Commemoratives of Famous Women for 1 August 2010

100. birthday: Gerda (Gerta) Taro, eig. Pohorylles
German photograper; wr reporter; resistance fighter;
* 1 August 1910 in Leipzig? Stuttgart?
† 27 July 1937 in El Escorial/ Spanien

100. birthday: Käthe Vorderberg, geb. Nehls
German botanist
* 1 August 1910 in Stralsund
† 10 May 1978

210. birthday: Elizabeth Randles
English
* 1 August 1800 in Wrexham
† 1829 in Liverpool

140. birthday: Maximiliane Bleibtreu
Austrian actress
* 1 August 1870 in Pressburg
† 18 April 1923 in Dresden

105. birthday: Helen Sawyer Hogg
Canadian astronomer
* 1 August 1905 in Lowell, MA
† 28 January 1993 in Richmond Hill, Ontario / Toronto

218. birthday: Caspara Preetzmann
Danish
* 1 August 1792 in Aalborg
† 26 December 1876 in Kopenhagen

192. birthday: Maria Mitchell
American astronomer
* 1 August 1818 in Nantucket, MA
† 28 June 1889 in Lynn, MA

176. birthday: Clementia Taylor
English
* 1 August 1834 in Leicester
† 14 February 1929

173. birthday: Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones)
American labor organizer
* 1 August 1837 in Cork, Irland
† 30 November 1930 in Silver Spring, MD

151. birthday: Ernestine Epstein
German singer
* 1 August 1859 in Wien
† 5 October 1935 in Frankfurt/M.

131. birthday: Luise Staudinger
German
* 1 August 1879 in Worms

129. birthday: Rose Macaulay
English writer
* 1 August 1881 in Cambridge
† 30 October 1958 in London

113. birthday: Lya Mara
Latvian-German actress
* 1 August 1897 in Riga
† im zweiten

109. birthday: Nina Berberowa
Russian writer
* 1 August 1901 in St. Petersburg
† 26 September 1993 in Philadelphia, PA

103. birthday: Marga von Etzdorf
German aviator
* 1 August 1907 in Berlin-Spandau
† 28 May 1933 in Aleppo, Syrien/Syria

91. birthday: Fides Krause-Brewer
German journalist, economy expert
* 1 August 1919 in München / Munich

25. day of death: Pola Negri
Polish-American actress
* 31 December 1894 in Lipno / Lippau b. Bromberg,
† 1 August 1987 in San Antonio, TX

110. day of death: Elizabeth Stoddard
American writer
* 6 May 1823 in Mattapoisett, MA
† 1 August 1902 in New York

20. day of death: Margarita Aliger
Russian writer, translator
* 7 October 1915 in Odessa
† 1 August 1992 in Moskau /Moscow

185. day of death: Pauline Guizot
French writer
* 2 November 1773 in Paris
† 1 August 1827 in ebd.

155. day of death: Emilie Zumsteeg
German composer and music teacher
* 9 December 1796 in Stuttgart
† 1 August 1857 in ebd.

298. day of death: Anna Stuart (Queen Anne)
English queen
* 6 February 1665 in London
† 1 August 1714 in Kensington

191. day of death: Elizabeth Inchbald
English
* 15 October 1753 in Stadingsfield
† 1 August 1821 in London

143. day of death: Alexandrine Tinne
Dutch explorer (Africa), photographer
* 17 October 1839 in den Haag / The Hague
† 1 August 1869 in bei/near Murzuq/Libyen 

128. day of death: Sarah Pugh

* 6 October 1800 in Alexandria, VA
† 1 August 1884 in Germantown, PA

109. day of death: Calamity Jane
American adventurer
* January 1852?05 in Princeton, Missouri / Illinois, Miss.
† 1 August 1903 in Terry, Dak.

99. day of death: Lessja Ukrainka

* 25 February 1871 in Nowgorad-Wolynski
† 1 August 1913 in Surai/ Suram (Georgien)

42. day of death: Frances Farmer
American actress
* 14 September 1914 in Seattle, WA
† 1 August 1970 in Indianapolis, IN

42. day of death: Doris Fleeson
American
* 20 May 1901
† 1 August 1970 in im Zug (Wahlkampagne)

24. day of death: Florence Eldridge
American actress
* 5 September 1901 in Brooklyn
† 1 August 1988

14. day of death: Eva Bartok
actress
* 18 June 1926 in Kecskemet, Ungarn
† 1 August 1998 in London

9. day of death: Marie Trintignant
French actress, director
* 21 January 1962 in Paris
† 1 August 2003 in Paris