Ruth Bonner

Ruf Grigorievna Bonner, also known as Ruth Bonner, was a Soviet Communist activist and who spent eight years in a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. She was the mother of the human rights activist Yelena Bonner and the mother-in-law of physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov. ^{Ruth Bonner, Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge (d. 1987)}

18 August 1900

Born on the same birth date (18 August 1900): Ruth Norman

Born on the same birth day (18 August): Bogdan Bogdanović (basketball) • Brook Taylor • Cassius Stanley • Huw Edwards • Jack Hobbs (footballer) • Louie Gohmert • Lucy Ozarin • Margaret Murie • Richard Harmon • Robert Hitchcock • Robert Winters • Tan Dun

Born in the same month (August 1900): Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt • Charley Paddock • Estelle Brody • Frances Adaskin • Gontran de Poncins • Helen Morgan (singer) • Hellmuth Walter • Holling C. Holling • Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie • John T. Scopes • Malvina Reynolds • Margaret Utinsky • Margret Boveri • Otto Nothling • Pauline A. Young • Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother • Rudolf Schottlaender • Ruth Norman