Born on July 12, 1997, Malala Yousafzai became an advocate for girls' education when she herself was still a child, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. She survived, and continues speaking out about female eduation today. Currently 21, she was the youngest winner of the Nobel prize, at 17 in 2014. The year before, after surviving assassination attempt in 2013, she gave a speech to the United Nations and published her first book, I Am Malala.
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