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1995 Death - Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro, doctor/social reformer, dies at 79

1960 Death - Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at 71

1950 Birthday - Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, born in England, British rabbi, member of the House of Lords, social reformer, Chancellor, University of Ulster

1943 Death - Beatrice Webb, sociologist, reformer, economist, co-authored 'History of Trade Unionism', 1894, co-founder of 'New Statesman' magazine, dies at age 85, in Liphook, England

1920 Birthday - Marre, reformer of the bar

1916 Birthday - Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro, doctor/social reformer

1915 Death - Gopal Krishna Gokhale, India's social reformer/politician, dies

1888 Birthday - Tojohiko Kagawa, Japan, Christian-social reformer, Grain of Wheat

1888 Birthday - Toyohiko Kagawa, born in Kobe, Japan, Christian social reformer

1871 Death - Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies

1858 Birthday - Ramabai Dongre' Medhavi, India, social reformer

1858 Birthday - Beatrice Webb, born in Gloucester, England, sociologist, reformer, economist, co-authored 'History of Trade Unionism', 1894, co-founder of 'New Statesman' magazine

1855 Death - Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies

1846 Death - Adrian van de Ende, vicar/protestant reformer, dies at 77

1841 Birthday - Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate

1839 Birthday - Helene Mercier, Dutch author/social reformer

1839 Birthday - Henry George, land reformer/writer, Progress and Poverty

1838 Birthday - Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement

1834 Birthday - Peter H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformer/founder, Free Parish

1828 Birthday - Josephine Elizabeth Butler, social reformer

1821 Birthday - Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader

1811 Birthday - Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer

1811 Birthday - Daniel A. Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church

1808 Birthday - Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer

1805 Birthday - Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer

1804 Birthday - Ottho G Heldring, Dutch vicar/reformer, Heldring Institutions

1800 Birthday - Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer

1785 Birthday - Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey, 1808 - 1839, Westernizer/reformer

1780 Birthday - Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse

1771 Birthday - Sydney Smith, Woodford Essex, preacher/reformer/author

1769 Death - Hakuin Ekaku, Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan

1612 Death - Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)

1600 Death - John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies

1564 Death - Jean Caulvin, John Calvin, priest/church reformer, dies at 54

1560 Death - Philipp Melanchton (Schwazerd), church reformer, dies at 63

1560 Death - Peder Palladus, Danish church reformer (Visitasbog), dies at about 56

1557 Death - Michael Agricola, Finnish theologist/church reformer/bishop, dies

1552 Death - Laurentius Andreae, Lars Andersson, Swedish church reformer, dies

1548 Death - Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer, dies at 44

1546 Death - Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62

1542 Death - Leo Judae, Swiss pastor/church reformer

1541 Death - Wolfgang Capito, Kopfel, German church reformer, dies at 63

1540 Death - Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48

1531 Death - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss church reformer (Zwinglianen), dies

1530 Death - Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43

1529 Death - Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake

1525 Death - Johannes Pistorius, Bakker, RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26

1525 Death - John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake

1525 Event - Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague

1523 Death - Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake

1523 Death - John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake

1509 Birthday - John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian

1504 Birthday - Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer

1497 Birthday - Philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer, Augsburgse Confessie

1492 Birthday - Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory, humanist and reformer

1489 Birthday - Thomas Cranmer, England, archbishop/reformer/martyr

1481 Birthday - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer

1452 Birthday - Girolamo Savonarola, monk/reformer/dictator of Florence, 1494-98

1419 Event - Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague and throw Catholic councillors out the windows

1384 Death - John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies

1381 Birthday - St. Colette, abbess/reformer, Poor Clares

1358 Death - Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies

838 Death - Babak, Persian social/religious reformer, martyred

766 Death - Chrodegang, church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50

468 Death - Pope Hilarius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)

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