births
February 15, 1923
Yelena Bonner, Soviet-Russian activist (died 2011)
Yelena Bonner
Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist, activist and 1975 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was noted for her characteristic blunt honesty and courage.