Commemoratives of Famous Women for 24 May 2013

230. birthday: Anna Margarethe Geiger

* 24 May 1783 in Schweinfurt
† 4 September 1809 in Wien

140. birthday: Ernst Georgy (Ps. f. Margarete Michaelson)
German writer
* 24 May 1873 in Berlin
† 12 December 1924 in Berlin

130. birthday: Elsa Maxwell
American writer, journalist, actress
* 24 May 1883 in Keokuk (Iowa)
† 1 November 1963 in New York

80. birthday: Marian Engel
Canadian writer
* 24 May 1933 in Toronto (Ontario)
† 16 February 1985 in Toronto

195. birthday: Agnes Kayser-Langerhanß
German writer
* 24 May 1818 in Schloß Heldrungen/Unstrut, Thür.
† 21 April 1902 in Dresden

145. birthday: Fia Wille
German interior decorator
* 24 May 1868 in Bentheim
† 20 September 1920 in Hannover

135. birthday: Lillian Moller Gilbreth
American engineer, psychologist
* 24 May 1878 in Oakland, CA
† 2 January 1972 in Scottsdale, AZ

115. birthday: Helen Brooke Taussig
American surgeon, endocrinologist, cardiologist
* 24 May 1898 in Cambridge, MA
† 20 May 1986 in Kennett Square / West Chester, PA

344. birthday: Emerentia von Düben
Swedish
* 24 May 1669
† 22 March 1743 in Stockholm

236. birthday: Laure de Berny
French writer; lover of Balzac
* 24 May 1777 in Livry
† 27 July 1836 in Gretz b.

228. birthday: Friederike Auguste Unzelmann, geb. Petersilie

* 24 May 1785 in Weimar
† 19 November 1855 in Bern

194. birthday: Victoria / Viktoria Victoria / Viktoria I. von England
English queen
* 24 May 1819 in London
† 22 January 1901 in Osborne (Isle of Wight)

172. birthday: Zalma-Madeleine Bouffar
French
* 24 May 1841 in Nerac
† 1909 in Couilly-St. Germain

152. birthday: Helene Büttner
Hungarian painter
* 24 May 1861 in Berlin
† 1947

143. birthday: Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist and explorer
* 24 May 1870 in Georgetown, D.C.
† 12 July 1938 in Berkeley

128. birthday: Susan Sutherland Isaacs
English
* 24 May 1885 in Bolton (Lancs.)
† 12 October 1948 in London

114. birthday: Suzanne Lenglen
French tennis player
* 24 May 1899 in Paris
† 4 July 1938 in ebd.

113. birthday: Annemarie Rübens
German-Argentinian theologist, resistance fighter, human rights activist
* 24 May 1900 in Banfield, Buenos Aires, Argentinien
† 8 May 1991 in Göttingen

101. birthday: Joan Hammond
New Zealand singer
* 24 May 1912 in Christchurch, Neuseel.
† 26 November 1996 in ""

99. birthday: Lilli Palmer
English-German actress
* 24 May 1914 in Posen
† 27 January 1986 in Los Angeles, CA

91. birthday: Siobhan McKenna
Irish actress
* 24 May 1922 in Belfast
† 16 November 1986 in Dublin

88. birthday: Mai Zetterling
Swedish actress, writer, director
* 24 May 1925 in Västeras
† 15 March 1993 in London

68. birthday: Bärbel Bohley, geb. Brosius
German politician, civil rights activist
* 24 May 1945 in Berlin
† 11 September 2010 in Strasburg (Uckermark), Landkreis Uecker-Randow)

67. birthday: Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska
Polish
* 24 May 1946 in Leningrad

67. birthday: Tansu Çiller
Turkish politician; prime minister (1993)
* 24 May 1946 in Istanbul

54. birthday: Monika Hauser
German physician, human and women's rights activist
* 24 May 1959 in Thal, Schweiz

60. day of death: Helene Christaller
German writer
* 31 January 1872 in Darmstadt
† 24 May 1953 in Jugenheim, Bergstraße

165. day of death: Annette von Droste- Hülshoff
German poet, composer
* 10 January 1797 in Schloß Hülshoff b./n. Münster, Westf.
† 24 May 1848 in Meersburg

801. day of death: Dagmar von Böhmen; später Dagmaer von Dänemark
Danish queen
* 1186 ca in ""
† 24 May 1212 in Ribe

358. day of death: Maria de Jesus de Agreda
Spanish
* 2 April 1602 in Agreda
† 24 May 1655 in Agreda

206. day of death: Elizabeth Peck Perkins
American
* 14 February 1735 in Boston
† 24 May 1807 in Boston

187. day of death: Antonie Tischbein
German
* 1761 in Hamburg
† 24 May 1826 in Aurich

171. day of death: Helene Zoege von Manteuffel
German painter; mother of Wilhelm von Kügelgen
* 24 November 1774 in Eigstfer (Estl.)
† 24 May 1842 in Ballenstedt, Harz

148. day of death: Sophie Barat
French founder of a Catholic Order; Saint
* 13 December 1779 in Joigny
† 24 May 1865 in Paris

142. day of death: Rebecca Cox Jackson
American Shaker leader
* 15 February 1795 in Hornstown, PA
† 24 May 1871 in Philadelphia, PA

124. day of death: Laura Dewey Bridgeman
American first deaf-blind woman to be educated
* 21 December 1829 in Etna b. Hanover, N.H.
† 24 May 1889 in Boston

119. day of death: Julie Bergmann
German actress
* 14 September 1843 in Lemberg
† 24 May 1894 in Berlin

78. day of death: Mary Sherwood
American physician
* 31 March 1856 in Ballston, NH
† 24 May 1935 in Baltimore

77. day of death: Claudia Muzio
Italian singer
* 7 February 1889 in Pavia
† 24 May 1936 in Rom

69. day of death: Stephanie Hollenstein
Austrian painter
* 18 July 1886 in Lustenau
† 24 May 1944 in Wien

58. day of death: Sara Martin, Sara
American
* 18 June 1884 in Louisville
† 24 May 1955 in ebd.

53. day of death: Ida Sophia Scudder
American
* 9 December 1870 in Ranipet, Indien
† 24 May 1960 in Palani Hills

36. day of death: Elisabeth Käsemann
German
* 11 May 1947 in Gelsenkirchen
† 24 May 1977 in Buenos Aires

26. day of death: Hermione Gingold
English-American actress and comedian
* 9 December 1897 in London
† 24 May 1987

3. day of death: Anneliese Rothenberger
German singer
* 19 June 1926 in Mannheim
† 24 May 2010 in Münsterlingen, Schweiz