2004 Death Christopher Reeve, director/actor/advocate, Superman, dies at 52 1997 Death Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at 89 1996 Death John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate, dies at 56 1994 Death Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93 1993 Death Gustavo Brillembourg, Venezuela/U.S. advocate, dies in an accident at 35 1992 Death Marion P Ames, U.S., advocate/activist, dies 1990 Death Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46 1982 Death Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, murdered 1981 Event South Africa anti apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested 1981 Death Griffiths Mxenge, South Afr's anti-apartheid advocate, murdered 1976 Event Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa 1974 Death [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, Black U.S. advocate in Virg, dies at 83 1963 Death Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at 79 1950 Death Milada Horakova, Czechoslovakian advocate/anti fascist, hanged 1944 Birthday Taylor Hackford, director, Devil's Advocate 1944 Birthday Ben Korthals, advocate/Dutch MP, VVD 1941 Birthday Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate 1939 Birthday John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate 1936 Birthday James Rand, British judge, Advocate General 1934 Birthday Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, Unsafe at Any Speed 1932 Birthday Dennis Skinner, born in Derbyshire, England, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Bolsover, attended Ruskin College, left-wing supporter, homosexual and pro-choice advocate 1931 Birthday Lord Cameron of Lochbroom, lord advocate 1908 Event Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane 1908 Birthday Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate 1896 Death Jane Wilde, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights, dies 1896 Birthday Jane Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights 1890 Birthday [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black U.S. advocate in Virginia 1889 Birthday Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate, Nobel 1959 1885 Birthday Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder, National Woman's Party 1883 Birthday Hubert M E Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier, 1939-45 1883 Death Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96 1862 Birthday John Jay Chapman, U.S. advocate/poet/writer, Learning and Other Essays 1857 Birthday Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist 1853 Birthday Alva Vanderbilt Beaumont, women's rights advocate and activist 1841 Birthday Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate 1838 Birthday Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law, Nobel 1911 1837 Event Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American 1792 Birthday Sarah Moore Grimke, American abolitionist/women's rights advocate 1619 Death Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded 1600 Death Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake 1590 Death Floris Thin, politician/land advocate of Utrecht, dies 1549 Death Barthout van Assendelft, 1st land advocate of Holland, dies 1544 Event Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
