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Also Known As William David Trimble
Born October 15, 1944 • Belfast • Northern Ireland
Died July 25, 2022 (aged 77)
Political Affiliation Ulster Unionist Party
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Role In Good Friday Agreement

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John Hume
John Hume
Irish leader
Máiread Maguire
Máiread Maguire
Northern Irish peace activist
Betty Williams
Northern Irish activist
Lord Noel-Baker.
Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
British statesman
Sir Norman Angell, c. 1925.
Sir Norman Angell
British economist
Reg Empey
Reg Empey
British politician
Mark Durkan
Mark Durkan
Northern Ireland politician
Andrey Sakharov
Andrey Sakharov
Soviet physicist and dissident
Balch, Emily Greene
Emily Greene Balch
American political scientist
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
Pire, Dominique
Dominique Pire
Belgian clergyman and educator
Alva Myrdal.
Alva Reimer Myrdal
Swedish diplomat
La Fontaine, Henri
Henri La Fontaine
Belgian lawyer
Moneta, Ernesto Teodoro
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Italian journalist
Charles-Albert Gobat
Swiss political scientist
Passy, 1901
Frédéric Passy
French economist
Fried, Alfred Hermann
Alfred Hermann Fried
Austrian pacifist and publicist