[SamuraiScot]

Stéphane Frédéric Hessel . . . 20 October 1917 (age 95) . . . Known for Human rights advocacy [i.e., some humans, and some rights]

Thanks for the summary. I guess you'd call him a young hero who became an old crank.

[Eleutheria5]

That happens a lot. How fortunate for Joseph Trumpledor that he died young for his country. He might have grown to become a hoary-headed political whore.