comrades in 1936.
1898-1976 - Paul Robeson - Athelete, concert singer & actor. Social justice activist. Recd Stalin Peace Prize in 1952.
1898-1990 - Hugo Enomiya Lassalle - Built Memorial Cathedral for World Peace in Hiroshima in 1954.
1898-1993 - Edwin H. Wilson - Unitarian minister. Helped write both the Humanist Manifesto I of 1933 & the Humanist Manifesto II of 1973. 1979

1899-1977 - Alice Franklin Bryant - Peace activist, world traveler, prolific writer & lecturer. Inturned in Phlipppines during WW-II.
1899-1981 - Howard Thurman - Theologian & civil rights leader. Dean of Theology & chapels at Howard & Boston Univs. Taught MLK, Jr.
1899-1982 - Friedrich Hayek - Economist & philosopher. Defended classical liberalism & free-market capitalism. 1974 with Gunnar Myrdal

1900-1940 - Rudolf Redlinghofer - Jehovah's Witness draft resister. Executed in Plötzenseeas Prison. Rehabilited in 1998.
1900-1958 - Josei Toda - 2nd president of Soka Gakkai. See Tsunesaburo Makiguchi.
1900-1959 - Raphael Lemkin - Lawyer. Proposed defending peace through criminal law. Coined the word genocide in 1944.
1900-1965 - Adlai Stevenson - US representative to UN. Two-time Democratic candidate for president of the US.
1900-1980 - Erich Fromm - Humanistic philosopher & democratic socialist. Wrote "The Fear of Freedom" in 1941. 1966
1900-1982 - Hudson Hoagland - Neuroendocrinologist. Helped form the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in 1944. 1965
1900-1986 - Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara - Japanese vice consul in Vilnius (Lithuania) during WW-II. Saved several 1,000 Jews.
1900-1992 - Mildred Jansen Loomis - Decentralist. Successor to Ralph Borsodi (qv). Operated School of Living (SOL) in OH, MD & PA.

1901-1975 - Eisaku Sato. PM 1964-72. Persuaded US to return Okinawa. Only Japanese to receive Nobel Peace Prize. 1974 with Sean MacBride
1901-1978 - Margaret Mead - Cultural anthropologist. Featured writer & speaker. Wrote "Coming of Age in Samoa" in 1928.
1901-1982 - René Jules Dubos - French-born microbiologist. Pulitzer Prize for "So Human An Animal." Said "Think globally, act locally."
1901-1990 - Fritz Eichenberg - Illustrator. His work concerned religion, social justice & nonviolence.
1901-1994 - Linus Pauling - Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author & educator. Recd 2 Nobel Prizes. 1954 1961 1962 1962

1902-1967 - Langston Hughes - Poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, & columnist. Best known for work during Harlem Renaissance.
1902-1979 - Jayaprakash (JP) Narayan - Gandhian independence activist & political leader. Led opposition to Indira Gandhi.
1902-1986 - Alva Myrdal - Supported disarmament. Wife of Gunner Myrdal. 1982 with Alfonso Garcia Robles 1988 Posthumous
1902-1987 - Carl Rogers - Psychologist. A founder of the humanistic approach to psychology & of psychotherapy research 1964
1902-1988 - Edita Toll Morris - Peace activist. Wrote "The Flowers of Hiroshima" in 1959.
1902-1990 - Elizabeth Evans Baker - Subject of "Peace is Everybody's Business" by Marta Daniels (1999).
1902-1995 - Corliss Lamont - Socialist philosopher. Advocate of various left-wing & civil liberties causes. Chaired National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. 1977
1902-1998 - Bert Bissell - Mountain climber & peace campaigner. Created Peace Cairn on Ben Nevis in Scotland on VJ-Day 1945.
1902-1999 - Tomin Harada - Medical doctor & peace activist. Led the "Hiroshima Maidens" to USA in 1955.

1903-1971 - Ralph Bunche - Political scientist & diplomat. Mediated in Palestine. First person of color to receive Nobel Prize. 1950 1963
1903-1988 - Hiram Bingham IV - US Vice Consul in Marseille (France). Helped >2,500 Jews flee as Nazi forces advanced.
1903-1988 - Benjamin Spock - Pediatrician. Wrote "Baby & Child Care" in 1946. 1968
1903-1991 - Lester A. Kirkendall - Sociologist. Pioneer of sex education. Drafted American Humanist Association's "Bill of Sexual Rights & Responsibilities." 1983
1903-1994 - Yeshayahu Leibowitz - MD & polymath. For separation of religion & state. Said occupation would cause Israel's moral stature to decline.

1904-1961 - Marcel Junod - Field delegate of International Committee of the Red Cross. See monument in Hiroshima.
1904-1967 - John Courtney Murray - Jesuit priest & theologian. Helped draft & promote "Declaration on World Peace" in 1943. CO
1904-1980 - Hans Morgenthau - Academic critic of US foreign policy. Wrote Politics Among Nations: Struggle for Power & Peace in 1948.
1904-1988 - Sean MacBride President of Intrnational Peace Bureau 1974-1985. 1974 with Eisaku Sato
1904-1990 - B. F. Skinner - Behaviorist, author, inventor, social philosopher & poet. "Most influential psychologist of the 20th century." 1972
1904-1993 - William Shirer - Journalist, war correspondent & historian. Wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" in October 1960.
1904-1995 - Helen Knothe Nearing. Wife of Scott Nearing with whom she co-authored "Living the Good Life" in 1954.
1904-1998 - Mary Calderone - Physician. Advocate for sexual education. Medical director of Planned Parenthood. 1974 w/Joseph Fletcher
1904-2005 - George F. Kennan - "Dove" in US government. Received Albert Einstein Peace Prize. 1981.

1905-1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld - UN Secretary General 1953-1961. Click here for UN monuments. 1961
1905-1967 - Charles Coward - Soldier captured during WW-II. Rescued Jews. Smuggled himself into Auschwitz. Testified at Nuremberg trial.
1905-1968 - Shinzo Hamai - Mayor of Hiroshima 1947-1955 & 1959-1967. Created Hiroshima's image as a city of peace.
1905-1972 - Chiyoji Nakagawa - Mayor of Uwajima (Shikoku Island). Gave Japanese Peace Bell to United Nations in 1954.
1905-1976 - Dalton Trumbo - One of the Hollywood Ten. See below.
1905-1982 - Canon John Collins - Anglican clergyman. Helped found Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1957.
1905-1990 - Myles Horton - Founded Highlander Research & Education Center in 1932. Husband of Zilphia Horton (qv).
1905-1991 - Joseph Fletcher - Bioethicist involved with abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, eugenics & cloning. Founded "situational ethics." 1974 w/Mary Calderone
1905-1995 - Senator J. William Fulbright - US senator 1945-1974. Staunch multilateralist. Created Fulbright scholarships in 1946. 1993
1905-1995 - Margaret E. Kuhn - Activist. Founded the Gray Panthers in 1970 to work for rights & welfare of the elderly. 1978
1905-1997 - Viktor E. Frankl - Neurologist & psychiatrist. Holocaust survivor. Founded logotherapy. See "Statue of Responsibility."
1905-1999 - Ashley Montagu - Anthropologist & humanist. Popularized topics such as race & gender & their relation to politics & development. 1995

1906-1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Theologian & pacifist. Lived 2x in NY City & 1x in London. Nazi resister & Holocaust victim. P
1906-1975 - Hannah Arendt - "Political theorist." Wrote "The Origins of Totalitarianism" in 1951.
1906-1984 - Hilda Murrell - Rose grower. Campaigned against nuclear energy & weapons. Murdered mysteriously.
1906-1985 - Bert Röling - Helped found International Peace Research Association in 1964.
1906-1993 - Albert Bigelow. Freedom rider in 1961. Click here for peace monuments related to boats.
1906-1999 - Nikkyo Niwano - Helped found Rissho Kosei Kai Buddhist order in 1938.
1906-2005 - Hans Bethe - Manhattan Project physicist. For Partial Test Ban Treaty & peaceful use of nuclear energy. 1967 1992
1906-Alive - Edgar Wayburn - Environmentalist. Five time president of the Sierra Club. 1995

1907-1943 - Franz Jägerstätter - Nazis executed. RC Church beatified in 2007. Monuments in Austria, Germany & Philadephia. CO
1907-1944 - Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg - Army officer. Central figure of Resistance movement within the Wehrmacht.
1907-1964 - Rachel Carson - Marine biologist & nature writer. Wrote "The Sea Around Us" in 1951 & "Silent Spring" in 1962.
1907-1972 - Abraham Joshua Heschel - Rabbi & widely read Jewish conservative theologian. Marched with MLK in Selma in 1965.
1907-1989 - I. F. Stone - Investigative journalist. Best remembered for his self-published newsletter, I. F. Stone's Weekly.
1907-1990 - William R. Huntington. Click here for peace monuments related to boats.
1907-1995 - U Nu - Burma Prime Minister 1948-56, 1957-58 & 1960-62. Built Kaba Aye/World Peace Pagoda in 1952.
1907-2007 - Ralph K.White Wrote "Fearful Warriors: A Psychological Profile of U.S.-Soviet Relations" in 1984.

1908-1951 - Takashi Nagai - Doctor & writer. Survivor of the Nagasaki A-bomb. "Saint of Urakami."
1908-19?? - Lawrence Scott - "Radical Quaker." Co-founded CNVA in 1957, AQAG in 1966 & MNS in 1971.
1908-1970 - Abraham H. Maslow - Professor of psychology. Created "Maslow's hierarchy of needs." 1967
1908-1974 - Oskar Schindler - Industrialist credited with saving over 1,100 Jews. Subject of the film "Schindler's List."
1908-1981 - Peace Pilgrim (Mildred Lisette Norman) - Pacifist, vegetarian & peace activist. Walked 28 years for peace. P Posthumous
1908-1983 - Jean Lasserre - Peace theologian. Felowship of Reconciliation. Wrote "War & the Gospel." Influenced Bonhoeffer (qv).
1908-1986 - Dana McLean Greeley - 1st pres. of UUA 1961. Helped found World Conf. of Religions for Peace in 1970.
1908-1993 - Tadeusz Pankiewicz - Rescued Jews in Krakow. One of 6,125 Polish "Righteous Among the Nations."
1908-2003 - Edward Schempp - Sued in 1963 to end prayer in public schools. Father of Ellery Schempp.
1908-2005 - Joseph Rotblat - Manhattan Project scientist. SecGen of Pugwash Confs 1957-1973. See video. 1992 P 1995
1908-2005 - Simon Wiesenthal - "Nazi hunter" in Linz & Vienna. Click here for peace monuments related to the Holocaust.
1908-2006 - John Kenneth Galbraith - Keynesian economist. public intellectural. Author & bureaucrat. US ambassador to India. 1985

1909-1943 - Simone Weil - Philosopher, Christian mystic & social activist. P
1909-1944 - Adam von Trott zu Solz - Lawyer & diplomat. Played central role July 20 Plot against Hitler . Plaque in Postdam. 1909-1972 - Saul Alinsky - Founded modern community organizing. "One of the great leaders of the nonsocialist left."
1909-1990 - Lotta Hitschmanova - Journalist. Wanted by Nazis. Founded Unitarian Service Committee of Canada.
1909-1997 - Virginia d'Albert-Lake - Hero of the French Resistance. Freed from Ravensbrück concentration camp.
1909-2002 - Marion Gräfin Dönhoff - Journalist & intellectual. Member of anti-Nazi resistance.
1909-Alive - Milton Rogovin - Photographer. Father of Mark Rogovin (qv).

1910-1939 - August Dickmann - First conscientious objector executed by the Nazis in Germany during WW-II. CO
1910-1956 - Zilphia Horton - Civil rights activist & folklorist. Wife of Myles Horton (qv).
1910-1969 - Father Georges Pire - Helped Displaced Persons. Founded L'Université de Paix in 1960. 1958
1910-1991 - Alfred Hassler - Executive Director, Fellowship of Reconcilation. P
1910-1993 - Glenn Smiley - Methodist minister & civil right activist. Field secretary for Fellowship of Reconciliation.
1910-1993 - Kenneth E. Boulding - Educator, peace activist & cofounder of General Systems Theory. Husband of Elise M. Boulding.
1910-1993 - Leo Pfeffer - Scholar, humanist & lawyer. Supported religious freedom in the USA. 1988
1910-1994 - Dorothy Hodgkin - Chemist. Developed protein crystallography. Presdient 1976-88 of Pugwash which received 1995 Nobel Peace Prize.
1910-1997 - Mother Teresa - Albanian nun. Founded Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta. Click here for Wikipedia biography. 1979 1985 Year?
1910-1998 - Earle Reynolds - Constructed the "Phoenix of Hiroshima." Husband of Barbard Leonard Reynolds.
1910-2008 - Irena Sendler - Smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto.
1910-2010 - Doris "Granny D" Haddock - Politician & liberal political activist. Walked over 3,200 miles to advocate for campaign finance reform.

19??-Alive - Gerald A. Larue - Professor of religion. Member Academie Intl. d'Humanisme. Wrote "Playing God" & "Freethought Across the Centuries." 1989

1911-1960 - Krishnalal Shridharani - Gandhian. On Salt March in 1930. Wrote "War Without Violence" in 1939. Influenced CORE.
1911-1972 - Paul Goodman - Sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist & public intellectual. Activist on the pacifist left. P
1911-1977 - E. F. (Fritz) Schumacher - Economist & statistician. Wrote "Small is Beautiful" in 1973.
1911-1986 - Robert LeFevre - Libertarian businessman, pacifist & radio personality. Primary theorist of autarchism. P
1911-1990 - Le Duc Tho - Signed Paris Peace Accords in 1973. Declined Nobel Peace Prize. 1973 with Henry Kissinger
1911-1991 - Alfonso Garcia Robles - Diplomat. Caused Treaty of Tlatelolco (nuclear-free zone in Latin America). 1982 with Alva Myrdal
1911-1999 - Mary Morain - Therapist, social reformer & secular humanist. Co-author with her husband of "Humanism As The Next Step." 1994 w/Lloyd Morain
1911-2000 - Gwen Grant Mellon - Co-founded Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Haiti in 1956. 2000
1911-2004 - Czeslaw Milosz - Writer & translator. Wrote The World. Wrote The Captive Mind in 1953. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980.
1911-2007 - Anatol Rapoport - Mathematical psychologist. Contributed to general systems theory & social modeling.
1911-2010 - Lucile Longview - "Liberation feminist, futurist & change agent." UU Women & Religion Resolution in 1977.

1912-1987 - Bayard Rustin - Civil rights movement (USA). See below.
1912-1947 - Raoul Wallenberg - Rescued Jews from the Holocaust in Budapest in 1944. See below.
1912-1969 - Clarence Jordan - Founded Koinonia Farm near Americus, Georgia (USA), in 1942. 2008
1912-1991 - Jean Goss - Evangelical advocate of nonviolence.
1912-1992 - Karl Duetsch - Social & political scientist. Studied war & peace, nationalism, co-operation & communication.
1912-2000 - David Brower - Founded Friends of the Earth & many other environmentalist organizations.
1912-2006 - Vashti McCollum - Atheist or Humanist. Sued to end religious instruction in public schools. Son is John Terry McCollum.
1912-2010 - Dorothy I. Height - African-American civil rights activist. Received Congressional Gold Medal.
1912-2011 - Sayadaw U Thila Wunta - Buddist monk. Constructed Peace Pagodas on all continents. Also click here.

1913-1960 - Albert Camus - Author, journalist & key philosopher of the 20th century. Wrote L'Étranger/The Stranger" in 1942.
1913-1991 - Miriam Levering - Orchardist. See "Citizen Action for Global Change: Neptune Group & Law of the Sea."
1913-1992 - Willy Brandt - Chancellor 1969–1974. Espoused Ostpolitik to improve relations with East Germany, Poland etc. 1971
1913-1992 - Menachem Begin - Led Zionist underground. PM 1977-83. Signed peace treaty w/Egypt. 1978 w/Anwar al-Sadat
1913-1998 - William Denson - US Army lawyer. Proscecuted all Nazi war criminals in US Zone of Occupied Germany.
1913-1999 - Georgia Lloyd Berndt - World Federalist. Daughter of Lola Maverick Lloyd (qv).
1913-2005 - Rosa Parks. Civil rights activist. Sparked the Bus Boycott in Montggomery, Alabama. 1991 1996 Year?
1913-2007 - Albert Ellis - Psychologist. Developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in 1955. 1971
1913-2010 - Michael Foot - Labour Party politician, journalist & author. Led first march by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in 1958.
1913-2010 - Theodore (Ted) Herman - Geography professor. Founded Peace & Conflict Studies Program (P-Con) at Colgate Univ.

1914-1985 - Gerald Holtom - Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Designed the CND peace symbol in 1958.
1914-1993 - James Peck. Click here for peace monuments related to boats.
1914-1995 - Jonas Salk - Medical researcher & virologist. Discovered the first safe & effective polio vaccine. 1976
1914-2000 - Sister Maria Isolina Ferre Aguayo - Nun. Called "Mother Teresa of Puerto Rico." 1989
1914-2004 - Rainer Hildebrandt - Resistance fighter. Founded Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin 1962.
1914-2006 - Harry Mister - Helped run Peace News 1936-71. Managed Housmans Bookshop in London 1945-76.
1914-2006 - Louis B. Sohn - Law Professor. Wrote "World PeaceThrough World Law" in 1958 with Greenville Clark.
1914-2008 - Ralph DiGia - Lifelong pacifist & social justice activist. Staffer at War Resisters League for 52 years. P
1914-2009 - Norman Borlaug - "Father of the Green Revolution." Video | Museum 1970 1977

1914-2010 - George Willoughby. Advocate for world peace. Click here for peace monuments related to boats. CO
1914-2010 - Theodore W. Kheel - Lawyer in New York City. Labor negotiator and arbitrator. Video
1914-2010 - Irwin Abrams. Academic expert on Nobel Peace Prize; click here for article.

1915-1968 - Thomas Merton - Catholic writer, social activist & student of comparative religion.
1915-1990 - Norman Cousins - "Tireless advocate of liberal causes." Subject of 1st US monument in Hiroshima in 2003. 1990
1915-1990 - Barbara Leonard Reynolds - Founded WFC & PRC. Subject of 2nd US monument in Hiroshima in 2011.
1915-2006 - Alvin Weinberg - Manhattan Project scientist. Proposed "Sanctification of Hiroshima" in 1985. Click here for Wikipedia bio.
1915-2011 - Sargent Shriver - Statesman & activist. Founded Peace Corps, Job Corps & Head Start. Architect of War on Poverty. US Amb to France.
1915-Alive - Joseph Abileah - Israel’s first conscientious objector. Biography by Anthony Bing. P CO
1915-Alive - John Burton - Helped found International Peace Research Association in 1964.

1916-1962 - Tom Slick - Texas busnessman. Wrote "Permanent Peace: A Check and Balance Plan" in 1958.
1916-1980 - Masahisa Goi - Philosopher & peace campaigner. Wrote >30 books. Created "May Peace Prevail on Earth" & Peace Poles.
1916-1993 - Homer A. Jack - Secretary General of World Conference of Religions for Peace 1970-1983.
1916-1994 - Hind al-Husseini - Educator & feminist. Rescued 55 orphans of Deir Yassin massacre in 1948. Started orphanage & women's college.
1916-1994 - Takeshi Araki - Mayor of Hiroshima 1975-1991. Founded Mayors for Peace in 1982.
1916-1999 - H. Stuart Hughes - Co-chair of SANE with Dr. Benjamin Spock.
1916-2002 - Stephen G. Cary - American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) administrator. Ran CO camps & European relief. P CO 1947
1916-2006 - Adam Curle - Peace activist. First professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford (England).
1916-Alive - John R. Ewbank - World federalist. Wrote "A History of the World Government Movement" about 2001.

1917-1963 - John F. Kennedy - US senator 1953-1960 & president 1961-1963. Created Peace Corps in 1961.
1917-1977 - Fannie Lou Hamer. Civil rights activist. Democratic delegate. Click here for peace monuments in Alabama (USA).
1917-1980 - Bishop Oscar Romero - "Unofficial patron saint of the Americas & El Salvador."
1917-1984 - Barbara Deming - Writer. Gandhian. Open lesbian. "Created a body of non-violent theory centered on the women's movement."
1917-2010 - Lloyd Morain - Businessman, philanthropist, writer, environmentalist & film producer. Pres of Am Humanist Assn. 1994 w/Mary Morain

1918-1981 - Anwar al-Sadat - Visited Israel. Signed Camp David Accords in 1978. 1978 w/Menachem Begin 1984 Posthumous
1918-1994 - Oka Masaharu - Protestant minister. Helped Korean A-bomb victims. Oka Masaharu Memorial Peace Museum in 1995.
1918-2000 - Morris Abram - Lawyer, civil rights activist & president of Brandeis University. Father of Ruth J. Abram (founder of ICSC).
1918-2002 - Elisabeth Mann-Borgese - "Mother of the Law of the Sea Treaty" (1982). Daughter of Thomas Mann.
1918-2003 - Robert Swann - Anti-nuclear communitarian. Created EF Schumacher Soc & Voluntown Peace Trust. See autobio & wife Marjorie Swann Edwin.
1918-Alive - Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi - Conscientious objector. Lost case against Japanese internment in 1943 but exonerated in 1987. CO
1918-Alive - Nelson Mandela - Anti-apartheid activist. Pres of S.Africa 1994-99. 1993 w/F.W.de Klerk 2000 2002

1919-1995 - William Kunstler - Self-described "radical lawyer" & civil rights activist. Co-founder of Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR).
1919-2000 - Pierre Trudeau - Prime Minister of Canada 1968-79 & 1980-84. Worked for peace. 1984
1919-2001 - James W. Bristah - Founded Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center & Gallery, Detroit, MI (USA), in 1986.
1919-2006 - Desmond Doss - Seventh Day Adventist. First US conscientious objector to receive Medal of Honor & one of only three so honored. CO
1919-2010 - Gene Knudsen Hoffman - Counselor, poet, actress, writer & international peacemaker. Founded Compassionate Listening.
1919-2010 - Bill Sutherland - Pacifist & liberation advocate. "Unofficial ambassador between Africa & the Americas for over 50 years." P
1919-Alive - Walter Isard - Principal founder of Regional Science & a main founder of Peace Science.
1919-Alive - Pete Seeger - Iconic folk singer & social activist.

1920-1992 - Isaac Asimov - Biochemist & humanist. Wrote >500 books & about 90,000 letters. One of the "Big Three" science fiction writers. 1984
1920-1998 - Bella Savitsky Abzug - Lawyer, Congresswoman, social activist. Founded National Women's Political Caucus w/Gloria Steinem & Betty Friedan in 1971.
1920-1999 - James L. Farmer, Jr. - Co-founded Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1942. 1998
1920-2005 - Pope John Paul II - See monument commemorating his Appeal for Peace in Hiroshima (Japan).
1920-2010 - Elise M. Boulding - Important scholar & activist in multiple fields. Wife of Kenneth Boulding (qv). Year?
1920-Alive - Thomas Szasz - Psychiatrist. Criticized modern medicine. Co-founded Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR). 1973

1921-1943 - Sophie Scholl - Student. Opposed Hilter in non-violent White Rose resistance group. Executed with her brother Hans.
1921-1989 - Andrei Sakharov - Nuclear physicist. Dissident & human rights advocate. Husband of Yelena Bonner (qv). 1975 1980
1921-1992 - Alex Haley - Author. Wrote "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" in 1965 & "Roots" in 1976. See monuments in GA, MD & TN.
1921-1997 - Paulo Freire - Educator & theorist of critical pedagogy. Wrote "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" in 1970.
1921-2005 - Peter Benenson - Lawyer. Founded Amnesty International in 1961.
1921-2006 - Betty Friedan - Feminist activist. Wrote "The Feminine Mystique." Founded NOW & Women's Strike for Equality. 1975 w/Henry Morgentaler
1921-Alive - Garry Davis - Peace activist. Renounced US citizenship in Paris in 1948. Created first "World Passport."
1921-Alive - Daniel Berrigan - RC priest, peace activist & Christian anarchist. Brother of Philip Berrigan (qv).
1921-Alive - Joseph Lowery. 3rd pres. of So. Christian Leadership Conf. Husband of Evelyn Gibson Lowery (qv). 2006 2009
1921-Alive - Bernard Lown - Cardiologist. Founded Physicians for Social Responsibility & Intl Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War. 1985

1922-1995 - Yitzhak Rabin. - Israel PM 1974-77 & 1992-95. Signed Oslo Accords in 1993. 1994 with Yasser Arafat & Shimon Peres 1995
1922-2001 - Leon Sullivan - Civil rights leader & anti-Apartheid activist.
1922-2007 - Kurt Vonnegut - Writer. Wrote "Slaughterhouse-Five" in 1969. Honorary president of American Humanist Association. 1992
1922-2010 - Howard Zinn - Wrote "A People's History of the US" in 1980. Worked two days before he died. Year?
1922-2011 - Fred L. Shuttlesworth - Minister & civil rights leader. Co-founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
1922-Alive - Boutros Boutros-Ghali - UN Secretry General 1992-1997. Issued "An Agenda for Peace" in 1992.

1923-2002 - Philip Berrigan - RC priest. Peace activist. Brother of Daniel Berrigan (qv). Married Elizabeth McAlister (qv).
1923-2009 - Ed Grothus - Machinist. Protested US atomic bombs. See monuments in Los Alamos, New Mexico (USA).
1923-2011 - Yelena Bonner - Nurse. Human rights advocate. Exiled to Gorky. Wife of Andrei Sakharov (qv).
1923-Alive - Henry Kissinger - US Secretary of State. Signed Paris Peace Accords in 1973. 1973 with Le Duc Tho
1923-Alive - Henry Morgentaler - Physician. Prominent pro-choice advocate who has fought numerous legal battles for that cause. 1975 w/Betty Friedan
1923-Alive - Robert Muller - Founded UN University for Peace in 1980 in Costa Rica. Chick here for his personal website.
1923-Alive - Shimon Peres. Israel PM 3x. Supported Oslo Accords. 1994 with Yasser Arafat & Yitzhak Rabin

1924-1943 - Margarite Tutulani - Captured in anti-Nazi resistance with brother Kristaq (journalist & PKSH member). Hanged at age 19.
1924-1993 - E.P.Thompson - Historian, socialist & peace campaigner. Wrote "The Making of the English Working Class" in 1963.
1924-1997 - Danilo Dolci - Sociologist, educator & poet. Opposed poverty & the Mafia. Promoted non-violence. Called "The Gandhi of Sicily."
1924-2003 - Ernst B. Haas - Political scientist. Authority on international relations theory. Founder of neofunctionalism.
1924-2006 - Wiliam Sloane Coffin - Chaplain at Yale University. President of SANE/FREEZE (now Peace Action). 2004
1924-2008 - Pierre Weil - Psychologist, author & educator. Founded City of Peace Foundation in Brazil in 1986.
1924-2011 - Samuel Ruiz - Catholic liberation theologian. Bishop & peacemaker in Chiapas (Mexico).
1924-Alive - Irvin J. Borowsky - Publisher & philanthropist. Founded National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia in 2000.
1924-Alive - Jimmy Carter - Click here for monuments in Georgia (USA). 1987 1994 1999 2002

1925-1965 - Viola Liuzzo - Civil rights volunteer. Murdered just after voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1925-1968 - Robert F. Kennedy - US attorney general 1961-1954 & senator 1965-1968. Assassinated while running for president in 1968
1925-1998 - Aki Kurose - Japanese-American educator in Seattle. Pacifist & peace activist, Inturned during WW-II. See Floyd Schmoe. P
1925-2009 - Kim Dae-jung - President of South Korea 1998-2003, Called "Nelson Mandela of Asia." 2000
1925-2011 - Frank Kameny - Led "Herculean struggle" after being fired in 1957 for being gay. Filed 1st civil rights claim based on sexual orientation.

1926-1987 - Margaret Laurence - Novelist. Outspoken supporter of peace, women's rights & other progressive causes.
1926-2001 - Samuel H. Day, Jr. - Journalist. Free speech & anti-nuclear activist. Founded Nukewatch. "We shall overcome Sam Day."
1926-1990 - Ralph Abernathy - Civil rights movement (USA).
1926-Alive - Jim Bohlen. Engineer. Peace activist in British Columbia (Canada). Helped found Greenpeace.
1926-Alive - Thich Nhat Hanh Monk, teacher, author, poet & peace activist now based in France. Year?
1926-Alive - Sanford Gottlieb - Executive Director of SANE (now Peace Action).

1927-1989 - Edward Abbey - Author. "Thoreau of the American West."
1927-1993 - César Chávez - Labor leader & civil rights activist. Co-founded National Farm Workers Association. 1989
1927-1997 - John Howard Yoder - Mennonite theologian, ethicist & Biblical scholar. Radical Christian pacifist. Wrote "The Politics of Jesus" in 1972. P
1927-2006 - Coretta Scott King - Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1991
1927-2008 - Abie Nathan - Humanitarian & peace activist. Operated Voice of Peace radio station offshore Tel Aviv 1973-1993.
1927-Alive - Evelyn Gibson Lowery. Wife of Joseph Lowery (qv). Has erected many civil rights monuments.
1927-Alive - Simone Veil - Politician. Survivor of Auschwitz. Honorary Pres of Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.

1928-1985 - William Stringfellow - Lawyer, lay theologian & social activist. Harbored fugitive Daniel Berrigan (qv).
1928-2007 - Sherwin T. Wine - Rabbi. Founded first congregation of Humanistic Judaism in 1963 & Society for Humanistic Judaism in 1969. 2003
1928-Alive - Noam Chomsky - "A father of modern linguistics, political dissident & anarchist."
1928-Alive - Larry Egbert - Anesthesiologist. Physicians for Social Responsibility. Final Exit Network. Acquited in Arizona. Husband of Ellen Barfield.
1928-Alive - Daisaku Ikeda - Author & president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI). Founder of several educational, cultural & peace research institutions.
1928-Alive - James Lawson - Civil rights movement (USA). 2004
1928-Alive - Gene Sharp - "The greatest theorist of nonviolence since Gandhi." 2008
1928-Alive - Elie Wiesel - "Messenger to mankind." Professor & holocaust survivor. 1986 1995

1929-1945 - Anne Frank - Holocaust victim. Died at age 16. Famous for diary published in 1947.
1929-1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. - Iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights. 1964 1977 Posthumous
1929-2003 - Dorothee Sölle - Writer & liberation theologian. Coined the term Christofascism in 1970 to describe fundamentalists.
1929-2004 - Yassar Arafat. - Signed Oslo Accords in 1993. 1994 with Shimon Peres & Yitzha Rabin
1929-2009 - Franz Deutsch - Founded the First Austrian Peace Museum, Wolfsegg (Austria), in 1993.
1929-2011 - Vang Pao - General. Ended forced repatriation of Laotian refugees. Opposed human rights abuses in Laos.
1929-Alive - Krishna Ahooja-Patel - Gandhian. Worked for Intl Labor Organization 1962-1987. President of WILPF.
1929-Alive - Evgueni Chazov - Cardiologist. Co-founded International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in 1980. 1985
1929-Alive - Ralph Dull - Co-founded Dayton Interntional Peace Museum, Dayton, Ohio (USA), in 2005, with wife Christine Ralph Dull.
1929-Alive - Jules Feiffer - Cartoonist. "Particularly unyielding in his attack on LBJ's Vietnam politics & on Richard Nixon, his most constant target."
1929-Alive - Murray Gell-Mann - Physicist & linguist. Developed study of complexity. A founder of the Santa Fe Institute. 1969 2005
1929-Alive - Bruce Kent - Priest. Gen Sec of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 1980-85. Click here for recent article.
1929-Alive - Staughton Lynd - Subject of "The Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd & Cold War Dissent, 1945-1970."
1929-Alive - Betty A. Reardon - Founded Peace Education Center at Teachers College (Columbia Univ) & Intl Institute on Peace Education.
1929-Alive - Maurice Strong - Oil executive. First Exec Director of UN Environment Programme. President of Council of UN University for Peace.
1929-Alive - Edwin O. Wilson - Sociobiologist & myrmecologist (study of ants). Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction. Known forsecular-humanist & deist ethics. 1999

1930-1978 - Harvey Milk - Politician. First openly gay man to be elected to public office in California.

1930-Alive - Chinua Achebe - Novelist. Best known for "Things Fall Apart" (1959). Supported Occupy Nigeria in 2012.
1930-Alive - Derek Humphry - Euthanasia advocate. Founded Hemlock Society in 1980 & ERGO in 1993. Advisor to Final Exit Network.
1930-Alive - Johan Galtung. - Helped found the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in 1959. 1986
1930-Alive - Bishop Thomas Gumbleton - Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Detroit. Founded Pax Christi USA in 1972.
c1930-Alive - Paul Rogers - Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford (England).
c1930-Alive - Michael True. - Prof Emeritus, Assumption College, & Past Pres, Intl Peace Research Assn. Year? 2002

1931-2007 - Sri Chinmoy Kumar Ghose - Spiritual teacher, philosopher, poet, artist & athlete. Many monuments.
1931-2011 - Jean-Claude Bajeux - Professor of Caribbean literature. Political activist. Director of Ecumenical Center for Human Rights.
1931-2011 - Clive Rosher - Political activist. A founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
1931-2012 - Marv Davidov - Activst & professor of nonviolence. Founded the Honeywell Project c.1968.
1931-Alive - Fernando Henrique Cardosa - Sociologist & professor. President of Brazil 1995-2003.
1931-Alive - Daniel Ellsberg - US military analyst. Leaked the Pentagon Papers about the Viet Nam War in 1971. 2005
1931-Alive - Adolfo Perez Esquivel - Sculptor, architect & pacifist. Protested against FTAA & Argentine paramilitary squads. P 1980
1931-Alive - Billy Frank, Jr. - Environmental leader & advocate of Native American treaty rights. 1992
1931-Alive - Mikhail Gorbachev - Last head of state of USSR 1988-91. 1990 Year? 1998
1931-Alive - Toni Morrison - Novelist, editor & professor at Princeton University. Wrote "Beloved" in 1987 about a slave. 1993
1931-Alive - Peng Qi'An - Victim of Cultural Revolution 1966-76. Founded Cultural Revolution Museum in Shantou in 2005.
1931-Alive - Pete Stark - Member of Congress since 1973. Early opponent of Iraq War. First openly atheist member of Congress. 2008
1931-Alive - Bishop Desmond Tutu - Anti-apartheid activist. First black Archbishop. 1984 1986 1992 2009
1931-Alive - Shigeko Yoshino Uppuluri - Born Kyoto. In Shanghai 1936-45. Intl. Friendship Bell in Oak Ridge (USA).

1932-1996 - Henri Nouwen - Dutch-born Catholic priest. Worked with mentally challenged people. Wrote 40 books about spirituality. P
1932-Alive - Dennis Banks - Native American. Depicted on peace mural in St. Paul, Minnesota (USA).
1932-Alive - Andrew Young - Disciple of MLK, Jr. Congressman. US Rep to UN. Mayor of Atlanta. 1981 Year? 1996

1933-1965 - Norman R. Morrison - Commited suicide at Pentagon to protest Vietnam War.
1933-1999 - Eqbal Ahmad - Writer, journalist & anti-war activist. Taught in Illinois, New York & Massachusetts.
1933-Alive - Ela Ramesh Bhatt - Founded Self-Employed Women's Assn (SEWA) in 1972. Recd Niwano Peace Prize in 2010.
1933-Alive - Werner Fornos - President of The Population Insitute. "The foremost spokesman on global population issues." 1991 w/Lester R. Brown
1933-Alive - George J. Mitchell - US Senator. Negotiated "Good Friday" peace agreement in Ireland. 1999
1933-Alive - Yoko Ono - Artist, musician, author & peace activist. Known for avant-garde art & her marriage to John Lennon (qv). Year?
1933-Alive - Sulak Sivaraksa - Initiator of social, humanitarian, ecological & spiritual movements, eg Intl Network of Engaged Buddhists.
1933-Alive - Steven Weinberg - Theoretical physicist. 1979 2002

1934-1996 - Carl Sagan - Astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer. Broadcast Cosmos: A Personal Voyage in 1980. 1981
1934-1999 - Eqbal Ahmad - Journalist, teacher & anti-war activist. Strongly critical of US Middle East strategy & the "twin curse" of nationalism & religious fanaticism.
1934-Alive - Lakhdar Brahimi - Diplomat & UN adviser. Member of Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor & Global Leadership Foundation.
1934-Alive - Lester R. Brown - Environmentalist. Founded Worldwatch Institute in 1974 & Earth Watch Institute in 2001. 1991 w/Werner Fornos
1934-Alive - Peter Dougherty - Catholic priest. Founded Michigan Peace Team in 1993. Received 'Intl Award for promoting Gandhian values outside India.'
1934-Alive - Christine Dull - Co-founded Dayton Interntional Peace Museum, Dayton, Ohio (USA), in 2005, with husband Ralph Dull.
1934-Alive - Marjorie Swann Edwin - Nuclear resister. Co-founded Cte for Nonviolent Action in 1957. Wife of Robert Swann (qv).
1934-Alive - Arun Gandhi - Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. Founded M.K. Gandhi Institute of Nonviolence (USA). Year?
1934-Alive - Susan George - Political scientist. Anti-war & anti-corporate activist. Pres of Transnational Institute in Amsterdam.
1934-Alive - Jane Goodall - Primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist & UN Messenger of Peace. World's foremost expert on chimpanzees. 1999
1934-Alive - Bill Moyers - Liberal television commentator. A trenchant critic of the US media.
1934-Alive - Ralph Nader - Attorney, author, lecturer, political activist & four-time candidate for US president.
1934-Alive - Marcus Raskin - Social critic, political activist, author & philosopher. Works for progressive social change.
1934-Alive - Gloria Steinem - Feminist & journalist. Social & political activist. Leader of women's liberation movement in the late 1960's & 1970's. 2012
c1934-Alive - Cora Weiss - President of International Peace Bureau & Hague Appeal for Peace.

1935-2003 - Edward Said - Palestinian-American literary theorist & advocate for Palestinian rights. A founding figure in postcolonialism.
1935-2005 - Elmer Maas - Philosophy professor & anti-war activist. One of the Plowshares Eight in 1980.
1935-2009 - Millard Fuller - Founded Habitat for Humanity, Americus, Georgia (USA), in 1976. 1996
1935-2009 - Marilyn Clement - Executive Director of Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) 1976-1989. Founder of Healthcare NOW!
1935-2011 - Jackie Hudson - Dominican Sister. Missioned to Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action near Bangor Trident Naval Base. Arrested at Y-12 in 2010.
1935-Alive - 14th Dalai Lama - Spiritual leader. Exiled from Tibet in 1959. 1989 Year? 2009
1935-Alive - Rajmohan Gandhi - Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. Wrote "Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, His People..."
1935-Alive - Richard D. Lamm - College professor & lawyer. Governor of Colorado 1975–1987. Co-Director of Public Policy Studies, University of Denver. 1993
c1935-Alive - Don Tilley - Operated Prairie Peace Park, Seward, Nebraska (USA), 1994-2005.

1936-1994 - James Stoll - First ordained minister of any religion in USA or Canada (& possibly the entire world) to come out as gay.
1936-2011 - Vaclav Havel - Playwright & politician. Anti-Communist dissident. Czech President 1889-2003. Pres Medal of Freedom 2003.
1936-Alive - Wes Jackson - Chaired one of 1st environmental studies programs in US. Founded Land Institute in 1976. 2000
1936-Alive - F.W. de Klerk - Last apartheid-era president of South Africa 1989-1994. 1993 with Nelson Mandela
1936-Alive - Morris Dees - Co-founded Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Alabama (USA), in 1971.
1936-Alive - Robert Scheer - Journalist. Editor of Ramparts & Truthdig. Opposed war in Vietnam.
c1936-Alive - Anthony Bing - Professor of English & peace studies. Expert in the Israel/Palestine conflict.

1937-2011 - Facundo Cabral - Argentine folksinger & peace activist. UN Messenger of Peace. Assassinated in Guatemala City.
1937-Alive - Martti Ahtisaari - President of Finland. Helped solve conflicts in Namibia, Indonesia, Kosovo, Iraq, etc. 2008
1937-Alive - Jane Fonda - Actrice. Opposed Wars in Vietnam & Iraq. Co-founded Women's Media Center in 2005. Wife of Tom Hayden (qv).
1937-Alive - Robert Fulghum - Minister. Wrote "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" in 1988.
1937-Alive - John Hume - Enabled the the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement of 1998. 1998 with David Trimble
1937-Alive - Sister Mary Dennis Lentsch - Anti-war activist. Emprisoned for protesting at Y-12 bomb plant in Oak Ridge, TN.
1937-Alive - Edward W. Lollis - Foreign Service Officer. Webmaster of Peace Monuments Around the World. Editor of this web page.
1937-Alive - Kirkpatrick Sale - Scholar. Writes about environmentalism, luddism, technology & decentralism. Called "Leader of the Neo-Luddites."
1937-Alive - Tom Smothers - Comedian & singer. Opposed Vietnam War on TV show with brother Dick 1967-69.

1938-1998 - Paul Smoker - Scholar/activist. Analysed peace problems scientifically. Applied them in his own personal life & politics.
1938-Alive - Kofi Annan - Diplomat. UN Secretary General 1997-2007. Founded Global AIDS & Health Fund. 2001
1938-Alive - Father Roy Bourgeois - Founded SOA Watch in 1990 to protest US militarism in Central America. Year? 1994
1938-Alive - Helen Caldicott - Founded Women's Action for New Directions in 1982. 1980 1982 Year?
1938-Alive - Peter Edelman - Lawyer & law professor. Husband of Marian Wright Edelman (qv).
1938-Alive - Saad Eddin Ibrahim - Sociologist & author. Egypt's leading human rights & democracy activist. Critic of Hosni Mubarak.
1938-Alive - Colman McCarthy - Journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, anarchist & long-time peace activist. P
1938-Alive - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf - First woman freely elected as a head of state in Africa. 2011 with Leymah Gbowee & Tawakul Karman
1938-Alive - Joyce Carol Oates - Novelist & atheist. Professor of humanities at Princeton University since 1978. 2007
1938-Alive - Ted Turner - Media mogul & philanthropist. Founded Cable News Network. Gave $1 billion to UN causes. Chairs UN Foundation. 1990

1939-Alive - Margaret Atwood - Poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist & environmental activist. Among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history. 1987
1939-Alive - Gro Harlem Brundtland - Physician & diplomat. PM 1986-96. Intl leader in sustainable development & public health.
1939-Alive - Elias Chacour - Archbishop in Haifa (Melkite Eastern Catholic Church). Promotes Arab-Israeli reconciliation. Author of "Blood Brothers."
1939-Alive - Marian Wright Edelman - Founded Childrens Defense Fund in 1973. 1988 1990 1993 1995 2000
1939-Alive - Tom Hayden - Activist in animal rights, anti-war & civil rights movements. Chicago Eight in 1968. Husband of Jane Fonda (qv).
1939-Alive - Rabbi Marvin Hier - Filmmaker. Dean & founder of Simon Wiesenthal Center & its Museum of Tolerance.
1939-Alive - Amos Oz - Novelist & journalist. Prof at Ben-Gurion Univ in Be'er Sheva. Advocate of a 2-state solution to the Palestinian conflict.
1939-Alive - Sister Helen Prejean - Death penalty opponent. Wrote "Dead Man Walking".

1940-1980 - John Lennon - Singer-songwriter. Original Beatle 1960. Married Yoko Ono (qv) 1969. Wrote "Give Peace a Chance" & "Imagine." Posthumous
1940-2011 - Wangari Maathai - Environmental & political activist. Founded the Green Belt Movement. 2004
1940-2011 - Paul Prebys - Speech Therapist. A founder of Alaskans for Peace & Justice (AKPJ) in Anchorage, Alaska (USA).
1940-Alive - Ituro Anzai - Founded Kyoto Museum for World Peace in 1992. See bibliography.
1940-Alive - Ela Gandhi - Granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi. Dedicated peace monument in Independence (USA). 2002
1940-Alive - Bernard Lafayette. Civil rights movement (USA).
1940-Alive - John Lewis - Civil rights movement (USA). 2004
1940-Alive - Elizabeth McAlister - Roman Catholic nun. Married Philip Berrigan (qv). Co-founded Jonah House in 1973.
1940-Alive - Óscar Rafael de Jesús Arias Sánchez - Pres of Costa Rica. Helped end civil wars in Central America. 1987 2001
1940-Alive - Muhammad Yunus - Banker & economist. Founder of Grameen Bank. 2006

1941-2002 - Stephen Jay Gould - Paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, historian of science & writer of popular science> 2001
1941-2010 - Richard Holbrooke - Diplomat. Negotiated Dayton Peace Accords ending war in Bosnia. Helped Dayton Intl Peace Museum.
1941-Alive - Joan Baez - Folk singer. Civil rights activist. Married to David Harris (qv) 1968-1973. P
1941-Alive - Richard Dawkins - Ethologist, evolutionary biologist & author. One of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism." 1996
1941-Alive - Barbara Ehrenreich - Feminist, democratic socialist & political activist. Called "a veteran muckraker." Author of 21 books. 1998
1941-Alive - George Lakoff - Cognitive linguist. Famous for identifying underlying metaphors, e.g. argument is war; government is family.
1941-Alive - Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold - Athropologist & MP. Named 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
1941-Alive - Lawrence S. Witner - Peace historian, State University of New York, Albany, New York (USA).

1942-Alive - Muhammad Ali - Heavyweight boxer. Born Cassius Clay. UN Messenger of Peace. See museum in Louisville, Kentucky. CO
1942-Alive - Daniel C. Dennett - Philosopher, writer & cognitive scientist. One of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism." 2004
1942-Alive - Mohamed ElBaradei - Law scholar & diplomat. IAEA Director General 1997-2009. 2005
1942-Alive - Tadatoshi Akiba - Mayor of Hiroshima since 1999. President of Mayors for Peace.
1942-Alive - Garrison Keillor - Broadcaster & story teller.
1942-Alive - Eric Nagler - Musician & TV personality. Moved from USA to Canada in opposition to Vietnam War. Acquitted during trial in 1972. CO
c1942-Alive - David Krieger - Attorney & political scientist. Founded Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in 1982.

1943-1955 - Sadako Sasaki - Hiroshima victim. Attempted to fold 1,000 origami cranes before her death at age 12.
1943-Alive - Mubarak Awad - Psychologist. Founded Palestinian Ctr for Study of Nonviolence (now Holy Land Trust) in 1985. Father of Sami Awad.
1943-Alive - Elaine Brown - Prison activist, writer & singer. Former chair of Black Panther Party. Founded Mothers Advocating Juvenile Justice.
1943-Alive - Scilla Elworthy - Political scientist. Founded the Oxford Research Group in 1982.
1943-Alive - Todd Gitlin - Public intellectual. Writes on mass media, politics & the arts. President of Students for a Democratic Society in 1960's.
1943-Alive - Rabbi Michael Lerner - Wrote "The Politics of Meaning" in 1996. Year?
1943-Alive - Lech Walesa - Trade-union & HR activist. Co-founded Solidarity. Pres of Poland 1990–95. 1983 1989 1999
1943-Alive - Faye Wattleton - President of Planned Parenthood 1978–1992. President of Center for the Advancement of Women. 1986
1943-Alive - Betty Williams - Cofounded "The Peace People" to help end "The Troubles" in Ireland. 1976 with Mairead Corrigan

1944-Alive - Karen Armstrong - Author on comparative religion. Wrote "A History of God" in 1993. Received TED Prize in 2008.
1944-Alive - Mairead Corrigan - Cofounded "The Peace People" to help end "The Troubles" in Ireland. 1976 with Betty Williams
1944-Alive - Angela Davis - Civil rights activist, educator & author. Member of Black Panther Party. Founded Critical Resistance in 1998.
1944-Alive - George Lakey - Professor of peace studies. Nonviolence organizer. Cofounded Movement for a New Society in 1971.
1944-Alive - John Marks - Foreign Service Officer 1966-1970. Founded Search for Common Ground in 1982.
1944-Alive - Timothy S. Miller - Professor of religious studies. Writes about history of communitarianism.
1944-Alive - Leonard Peltier - American Indian Movement. In prison for deaths at Pine Ridge IR. A political prisoner according to many.
1944-Alive - Jessica Reynolds Shaver Renshaw - Author. Sailed with parents Earle & Barbara Reynolds (qv) into atomic test area in 1958.
1944-Alive - Mary Robinson - President of Ireland 1990-97. UN High Commissioner for Refugees 1997-2002.
1944-Alive - David Trimble - Enabled the the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement of 1998. 1998 with John Hume
1944-Alive - Alice Walker - Author, poet & activist. Best known for "The Color Purple" in 1982. 1997
1944-Alive - Jesse Winchester - Singer-songwriter. Moved from USA to Canada in 1967 to avoid the Vietnam War draft. CO
1944-Alive - Howard Zehr - Codirects Ctr for Justice & Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite Univ, Harrisonburg, VA (USA). 2006

1945-Alive - Hizkias Assefa - Professor & reconciliation mediator. Founded African Peacebuilding & Reconciliation Network.
1945-Alive - Andy Barrie - Host of CBC Radio's Metro Morning. Deserted US Army in 1969 after being ordered to Vietnam. CO
1945-Alive - Michael Berenbaum - Scholar, professor, rabbi & film-maker. Holocaust specialist. Project Director of US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
1945-Alive - Aung San Suu Kyi - General Secretary of Burmese National League for Democracy. Released in November 2010. 1991
1945-Alive - Concepcion Picciotto - Has lived in a peace camp opposite the White House since 1981. Longest protest in US history.
1945-Alive - Graça Machel - Advocate for children's & women's rights. Widow of Samora Machel & 3rd wife of Nelson Mandela.

1946-Alive - Hanan Ashrawi - Christian legislator, activist & scholar. Protégé of Edward Said (qv).
1946-Alive - Michael D. Knox - Professor of Psychology. Founded the US Peace Memorial Foundation in 2005.
1946-Alive - Ron Kovic - Anti-war activist. Paralyzed Vietnam War veteran. Wrote "Born on the Fourth of July."
1946-Alive - Dennis Kucinich - Mayor of Cleveland. Congressman. Proposed a US Department of Peace. 2003
1946-Alive - David Harris - Journalist & author. Protested Vietnam War. Married to Joan Baez (qv) 1968-1973. CO
1946-Alive - Roméo Dellaire - UN peacekeeper in Rwanda. Ordered not to stop Hutu/Tutsi genocide in 1994.
1946-Alive - Jeff Halper - Anthropologist, author & political activist. Co-founded Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD).
1946-Alive - Libby Hostetler - Teacher. Education Professor at Bluffton University in Ohio. Founded Lion & Lamb Peace Arts Center in 1986.

1947-1992 - Petra Kelly - Helped found German Green Party after living in USA 1959-70. Murdered at age 44. 1982
1947-Alive - Shirin Ebadi - Lawyer & human rights activist. Founded Centre for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran. 2003
1947-Alive - Sylvia Baraldini - Radical activist. Emprisoned 17 years in USA + 7 in Italy. See 2009 film "Freeing Silvia Baraldini."
1947-Alive - Peter Wolf Toth - Wood carver. Sculpted a "Whispering Giant" statue of an Indian in every US state.
1947-Alive - Ann Wright - Peace activist. One of only three US Foreign Service Officers to resign over the war in Iraq.
1947-Alive - Hawa Abdi - Doctor & lawyer. Runs hospital & refugee camp in war-torn Somalia.

1948-2003 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello - UN peacekeeper. Killed in Iraq. Click here for UN peace monuments.
1948-2010 - Tony Judt - Historian. Public Intellectual. Founded Erich Maria Remarque Institute in 1995.
1948-2011 - R. Scott Kennedy - Co-founder of Witness for Peace (WFP), the Resource Center for Nonviolence & Interfaith Peacebuilders.
1948-2011 - Laura Inés Pollán Toledo - Teacher & opposition leader. Founded the dissident group Damas de Blanco.
1948-Alive - James R. Bowsher - Writer, archaeologist, collector & lecturer. Master of the Temple of Tolerance, Wapakoneta, Ohio.
1948-Alive - Al Gore - 45th US vice president 1993-2001. Made the film An Inconvenient Truth in 2006. 2007
1948-Alive - David Krieger - Founder & President of Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
1948-Alive - Lewis M. Randa - Founded the Peace Abbey, Sherborn, Massachusetts (USA), in 1988.
1948-Alive - Feisal Abdul Rauf - Sufi imam in New York City. Wrote "What's Right with Islam Is What's Right with America."
1948-Alive - Hans Rosling - Medical doctor, academic & statistician. Acclaimed TED lecturer. Founded Gapminder Foundation.
1948-Alive - Peter van den Dungen - Born in Best. Peace historian. Founded Intl Network of Museums for Peace 1992. See bibliography.
1948-Alive - Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo - Made "efforts to hinder oppression." 1996 with Jose Ramos-Horta

1949-1997 - Judi Bari - Environmentalist & labor leader, feminist & principal organizer of Earth First!.
1949-2011 - Christopher Hitchens - Author, columnist & literary critic. World's 5th top public intellectual. One of "Four Horsemen of New Atheism."
1949-Alive - Kiran Bedi - Social activist. First woman officer in Indian Police Service (IPS).
1949-Alive - Chip Berlet - Paralegal investigative journalist & photographer. Exposes the religious right, white supremacists, etc.
1949-Alive - Holly Near - Singer song-writer & anti-war activist.
1949-Alive - Jose Ramos-Horta - Pres of East Timor. Made "efforts to hinder oppression." 1996 with Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
1949-Alive - William F. Schultz - Minister. Headed UUA 1985-1993, Amnesty International 1994-2006 & UUSC from 2011. 2000

1950-Alive - Rebecca Goldstein - Novelist & professor of philosophy. Wife of Steven Pinker. 2011
1950-Alive - Wei Jingsheng - Chinese democracy movement. Wrote "Fifth Modernization" on "Democracy Wall" in 1978.
c1950-Alive - Mark Rogovin - Son of Milton Rogovin (qv). Co-founded The Peace Museum, Chicago, Illinois (USA), in 1981.
c1950-Alive - Harry Targ - Director of peace studies program at Purdue University.
1950-Alive - Jody Williams - Teacher & aid worker. 1997 with International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)
1950-Alive - Rowan Williams - Poet & theologian. Archbishop of Canterbury since 2003. P

1951-2006 - Tom Fox - Member of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). Killed in Iraq in 2006.

1952-Alive - Francis Fukuyama - Political economist. Wrote The End of History & the Last Man in 1992.
1952-Alive - Dorothy (Dot) Maver - Helped found National Peace Academy (NPA) in 2009.
1952-Alive - Vandana Shiva - Ecofeminist. Founded Navdanya in Northern India. Leader of Intl. Forum on Globalization. 1993

1953-1999 - Lenny Zakim - Religious & civil rights leader. Boston's Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge is named in his honor.
1953-Alive - Douglas P. Fry - Anthropologist. Leading authority on aggression, conflict & conflict resolution.
1953-Alive - Kathy Kelly - A founder of Voices in the Wilderness. Co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence.
1953-Alive - Kassym-Jomart Tokayev - Kazakhstan Foreign Min 2003-07. Chaired Senate 2007-11. Director Gen UN Office at Geneva since 2011.

1954-Alive - Mustafa Barghouti - Democracy activist. Ran for Palestinian president in 2005 & finished 2nd to Mahmoud Abbas.
1954-Alive - David Grossman - Novelist, essayist & peace activist. Wrote the anti-war novel "To the end of the land" in 2010.
1954-Alive - Steven Pinker - Experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist & popular science author. Husband of Rebecca Goldstein. 2006
1954-Alive - Mordechai Vanunu - Nuclear technician. Revealed Israeli nuclear program in 1986. CND headquarters named for him in London.

1955-Alive - Johanna Berrigan - Medical assistant. Catholic Worker. Co-founded House of Grace in Philadelphia. Visits poor in Haiti & Iraq.
1955-Alive - Adam Keller - Israeli "refusenik." Cofounder of & spokesman for Gush Shalom / Peace Bloc. CO
1955-Alive - Barbara Kingsolver - Novelist, essayist & poet. Writes about social justice, biodiversity & human interaction.
1955-Alive - Cynthia McKinney - 3rd "Peace Thru Conscience" Award of Munich American Peace Committee in 2010.
1955-Alive - Bill Nye - Science educator, comedian, mechanical engineer & scientist. Broadcast Bill Nye the Science Guy 1993–1998. 2010
1955-Alive - Liu Xiaobo - Human rights activist. Pres of Independent Chinese PEN Center. Sentenced to prison 2009-2020. 2010

1956-Alive - Nafez Assaily - Founded Library on Wheels for Nonviolence & Peace (LOWNP) in Hebron (Palestine).
1956-Alive - Ellen Barfield - Peace activist. US Army 1977-81. Peace Farm. In Veterans for Peace, WILPF, WRL, SOAW & NCNR. Wife of Larry Egbert.
1956-Alive - Chris Hedges - Socialist journalist. Wrote "War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning" in 2002 & "The World As It Is" in 2011.
1956-Alive - Anita Hill - Attorney & academic. Advocate of women's rights. Accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991.
1956-Alive - Ralph Hutchison - Presbyterian minister. Anti-nuclear activist. Coordinator of Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA).
1956-Alive - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar - Exponent of Advaita Vedanta & spiritual leader of Art of Living Foundation.

1957-Alive - Chris Anderson - Entrepreneur & publisher. Curator of TED Conferences ("ideas worth spreading") since 2001.
1957-Alive - Amy Goodman - Broadcast journalist & author. Principal host of Democracy Now! on Pacifica Radio. 2007
1957-Alive - Greg Mortenson - Founded Central Asia Institute & Pennies for Peace. Wrote "Three Cups of Tea" in 2006. 2008
1957-Alive - Robert Rivas - Civil rights attorney. ACLU. Counsel for Final Exit Network (FEN). Advisor to Rick A. Ross Institute.
1957-Alive - Peter Rühe - Scholar. Foremost Gandhian activist. Founded & heads Ganditopia & GandhiServe Foundation.
1957-Alive - Cindy Sheehan - Anti-war activist. Maintained protest outside President Bush's Texas ranch in August 2005. 2005
1957-Alive - Paul Zachery Myers - Evolutionary biologist. Public critic of intelligent design (ID). Widely regarded as a confrontationalist. 2009
1957-Alive - Roy Zimmerman - Singer-songwriter. Satirist. Wrote "Hope, Struggle & Change."

1958-2011 - Juliano Mer-Khamis - Actor & political activist. Murdered in Janin (Occupied West Bank) at Freedom Theatre which he founded in 2006.
1958-Alive - Kathy Mattea - Singer-songwriter & social activist. Promotes HIV/AIDS-related charities & Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

1959-Alive - Rigoberta Menchu Tum - Promotes rights of Guatemala's indigenous peoples. 1992

1960-Alive - Bono - Singer & musician. Social activist. Called "the face of fusion philanthropy." 2004
1960-Alive - Rabbi Arik Ascherman - Moved to Israel in 1994. Now Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR).
c1960-Alive - David Grossman - Wrote "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War & Society" in 1995.
c1960-Alive - Steve Leeper - Chair of Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation. From Atlanta, Gerorgia (USA).
c1960-Alive - Wendy Chmielewski - Curator of Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (USA).

1961-Alive - Sottt Ritter - Chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq 1991-98. Then anti-war author & talk show commentator.
1961-Alive - Barak Hussein Obama II - 44th US president. First African-American US president. 2009
1961-Alive - Leyla Zana - Turkish politician emprisoned for speaking Kurdish.

1963-2011 - Sonia Perez - Activist for the rights of people of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic.

1964-Alive - Sergeant Kevin Benderman - Court martialed in July 2005 for refusing to serve US Army in Iraq. CO

1967-Alive - Sam Harris - Neuroscientist. Co-founded Project Reason. Wrote "The End of Faith" in 2004. One of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism."
1967-Alive - Amr Khaled - Televangelist, activist & preacher in Cairo. Advocates moderation & women's rights.

1968-2004 - Iris Chang - Historian & journalist. Wrote "The Rape of Nanking" in 1997. Her mother wrote "The Woman Who Could Not Forget" in 2011.
1968-Alive - Malcolm Kendall-Smith - First British officer to face criminal charges for challenging legality of war against Iraq (in RAF). CO
1968-Alive - Tim Wise - Anti-racist activist & writer. Has lectured at over 600 college campuses since 1995.

1969-Alive - Jeremy Gilley - Actor & filmmaker. Founded the charity Peace One Day in September 1999. TED lecture.

1970-Alive - Gabrielle Giffords - Member of US House of Representatives. Shot in Tucson, Arizona, on January 8, 2011.
c1970-Alive - Shahriar Khateri - Doctor who studied Iraq chemical attacks. Founded Tehran Peace Museum in 2007.
1970-Alive - Daoud Nassar - Farmer near Bethlehem. Founded "Tent of Nations" to help prevent Israeli takeover of his family's land.

1971-2010 - Chidi Nwosu - Anti-corruption activist. Founded Human Rights, Justice & Peace Foundation. Assassinated at age 39. P

1972-1985 - Samantha Reed Smith - Schoolgirl. Made good will visit to Soviet Union during Cold War at age 11. Accidential death at age 13.
1972-Alive - Leymah Gbowee - Social worker. Organized Liberian Mass Action for Peace. 2011 with Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf & Tawakel Karman

1975-2011 - Vitorrio Arrigoni - Reporter, pacifist & activist. Worked with Intl Solidarity Movement (ISM) in Gaza Strip from 2008. P

1976-Alive - Mohammad Othman - Nonviolent peace activist. Works against the Israeli wall.

1978-2007 - Andrea Parhamovich - Employee of National Democratic Institute (NDI). Killed in Baghdad (Iraq) after teaching a class on democracy.
1978-Alive - Mehmet Tarham - CO sentenced to 4 years in military prison. Released in March 2006 after spending several months in prison. CO

1979-2003 - Rachel Corrie - Member of International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Killed by Israeli bulldozer while protecting a Palestinian home.
1979-Alive - Tawakul Karman - Journalist. Called her Nobel "a victory for the Arab Spring." 2011 with Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf & Leymah Gbowee
1979-Alive - Anna Baltzer - Activist for Palestinian human rights. Opposes Israeli occupation. Depicted in "Palestinian Pietŕ."
1979-Alive - Ryan Spencer Reed - Photojournalist. Has covered the Sudanese Diaspora since 2002.

1980-Alive - Paul K. Chappell - Peace advocate. US Army officer 2002-09. Wrote "Will War Ever End?" & "The End of War."
c1980-Alive - Erica Chenoweth - Professor of government. Authority on terrorism & nonviolence. Wrote "Why Civil Resistance Works" & "Rethinking Violence."

1981-Alive - Omar bin Laden - 4th son of Osama bin Laden. Promotes "Horse Race for Peace" across North Africa.

1984-2009 - Catherine (Kate) Puzey - Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin. Murdered after exposing sexual abuse of young girls.

1988-Alive - Clemantine Wamariya - Yale student.. Survived Rwanda geneocide in 1994. On US Holocaust Memorial Museum board in 2011.