Commemoratives of Famous Women for 1 May 2012

190. birthday: Regula Keller
Swiss
* 1 May 1822 in Zürich
† 6 October 1888 in ebd.

170. birthday: Janet Monach Patey
singer (alto)
* 1 May 1842 in London
† 28 February 1894 in Sheffield

135. birthday: Teresina Burchi
Italian singer
* 1 May 1877 in Sestola bei Modena
† 1932 in Mailand / Milano

105. birthday: Kate Smith
American singer
* 1 May 1907 in Greenville, Va.
† 17 June 1986 in Raleigh, NC

95. birthday: Danielle Darrieux
French actress
* 1 May 1917 in Bordeaux

237. birthday: Angélique Lavol Mongez
French
* 1 May 1775 in Conflans
† 20 February 1855 in Paris

177. birthday: Maria Elisabeth, Gräfin von Pocci
German painter
* 1 May 1835 in München
† 26 July 1913 in Schloss Ammerland (Starnb. See)

168. birthday: Jenny Marx, verh. Longuet
German socialist; eldest daughter of Jenny and Karl Marx
* 1 May 1844
† 11 January 1883

157. birthday: Cecilia Beaux
American portrait painter
* 1 May 1855 in Philadelphia, PA
† 12 September 1942 in Gloucester, MA

157. birthday: Marie Corelli
English writer
* 1 May 1855 in Gloucester Terrace
† 21 April 1924 in Stratford-on-Avon

138. birthday: Gertrud Pfander
Swiss writer
* 1 May 1874 in Basel
† 9 November 1898 in Davos

138. birthday: Romaine Brooks
American painter
* 1 May 1874 in Rom/Rome
† 7 December 1970 in Nizza/Nice

121. birthday: Else Rosenfeld (Ps. Rahel Behrend)
German
* 1 May 1891 in Berlin
† 1970

118. birthday: Ida Fischer-Colbrie
Austrian
* 1 May 1894 in Ried/ Innkreis
† 22 November 1973 in Linz

111. birthday: Inga Tidblad
Swedish actress
* 1 May 1901 in Stockholm
† 12 September 1975 in ebd.

108. birthday: Ineko Sata
writer
* 1 May 1904 in Nagasaki
† 12 October 1998 in Tokyo

102. birthday: Behice Boran
Turkish sociologist and politician
* 1 May 1910 in Bursa
† 7 October 1987 in Brüssel

99. birthday: Dame Felicity Peake, geb. Hyde Watts, verh. Hanbury
English Brigadier of the Royal Airforce; entrepreneur
* 1 May 1913 in Cheadle Hulme, Manchester
† 2 November 2002 in London

99. birthday: Elizabeth Buckley Shull Russell
American geneticist
* 1 May 1913 in Ann Arbor, Michigan
† 28 May 2001 in Mount Desert Island, Maine

88. birthday: Mabel Smith
American
* 1 May 1924
† 23 January 1972

150. day of death: Mary Moody Emerson
American
* 25 August 1774 in Concord, MA
† 1 May 1863 in Williamsburgh

50. day of death: Veza Canetti
Austrian writer; wife of Elias Canetti
* 21 November 1897 in Wien
† 1 May 1963 in London

80. day of death: Harriet Ellen von Rathlef-Keilmann
German sculptor
* 3 January 1887 in Riga, Livland
† 1 May 1933 in Berlin.

45. day of death: Lorena A. Hickok
American journalist
* 7 March 1893 in East Troy, WI
† 1 May 1968 in Rhinebeck, NY

35. day of death: Sylvia Townsend Warner
English poet and composer
* 6 December 1893 in Harrow-on-the-Hill
† 1 May 1978 in Maiden Newton

474. day of death: Isabella Isabella von Spanien und Neapel
German
* 4 October 1503 in Lissabon
† 1 May 1539 in Toledo

253. day of death: Christiana Mariana von Ziegler
German poet
* 28 June 1695 in Leipzig
† 1 May 1760 in Genf / Geneva

197. day of death: Julie Overbek
Danish painter
* 23 March 1788 in Kopenhagen
† 1 May 1816 in Hamburg

123. day of death: Anna Elisabeth Kelly
Swiss painter
* 10 April 1825 in St. Gallen
† 1 May 1890 in ebd.

102. day of death: Hannah Whitall Smith
American preacher, reformer
* 7 February 1832 in Philadelphia
† 1 May 1911 in Iffley (Engl.)

93. day of death: Sophie Brezing
German; mother of Bert Brecht
* 8 August 1871 in Roßberg b. Waldsee/Bad-Württ.
† 1 May 1920 in Augsburg

77. day of death: Hermine Bosetti
German
* 28 September 1875 in Wien
† 1 May 1936 in Hohenrain o. München

68. day of death: Magda Goebbels
wife of Joseph Goebbels
* 11 November 1901 in Berlin
† 1 May 1945 in Berlin

53. day of death: Dorothy Bussy (Strachey)
English writer
* 24 July 1865
† 1 May 1960

46. day of death: Maria Probst
German
* 1902 in München
† 1 May 1967

44. day of death: Jean Rosenthal
American designer (lighting)
* 16 March 1912 in New York
† 1 May 1969 in ebd.

17. day of death: Irene Koss
German
* 3 August 1928 in Hamburg
† 1 May 1996 in München