SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Emily Davison

1872 - 1913

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Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause, she was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emily Davison has received more than 2,899,460 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Emily Davison is the 140th most popular social activist (up from 183rd in 2019), the 878th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,160th in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Social Activist.

Emily Davison was a suffragette who died after throwing herself in front of the king's horse during the Epsom Derby in 1913.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Emily Davison ranks 140 out of 840. Before her are Abimael Guzmán, Mairead Maguire, Gangubai Kothewali, Hilda Gadea, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, and Alfred Naujocks. After her are Vinoba Bhave, Marianne Bachmeier, John Brown, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bertha Pappenheim, and Meng Huo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Emily Davison ranks 35. Before her are Georgy Chicherin, Princess Clémentine of Belgium, Archduke Joseph August of Austria, José Sanjurjo, Habibullah Khan, and Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark. After her are Hugo Alfvén, Ichiyō Higuchi, Willem de Sitter, Julius Fučík, Henry Tingle Wilde, and Édouard Herriot. Among people deceased in 1913, Emily Davison ranks 23. Before her are Ármin Vámbéry, Katsura Tarō, Lewis A. Swift, Blanche Monnier, Gustaf de Laval, and Alfred Redl. After her are David Popper, Mariano Rampolla, Empress Dowager Longyu, Infanta Antónia of Portugal, Mahmud Shevket Pasha, and Song Jiaoren.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Emily Davison ranks 878 out of 8,785. Before her are Frederick Griffith (1879), Martin Evans (1941), Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (1770), Benedict Cumberbatch (1976), Robert Clive (1725), and Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (1915). After her are Charlotte Cooper (1870), Wentworth Miller (1972), Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1484), Keith Emerson (1944), Charles Spurgeon (1834), and Harthacnut I of Denmark (880).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Emily Davison ranks 10. Before her are Lady Godiva (990), Emmeline Pankhurst (1858), Betty Williams (1943), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Annie Besant (1847), and Mairead Maguire (1944). After her are Max Mosley (1940), Sylvia Pankhurst (1882), Kate Sheppard (1848), Eglantyne Jebb (1876), Cassivellaunus (-100), and Wat Tyler (1341).

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