Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at age 84. The civil rights activist and Baptist minister died surrounded by loved ones on Tuesday, February 17, his family said in a statement. No cause of death was given. "Our father was a servant leader - not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world," Jackson's family said in a statement to NBC News. "We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family.