An Anarchist Compendium

Abel Paz

AKA Diego Camacho

Spanish anarchist historian militant

Spanish militant anarchist, historian and Civil War combatant. Paz helped found the 'Los Quijotes del Ideal' group in August 1936, along with Victor García, Liberto Sarrau and other…

12 August 1921 – 13 August 2009

Abraham Guillén Sanz

Militant

Spanish anarchist militant, author, economist, educator, and theorist of cooperativism and self-management, who was a lifelong member of the CNT, both in Spain and in exile in South…

9 March 1913 – 1 August 1993

Ada Marti

Catalan writer, journalist and anarchist intellectual.

Catalan writer, journalist and anarchist intellectual.

1 July 1915 – 1 December 1960

Adela Carreras Taurà

AKA Adelita del Campo

Anarchist Militant

Catalan dancer, actress, feminist, anarchist militant and member of Mujeres Libres, and later a communist.

3 August 1916 – 24 June 1999

Adolphe Tabarant

Journalist

French libertarian socialist, journalist, writer and art critic, who wrote numerous studies on Impressionist painters and helped organise their exhibitions.

8 October 1863 – 4 August 1950

Albert Guigui-Theral

AKA Varlin

Resistance fighter

Algerian-born French anarchist, militant syndicalist, mechanic and French Résistance fighter. In February 1943, Albert Guigui, a printing corrector in Toulouse, resistant under the name of Varlin, left for…

26 March 1903 – 5 August 1982

Albert Louis Aernoult

French syndicalist roofer, union activist and libertarian; whose death at the hands of the military-style discipline camp at Djenan al-Dar, Algeria, incited the Aernoult–Rousset affair.

Albert Aernoult was born on 19 October 1886 in Romainville, Seine, son of a laborer. He became a ditch digger. He was a trade union activist, and played…

19 October 1866 – 2 July 1909

Albert Perier

AKA "Germinal" (Surname sometimes "Perrier")

Mason and trade unionist

Argentine-born French anarchist militant, revolutionary syndicalist and anti-fascist résistant, born in Buenos Aires.

7 August 1897 – 25 April 1970

Alberto Ghiraldo

AKA Marco Nereo, Juan Pueblo

Poet, playwright, narrator and anarchist journalist.

Son of Federico Ghiraldo, an Italian immigrant who arrived in Argentina in the 1850s and dedicated to the export of grains, and Julia Albornoz Castañón, of Creole family…

7 August 1875 – 23 March 1946

Alexander Metodiev Nakov

Antifascist Militant

Alexander Nakov had started working after his primary studies as a farm worker. Then he left for the mining region of Pernik where, in 1937, he participated in…

1 August 1919 – 10 November 2018

Alfred Stieglitz

American photographer and anarchist.

Renowned both for his photography and his promotion of modern art through his galleries "291" and "The Intimate Gallery", and magazines such as '291' and 'Camera Work'. He…

1 January 1964 – 13 July 1946

Amadeo Ramón Valledor

AKA 'El Asturiano' and 'Ramón'; b. 1920); aka 'El Asturiano' and 'Ramón'

Spanish anarcho-syndicalist militant

Suffering from cancer, Amadeo Ramón Valledor (aka 'El Asturiano' and 'Ramón'; b. 1920), Spanish miner militant anarcho-syndicalist and libertarian anti-fascist fighter, commits suicide in Perpignan by a shot…

1920

André Pierre Daunis

French railway worker, farmer, electrician, mason and militant libertarian communist. The son of a fisherman, André Daunis joined for four years in 1915 and was called to the…

1 August 1897 – 19 July 1985

André Veidaux

Writer

André Veidaux (anagrammatic pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Adrien Devaux; b. 1868), French Symbolist writer, poet, critic and anarchist sympathiser. Based in Paris as a young adult, André Veidaux quickly…

17 July 1868 – 1 August 1927

Ángel Borda

Syndicalist and Artist

Argentinian anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, trades union organiser, popular library founder, autodidact, sculptor, story and song (chamarritas and coplas) writer. A leader of Entre Ríos trade unionism and the Federation…

2 August 1901 – 12 March 1980

Angelo Pellegrino Sbardellotto

Antifascist Assassin

Angelo Sbardellotto was born on the 1st August 1907, the fifth of eleven children, into a numerous, and therefore poor family originally from the village of Villa; to…

1 August 1907 – 17 June 1932

Anton Makarovich Prudkin

Artist and Revolutionary

Russo-Bulgarian sea captain, adventurer, anarchist, revolutionary, spy, smuggler, writer and artist, is sentenced to death and executed after being captured by the Germans trying to blow up gas…

16 January 1880 – 1 August 1941

António Gonçalves Correia

Essayist

Portuguese anarchist, humanist, vegetarian, poet and essayist, born. Founder of the Comuna da Luz, the first anarchist community in Portugal. A travelling salesman, he spent most of his…

3 August 1886 – 20 December 1967

Aquilino Moral Menéndez

AKA Mario Guzmán, 'Teócrito', Quilo

Anarcho-syndicalist

Spanish metalworker, miner, committed vegetarian and anarcho-syndicalist member of the CNT, later joining POUM and, subsequently, the UGT, before rejoining the clandestine CNT after the Falangist victory. On…

5 August 1893 – 16 February 1979

Aurelio Lolli

Militant

It was still a teenager that Aurelio Lolli had joined Castel Bolognese in the anarchist movement where he became friends for life with the companion Nello Garavini. In…

10 August 1899 – 30 May 1999

Benigno Andrade García

AKA 'Foucellas'

Maqui

Spanish locksmith, anarchist militant and anti-Francoist guerilla, is executed by garrote at 7 am in the provincial prison of A Coruña, Galicia.

22 October 1908 – 7 August 1952

Bernard Voyenne

Writer

French anarcho-syndicalist activist, federalist, Résistance fighter, journalist, professor and writer on Proudhon. Worked on the 'Combat' newspaper alongside Albert Camus. Author of 'Proudhon et Dieu: Le combat d'…

12 August 1920 – 22 December 2003

Bruno Alfred Döblin

Doctor and Novelist

German Expressionist novelist, essayist, doctor, and Landauerian Christian socialist with a strong affiliation with anarchist thought, especially Kropotkin (though he was never active), born. Alfred Döblin's oeuvre encompasses…

10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957

Carl Heinrich Løgstrup Petersen

Historian

Danish cigar maker, working historian, anarchist and author of the anarchist movement in Denmark.

29 June 1915 – 8 August 1988

Carlo Abate

Artist

Italian-American anarchist sculptor and teacher, who was the printer and engraver for the militant Italian language journal 'Cronaca Sovversiva'.

20 October 1859 – 1 August 1941

Carlo Pisacane

Italian revolutionary, anti-authoritarian precursor of libertarian socialism and the first Italian (and essentially Proudhonian) anarchist.

Pisacane was born in Naples on 22 August 1818 to an impoverished noble family, and he entered the Neapolitan army in 1839; but having become imbued with Mazzinian…

2 August 1818 – 2 July 1857

Ceferí Llop Estupiñà

Warfighter

Catalan anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, member of the FIJL and CNT, born. Following the 1936 military coup, he joined the Comitè Revolucionari de Manresa and volunteered for the front. Following…

16 August 1916 – 9 August 1939

Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio

Spanish singer, poet, songwriter, journalist, one-time communist but later an anarchist and CNT member.

José Antonio Sánchez Ferlosio, later known by the nickname "Chicho", was born in 1940. He was the third son of the Falangist leader Rafael Sánchez Mazas, and the…

8 April 1940 – 1 July 2003

Ciriaco Duarte

Journalist

Paraguayan trade union leader, anarcho-syndicalist, anarchist, writer and journalist.

8 August 1908 – 27 September 1996

Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys

AKA Constant

Better known simply as Constant (b. 1920), Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist, author and musician, who was a founding member of both CoBrA and the Internationale Situationniste, and…

21 July 1920 – 1 August 2005

Constant Marie

AKA Le Père Lapurge

Anarchist Militant, Communard, and singer

French anarchist militant, Communard, cobbler, singer and songwriter. He was the author of several popular revolutionary songs. He participated in the Paris Commune, and was wounded in the…

27 August 1838 – 5 August 1910

Dario Cagno

Italian anarchist figure

Italian anarchist and anti-fascist. He was among the first organisers of the Resistance in Turin. Of modest origin at 14 years old he embarks as a baker on…

11 August 1899 – 22 December 1943

Davyd Chychkan

AKA Дави́д Іллі́ч Чичка́н

Anarcho-syndicalist, draftsman, and warfighter

Davyd Chychkan was born in Kyiv on 15 April 1986, into a distinguished artistic family. His father, Illya Chychkan, was a prominent figure of the Ukrainian New Wave…

15 April 1986 – 10 August 2025

Diane di Prima

AKA LeRoi Jones

Poet, author, and educator

US Beat poet, playwright, photographer, collagist, teacher and anarchist, born. Her maternal grandfather, Domenico Mallozzi, was an active anarchist, and associate of Carlo Tresca and Emma Goldman. She…

6 August 1934 – 25 October 2020

Dorvalina Martins Ribas

Militant

She was born in Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul) on 12 August 1900. While still a student she became a follower of Francisco Ferrer and adept in…

12 August 1900 – Died towards the end of March.

Eduard Vives

Anarcho-syndicalist militant

Catalan anarcho-syndicalist militant and Civil War miliciano, born. Member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) from a young age, during the Revolution of 1936 was part of…

5 August 1917 – 20 October 1971

Elba Piñeyro

Textile worker and editor

Elba Piñeyro was an anarchist militant who came from a family of libertarian tradition, her mother named Sara and her father Agapito Piñeyro had been prominent anarchist militants…

10 August 1916 – 10 August 2007

Elías Castelnuovo

Poet and Journalist

Uruguayan journalist, storyteller, playwright, poet, essayist and anarchist, communist and then Peronist.

6 August 1893 – 11 October 1982

Émile Aubin

AKA Marat

Anti-militarist propagandist

French anarchist and anti-militarist propagandist and songwriter, born. Author of several revolutionary songs under the pseudonym Marat.

8 August 1886 – 5 August 1949

Émile Hugonnard

AKA Michel Hugonnard

Militant

French carpenter-cabinetmaker and anarchist militant.   Émile Hugonnard was born in Lyon on 7 August 1859, the son of Claudine Berlioz and Jean-Baptiste Hugonnard. He worked as a…

7 August 1859 – 9 November 1903

Emiliano Zapata

AKA El Caudillo del Sur, Attila of the South ('el Atila del Sur'), and "E"

Revolutionary

Mexican revolutionary hero and anarquista. Emiliano Zapata (August 8 1879 – April 9 1919) was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910 against the dictatorship of…

8 August 1879 – 10 April 1919

Emilio Covelli

Organiser

Italian anarchist organiser involved in the Matese insurrection of 1877, member of the Fédération Italienne de l'AIT.

5 August 1846 – 15 August 1915

Emmy Hennings

AKA Emma Maria Cordsen

Dadaist

German cabaret performer, poet, chanteause, dancer, puppeteer, painter and 'mystical anarchist'. She was co-founder of the Dadaist Cabaret Voltaire with her second husband Hugo Ball.

17 January 1885 – 10 August 1948

Erich Wichmann

AKA Anti-bourgeois writer

Artist

Dutch painter, graphic artist, poet and critic, eccentric, co-founder of the Rapalje Partij (the popular name for the Vrije Socialistische Groep aka the Sociaal-Anarchistische Actie in Nederland) anti-bourgeois…

11 August 1890 – 1 January 1929

Ernst Bloch

Philosopher

German Marxist philosopher, utopian, pacifist and one-time anarchist, dies. [see: Jul. 8]

8 July 1885 – 4 August 1977

Étienne Roda-Gil

Poet and Songwriter

French-born poet, songwriter, screenwriter, libertarian and anarcho-syndicalist, born. The son of militant libertarian Spanish exiles, he was born in the Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) refugee camp [his father was interned…

1 August 1941 – 31 May 2004

Félix Álvarez Ferrera

AKA Felicísimo Álvarez Ferrera

Writer and Warfighter

Catalan anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, Civil War and Résistance fighter, writer and polyglot.

8 June 1921 – 2 August 2009

Fernando Santiván

Chilean writer, shoemaker, tailor, coal seller, boxer, proofreader, propagandist, salesman and Tolstoyan anarchist.

Chilean writer, shoemaker, tailor, coal seller, boxer, proofreader, propagandist, salesman and Tolstoyan anarchist.

1 July 1886 – 12 July 1973

Fernando Tarrida del Mármol

Theorist

Spanish anarchist theorist, Cuban-born and Catalonian raised. A writer, free-thinker, engineer, teacher, mathematics professor, and director of the Escuela Politecnica of Barcelona. a mathematics professor born in Cuba…

2 August 1861 – 15 March 1915

Ferre Grignard

AKA Fernand Grignard

Musician

Belgium anarchist songwriter, skiffle artist and protest singer, died in abject poverty of throat cancer. We Want War : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FyfqLZ1214

13 March 1939 – 8 August 1982

Folke Ivar Valter Fridell

Writer

Swedish textile mill worker, proletarian writer and anarcho-syndicalist.

1 October 1904 – 12 August 1985

Fráňa Šrámek

Czech poet, novelist, short story writer, Impressionist playwright, anti-militarist and anarchist rebel.

Czech poet, novelist, short story writer, Impressionist playwright, anti-militarist and anarchist rebel.

19 January 1877 – 1 July 1952

Francesco Ghezzi

Individualist

Italian individualist anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist, dies in a Soviet gulag.

4 October 1893 – 3 August 1942

Francisco Carrasquer Launed

Poet

Aragonese poet, writer, essayist, translator, free-thinker and anarchist.

1915 – 7 August 2012

François-Henri Jolivet

French worker-poet, anarchist and pacifist songwriter, born. Member of La Muse Rouge goguette, participated in the Vache Enragée's fêtes ouvrières and the pacifist 'La Patrie Humaine'. [www.ephemanar.net/aout01.html#1 militants-anarchistes.info/spip.php?article7303…

1 August 1875 – 31 October 1955

Françoise d'Eaubonne

AKA Françoise Marie-Thérèse Piston d'Eaubonne

Author and Feminist

French woman of letters (novels, biographies, essays, poetry, memoirs, etc.) and libertarian feminist, whose ceaseless campaigning led to her one of the most influential and best-known leaders of…

12 March 1920 – 3 August 2005

Gaetano Grassi

Anarchist

Born in Florence in November 1846 to Agostino and Giuseppa Gozzini, tailor. Volunteer with Gari-baldi in the Third War of Independence of 1866 and the following year in…

1 November 1846 – 5 August 1928

Georges Fontenis

Teacher and Organiser

French school teacher, professor at the École normale d'instituteurs de Tours, trade unionist and libertarian communist, who was one of the main anarchist figures of the post-War years.

27 April 1920 – 9 August 2010

Gérard Tolck

Artist

Swiss painter, engraver, sculptor, editor, agitator and cultural anarchist.

18 July 1943 – 10 August 2005

Gino Bibbi

Militant

Italian engineer, anarchist and militant anti-fascist, who became a Republican fighter pilot during the Spanish Civil war and munitions designer, died at the age of 100. He was…

5 February 1899 – 8 August 1999

Hayden Carruth

Poet

American poet, literary critic, "old-line anarchist" and "rural communist with a small c".

3 August 1921 – 29 September 2008

Heather Heyer

Anti-fascist

Heyer grew up in Ruckersville, Virginia, and graduated from William Monroe High School in Stanardsville, Virginia. She worked as a paralegal, bartender and waitress. Throughout the 2010s Heather's…

29 May 1985 – 12 August 2017

Henri Lebasque

Artist

French Post-Impressionist painter and anarchist sympathiser.

25 September 1865 – 7 August 1937

Hermann Hesse

German poet, essayist and novelist; Author of 'Der Steppenwolf' (1927).

Hermann Hesse (born July 2, 1877, Calw, Germany—died August 9, 1962, Montagnola, Switzerland) was a German novelist and poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in…

2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962

Ida Mett

AKA Ida Meyerovna Gilman, Ida Lazarévitch

Author and Syndicalist

Belarusian-born anarchist, syndicalist and author. Member of the Dielo Truda (Дело Труда / Workers' Cause) group from 1925 to 1928. Author of 'The Kronstadt Uprising' (1921) and 'The…

20 July 1901 – 27 June 1973

Igor Yuryevich Podshivalov

AKA Игорь Юрьевич Подшивалов

Journalist

Igor Podshivalov was born in 1962 near the Russian city of Irkutsk, a descendant of Siberian Cossacks. As a schoolboy he began to consider himself an anarchist after…

2 August 1962 – 8 August 2006

Inés Ajuria de la Torre

Militant

Basque militant anarcho-syndicalist.

1 October 1920 – 4 August 2007

Ingemar Johansson

Swedish anarchist writer historian militant

Swedish anarchist, author, translator and botanist. Johansson introduced, among other things, poets such as Konrad Bayer, Ernst Jandl and Benjamin Péret in Swedish and published standard works on…

6 August 1945 – 2014

Isabel Vilà i Pujol

Syndicalist Educator

Catalan nurse, syndicalist, member of the International and rationalist educator, who is considered to have been a pioneer of syndicalism in Catalonia.

3 August 1843 – 23 December 1896

Ivan Sergeevich Knizhnik-Vetrov

Jewish Russian anarchist theorist, historian, later a Christian socialist and Bolshevik sympathiser and Prolekult propagandist.

His published works include a history of revolutionary Narodism, its ties with the First International and the Paris Commune, as well as titles on anarchist theory and various…

2 July 1878 – 18 February 1965

Jacques-Mécislas Charrier

Illegalist

French individualist anarchist and illegalist, guillotined in Paris for an attempted train robbery in which a person was killed. Charrier was not the killer, but he defended his…

2 May 1895 – 25 July 1922

Jaime Semprun

Essayist and Publisher

French writer, essayist, translator and publisher, post-situationist and libertarian anti-industrialist, who founded the post-situationist journal 'Encyclopédie des Nuisances' and the linked publishing house Éditions de l'Encyclopédie des Nuisances.

26 July 1947 – 3 August 2010

Jean-François Lyotard

Philosopher

French philosopher, sociologist, literary theorist, and libertarian socialist member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.

10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998

Jean-Gabriel Goujon

French anarchist militant

French technical officer, bridge engineer, co-operativist and militant anarchist. Jean-Gabriel Goujon was from a Protestant family, originally from Sainte-Foy-la-Grande (Gironde). His father, who had come to work in…

27 June 1859 – 11 August 1935

Jean-Jacques Liabeuf

Shoe-maker guillotined for taking revenge against police after a wrongful conviction of for pimping.

Jean-Jacques Liabeuf was born in Saint-Étienne to André Louis Liabeuf and Marie Vignal. His father died when he was four years old and his mother had to bring…

11 January 1886 – 1 July 1910

Jeanne Humbert

Feminist

French writer, journalist, pacifist and anarchist militant, who belonged to the néo-Malthusien movement, fighting for sexual freedom and for contraception and abortion rights, dies. She was sent to…

24 January 1890 – 1 August 1986

Jehan Jonas

Singer

French chanteur libertaire, cabaret singer, poet, playwright and screenwriter.

12 August 1944 – 29 April 1980

Jindřich Štyrský

Artist

Jindřich Štyrský (d. 1942), Czech painter, photographer, photomontagist, graphic designer, collagist, poet, Surrealist theorist and anarchist, born. He met and fell in love with the Surrealist artist, feminist…

11 August 1899 – 21 March 1942

João de Camargo Penteado

Educator

One of the leading Brazilian anarchist pedagogues of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he co-founded the first Escola Moderna in Brazil, collaborated on and edited numerous…

4 August 1876 – 3 December 1965

Joaquín Pérez Navarro

Militant and Last surviving member of Friends of Durruti.

Born in Calpes de Arenoso (Castellón) 4 August 1907. From a humble farming background, he moved away with his widowed mother to Barcelona in 1918, finding work as…

4 August 1907 – 21 August 2006

Johannes Nohl

Writer

German writer, anarchist pupil of Otto Gross, lover of Erich Mühsam and later one of Hermann Hesse’s analysts.

8 August 1882 – 22 January 1963

John Cage

Composer

American composer, music theorist, writer, poet, artist and anarchist.

15 September 1912 – 12 August 1992

John Frederick Mowbray-Clarke

Artisan

American sculptor, anarchist fellow traveller and one of the organisers of the influential 1913 Armory Show in New York, born. He and his wife Mary Horgan Mowbray-Clarke ran…

4 August 1869 – 1954

José Domingo Gómez Rojas

Poet

Chilean poet and anarchist, who was a victim of the Guerra de don Ladislao. [www.estelnegre.org/anarcoefemerides/0408.html es.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Domingo_Gómez_Rojas es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerra_de_don_Ladislao www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-3476.html www.elciudadano.cl/2010/10/03/27268/jose-domingo-gomez-rojas-el-poeta-cohete-lucha-prision-y-muerte/]

4 August 1896 – 20 September 1920

José Sánchez Rosa

Teacher

Spanish autodidact, teacher, anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist. A few days after the fascist uprising of 18 July 1936 he is arrested. A squad of Francoist Requetés loaded a truck…

22 October 1864 – 1 August 1936

Josefa 'Pepita' Martín Luengo

Spanish teacher, libertarian pedagogy researcher and militant advocate, and anarcho-feminist, who co-founded the Escuela Libre Paideia in Mérida (Badajoz) in 1978 with fellow libertarian education activists Concepción Castaño Casaseca i María Jesús Checa Simó.

She organized Nertóbriga, a boarding school, in Fregenal de la Sierra (Badajoz province), Spain. Nertóbriga was noted for its philosophy that children learn best with freedom from coercion.…

1 July 2009

Joseph Thomas Deakin

English anarchist worker

English ticket office worker, socialist and anarchist, who is best known for his part in the so-called 'Walsall bomb plot', a provocation organised by Chief Inspector William Melville…

11 August 1858 – 7 September 1937

Juan Esteban Fagetti

Journalist

Uruguayan former soldier, autodidact, writer, poet, journalist and anarchist, born in Paysandú.

3 August 1888 – 14 August 1954

Juan López Romero Jiménez

AKA Juan el Camas', 'Chiquito de Camas' or simply “Camas”

Performer

Andalusian anarchist and flamenco singer, especially of the fandango.

25 February 1928 – 4 August 2008

Juan Manuel Molina Mateo

AKA Juanelo

Syndicalist Organiser

Important Spanish anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist. Militant of the National Confederation of Labor and a founding member of the Iberian Anarchist Federation. [www.ephemanar.net/aout04.html#molinamateo www.estelnegre.org/anarcoefemerides/0408.html losdelasierra.info/spip.php?article5212 puertoreal.cnt.es/es/bilbiografias-anarquistas/2341-juan-manuel-molina-mateo.html ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Molina_Mateo]

4 August 1901 – 20 September 1984

Jules Leroux

Co-opertivist

French anarchist co-opertivist activist. Leroux decided in 1901, with two comrades, to found a worker’s shoemaking. For a year, the day ended in the workshop, they worked four…

10 August 1860 – 2 February 1926

Kléber Nadaud

Militant

The son of a farrier and a farmer, Kléber Nadaud, an activist of the Paris Anarchist Federation, was arrested in May 1920 with Henri Delecourt*, Marcel Petelot*, G.…

17 September 1895 – 9 August 1943

Kondō Kenji

AKA 近藤 憲二

Journalist

Japanese anarchist of the Taisho and Showa periods, who looked after Itō Noe (伊藤 野枝) and Ōsugi Sakae's (大杉 栄) five orphaned children following their murder on September…

22 February 1895 – 6 August 1969

Laurance Labadie

Writer

American individualist and mutualist anarchist writer and theorist, son of Joseph Labadie.

4 June 1898 – 12 August 1975

Léo Voline

AKA Eichenbaum

Anarcho-syndicalist

Leo Eichenbaum was one of the sons of the Russian anarchist activist and theorist Volina and Anna Grigoriev. In 1935, he had dropped out of school to work…

4 January 1917 – 5 August 2002

Léon Prouvost

AKA Libertarian Philanthropist, The millionaire anarchist

Individualist

French individualist anarchist, anti-militarist and anti-clericalist. Born in Roubaix (North), September 28, 1856, in a bourgeois family of fabric manufacturers. After the war of 1870, his parents whose…

28 September 1856 – 11 August 1921

Lizzie Holmes

AKA Sarah Elizabeth Mary Hunt

Journalist

American music teacher, seamstress, labour organiser, journalist, socialist and militant anarchist.

21 December 1850 – 8 August 1926

Lola Iturbe

Militant

Catalonian militant anarcho-syndicalist and member of Mujeres Libres, born. Wrote many of her Mujeres Libres article under the pseudonym Kyralina, in tribute to the famous novel by Panaït…

1 August 1902 – 5 January 1990

Luigi Galleani

Insurrectionist

Anarchist born in Vercelli Italy. Famous internationally, he was a proponent of propaganda by the deed. Galleani became versed in legal and political theory at the University of…

12 August 1861 – 4 November 1931

Luisa Pavón Muñoz

AKA Ragon

Dancer and Organiser

Spanish dancer and anarchist, born. She and her husband, Ramon Gabarró Julian, an electrical engineer from Manresa, were expelled (to France) from Spain for their libertarian activities, later…

4 August 1870

Manuel Monleón Burgos

Artist

Spanish painter, illustrator, poster artist, photomontagist, naturist, Esperantist and anarchist.

23 February 1904 – 7 August 1976

Marcel Vergeat

Anarcho-syndicalist

French mechanic, and anarchist and syndicalist, born. Invited to the Second Congress of the Communist International in Moscow in July 1920 along with fellow anarcho-syndicalist Jules Lepetit (Louis…

6 August 1891 – October 1920

María Pérez Lacruz

AKA 'La Jabalina' (The Wild Sow)

Spanish anarchist figure

Spanish anarchist and member of Juventudes Libertarias, who fought with the Iron Column, is shot by firing squad alongside 6 male comrades in Huerta Oeste, Valencia. Her life…

3 May 1917 – 8 August 1942

Marie Pitt

AKA Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt

Feminist poet

Australian poet, socialist, feminist, ecologist and anarchist.

6 August 1869 – 20 May 1948

Marie-Anne-Hubertine Auclert

AKA Liberta' and Jeanne Voitout (penname)

Anticlerical Feminist

French journalist, militant feminist, women's suffrage campaigner and militant anticlerical, dies.

10 April 1848 – 4 August 1914

Mariola Milkova Sirakov

Revolutionary

Mariola Sirakova was born in Kilifarevo on 14 August 1904, the daughter of the district chief of Veliko Tarnovo. During her school years, she spent her free time…

14 August 1904 – 28 May 1925

Martin Ramirez Sostre

Prisoner of conscience

Afro-Puerto Rican bookshop owner, revolutionary writer, Black Muslim, Black nationalist, Internationalist, and later anarchist, dies at home aged 92 years — his apartment having effectively become a new…

20 March 1923 – 12 August 2015

Meta Kraus-Fessel

AKA Meta Fessel

Journalist

German civil servant, social expert, sexologist, social democrat, then communist, and ultimately anarchist and anti-Nazi, who – amongst her many claims to 'fame' – was the first woman…

6 August 1884 – 23 November 1940

Mezz Mezzrow

AKA Milton Mesirow

Musician

American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist.

9 November 1899 – 5 August 1972

Michael Antony Aston

English Professor of archaeology specialising in Early Medieval landscape archaeology, vegetarian, naturist, anarchist and atheist, who was best known for the Channel 4 programme 'Time Team'.

English Professor of archaeology specialising in Early Medieval landscape archaeology, vegetarian, naturist, anarchist and atheist, who was best known for the Channel 4 programme 'Time Team'.

1 July 1946 – 24 June 2013

Michael Schwab

Haymarket Martyr

Michael Schwab (1853–1898) was a German-American anarchist, labour activist, journalist, and one of the men convicted in connection with the Haymarket affair of 1886. Born on August 9,…

9 August 1853 – 29 June 1898

Michel Zévaco

Journalist

French journalist, popular novelist, publisher, film director, anti-clerical revolutionary socialist and anarchist.

1 February 1860 – 8 August 1918

Mike Lesser

British mathematical philosopher, author, computer graphics expert, anarcho-communist and the youngest member of the Committee of 100 and of Spies For Peace, ending up in Wormwood Scrubs along with most of the rest of the Committee at the age of just sixteen.

n 1992 he was the co-author, with Prof A. Wuensche, of the book The Global Dynamics Of Cellular Automata, published in the Santa Fe Institute's Reference Volumes. The…

28 September 1943 – 1 July 2015

Mikhail Bakunin

Russian revolutionary and philosopher, theorist of collectivist anarchism

Russian revolutionary and philosopher, theorist of collectivist anarchism, who was plagiarised mercilessly by Karl Marx (whilst at the same time being vehemently denouncing by him "a nonentity as…

30 May 1814 – 1 July 1876

Moa Martinson

AKA Helga Maria Swarts

Journalist

Swedish kitchen maid, pantry chef, journalist, novelist, syndicalist and feminist, who was one of Sweden's most noted authors of proletarian literature. Her works were about motherhood, love, poverty,…

11 November 1890 – 5 August 1964

Monica Sjöö

Artist

Anglo-Swedish painter, writer and radical anarcho/eco-feminist, who was an early exponent of the Goddess movement, dies of cancer in Bristol aged 66.

31 December 1938 – 8 August 2005

Natan Yakovlevich Futerfas

AKA Натан Яковлевич Футерфас

Prisoner

Natan Yakovlevich Futerfas (Натан Яковлевич Футерфас; d. 1937), Polish-Russian clerk, polyglot and anarchist, who was a prominent figure in the Esperanto movement in the USSR, born. During the…

9 August 1896 – 27 October 1937

Nella Giacomelli

Italian anarchist and propagandist, co-founder with Ettore Molinari of 'Il Grido della Folla' (The Cry of the Crowd) and 'Umanità Nova'.

Nella Giacomelli (d. 1949), Italian anarchist and propagandist, co-founder with Ettore Molinari of 'Il Grido della Folla' (The Cry of the Crowd) in 1902 and of 'Umanità Nova'…

Nelly Trumel

AKA Bitches on Guard

Painter

French still life artist, militant feminist and anarchist, and member of Diennes de Garde (Bitches on Guard), who hosted the weekly 'Femmes Libres' programme on Radio Libertaire.

12 August 1938

Ninfa Baronio

talian-American anarcha-feminist activist, who helped found Paterson's anarchist Gruppo Diritto all'Esistenza (Right to an Existence Group); co-founded a local feminist group and, with her companion Firmino Gallo, ran the Libreria Sociologica anarchist bookshop said to be "America's richest storehouse of extreme radical literature".

She grew up in Mongrando in the Piedmont region of Italy, where she met Firmino (or Fermino) Gallo, a silk weaver. Both were active in the anarchist movement…

2 July 1874 – 1 September 1969

Omar Aziz

AKA Abu Kamel

Syrian Anarchist and theorist advocating horizontal organisation

Syrian anarchist, intellectual, and revolutionary. He is known for his role in working with the Local Coordination Committees during the early stages of the Syrian Civil War and…

18 February 1949 – 16 February 2013

Onofrio Giglioli

Italian anarchist figure

Italian anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist shoemaker, born. When, on September 14, 1903, he married Maria Giuseppa Pelliciari, and between 1903 and 1926 the couple would have nine children –…

8 August 1882 – 1968

Oreste Lucchesi

Assassin

Italian anarchist, who was sent to prison in 1895 for killing Giuseppe Bandi, with a dagger wrapped in a red and black ribbon. Bandi, the director of the…

6 August 1859 – 15 October 1904

Oreste Ristori

Journalist and Militant

Italian anarchist and journalist. One of many Italians to migrate to Brazil in the early 20th century, Ristori played an important role in the spread of leftist radicalism…

12 August 1874 – 2 December 1943

Panaït Istrati

AKA Ghérasim Istrati

Writer

On August 10, 1884, he was born in Braila (Wallachia, Romania) The writer in languages Romanian and French and revolutionary, first communist and Then libertarian, Gherasim Istrati, better…

10 August 1884 – 16 April 1935

Paul 'Ovide' Ducauroy

AKA Ovide

Propagandist

French weaver, and anarchist individualist activist and propagandist. an anarchist individualist activist who was then residing at Paris 74 rue Castagnary (15th), had been kept reformed in 1914…

3 August 1887 – 11 September 1953

Paul Avrich

Historian

American academic, biographer and historian of the anarchist movement specialising in the 19th and early 20th-century anarchist movement in Russia and the United States. He taught at Queens…

4 August 1931 – 16 February 2006

Paul Goodman

Author and Psychotherapist

American anarchist cultural critic, poet, playwright, novelist and psychotherapist, dies. Author of 'Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life' (1947); 'Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in…

11 September 1911 – 2 August 1972

Paul Roussenq

Prisoner

Known as the "anarchist convict" for the long prison sentences he endured following various offences against authority, dies.

5 May 1885 – 3 August 1949

Paul-Eugène Trouillier

French anarchist singer

French gardener, labourer, itinerant singer, anarchist and anti-militarist. Paul Trouillier had organized in 1903, in Toulon, the union of men of sorrow that met at the Bar of…

10 August 1879 – Unknown

Pierre Mauldes

Militant

French militant anarchist, collaborated on 'Libertaire', 'La Revue Anarchiste', 'La Revue Internationale Anarchiste', etc., born. [www.ephemanar.net/decembre19.html#mualdes]

1 August 1885 – 19 December 1966

Ramón Acín Aquilué

AKA Fray Acín.

Author and Artist

A painter, sculptor, anarchist and Spanish journalist. Ramón Acín Aquilué was the son of Santos Acín Mulier, a surveying engineer, and María Aquilué Royán. Ramón was the Benjamin…

30 August 1888 – 6 August 1936

Ramón Vila Capdevila

AKA 'Caracremada' (Caraquemada, Burnt-face), 'Jabalí' (the Wild Boar), or 'Capitán Raymond'

Anti-Franco guerrilla

Famed anti-fascist guerrilla is shot down and purposely left to die following a shoot-out with the Guardia Civil.   Ramon Vila Capdevila, or ‘Caraquemada’ (Burntface) was born in…

2 April 1908 – 7 August 1963

Raoul Vaneigem

Situationist philosopher

Belgian Situationist philosopher and author of The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967) The voice of Raoul Vaneigem was one of the strongest of the Situationists. Counterpoised to Guy…

21 March 1934 – 28 July 2026

Régis Messac

Writer and Militant

French teacher, union organiser, Résistance member, writer, novelist, poet, translator pacifist and anarchist, born. Like his parents, he was a teacher but suffers a serious brain injury during…

2 August 1893 – 1 August 1945

Renée Dunan

AKA M. de Steinthal, Spaddy, Louis Dormienne, Louis Querelle

Journalist and writer of erotic lit.

Prolific French author of erotic historical, fantasy and science fiction novels and stories, critic, poet, Dadaist, Feminist, anarchist, naturiste and pacifist; used diverse pseudonyms: Louise Dormienne, Marcelle La…

1892 – 8 August 1936

Ricardo Mella

Writer

One of the first Spanish anarchist writers, intellectuals and activists. Federica Montseny said "He is considered the deepest, most penetrating and most lucid of the Spanish anarchist thinkers".…

13 April 1861 – 7 August 1925

Salut Borràs i Saperas

Militant

Catalan anarchist militant, who participated in the Mexican Revolution along side her partner Octave Jahn in Emiliano Zapata's ranks, dies. Born in January 1878 in Barcelona, she was…

6 January 1878 – 11 August 1954

Salvador Clement

Militant

Spanish militant anarcho-syndicalist, active with the CNT, who took refuge in France following the failure of the Spanish Revolution. [www.ephemanar.net/aout04.html www.estelnegre.org/anarcoefemerides/0408.html www.alasbarricadas.org/ateneovirtual/index.php?title=Salvador_Clement]

1916 – 4 August 2000

Sante Caserio

Assassin

Italian anarchist who in 1894 stabbed the President of the French Republic Marie-François Sadi Carnot to death. Never regretted the gesture, he was sentenced to death for guillotine.

8 September 1873 – 16 August 1894

Sergio David Urrego Reyes

Committed suicide after being a victim of homophobia.

Colombian student and anarchist member of the Unión Libertaria Estudiantil, takes his own life at the age of sixteen, a victim of homophobic persecution.

25 November 1997 – 4 August 2014

Sir Walter William Strickland

AKA The Anarchist Baronet

Anarchist

Sir Walter William Strickland, 9th Baronet (b. 1851), English translator, atheist and libertarian, known as the 'Anarchist Baronet'.

26 May 1851 – 9 August 1938

Stuart Fitzrandolph Merrill

Poet

American Symbolist poet, who wrote mostly in French, and anarchist sympathiser, born. Taught in Paris by Stéphane Mallarmé and by the time he published his first book of…

1 August 1863 – 1 February 1915

Teresa Fabbrini

Anarchist and Feminist propogandist

Teresa Fabbrini (Teresa Maria Anna Carolina Fabbrini Ballerini), Italian anarchist and feminist, who from a young age was distinguished both as a tireless propagandist of anarchist ideas and…

1 August 1855 – 3 July 1903

Torquato Gobbi

Anarchist agitator

By profession atypographer and book binder, he joined the anarchist movement by attending the "Circolo Francisco Ferrer Guardia" in Reggio Emilia. His participation in the strikes of the…

6 August 1888 – May 1963

Umberto Lenzi

Director and Writer

Italian b-movie film director and screenwritting exponent of the giallo, poliziottesco and cannibalici genres, novelist and anarchist.

6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017

Valentín González Ramírez

Spanish labourer and anarcho-syndicalist militant in the CNT's sindical de carga y descarga (lit. loading and unloading). Murdered by police during strike in Valencia.

Spanish labourer and anarcho-syndicalist militant in the CNT's sindical de carga y descarga (lit. loading and unloading), whose death at the hands of the Policia Nacional – he…

1 July 1958 – 25 June 1979

Vasil Bonĉev Ikonomov

AKA Васил Бончев Икономов

Guerilla

Bulgarian anti-fascist anarchist guerilla fighter, who was an important figure in the early 1920s Bulgarian movement, born. The son of a postman (father) and a teacher (mother), he…

9 August 1898 – 19 June 1925

Vasil Popov

AKA Hero [Героя], Doctor [Доктора]

Anarchist Organiser

Bulgarian anarchist guerrilla, who was one of the five members of the anarcho-communist Koprivshtitsa (Копривщенската) cheta that carried out the attack on Tsar Boris III's car in the…

4 August 1899 – 3 April 1927

Vera Ivanovna Zasulich

AKA Ве́ра Ива́новна Засу́лич

Revolutionary

Russian revolutionary, anarchist and then a Marxist and Menshevik, born. Involved with radical politics as a student, she was arrested and imprisoned in May 1869 for her contacts…

8 August 1849 – 8 May 1919

Vincent Ruiz Gutiérrez

Anarchist Warfighter

Spanish anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist, who participated in the Spanish Civil War. [struggle.ws/vrf/biog.htm www.estelnegre.org/anarcoefemerides/0108.html]

1 August 1912 – 17 July 1998

Wilhelm "Willi" Paul

German carpenter and metal worker, who was a lifelong anarchist militant, active in the Föderation Kommunistischer Anarchisten Deutschlands (Anarchist-Communist Federation of Germany) and the Spanish Civil War.

German carpenter and metal worker, who was a lifelong anarchist militant, active in the Föderation Kommunistischer Anarchisten Deutschlands (Anarchist-Communist Federation of Germany) and the Spanish Civil War.

1 July 1897 – 27 April 1979

William Blake

Poet

English Romantic poet, visionary radical, mystic, printer, engraver, subversive and proto-anarchist.

28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827

William Seward Burroughs II

AKA William Lee

Writer

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, satirist, one-time junkie, celebrated queer and libertarian, died from complications of a heart attack.

5 February 1914 – 2 August 1997

Zhang Ji

AKA 張繼

Chinese anarchist figure

Chinese revolutionist against the Qing dynasty and early Chinese anarchist. In 1907, created the Society for the Study of Socialism in Tokyo. Two of the Society’s founders,  and…

31 August 1882 – 15 December 1947