| Notable Peacemakers & Their Monuments
Part 2 (peacemakers born 1886-1997)Click here for Part 1 (peacemakers born 1400-1885). |
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"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." Matthew 5:9.
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1886-1941 - Minnie Vautrin - UCMS missionary. Saved many at Ginling Girls College during the Nanking Massacre in 1937-38. Suicide in Indianapolis. Monument in Illinois 
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| 1941 
Shepherd,MI
| Year?
Secor,IL
| Year? 
Nanjing
| 2000
Nanjing
 |
1886-1957 - Diego Rivera - Muralist.
Mural at Rockefeller Center destroyed by John D. Rockefeller. Two murals in California. Many in Mexico. 
1886-1967 - Siegfried Sassoon - Author & soldier. A leading poet of WW-I. Described horrors of trenches. Satirised those responsible for a vainglorious war. 
1886-1977 - Ralph Borsodi - Decentralist & communitarian. Wrote "This Ugly Civilization" in 1929. Founded School of Living.
1887-1985 - Marc Chagall - Stained glass peace windows in Jerusalem, France & New York City (United Nations). 
|
| 1962 
Jerusalem
| 1964
NewYorkCity
| c1969
Jerusalem
| 1976
Sarrebourg
| 1976
Paris
|
1888-1979 - Jean Monnet - political economist & diplomat. chief architect of European unity. Founding father of the European Union.
|
| 1950
Yvelines
| Year?
Paris
| Year?
Place?
| Year? 
TheHague
| 1975 
Luxembourg
| 1979
Cognac
| Year? 
Brussels
|
|
| Year?
Paris
| Year?
St-Etienne
| Year? 
Lausanne
| Year?
Montpellier
| Year?
Scy-Chazelles
| 2006 
Bucharest
|
1889-1938 - Carl von Ossietzky. Journalist. Exposed Germany's Treaty of Versailles violations. Opposed Hitler. P 
1935 
|
| 1938
Berlin
| 1989
Berlin
| Year?
Berlin
|
|
1889-1979 - A. Philip Randolph - Civil rights leader. Founded Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Video | Museum 
1970
1890-1969 -
Dwight D. Eisenhower - General & US President. Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe during WW-II. Atoms for Peace in 1953. 
1890-1988 - Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan - Also known as Bacha Khan. Pashtun political & spiritual leader. Lifelong pacifist. Organized "Nonviolent Army" to oppose British rule. Grave in Afghanistan suffers neglect. 
P 
|
| 1988
Jalalabad
| Year?
Peshawar
| 2012
Peshawar
|
1892-1973 - Pearl S. Buck - Writer. Lived in China until 1934. Her novel The Good Earth won Pulitzer Prize in 1932. 1938 
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| Year
Hillsboro,WV
| Year?
Zhenjiang
| Year?
Nanjing
| 1934
Perkasie,PA
| 1973
Perkasie,PA
| 1995
Perkasie,PA
| 2004
Lynchburg,VA
|
|
1893-1918 - Wilfred Owen - Soldier. Leading poet of WW-I. Wrote on horrors of trenches & gas warfare.
1895-2001 - Floyd Schmoe - Peace activist. Built houses in Hiroshima (1949-52) & Sadako Sasaki Peace Park in Seattle (1990). See Aki Kurose. P
1897-1972 - Lester Bowles Pearson - Organized UN Emergency Force to resolve Suez Canal Crisis. Only Canadian recipient of Nobel Peace Prize. 1957
|
| 1967
Tweed,ON
| 1972
Wakefield,QC
| 1973
Ottawa
| Year?
Toronto
| 1978
Toronto
| 1984
Toronto
|
|
| 1989
Ottawa
| 1990
Calgary
| 1992
Ottawa
| 1997
Toronto
|
|
1897-1980 - Dorothy Day - Journalist & social activist. Co-founded Catholic Worker Movement with Peter Maurin (qv) -
1975
1898-1964 - Leo Szilard - Atomic scientist. Drafted Einstein letter warning President Truman about German A-bomb in 1939. See Eugene Rabinowitch
1960
|
| >1933
London
| 1943 
Delhi
| 1964
Budapest
| >1964
Ithaca,NY
| 1985
Atlanta
| 1998
Budapest
|
1899-1988 - Masahiko Katori - Bellmaker & potter. Named a Living National Treasure of Japan in 1977. Made peace bells for Hiroshima, San Diego, Vancouver, etc.
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| 1960
San Diego,CA
| 1964
Hiroshima
| 1967
Hiroshima
| 1986
Vancouver,BC
| 1998
Montreal
| 
| Katori
Bell in
Hiroshima,
Japan
|
1900
1900-1986 - Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara - Japanese vice consul in Vilnius (Lithuania) during WW-II. Saved several 1,000 Jews. 
|
| 1992
Vilnius
| 1992
Vilnius
| 1994
Kamo-gun,Gifu
| 1994
Kamo-gun,Gifu
| 1994
Kamo-gun,Gifu
| 1996
Albany,NY
|
|
| 1999?
Kaunas/Kovnos
| 2000
S.Brookline,MA
| 2000
Yaotsu-cho,Gifu
| 2000
Yaotsu-cho,Gifu
| Year?
City?
| 2002
Los Angeles,CA
|
1900-1992 - Mildred Jansen Loomis - Decentralist. Successor to Ralph Borsodi (qv). Operated School of Living (SOL) in OH, MD & PA.
1901-1994 - Linus Pauling - Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author & educator. Recd 2 Nobel Prizes. 
1954
1961
1962
1962
1901-1995 - Iri Maruki - Made enormous paintings 1950-1982 of atomic bombing in Hiroshima with his wife Toshi Maruki (qv). Gallery in Saitama Prefecture (1967). 
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| Year?
Saitama
| Year?
Saitama
| Year?
Saitama
| Year?
Saitama
|
1903-1971 - Ralph Bunche - Political scientist & diplomat. Mediated in Palestine. First person of color to receive Nobel Prize. 1950 
1963
1903-2004 - Josefina de Vasconcellos - Sculptor of "Reconciliation" in Bradford, Coventry, Ireland, Berlin & Hiroshima. Quaker mother & Brazilian father. 
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| 1977
Bradford
| 1995
Coventry
| 1995
Hiroshima
| 1999
Berlin
| 2000
Belfast |
1904-1961 - Marcel Junod - Field delegate of International Committee of the Red Cross. See monument in Hiroshima.
1905-1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld - UN Sec Gen 1953-1961. Born as his father helped negotiate dissolution of union between Sweden & Norway. Shot down? 1961
|
| Year?
Uppsala
| 1961
Uppsala
| 1961
NewYorkCity
| 1961?
NewYorkCity
| 1964
NewYorkCity
| 1964
NewYorkCity
| 1966
NewYorkCity
|
|
| Year?
Uppsala
| Year?
Backakra
| Year?
Lindsborg,KS
| 1981 
Ndola
| 2004
Lapland
|
|
1905-1990 - Myles Horton - Founded Highlander Research & Education Center in Tennessee in 1932. Husband of Zilphia Horton (qv).
|
| 1932
Monteagle,TN
| 1961
Knoxville
| 1971
NewMarket,TN
| Year?
NewMarket,TN
| 1990
Savannah,TN
| Year?
Monteagle,TN
|
1905-1990 - George Nakashima - Master woodworker. Placed World Peace Tables on 4 continents. Japanese origin. Studio in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
|
| 1986
NewYorkCity
| 1996
Auroville
| 2001
Moscow
| Future 
CapeTown |
1905-1995 - Senator J. William Fulbright - US senator 1945-1974. Staunch multilateralist. Created Fulbright scholarships in 1946. 1993
1906-1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Theologian & pacifist. Lived twice in NY City & once in London. Nazi resister & Holocaust victim. P
|
| Year?
Hamburg
| Year?
London
| Year?
Berlin-Tiergarten
| 1996
Berlin-Mitte
| Year? 
Wroclaw
| 1996
Wroclaw
|
1906-1975 - Hannah Arendt - Political theorist. Fled to France in 1933. Fled to USA in 1941 on visa issued by Hiram Bingham IV (qv). Wrote "The Origins of Totalitarianism" in 1951.
1906-1985 - Bert Röling - Jurist. Founder of Dutch polemology. On Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal 1946-1948. Helped found Intl Peace Research Association in 1964. 
 1907-1943 - Franz Jägerstätter - Nazis executed. RC Church beatified in 2007. Monuments in Austria, Germany & USA (Philadephia).
CO
|
| 1987
N.Philadelphia
| 1993
S.Radegund
| 1997
Linz
| 1997
Berlin
| 1999
Toronto
| 2006
BraunauAmInn
| 2014
Linz
|
1908-1974 - Oskar Schindler - Industrialist credited with saving over 1,100 Jews. Buried in Israel. Subject of the film "Schindler's List."
|
| 1945
Kraków
| 1945
Brünnlitz
| 1974
Jerusalem
| Year? 
Svitavy
| 1995
Regensburg
| 1996
Frankfurt
|
1908-1981 - Peace Pilgrim (Mildred Lisette Norman) - Pacifist, vegetarian & peace activist. Walked 28 years for peace. P Posthumous
|
| 1981
Germania,NJ
| 2000 
CuidadColon
| 2005
EggHarborCity,NJ
 
| 2005
Copperopolis,CA
|
1908-1998 - Marshall Fredericks - Sculptor. Sculpted "Peace Arising from the Flames of War" in Cleveland in 1964. Museum of his works in Saginaw, Michigan.
|
| 1958
Detroit
| 1963
Washington
| 1964
Cleveland
| 1972
Queens,NY
| 1972
GrandRapids
| 1986
Birmingham
| 1988
Saginaw,MI
|
1908-2005 - Joseph Rotblat - Manhattan Project scientist. SecGen of Pugwash Confs 1957-1973. See video.
  1992 P 1995
|
| 2005
London
| Date?
Los Alamos,NM
| Date?
Santa Fe,NM
| Date?
London
| Date?
London
|
|
1908-2005 - Simon Wiesenthal - "Nazi hunter" in Linz & Vienna. Click here for peace monuments related to the Holocaust.
 1910-1997 - Mother Teresa - Albanian nun. Founded Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta. Click here for Wikipedia biography. 1979 1985 Year?
1911-1977 - E. F. Schumacher - Economist. Wrote "Small is Beautiful" in 1973. His library at E. F. Schumacher Foundation in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
1911-1987 - Nathan Rapoport - Sculptor. Major works in Warsaw Ghetto, at Yad Vashem, etc.
|
| 1951
YadMordechai
| 1948
Warsaw
| 1968
Jerusalem
| 1971
MoshavKisalon
 | 1976
YadVashem,Jerusalem
| 1987
JerseyCity,NJ
|
1912-1947 - Raoul Wallenberg - Architect & diplomat. Rescued Jews from the Holocaust in Budapest in 1944. Many monuments.
1912-1969 - Clarence Jordan - Founded Koinonia Farm near Americus, GA, in 1942. Mentor of Millard Fuller [1935-2009].  2008
|
| 1942
Americus,GA
| Year?
Americus,GA
| 1976
Americus,GA
| 2003
Americus,GA
| 2003
Americus,GA
| 2005
Americus,GA
|
1912-2000 - Toshi Maruki - Made enormous paintings 1950-1982 of atomic bombing in Hiroshima with her husband Iri Maruki (qv). Gallery in Saitama Prefecture(1967).
 1912-2011 - Sayadaw U Thila Wunta - Buddhist monk. Constructed Peace Pagodas on all continents. Also click here.
1912-1987 - Bayard Rustin - Leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, pacifism, non-violence & gay rights. Advised Martin Luther King, Jr. P  
1913-1992 - Willy Brandt - Chancellor 1969–1974. Espoused Ostpolitik to improve relations with East Germany, Poland etc. 1971
|
| 1974
Berlin
| 2000
Warsaw
| 2007
Lübeck
| 2009
Nuremberg
| 2014
Berlin
|
|
| Year? 
PortoAmigo
| Year?
Stockholm
| 2014?
Berlin
|
|
1913-2005 - Rosa Parks. "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement." Sparked bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.  1991 1996
Year?
1914-1985 - Gerald Holtom - Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Designed the CND peace symbol in 1958.
|
| 1814 
Madrid
| 1972 
Medellín
| 1984
NewYorkCity
| 1985
Kent
| 2004
London
| c2004
Bisbee,AZ
| 2005
SanDiego
| 2006
Portland,OR
| 2007
Saarbrüken
|
|
| 2009
NewYorkCity
| 2009
Miami
| 2010
SanFrancisco
| 2010
GrandRapids
| 2011
Bonn-Beuel
| 2011 
Helsinki
| 2013
Ossining,NY
| Future
NewYorkCity
| 
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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.
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| 1954
Hiroshima
| 1965
Hiroshima
| 1975
Wilmington,OH
| 2011
Hiroshima
|
1916-1980 - Masahisa Goi - Philosopher & peace campaigner. Wrote >30 books. Created "May Peace Prevail on Earth" & Peace Poles.
|
| 1985
MapleCity,MI
| Year? 
Kathmandu
| 1991
Wassaic,NY
| 1993
AltoParaiso
| 1999
Megiddo
| 2002
SaltLakeCity
| 2003
Dayton,OH
| 2003
Fayetteville,AR
| 2005
Knoxville,TN
| "May
Peace
Prevail
On
Earth" |
 1916-1994 - Hind al-Husseini - Teacher. Rescued 55 children orphaned by the Deir Yassin massacre in 1948. Established Dar al-Tifl al-Arabi (The House of the Arab Child) in East Jerusalem.
|
| 1948
DeirYassin
| 1948
EastJerusalem
| 1962
EastJerusalem
| 1988
EastJerusalem
| 1999
EinSinia
| 2003
Geneva,NY
|
1917-1963 - John F. Kennedy - US senator 1953-1960 & president 1961-1963. Created
Peace Corps in 1961.
1918-2003 - Robert Swann - Anti-nuclear communitarian. Created EF Schumacher Soc & Voluntown Peace Trust. See autobio & wife Marjorie Swann Edwin. CO
|
| 1957
ConcordPark,PA
| 1969
Voluntown,CT
| 1970
Albany,GA
| 1990
S.Egremont,MA
| Shumacher
Center
for New
Economics
|
1918-2013 - Nelson Mandela - Anti-apartheid activist. Pres of S.Africa 1994-99. 1993 w/F.W.de Klerk 2000 2002  
|
| Year?
Soweto
| 1963
Liliesleaf
| 1982
RobbenIsland
| 1983
Leeds
| 1985
London
| 2000
EasternCape
| 2000
Qunu
| 2003
Johannesburg
| 2003
Johannesburg
|
|
| 2003
CapeTown
| 2007
London
| 2012
KwaZulu-Natal
| 2012
TheHague
| 2013
Pretoria
| 2013
Stellenbosch
| 2014
Berlin
|
|
c1920 -2004 - Sotetsu Iwasawa - Bell maker in Kyoto (Japan). Exported bells to Portland, Oregon, Gardena, California, & Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
|
| <1990
Kyoto
| 1990
Portland,OR
| c1990
Gardena,CA
| 1996
OakRidge,TN
| 
| Iwasawa
Bell in
Oak Ridge,
Tennessee
| 
| Iwasawa
Bell at Temple
of the Tooth
in Sri Lanka
|
1921-1992 - Alex Haley - Author. Wrote "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" in 1965 & "Roots" in 1976. See monuments in GA, MD & TN.
|
| 1977
Henning,TN
| Date?
Henning,TN
| 1990
Atlanta
| 1992
Henning,TN
| 1998
Knoxville,TN
| 1999
Clinton,TN
| 1999
CoastGuard
| 2002
Annapolis,MD
| 2008
Henning,TN
|
1921-Alive - Daniel Berrigan - RC priest, peace activist & Christian anarchist. Brother of Philip Berrigan (qv).
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).
|
| 1973
LosAlamos,NM
| Date?
LosAlamos,NM
| 1978
LosAlamos,NM
 | 2007
LosAlamos,NM
| Grothus in trailer with
"Doomsday Stones" which
he ordered from China for an
anti-nuclear Peace Obilisk
|
1925
1925-1968 - Robert F. Kennedy - US attorney general 1961-1964 & senator 1965-1968. Assassinated (2 months after MLK) in Los Angeles while running for president. 
1928-Alive - Daisaku Ikeda - Author & president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI). Founder of several educational, cultural & peace research institutions.
1928-Alive - Elie Weisel - "Messenger to mankind." Professor & holocaust survivor.
1986
1995
1929-1945 - Anne Frank - Holocaust victim. Died of typhus at age 16 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Famous for diary published in 1947. 
|
| Date?
Aachen
1942
Amsterdam
| 1945
Amsterdam
| Date?
Bergen-Belsen
| 2002
Boise,ID
| 2005
Amsterdam
| 2011 
Aruba
| |
1929-1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. - Iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights.
1964 1977  #1 Posthumous
|
| 1954
Atlanta
| 1954
Montgomery
| Year?
Atlanta
| 1963
Washington
 |
| 1968
Memphis
| 1968
Atlanta
| 1968+
Atlanta
| 1971
Houston
|
|
| 1983
Buffalo
| 1985
Atlanta
| 1987 
Havana
 |
1988
Toledo, OH
| 1989
Toledo,OH
| 1988
Atlanta
| 1990
Fresno,CA
| 1991
Memphis
| |
|
| 1993
Albany,NY
| Year?
Birmingham,AL
| 1996
Atlanta
| 1996
Atlanta
| 1996
Atlanta
| 1996
Indianapolis
| 2000
Cambridge,MA
|
|
| 2002
Denver
| 2005
LakeWorth,FL
| 2007
Mansfield,OH
| 2007
Houston
| 2010
Jerusalem
| 2010
Berlin
| 2011
Washington
| 2015
SanAntonio
|
|
1929-Alive - Ralph Dull - Co-founded Dayton International Peace Museum, Dayton, Ohio (USA), in 2005, with wife Christine Ralph Dull.
 1930-Alive - Johan Galtung - Called "Father of Peace Studies." Helped found the Intl Peace Research Inst (PRIO) in 1959. Click here for 2012 report.
 1986
1930-Alive - Dani Karavan - Artist. Created peace monuments in Nuremberg, Jerusalem & Negev Desert.
|
| 1966
Jerusalem
| 1993
Nuremburg
| 2000
NegevDesert
| 2005
Regensburg
|
c1930-Alive - Tomijiro Yoshida - Businessman. Founded World Peace Bell Assn in 1982. Has placed 5 World Peace Bells in Japan & one in each of 15 other countries.
|
| 1988
Hokkaido
| 1988
Okinawa
| 1989 
Ankara
| 1989
Berlin
| 1989
Warsaw
| 1990
Osaka
| 1990
MexicoCity
|
|
| 1992 
Cowra,NSW
| 1993 
UlanBator
| 1994 
QuezonCity
| 1996
Ottawa
| 1997
Brasilia
| 1998 
BuenosAires
| 1999 
Quito
|
|
| 2001
LosAngeles
| 2003
Madrid
| 2003 
Tashkent
| 2005
Amagaski
| 2006 
Christchurch
| 2007
MountHiei
| New
Takaoka
|  | World
Peace
Bell
|
1931-2007 - Sri Chinmoy Kumar Ghose - Spiritual teacher, philosopher, poet, artist & athelete. Many monuments.
|
| 1977
NewYorkCity
| 1991
Brussels
| 1992
NiagaraFalls
| 1992
Ottawa
| 1993
Tallahassee
| 1993
Brisbane
|
|
| 1995
Wellington
| 1996 
VictoriaFalls
| 1999
FigueiraDaFoz
| 1999
Seattle
| 2001
Oslo
| 2007 
Intl.Bridge
|
|
| 2008
Oslo
| 2009 
Bali
| 2009
Prague
| 2009
Sinaloa
| 2010
Vassa
| 2016 
Sliema
|
1931-Alive - Bishop Desmond Tutu - Anti-apartheid activist. First black Archbishop. 1984
1986
1992 2009
1933-Alive - Yoko Ono - Artist, musician, author & peace activist. Known for avant-garde art, marriage to John Lennon (qv) & several peace monuments.  Year?
1934-Alive - Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd - Sculptor of "Non-Violence" (aka Knotted Gun) at UN Headquarts & many other places.
|
| 1985
Malmo
| 1988
NewYorkCity
| 1995
Stockholm
| 1995
Stockholm
| 1997
Göteborg
| Year?
Laussane
| Year?
Luxembourg
| 2005
Berlin
| 2005
Caen,Normandy
|
1934-1996 -
Carl Sagan - Astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer. Broadcast Cosmos: A Personal Voyage in 1980. 
1981
1935-2003 - Edward Said - Palestinian-American literary theorist & advocate for Palestinian rights. A founding figure in postcolonialism.
1935-2009 - Millard Fuller - Founded Habitat for Humanity, Americus, Georgia (USA), in 1976. 1996
 1935-Alive - 14th Dalai Lama - Spiritual leader. Exiled from Tibet in 1959. 1989
Year?
2009
c1936-2015 - Anthony Bing - Professor of English & peace studies. President of Peace & Justice Studies Assn. Expert in the Israel/Palestine conflict.
1936-Alive - Morris Dees - Co-founded Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Alabama (USA), in 1971.
1938-Alive - Moshe Safdie - Architect of Holocaust Museum at Yad Vashem in Israel & US Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington, DC.
|
| 1976
YadVashem
| 2005
YadVashem
| 2005
YadVashem
| 2012
Washington
|
1940-1980 - John Lennon - Singer-songwriter. Original Beatle 1960. Married Yoko Ono (qv) 1969. Wrote "Give Peace a Chance" & "Imagine."
Posthumous
|
| 1966
London
| 1968
Coventry
| 1984
NewYorkCity
| 1987
NewYorkCity
| 1996
Japan
| Year?
Cologne
| Year?
Havana
|
|
| Year?
Saitama
| 2007
Vienna
| 2007 
Reykjavik
| 2009
Montreal
| 2010
Liverpool
| Future
NewYorkCity
|
1940-2015 - David Barr - Sculptor. Made "Sun Sweep" in 3 places on US/Canadian border & "Arctic Arc" on both sides of the Bering Strait.
1940-Alive - Ikuro Anzai - Physicist. Professor of international affairs. Founded Kyoto Museum for World Peace in 1992. See bibliography.
1940-Alive - Elizabeth McAlister - Roman Catholic nun. Married Philip Berrigan (qv). Co-founded Jonah House in 1973.
c1940-Alive - Clara Halter - Artist. Designed peace monuments in Paris, St. Petersburg, Hiroshima & Jerusalem.
|
| 2000
Paris
| 2003
St.Petersburg | 2005
Hiroshima
| 2006
Jerusalem
|
1941-Alive - Bernie Sanders - "Democratic socialist." Mayor, Congressman & Senator from Vermont. Presidential Candidate in 2016.
1942-2011 - Carolyna Marks - Artist, teacher & peace activist. Founded World Wall for Peace 1983 - walls in 6 states, Russia, Israel, Japan & S.Africa. See obit.
|
| 1988
Berkeley,CA
| 1989
Berkeley,CA
| Year?
WalnutCreek
| 1990
Moscow
| 1994
Oakland,CA
| 1995
Oakland,CA
| Year?
Nashville,TN
|
|
| 1996
Atlanta,GA
| 1996
MyrtleBeach,SC
| 1998
Berkeley,CA
| 1999
Oakland,CA
| 2001
Bethlehem
| 2003
Johannesburg
| Future
Hiroshima
| 
|
1943-1955 - Sadako Sasaki - Hiroshima victim. Attempted to fold 1,000 origami cranes before her death at age 12.
|
| 1958
Hiroshima
| Date?
Hiroshima
| Date?
Hiroshima
| 1990
Seattle,WA
| 1991
SaltLakeCity
| 1995
Independence
| 2000
OklahomaCity,OK
| 
|
1943-Alive - Lech Walesa - Trade-union & HR activist. Co-founded Solidarity. Pres of Poland 1990–95. 1983 1989 1999
1945-Alive - Aung San Suu Kyi - General Secretary of Burmese National League for Democracy. Released from house arrest in November 2010. 1991
1948-Alive - James R. Bowsher - Writer,
archaeologist, collector & lecturer. Master of the Temple of Tolerance, Wapakoneta, Ohio.
|
| c1981
Wapakoneta
| c1981
Wapakoneta
| >1981
Wapakoneta
| >1981
Wapakoneta
|
1950
1952-Alive - Vandana Shiva - Ecofeminist. Founded Navdanya in Northern India. Leader of International Forum on Globalization. 1993
|
| 1995
Dehradun
| Year?
Dehradun
| 2012
Portland,OR
|
1958-2011 - Juliano Mer-Khamis - Actor & political activist. Murdered in Janin (Occupied West Bank) at Freedom Theatre which he founded in 2006.
|
| 1995
RamotMenashe
| 2006
Janin
| Year?
Janin
| 2011
RamotMenashe
| 2011
Janin
|
1959-Alive - Maya Lin - Designer of many monuments. Parents from China in 1958. Only 23 when selected for Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. |
|
| 1982
Washington
1989
Montgomery,AL
1989
Huntingdon,PA
1993
NewHaven,CT
Year?
Clinton,TN
2000
Stanford,CA
2001
GrandRapids,MI
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1972-1985 - Samantha Reed Smith - Schoolgirl. Made good will visit to Soviet Union during Cold War at age 11. Accidential death at age 13.
|
| Date?
Russia
 1985
PortHuron,MI
1989
Augusta, ME
| | |
1974-Alive - Banksy - Graffiti artist, political activist, film director & painter. Known for satirical murals in slums, Palestine, etc. Click here for his website.
|
| c2005
Bethlehem
c2005
Bethlehem
c2005
Bethlehem
c2005
Bethlehem
2010
SanFrancisco
| 2012
London
2016
London
| | | | | |
1979-2003 - Rachel Corrie - Member of International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Killed by Israeli bulldozer while protecting a Palestinian home.
|
| 2003
Rafat,Gaza
| 2003
Anata,WestBank
| 2003
Anata,WestBank
| c2003
SanFrancisco
| Date?
Olympia,WA
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1997-Alive - Malala Yousafzai - Student. Blogged to BBC in 2009. Shot by Taliban in 2012. To UK for treatment.  2014 with Kailash Satyarthi.
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