SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Sadako Sasaki

1943 - 1955

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Sadako Sasaki (佐々木 禎子, Sasaki Sadako; January 7, 1943 – October 25, 1955) was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States. She was two years of age when the bombs were dropped and was severely irradiated. She survived for another ten years, becoming one of the most widely known hibakusha—a Japanese term meaning "bomb-affected person". She is remembered through the story of the more than one thousand origami cranes she folded before her death. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sadako Sasaki is the 41st most popular social activist (down from 33rd in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Japan (down from 29th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Social Activist.

Sadako Sasaki is most famous for being the girl in the book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. She was a victim of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sadako Sasaki ranks 41 out of 840. Before her are Toussaint Louverture, Jan Palach, Ferdinand Lassalle, Irena Sendler, Omar Mukhtar, and Simon Wiesenthal. After her are Lady Godiva, Simon bar Kokhba, Olympe de Gouges, Bhagat Singh, Alfred Hermann Fried, and Thomas Müntzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Sadako Sasaki ranks 24. Before her are Tarja Halonen, Roger Waters, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Joe Pesci, Ben Kingsley, and Keith Richards. After her are Elena Ferrante, Christopher Walken, Salvatore Adamo, Joseph Stiglitz, Horst Köhler, and Jean-Louis Tauran. Among people deceased in 1955, Sadako Sasaki ranks 8. Before her are Alexander Fleming, Thomas Mann, James Dean, Dale Carnegie, José Ortega y Gasset, and Arthur Honegger. After her are James B. Sumner, Alberto Ascari, Fernand Léger, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Helmuth Weidling, and António Egas Moniz.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sadako Sasaki ranks 40 out of 6,245. Before her are Hattori Hanzō (1542), Jiroemon Kimura (1897), Isao Takahata (1935), Itō Hirobumi (1841), Saigō Takamori (1828), and Hiroshige (1797). After her are Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147), and Morihei Ueshiba (1883).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Japan

Among social activists born in Japan, Sadako Sasaki ranks 1. After her are Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Ōsugi Sakae (1885), Megumi Yokota (1964), and Akira Amano (1973).

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