Born on July 13

French politician (1927-2017), Holocaust survivor, and Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. She is celebrated for championing the law decriminalizing abortion in France in 1975, a landmark victory for women's rights.

Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet born in 1934. The first African author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, he is a major figure in the defense of human rights and freedom in Africa.