2021

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Categories: Peace, Race Issues, Religion, Seriously Famous, Social Welfare

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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Born Warsaw. gained a doctorate in physics in 1939 and then came to the UK but could not get his wife out and she died in a concentration camp. In 1944 he joined the Manhatten Project to develop nu...

Person, Peace, Politics & Administration, Poland

1 memorial

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

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Agnes Maude Royden

Settlement work in Liverpool then London, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, edited Common Cause, Church League for Women’s Suffrage, preacher, pacifist, later campaigned for ordination ...

Person, Gender Issues, Peace, Religion

1 memorial

Haringey First World War Peace Forum

From HFWWPF: The Haringey First World War Peace Forum was a small working group in north London, researching the conscientious objectors who were associated with the districts of Hornsey, Tottenham...

Group, Community / Clubs, History, Peace

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