Barry Horne (activist)

Barry Horne was an English animal rights activist. He became known around the world in December 1998, when he engaged in a 68-day hunger strike in an effort to persuade the government to hold a public inquiry into animal testing, something the Labour Party had said it would do before it came to power in 1997. The hunger strike took place while Horne was serving an 18-year sentence for planting incendiary devices in stores that sold fur coats and leather products, the longest sentence handed down to any animal rights activist by a British court. ^{Barry Horne, English activist (d. 2001)}

17 March 1952

Born on the same birth day (17 March): Barry Minkow • Dennis Bond • Floyd B. Barnum • Harry Melling (actor) • Jean-Baptiste Oudry • Juan Lagares • Robert Douglas, Count of Skenninge • Takeo Miki

Born in the same month (March 1952): André Comte-Sponville • Bernie Tormé • Bill Beaumont • Bob Costas • Brian Winters • Didier Pironi • Douglas Adams • Ernie Isley • Jerri Nielsen • Jo-Ann Mapson • Kim Stanley Robinson • Lynn Swann • Mark Evanier • Petar Borota • Ronn Moss • Rudy Fernandez (actor) • Svend Robinson • Viv Richards • Warren Lees