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John Hurst Adams

United States

c. 1928 – 2018 (90 years old)

John Hurst Adams was an American civil rights activist and Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Lara Kruger

South Africa

c. 1988 – 2018 (30 years old)

Thapelo Lehulere, known professionally as Lara Kruger, was a South African radio personality and transgender rights activist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Pretoria, South Africa

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Liu Xiaobo

刘晓波

China

28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017 (61 years old)

Liu Xiaobo was a renowned Chinese literary critic, university professor, and dissident intellectual who was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for his sustained and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. A central figure during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests who negotiated safe passage for student protesters, he co-authored Charter 08 demanding constitutional democracy and died while in state custody in 2017.

Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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Simone Veil

Simone Annie Liline Jacob

France

13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017 (89 years old)

Auschwitz survivor, magistrate, and statesman who as French Minister of Health overcame vicious opposition to legalize abortion (Loi Veil, 1975), and became the first directly elected President of the European Parliament.

Paris, France

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Djamila Amrane-Minne (Danièle Minne)

جميلة عمران مين (دانييل مين)

France

1939 – 2017 (77 years old)

Freedom fighter in the ALN maquis of Wilaya 3, imprisoned in Barberousse, who became the pioneering university historian of women in the Algerian War.

Algiers, Algeria

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Henry Foner

United States

c. 1920 – 2017 (97 years old)

Henry Joseph Foner was a 20th-century Jewish-American social activist and president for more than two decades of the Joint Board, Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union (FLM).. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Jens Christian Magnus

Norway

c. 1921 – 2017 (96 years old)

Jens Christian Magnus was a Norwegian military officer and politician for the Conservative Party.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Oslo, Norway

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Roy Innis

United States

c. 1935 – 2017 (82 years old)

Roy Emile Alfredo Innis was an American activist and politician. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Audrey Grevious

United States

c. 1931 – 2017 (86 years old)

Audrey Louise Grevious became one of the central leaders in the local civil rights movement in Lexington and the Commonwealth of Kentucky.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Jeremy Stone

United States

c. 1936 – 2017 (81 years old)

Jeremy J. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Berta Cáceres

Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores

🌐 Honduras

4 March 1971 – 2 March 2016 (44 years old)

Honduran indigenous Lenca environmental activist who co-founded COPINH and led a grassroots campaign against the internationally financed Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam on the sacred Gualcarque River before being assassinated in her home.

La Esperanza, Honduras

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Vladimir Pribylovsky

Russia

c. 1957 – 2016 (59 years old)

Vladimir Valerianovich Pribylovsky was a Soviet and Russian political scientist, historian, journalist, human rights activist, and author of internet database Anticompromat.org on biographies of Russian politicians. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Moscow, Russia

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Jeanne Córdova

United States

c. 1949 – 2016 (67 years old)

Jeanne Córdova was an American writer and supporter of the lesbian and gay rights movement, founder of The Lesbian Tide, and a founder of the West Coast LGBT movement. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Diana Mitchell

Switzerland

c. 1933 – 2016 (83 years old)

Diana Mary Mitchell was a Zimbabwean political activist and writer, who was an outspoken critic of the governments of Ian Smith and Robert Mugabe.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Paddy Doherty

Ireland

c. 1927 – 2016 (89 years old)

Patrick Laurence Doherty, better known as Paddy 'Bogside' Doherty, was a Northern Irish activist from Derry, known for his activism in rebuilding the city after The Troubles.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Dublin, Ireland

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Alex Timpson

Great Britain

c. 1947 – 2016 (69 years old)

Alexandra Winkfield Timpson MBE was a British campaigner for children's rights.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

London, United Kingdom

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Djamila Bouazza

جميلة بوعزة

Algeria

1937 – 2015 (78 years old)

Historic freedom fighter of the Battle of Algiers who placed the landmark bomb at the Coq Hardi brasserie and survived the French death penalty.

Algiers, Algeria

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Boris Nemtsov

Борис Ефимович Немцов

Russia

9 October 1959 – 27 February 2015 (55 years old)

Boris Nemtsov was a charismatic Russian physicist, former First Deputy Prime Minister, and the foremost leader of Russia's democratic opposition against authoritarian rule. A tireless anti-corruption crusader who documented state theft and opposed military intervention in Ukraine, he was assassinated on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge within sight of the Kremlin walls in February 2015.

Moscow, Russia

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