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Margaret Sanger

American birth control activist, educator and nurse

1879 - 1966

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Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2024). Margaret Sanger is the 29th most popular social activist (up from 206th in 2024), the 270th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,999th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Social Activist.

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Margaret Sanger is the most memorable of the 2 notable people born in Corning, New York, United States.

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Margaret Sanger's biography appears in 52 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 90% of all Social Activists.

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Margaret Sanger shares a September 14 birthday with Pope Leo XIV, Alexander von Humboldt, and Dmitry Medvedev.

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Among Social Activists

Among social activists, Margaret Sanger ranks 29 out of 840. Before her are W. E. B. Du Bois, Élie Ducommun, Sophia of Prussia, Emily Greene Balch, Guy Fawkes, and Robert Owen. After her are Shirin Ebadi, Charlotte Corday, Thích Quảng Đức, Emiliano Zapata, Bacha Khan, and Toussaint Louverture.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Margaret Sanger ranks 11. Before her are Paul Klee, Kazimir Malevich, Emperor Taishō, Otto Hahn, Franz von Papen, and Max von Laue. After her are Emiliano Zapata, Symon Petliura, Alma Mahler, Milutin Milanković, Hans Luther, and Rudolf von Laban. Among people deceased in 1966, Margaret Sanger ranks 5. Before her are Walt Disney, André Breton, Buster Keaton, and Anna Akhmatova. After her are Peter Debye, Georges Lemaître, Alberto Giacometti, Sepp Dietrich, Jean Arp, Sayyid Qutb, and Giuseppe Farina.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Sanger ranks 270 out of 20,380. Before her are Charles Taze Russell (1852), Dale Carnegie (1888), O. J. Simpson (1947), Kanye West (1977), Diane Keaton (1946), and Robert K. Merton (1910). After her are Beyoncé (1981), Peter Falk (1927), Gary Cooper (1901), Samuel L. Jackson (1948), Barbra Streisand (1942), and Edward Tatum (1909).

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Among Social Activists In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Margaret Sanger ranks 8. Before her are Malcolm X (1925), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), Helen Keller (1880), Rosa Parks (1913), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), and Emily Greene Balch (1867). After her are Harriet Tubman (1820), Angela Davis (1944), Jody Williams (1950), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Jane Addams (1860), and Lee Radziwill (1933).

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