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Odette Bergoffen

France

c. 1925 – 2026 (101 years old)

Odette Marie-Louise Bergoffen was a French Resistance member who helped save members of the Jewish Moscovici family from deportation during the German occupation of France. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Paris, France

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Jenny Plocki

France

c. 1926 – 2026 (100 years old)

Eugénie "Jenny" Plocki was a French left-wing and women's rights activist and Holocaust survivor.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Paris, France

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Gerry Gable

United Kingdom

c. 1938 – 2026 (88 years old)

Gerald Clark Gable was a British political activist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

London, United Kingdom

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Mirosław Zdanowicz

Poland

c. 1938 – 2026 (88 years old)

Mirosław Zdanowicz was a Polish social activist and motocross coach.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Warsaw, Poland

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David E. Mitchell

United States

c. 1951 – 2026 (75 years old)

David Emerson Mitchell was an American business executive and drug price advocate. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Washington, D.C., United States

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José Jiménez

Switzerland

c. 1949 – 2025 (76 years old)

José Jiménez, nicknamed Cha Cha, was a Puerto Rican political activist and the founder of the Young Lords, a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Emrys Roberts

United Kingdom

c. 1932 – 2025 (93 years old)

Emrys Pugh Roberts was a Welsh nationalist political activist.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

London, United Kingdom

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Charles Person

United States

c. 1943 – 2025 (82 years old)

Charles Person was an African-American civil rights activist who was the youngest Freedom Rider of the 1961 Freedom Rides. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Pádraig Ó Snodaigh

Ireland

c. 1936 – 2025 (89 years old)

Pádraig Ó Snodaigh was an Irish language activist, poet, writer, and publisher. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Dublin, Ireland

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Derek Humphry

United States

c. 1931 – 2025 (94 years old)

Derek Humphry was a British and American journalist and author. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Alexei Navalny

Алексей Анатольевич Навальный

Russia

4 June 1976 – 16 February 2024 (47 years old)

Alexei Navalny was a visionary Russian anti-corruption attorney, opposition leader, and human rights champion who exposed systemic Kremlin kleptocracy through viral investigations watched by hundreds of millions. Surviving an FSB Novichok chemical nerve agent assassination attempt in 2020, he courageously returned to Moscow in 2021, enduring brutal solitary confinement in maximum-security Arctic penal colonies until his death in February 2024.

Kharp, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia

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Hebe de Bonafini

Hebe María Pastor de Bonafini

Argentina

4 December 1928 – 20 November 2022 (93 years old)

Hebe de Bonafini was a world-renowned Argentine human rights crusader and long-serving president of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Transformed into an unyielding militant following the forced disappearance of her two sons and daughter-in-law during Argentina's military dictatorship, she wore the iconic white headscarf every Thursday in front of the presidential palace, demanding truth, justice, and the prosecution of junta perpetrators.

La Plata, Argentina

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Gisèle Halimi

Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb

Tunisia

27 July 1927 – 28 July 2020 (93 years old)

Tunisian-born French lawyer and feminist icon who defended Algerian FLN militants against military torture, co-founded the movement Choisir la Cause des Femmes with Simone de Beauvoir, and won the landmark Bobigny Trial.

Paris, France

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John Lewis

John Robert Lewis

United States

21 February 1940 – 17 July 2020 (80 years old)

American statesman and civil rights leader who was one of the 'Big Six' leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, survived brutal beatings on Bloody Sunday in Selma, and served over three decades in Congress.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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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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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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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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