Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

female, 96 years old (Montgomery, Alabama)
Rosa Parks ( February 4 1913 a October 24 2005 ) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called "Mother of the...
Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

female, deceased (2004)
Susan Sontag was an American essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker, and activist.
Bob Marley

Bob Marley

male, deceased (1981)
Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley OM (February 6, 1945 – May 11 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and activist. He is the most widely kn...
James Brown

James Brown

male, deceased (2006)
James Joseph Brown (May 3 1933 – December 25 2006), commonly referred to as "The Godfather of Soul" and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Bu...
Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal

male, 55 years old
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook April 24, 1954) is an African-American journalist, political activist, and former militant leader from...
George Monbiot

George Monbiot

male, 46 years old
George Monbiot (born January 27, 1963) is a journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist in the United Kingdom who writes...
Michael Stipe

Michael Stipe

male, 49 years old
John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960 in Decatur, Georgia) is the lead singer of the American rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known (and...
Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem

female, 75 years old (New York, New York, United States)
Steinem's lifelong career as a writer and journalist began after college. A co-founder of New York magazine in 1968, Steinem was always active in a...
Jim Hightower

Jim Hightower

male, 66 years old
James Allen "Jim" Hightower (born January 11, 1943) is a populist activist and a former Texas Agriculture Commissioner.
Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

male, deceased (1970)
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician,...