* A few humanitarian and religious leaders such as Mother Teresa and Desmond Tutu have achieved fame because of their charitable work around the world.

Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has described homophobia as a " crime against humanity " and " every bit as unjust " as apartheid: " We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about ; our very skins.

* 1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.

The 1st phase of the monument was unveiled by Pelé and Archbishop Desmond Tutu on 12 July 2008.

On 18 July 2007 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, and Desmond Tutu convened a group of world leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world's toughest problems.

He drew the ire of many when he called Nobel Peace Prize winner and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu a phony " as far as representing the black people of South Africa.

Among the prominent figures who have called for the abolition of nuclear weapons are " the philosopher Bertrand Russell, the entertainer Steve Allen, CNN ’ s Ted Turner, former Senator Claiborne Pell, Notre Dame president Theodore Hesburg, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama ".

* 1931 – Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate

* 1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

South African Archbishop the Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu said he was " very deeply distressed " by a visit to the Holy Land, adding that " it reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa ".

In 2009, the government is scheduled to set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, with the assistance of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to " address people ’ s traumatic experiences during the five year ethnic conflict on Guadalcanal ".

* 1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.

* 1989 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.

On April 20, 2004, SFU conferred honorary degrees upon three Nobel Peace Prize recipients: the 14th Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu, and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi.

The TRC had a number of high profile members: Archbishop Desmond Tutu ( chairman ), Dr. Alex Boraine ( Deputy Chairman ), Mary Burton, Advocate Chris de Jager, Bongani Finca, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Sisi Khampepe, Richard Lyster, Wynand Malan, Reverend Khoza Mgojo, Hlengiwe Mkhize, Dumisa Ntsebeza ( head of the Investigative Unit ), Dr. Wendy Orr, Advocate Denzil Potgieter, Mapule Ramashala, Dr. Fazel Randera, Yasmin Sooka and Glenda Wildschut.

* Tutu, Desmond.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu as chairman of the commission recognised her importance in the anti-apartheid struggle, but also begged her to apologise and to admit her mistakes.

She referred to archbishop Desmond Tutu, in his capacity as the head of the Truth and Reconciliation commission, as a " cretin ".

* Peace – Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu

** Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican archbishop and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

** Archbishop Desmond Tutu is given an official farewell at his retirement service.

** Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Anglican Church bishop in South Africa.

Desmond Tutu, Archbishop and former Primate ( bishop ) | Primate of the Anglican Church of the Province of South Africa

Some, such as Michael Ramsey of Canterbury and Desmond Tutu of Cape Town, South Africa, continue to use the title in retirement, while others do not keep the title of archbishop and simply revert to bishop.

The present members of this group are Desmond Tutu, Graça Machel, Kofi Annan, Ela Bhatt, Lakhdar Brahimi, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jimmy Carter, Mary Robinson, Muhammad Yunus, and Aung San Suu Kyi ( with an empty chair for her ).

Desmond Tutu serves as the chair of The Elders — who will use their collective skills to catalyse peaceful resolutions to long-standing conflicts, articulate new approaches to global issues that are causing or may cause immense human suffering, and share wisdom by helping to connect voices all over the world.

Uys also serves on the Board of Directors for the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded to provide treatment for and conduct research relating to HIV.

The arena also serves as the site of commencement exercises for several of the university's colleges, and has hosted concerts by artists such as Whitney Houston and * NSYNC, and speeches by Former President Bill Clinton and Desmond Tutu.

Ierulli will replace Desmond D. Connall who has been called to active military service but is expected back on the job by March 31.

In 2004 there was a limited-run revival at the Royal National Theatre starring Desmond Barrit as Pseudolus, Philip Quast as Miles Gloriosus, Hamish McColl as Hysterium and Isla Blair as Domina ( who had previously played Philia in the 1963 production ).

Newer contributors who appeared in this period include Anthony Barbieri, Scott Bricher, Tom Bunk, John Caldwell, Desmond Devlin, Drew Friedman, Barry Liebmann, Kevin Pope, Scott Maiko, Hermann Mejia, Tom Richmond, Andrew J. Schwartzberg, Mike Snider, Greg Theakston, Nadina Simon, Rick Tulka and Bill Wray.

But after he passed an MI5 security check conducted by two MI5 officers ( Cyril Mills and Tomás Harris ) and an MI6 officer ( Desmond Bristow ), Mills ( who Pujol only ever knew as Mr Grey ) suggested that his code name be changed to, after Greta Garbo.

Additionally, when Desmond meets a mysterious woman with apparent knowledge of the future ( later revealed as Eloise Hawking ), she points out a man with red shoes, who moments later is killed by falling scaffolding ; when Desmond asks why she didn't try to save the man, she says that " it wouldn't matter.

All the Cambridge men except Clive Bell and the Stephen brothers were also members of " the exclusive Cambridge society, the ' Apostles '"; there they met older members such as Desmond MacCarthy and Roger Fry as well as E. M. Forster and J. M. Keynes, who were all from King ’ s College.

The north and east of Cork were taken by the Hiberno-Norman FitzGerald dynasty, who became the Earls of Desmond.

The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent movie star who draws him into her fantasy world where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen with Erich von Stroheim as Max Von Mayerling, her butler and ex-husband.

Meeting the woman who owns the house, he recognizes her as long-forgotten silent-film star Norma Desmond ( Swanson ).

Norma Talmadge has been described as " the obvious if unacknowledged source of Norma Desmond, the grotesque, predatory silent movie queen of " the film, itself a malignant misrepresentation of Talmadge starring an actress who had been a rival in the 1920s.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

After the war, together with Hilary Pepler and Desmond Chute, Gill founded The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic at Ditchling, where his pupils included the young David Jones, who soon began a relationship with Gill's daughter, Petra.

She is associated with the MacCarthy dynasty of Desmond, who adopted her as their fairy woman, and the O ' Keeffes and FitzGerald dynasty, with whom she has had amorous affairs ( MacKillop 1998 ; Monaghan 2004 ).

* Sir Humphrey also had an old acquaintance: Sir Desmond Glazebrook ( played by Richard Vernon ), who was Board member, then Chairman, of Bartlett's Bank.

A Japanese expert on biology, agriculture, and ecological systems, it was Ai who smuggled Desmond " Coyote " Hawkins onto the Ares ( the two were friends and lovers as students in London ).

Two actors from the Bond franchise were involved in the film: Desmond Llewelyn and Gert Frobe, who played the parts of scrap-dealer Coggins and Baron Bomberst, respectively.

Launched on 21 December 1985 by Desmond O ' Malley and other politicians who had split from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, the Progressive Democrats took liberal positions on divorce, contraception, and other social issues.

He later transferred to the entertainment branch ( under luminaries such as Spike Milligan ), and immediately prior to his national service, there was a brief stint at RADA ( the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ), during which his fees were paid by film director Brian Desmond Hurst, who also used Moore as an extra in his film Trottie True.

On the outbreak of the Second Desmond Rebellion in 1579, Stanley was promoted to captain under Sir William Drury, lord justice of Ireland, who knighted him at Waterford for his service in penetrating Limerick in pursuit of the followers of Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond.

He expressed his enthusiasm for Irish soldiers, considering those who had fought under the Geraldine John of Desmond as resolute as any in Europe ; in 1579 he had commented that the only difference between English and Irish soldiers lay in the superior discipline of the former.