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Also Known As Dominique Georges Henri Pire
Born February 10, 1910 • Dinant • Belgium
Died January 30, 1969 (aged 58) • Leuven • Belgium
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1958)

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Henri La Fontaine
Belgian lawyer
Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert.
Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert
Belgian-Flemish statesman
Andrey Sakharov
Andrey Sakharov
Soviet physicist and dissident
Jane Addams
Jane Addams
American social reformer
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David Trimble
British politician
John Hume
John Hume
Irish leader
Lord Noel-Baker.
Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
British statesman
Balch, Emily Greene
Emily Greene Balch
American political scientist
Máiread Maguire
Máiread Maguire
Northern Irish peace activist
Ludwig Quidde.
Ludwig Quidde
German historian and politician
Bertha, baroness von Suttner.
Bertha, baroness von Suttner
German author
Carl von Ossietzky
Carl von Ossietzky
German journalist and pacifist
Estournelles de Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'
Paul-H.-B. d’Estournelles de Constant
French diplomat
Betty Williams
Northern Irish activist
Henri Dunant
Henri Dunant
Swiss humanitarian
Alva Myrdal.
Alva Reimer Myrdal
Swedish diplomat
Moneta, Ernesto Teodoro
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Italian journalist
Charles-Albert Gobat
Swiss political scientist
Passy, 1901
Frédéric Passy
French economist
Sir Norman Angell, c. 1925.
Sir Norman Angell
British economist