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Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was the first woman to be elected to the United States House of Representatives and the first female member of the Congress sometimes referred to as the Lady of the House. A lifelong pacifist...
Date of birth:
- Jun 11, 1880
Date of death:
- May 18, 1973 (age 92 years)
Alexa McDonough
Alexa Ann McDonough, née Shaw (born August 11, 1944) is a Canadian politician who led the New Democratic Party of Nova Scotia from 1980 to 1994, and was subsequently elected leader of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1995. She was succeeded...
Date of birth:
- Aug 11, 1944 (age 65 years)
Debbie Stabenow
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Stabenow (born April 29, 1950), née Greer, is a Democratic United States Senator from Michigan.
In the 2000 election, Stabenow defeated the Republican incumbent, Senator Spencer Abraham. She is the first female U.S. Senator from...
Date of birth:
- Apr 29, 1950 (age 59 years)
Mammootty
Mammootty (Malayalam: മമ്മൂട്ടി)(born Muhammad Kutty on September 7, 1953 ) is an award winning Indian actor who works mainly in Malayalam Cinema. During a career spanning more than quarter of a century, he has acted in more than 300 films as lead...
Date of birth:
- Sep 7, 1953 (age 56 years)
K. Kamaraj
Kumarasami Kamaraj (Tamil: காமராஜ்) better known as K. Kamaraj (15 July 1903 – 2 October 1975) was an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu widely acknowledged as the "Kingmaker" in Indian politics during the 1960s. He was the chief minister of Tamil...
Date of birth:
- Jul 15, 1903
Date of death:
- Oct 2, 1975 (age 72 years)
Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler (née Krzyżanowska, in Poland commonly referred to as Irena Sendlerowa, 15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008) was a Polish Catholic social worker who served in the Polish Underground and the Żegota resistance organization in German-occupied...
Date of birth:
- Feb 15, 1910
Date of death:
- May 12, 2008 (age 98 years)
Lucienne Robillard
Lucienne Robillard, PC (born June 16, 1945 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian politician and a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. She sat in the Canadian House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Westmount—Ville-Marie in...
Date of birth:
- Jun 16, 1945 (age 64 years)
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Tadeusz Mazowiecki [taˈdɛuʂ mazɔˈvʲɛt͡skʲi] ( listen) (born April 18, 1927 in Płock) is a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist prime minister...
Date of birth:
- Apr 18, 1927 (age 82 years)
K. Veeramani
Krishnasamy Veeramani (Tamil: கி.வீரமணி) was born on December 2, 1933 in Cuddalore, South Arcot District, Tamilnadu.He however does not use the term Krishnasamy in his name and is referred as K.Veeramani. He is the President of the Dravidar Kazhagam...
Date of birth:
- 1933 (age 77 years)
Sudha Murty
Padma Shri Sudha Kulkarni Murthy (Kannada: ಸುಧಾ ಮೂರ್ತಿ) (born August 19, 1950 in Shiggaon, Karnataka, India) is an Indian social worker and author. She is known for her philanthropic work through the Infosys Foundation. Among other things, she has...
Date of birth:
- 1950 (age 60 years)
Louise Markus
Louise Elizabeth Markus (born 6 September 1958 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian politician who was elected to the House of Representatives as member for the Division of Greenway, New South Wales for the Liberal Party of Australia at the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 6, 1958 (age 51 years)
Cicely Saunders
Dame Cicely Mary Saunders, OM, DBE (June 22, 1918 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England – July 14, 2005 at St Christopher's Hospice, South London, England) was a prominent Anglican nurse, physician and writer, involved with many international...
Date of birth:
- Jun 22, 1918
Date of death:
- 2005 (age 86 years)
Mary Parker Follett
Mary Parker Follett (3 September 1868 – 18 December 1933) was an American social worker, management consultant and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior. She also authored a number of books and numerous essays,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 3, 1868
Date of death:
- Dec 18, 1933 (age 65 years)
Erling Folkvord
Erling Folkvord (born June 15, 1949) is a Norwegian far-left revolutionary socialist figure, he was one of the leading members of the Workers' Communist Party and the Red Electoral Alliance, and presently a leading member of Red. He has sought a...
Date of birth:
- Jun 15, 1949 (age 60 years)
Kenneth Dunkin
Kenneth Dunkin is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 5th District since 2002.
Dunkin was born May 2, 1974 and raised in the Cabrini Green Housing Development of Chicago. He attended Lincoln Park High...
Gwen Howard
Gwen Howard (born 1945) is a Nebraska state senator from Omaha, Nebraska in the Nebraska Legislature and also a social worker and adoption specialist.
She was born on June 24, 1945, in Douglas County, Nebraska and graduated from Omaha Benson High...
Date of birth:
- 1945 (age 65 years)
Periyar
Periyar E. V. Ramaswamy (September 17, 1879 ￢ﾀﾓ December 24, 1973),also known as Ramaswami, EVR, Thanthai Periyar, or Periyar, was an Indian social reformer, who founded the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam.
EVR's given name was...
Date of birth:
- Sep 17, 1879
Date of death:
- Dec 24, 1973 (age 94 years)
Goh Sin Tub
Goh Sin Tub (simplified Chinese: 吴信达; pinyin: Wú Xìndá) was a well-known pioneer of Singaporean literature. He was a prolific writer of numerous book titles, which includes bestsellers like the The Nan-Mei-Su Girls of Emerald Hill, The Ghost Lover...
Date of birth:
- Dec 2, 1927
Date of death:
- Nov 16, 2004 (age 77 years)
Tamara D. Grigsby
Tamara D. Grigsby is a Democratic Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 18th Assembly District since her election in 2004.
Date of birth:
- 1974 (age 36 years)
Ro Foege
Romaine H. "Ro" Foege (born September 1, 1938) was the Iowa State Representative from the 29th District. He was in the Iowa House of Representatives 1996–2008. He received his BA from Wartburg College and his MSW from the University of Iowa.
Foege...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1, 1938 (age 71 years)
Richard Wynne
Hon. Richard William Wynne MLA (born 6 October 1955) is an Australian politician and current Minister for Housing, Minister for Local Government and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in the State Cabinet of the Government of Victoria, and has held the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 6, 1955 (age 54 years)
Mayuram Vedanayagam Pillai.
Date of birth:
- Oct 11, 1826
Derrick Dalley
Derrick Dalley(born in Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian politician. Before entering politics Dalley had worked as a guidance counselor and Principal.
Dalley was born in Twillingate and moved to Springdale until the age of 14 at...
Teresa Hsu Chih
Teresa Hsu Chih, or commonly known as Teresa Hsu (Chinese: 许哲; pinyin: Xǔ Zhe) is a Chinese-born Singaporean social worker, known affectionately as "Singapore's Mother Teresa", in recognition for her active life-long devotion in helping the aged...
Date of birth:
- Jul 7, 1897 (age 112 years)
Marie Woolfolk Taylor
Marie Woolfolk Taylor (December 18, 1893 - October 21, 1960) was one of the sixteen founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, the first sorority founded by African American women. The legacy she created in establishing the sorority has...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1893
Date of death:
- Oct 21, 1960 (age 66 years)
Paul Matavire
Paul Matavire rose to prominence in the 1980s when he joined the Jairos Jiri Band based in Bulawayo at Jairos Jiri Rehabilitation Centre. He was then elected to lead the Jairo Jiri Band, one of Zimbabwe's finest musicians to emerge after the country...
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Periyar Erode Venkata Ramasamy (Tamil: பெரியார், Kannada: ಪೆರಿಯಾರ್) (September 17, 1879 – December 24, 1973), also known as Ramaswami, EVR, Thanthai Periyar, or Periyar, was a Dravidian social activist, who founded the Self-Respect Movement and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 17, 1879
Date of death:
- Dec 24, 1973 (age 94 years)
Tarun Vijay
Tarun Vijay born in 1961 is an indian author, social worker and famous freelance journalist. He was the editor of the RSS weekly in Hindi, Panchajanya from 1986 to February 2008, and is a columnist of the newspaper The Times of India. He also writes...
Date of birth:
- 1961 (age 49 years)
Bettye Davis
Bettye Davis is a Democratic member of the Alaska Senate, representing the K District since 2000. She was previously a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1990 through 1996.
Date of birth:
- 1938 (age 72 years)
Maylie Scott
Maylie Scott (March 29, 1935—May 10, 2001), Buddhist name Kushin Seisho, was a Soto roshi who received Dharma transmission from Sojun Mel Weitsman in 1998 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. She graduated from Harvard University in 1956 and obtained a...
Date of birth:
- Mar 29, 1935
Date of death:
- May 10, 2001 (age 66 years)
Milo Turk
Milo Turk (born 1969) is a Comedy and Powerpop musician who was first recognized in 2008, when he appeared on the seventh season of American Idol and later the Jimmy Kimmel Show. Most of his notoriety is derived from performing his humorous...
Jerry Ortiz y Pino
Gerald P. "Jerry" Ortiz y Pino is a Democratic member of the New Mexico Senate, representing the 12th District since 2005. He succeeded Richard Romeo, a fellow Democrat who ran for Congress (NM-1) in 2002 & 2004 and for mayor of Albuquerque in 2009....
Date of birth:
- 1942 (age 68 years)
Victoria Jackson-Stanley
Victoria Jackson-Stanley (born August 20, 1953) is an American politician and the first African-American and the first woman to be elected Mayor of Cambridge, Maryland.
Jackson-Stanley was born in and grew up in a racially segregated Cambridge,...
Date of birth:
- Aug 20, 1953 (age 56 years)
Ambedkar Prakash Yashwant
Ambedkar Prakash Yashwant (popularly known as Balasaheb Ambedkar) is the chief-leader as well as national president of the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM) political party and a prominent Bahujan political leader. He is the grandson of Bharat Ratna...
Rosanna Wong Yick-ming
Dame Rosanna Wong Yick-ming, DBE, JP (born 15 August 1952), also known by her married name Mrs Rosanna Tam Wong Yick-ming in her former marriage from 1979 lasting until 1992, and primarily known as Dr Rosanna Wong in public occasions after 1997, is...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1952 (age 57 years)
Indranee Nadisen
Madam Indranee Elizabeth Nadisen is a Singaporean social work volunteer on child protection, and served as a foster mother to abandoned, abused and neglected children under the Fostering Scheme by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and...
Rashida Tlaib
Rashida Tlaib (pronounced ta-LEEB) is a Democratic member of the Michigan House of Representatives. She represents the 12th District (map), which is located in Southwest Detroit and stretches from an area just south of Downtown to the city's...
Date of birth:
- 1976 (age 34 years)
Sarojini Varadappan
Sarojini Varadappan (b. September 21, 1921) is an Indian social worker from the state of Tamil Nadu. She is the daughter of former Chief Minister of Madras, M. Bhaktavatsalam.
Sarojini was born in Madras on September 21, 1921 to Bhaktavatsalam and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1921 (age 88 years)
Thomas Caltagirone
Thomas R. Caltagirone is a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He represents the 127th District (Reading, Berks County) and is presently the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a member of the Gaming Oversight...
Date of birth:
- Oct 30, 1942 (age 67 years)
Kee MacFarlane
Kathleen 'Kee' MacFarlane (born 1947) was the Director of Children's Institute International. She developed the concept of the anatomically correct doll for children to use during interviews concerning abuse and played a significant role in the...
Date of birth:
- 1947 (age 63 years)
Deep Joshi
Deep Joshi is an Indian social worker and NGO activist and the recipient of 2009 Magsaysay awards announced. He was recognised for his vision and leadership in bringing professionalism to the NGO movement in India. He co-founded an non-profit...
Date of birth:
- 1947 (age 63 years)
Joseph Vazhackan
Joseph Vazhackan (Malayalam: ജോസഫ് വാഴക്കന്) is an Indian politician. He is currently Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) General Secretary and All India Congress Committee(AICC) Member.
Joseph Vazhackan was born in Ramapuram, Kottayam...
Ashish Dabral
Ashish Dabral Born on 2 July 1983, is a noted philosopher, motivator and highly efficient in Information Technology project management. He has implemented various IT projects in different countries including 22 Million Saudi Riyals IT project in...
