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Emma Goldman

1869 - 1940

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Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Born in Kaunas, Lithuania (then within the Russian Empire), to an Orthodox Lithuanian Jewish family, Goldman immigrated to the United States in 1885. Attracted to anarchism after the Chicago Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emma Goldman is the 49th most popular social activist (down from 47th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Social Activist.

Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist who lived in the United States. She was most famous for her speeches and writings, which advocated for free love, birth control, and women's rights.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Emma Goldman ranks 49 out of 840. Before her are Simon bar Kokhba, Olympe de Gouges, Bhagat Singh, Alfred Hermann Fried, Thomas Müntzer, and Sophie Scholl. After her are Emmeline Pankhurst, Sakamoto Ryōma, Pheidippides, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Hassan al-Banna, and Harriet Tubman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Emma Goldman ranks 14. Before her are Neville Chamberlain, Gustaf Dalén, Frederick Trump, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Fritz Pregl, and Mary Mallon. After her are Bogd Khan, Karl Haushofer, Christian Lous Lange, Harvey Cushing, Hans Spemann, and Siegfried Wagner. Among people deceased in 1940, Emma Goldman ranks 15. Before her are Arthur Harden, Nikolai Yezhov, Robert Wadlow, Carl Bosch, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, and Verner von Heidenstam. After her are Manuel Azaña, John Buchan, Peter Behrens, Isaac Babel, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, and Wladimir Köppen.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Emma Goldman ranks 9 out of 328. Before her are Emmanuel Levinas (1906), Vytautas (1352), Czesław Miłosz (1911), Gediminas (1275), Mindaugas (1203), and Hermann Minkowski (1864). After her are Algirdas (1296), Romain Gary (1914), Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858), Wilfrid Voynich (1865), Kęstutis (1297), and Emilia Plater (1806).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Lithuania

Among social activists born in Lithuania, Emma Goldman ranks 1. After her are Emilia Plater (1806), Klara Zamenhof (1863), Romas Kalanta (1953), and Iosif Grigulevich (1913).

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