Stéphane Hessel

Stéphane Frédéric Hessel was a French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939. He became an observer of the editing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. In 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. In later years his activism focused on economic inequalities, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and protection for the post–World War II social vision. His short book Time for Outrage! sold 4.5 million copies worldwide. Hessel and his book were linked and cited as an inspiration for the Spanish Indignados, the Arab Spring, the American Occupy Wall Street movement and other political movements.

20 October 1917

Born on the same birth date (20 October 1917): Ants Kaljurand • Jean-Pierre Melville

Born on the same birth day (20 October): Anthony Sinisuka Ginting • Charles Ives • Claude, Duke of Guise • Derek Ridgers • Luis Saritama • Rodney Hood • Taj McWilliams-Franklin • Wilma Salgado

Born in the same month (October 1917): Alfred Benlloch Llorach • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. • Augustine Harris • Cahal Daly • Carl Forssell • Jack Soo • Joan Fontaine • Nikolai Ogarkov • Norman Leyden • Reed Erickson • Roque Máspoli • Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande • Violeta Parra