Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger

female, deceased (1966)
Feminist, negative eugenics, buried at Green-Wood Cemeter, Birthcontrolactivist, American, atheist…American women's rights activist, birth control, American Birth Control League
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, an advocate of negative eugenics, and the...
Marie Stopes

Marie Stopes

female, deceased (1958)
Birthcontrolactivist, Breast cancer death, suffragist, National Health Service, roman catholic church, birth control…Birth Control News
Marie Stopes was a Scottish author, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of family planning. Stopes edited the journal "Birth...
Annie Besant

Annie Besant

female, deceased (1933)
Theosophist, Non-fiction writer, theosophy, Birthcontrolactivist, English women writer, From Varanasi…activist, birth control
Annie Wood Besant was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator.
Samuel George Morton

Samuel George Morton

male, deceased (1851)
Birthcontrolactivist, scientific racism, birth control, Race and intelligence controversy, American, variety
Samuel George Morton (1799-1851) was an American physician and natural scientist. Morton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from...
Francis Place

Francis Place

male, deceased (1854)
Birthcontrolactivist, chartist, English, birth control, activist, chartism
Francis Place (November 3 1771 - January 1 1854) was an English social reformer. He worked as a tailor, but found time to be an early supporter of...

Charles Knowlton

male, deceased (1850)
Birthcontrolactivist, Elements of Modern Materialism, freethinkers, American, birth control, freethought
Charles Knowlton (May 10 1800 - February 20 1850) was an American physician and writer. His most famous work was a pamphlet on birth control, "The...
Richard Carlile

Richard Carlile

male, deceased (1843)
Birthcontrolactivist, birth control, activist, freedom of the press, English, universal suffrage
Richard Carlile (9 December 1790 - 10 February 1843) was an important agitator for the establishment of universal suffrage and freedom of the press...

Stephen Fleck

male, deceased (2002)
Yale University, German, Harvard University alumni, school of medicine, twentieth century, Psychiatry…American pro-choice activist, Birthcontrolactivist
Stephen Fleck (September 18, 1912-December 19, 2002) was a professor in the Psychiatry and Epidemiology and Public Health Departments at the Yale...
Shidzue Katō

Shidzue Katō

female, deceased (2001)
Birthcontrolactivist, Japanese, activist, birth control, Feminist, politician
Katō Shidzue was a 20th Century Japanese feminist and one of the first women elected to the Diet of Japan. Katō was best known as a pioneer in th...

Deep Tyagi

male
Indian, health promotion, activist, public health, Uttar Pradesh, Public health education…Birthcontrolactivist
Deep Tyagi was born in Ratangarh village of Uttar Pradesh in 1928. He died of cancer at the relatively young age of 41, in 1969. He had no children.