Women peacemakers born today
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- 1806 Martha Coffin WRIGHT born Boston, MA (d. 1875). Quaker abolitionist; feminist; organizer of Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, 1848; conductor on Underground Railroad; president of many women's rights conventions.
- 1821 Clara BARTON born Oxford, MA (d. 1912). Pioneering war nurse, providing what she called "war on war itself." Founded American Red Cross, 1881, and extension of relief to peacetime disasters; achieved US signature to Geneva Convention, 1882.
- 1865 Evangeline BOOTH born London (d. 1950). Internationalist; led relief missions to Armenians (1896), Japanese earthquake victims (1923); organized International Missing Persons Bureau.
- 1875 Jessie Wallace HUGHAN born Brooklyn, NY (d. 1955). Radical pacifist; socialist; founder of Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1915; Anti-Enlistment League, 1915; War Resisters League, 1923; pioneer of civilian based defense, 1937.
- 1884 Emmy ARNOLD (née von Hollander) born Riga, Latvia (d. 1980). Founder of nonviolent Bruderhof community.
- 1913 Helen KINNEE born (d. 2005). Peace activist; led weekly vigil against Titan missile in Chico, CA.
- 1952 Annie LENNOX born Aberdeen, Scotland. British pop singer; led anti-HIV campaign; protested Gaza War, 2009; petitioned for human rights in Burma.
Women's peacemaking on this day
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- 1914 "Open Christmas Letter" of 101 British women to women of Germany and Austria. "Is it not our mission to preserve life? Do not humanity and common sense alike prompt us to join hands with the women of neutral countries, and urge our rulers to stay further bloodshed?"
