Person    | Male  Born 7/10/1931  Died 26/12/2021

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Bishop and opponent of apartheid and campaigner on many other causes: AIDS, homophobia, etc. Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.

His Wikipedia page and obituary confirm that he died, aged 90 years, on 26 December 2021.

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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Gilt of Cain - Slave trade

This sculpture, 'Gilt of Cain', was unveiled by Bishop Tutu in commemoration ...

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50 years of peace

50 years of peace

50 years after the end of WW2

Event, Peace

1 memorial
Vera Brittain

Vera Brittain

Vera Mary Brittain was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire the daughter of Thomas Arthur Brittain (1864-1935) and Edith Mary Brittain (1868-1948). Her father was a paper manufacturer. The 1...

Person, Literature, Peace

2 memorials
Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel

Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.  Invented dynamite, first demonstrating it in 1867 in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey.  An inadvertently premature obituary, "The merchant of d...

Person, Peace, Science, Seriously Famous, Sweden

1 memorial
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

Politician and peace maker. Born Robert Cecil at 11 Duchess Street, Portland Place. Son of the Prime Minister, the Marquess of Salisbury. He practised civil law for several years before entering pa...

Person, Law, Peace, Politics & Administration

1 memorial