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Samuel Plimsoll
Humanitarian & Peace
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Samuel Plimsoll

Samuel Plimsoll
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
1824 โ€“ 1898 (74 years old)

Parlementaire et rรฉformateur social britannique surnommรฉ ยซ l'Ami des marins ยป, inventeur de la ligne de charge (ligne de Plimsoll) empรชchant le naufrage des navires surchargรฉs.

Cheriton, Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom
Dr. Louis Paul Amรฉdรฉe Appia
Humanitarian & Peace
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Dr. Louis Paul Amรฉdรฉe Appia

Louis Paul Amรฉdรฉe Appia
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
13 October 1818 โ€“ 1 May 1898 (79 years old)

Dr. Louis Appia was a Swiss-German surgeon and co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The preeminent battlefield doctor among the 'Committee of Five', he was the first person in history to wear a Red Cross armband during an active military conflict during the Second Schleswig War in 1864, testing international humanitarian medical neutrality in the field.

Geneva, Switzerland
Mary Ann Shadd
Humanitarian & Peace
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Mary Ann Shadd

Mary Ann Shadd Cary
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1823 โ€“ 1893 (69 years old)

Pioneering abolitionist, educator, and suffragist who became the first Black female newspaper publisher in North America (The Provincial Freeman) in Canada and the second Black woman in the United States to earn a law degree.

Hyattsville (Maryland), United States
Cardinal Lavigerie
Humanitarian & Peace
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Cardinal Lavigerie

Charles Martial Allemand Lavigerie
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1825 โ€“ 1892 (67 years old)

Archbishop of Algiers and founder of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) who launched an international crusade across Europe's capitals that mobilized global public opinion to eradicate the East African slave trade.

Carthage (Tunis), Tunisia
Charles Bradlaugh
Humanitarian & Peace
3
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Charles Bradlaugh

Charles Bradlaugh
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1833 โ€“ 1891 (57 years old)

Courageous British radical reformer and champion of free thought who waged a historic six-year constitutional battle to take his seat in Parliament without taking a religious oath, and championed Indian self-determination as 'Member for India'.

Brookwood (Surrey), United Kingdom
Father Damien (Saint Damien of Molokai)
Humanitarian & Peace
5
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Father Damien (Saint Damien of Molokai)

Jozef De Veuster
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium
3 January 1840 โ€“ 15 April 1889 (49 years old)

Father Damien was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary who volunteered to minister to the quarantined leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Living among the outcast lepers for sixteen years, he built homes, hospitals, and churches, contracted Hansen's disease himself, and died a martyr of charity, canonized in 2009.

Leuven / Kalaupapa, Belgium
Lord Shaftesbury
Humanitarian & Peace
3
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Lord Shaftesbury

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1801 โ€“ 1885 (84 years old)

Foremost British social reformer of the Victorian era who dedicated fifty years in Parliament to abolishing child labor in coal mines and factories, passing the Ten Hours Act, and establishing Ragged Schools for destitute children.

Wimborne St Giles (Dorset), United Kingdom
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