Commemoratives of Famous Women for 2 February 2012

75. birthday: Lea Ackermann
German nun; activist against traficking in women, founder of SOLWEDI (Solidarity with women in distress)
* 2 February 1937 in Völklingen

115. birthday: Ossi Oswalda
German actress
* 2 February 1897 in Niederschönhausen (Berlin)
† 17 July 1947 in Prag

115. birthday: Gertrude Blanch (Gittel Kamovitz)
American mathematician
* 2 February 1897 in Kolno, Polen
† 1 January 1996

519. birthday: Bona Sforza
Italian
* 2 February 1493 in Vigevano b. Mailand
† 9 November 1557 in Bari

429. birthday: Anna Roemers Visscher
Dutch poet, painter
* 2 February 1583 in Amsterdam
† 6 December 1651 in Alkmaar

267. birthday: Hannah More
English writer
* 2 February 1745 in Stapleton b. Bristol
† 7 September 1833 in Clifton

234. birthday: Mary Anne Talbot
English
* 2 February 1778 in London
† 4 February 1808 in ebd.

212. birthday: MELANIE Hahnemann

* 2 February 1800 in Paris
† 25 May 1878 in Paris

201. birthday: Delia Bacon
American literary scholar
* 2 February 1811 in Tallmadge (Ohio)
† 2 September 1859 in New York

186. birthday: Louise Japha (Langhans- Japha)

* 2 February 1826 in Hamburg
† 13 October 1910 in Wiesbaden

186. birthday: Franziska Nietzsche
German mother of Friedrich and Elisabeth Nietzsche
* 2 February 1826 in Pobles bei/near Lützen, Sachsen/Saxony
† 20 April 1897 in Naumburg

174. birthday: Cäcilie Arand
German writer
* 2 February 1838 in Winterstettenstadt bei Biberach/Riß
† 25 February 1908 in Bad Waldsee (Württ.)

171. birthday: Sarah Ann Hackett Stevenson

* 2 February 1841 in Buffalo Grove, Ill.
† 14 August 1909 in Chicago

148. birthday: Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith
English writer
* 2 February 1864 in Glen (Schottl.)
† 28 July 1945 in London

147. birthday: Anna Breidenbenden, Ps. Aenne Mey
German writer
* 2 February 1865 in Dürscheven- Euskirchen
† 20 August 1938 in Altenburg, Rheinland

131. birthday: Anne Bauchens
American
* 2 February 1881 in St. Louis
† 7 May 1967 in Woodland Hills

124. birthday: Irene Scharrer
English pianist
* 2 February 1888 in London
† 11 January 1971 in London

123. birthday: Amrit Rajkumari Kaur
Indian politician
* 2 February 1889 in Kapurthala Palast
† 2 October 1964

112. birthday: LI STADELMANN
German
* 2 February 1900 in Würzburg
† 17 January 1993 in Gauting

111. birthday: Connie Gilchrist
American actress
* 2 February 1901 in Brooklyn, NY
† 3 March 1985 in California

107. birthday: Ayn Rand
American writer
* 2 February 1905 in Petersburg
† 6 March 1982 in New York

94. birthday: Hella Haasse
Dutch writer
* 2 February 1918 in Batavia

93. birthday: Lisa Della Casa, verh. Debeljevic
Swiss singer
* 2 February 1919 in Burgdorf, Kanton Bern

88. birthday: Elfi (Elfriede) von Dassanowsky
Austrian singer, pianist and film producer
* 2 February 1924 in Wien / Vienna
† 2 October 2007 in Los Angeles

83. birthday: Vera Chytilová
Czech director, screen writer
* 2 February 1929 in Ostrava
† Ê in  

76. birthday: Martina Arroyo
American singer
* 2 February 1936 in New York

67. birthday: Sarah Ragle Weddington
American lawyer, defended Roe vs. Wade, 1973
* 2 February 1945 in Abilene, TX

66. birthday: Farrah Fawcett
American actress
* 2 February 1946 in Corpus Christi, TX
† 25 June 2009 in SantaMonica,CA

62. birthday: Barbara Sukowa
German actress
* 2 February 1950 in Bremen

53. birthday: Hella von Sinnen
German comedian
* 2 February 1959 in Gummersbach

90. day of death: Rosalie Amstein
Swiss writer
* 30 April 1846 in St. Gallen
† 2 February 1923 in Belp, bei Bern

35. day of death: Wendy Barrie
English actress
* 18 April 1912 in Hong Kong
† 2 February 1978 in Englewood, New Yersey

421. day of death: Ana Fürstin Eboli
Spanish lady-in-waiting
* 29 June 1540 in Cifuentes
† 2 February 1592 in Pastrana

219. day of death: Marie Fel
French singer
* 24 October 1713 in Bordeaux
† 2 February 1794 in Paris

177. day of death: Maria Letizia Bonaparte
French mother of Napoleon
* 24 August 1750 in Ajaccio
† 2 February 1836 in Rom

149. day of death: Adelaide Anne Procter
English
* 30 October 1825 in London
† 2 February 1864 in ebd.

68. day of death: Elisabeth Rose

* 8 November 1910 in Hamburg
† 2 February 1945

59. day of death: Hella Wuolijoki
Estonian-Finnish writer, politician
* 22 July 1886 in Helme (Estl.)
† 2 February 1954 in Helsinki

56. day of death: Julia Morgan
American architect
* 26 January 1872 in San Francisco
† 2 February 1957 in San Francisco

42. day of death: Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann
German voice teacher
* 6 October 1887 in Bromberg
† 2 February 1971 in Düsseldorf

41. day of death: Jessie Royce Landis
American
* 25 November 1904 in Chicago
† 2 February 1972 in Danbury, CT

41. day of death: Natalie Clifford Barney
American salon hostess, writer
* 31 October 1876 in Dayton, OH
† 2 February 1972 in Paris

39. day of death: Marieluise Fleißer
German writer
* 23 November 1901 in Ingolstadt
† 2 February 1974 in Ingolstadt

28. day of death: Micheline C. Saint-Marcoux

* 9 August 1938 in Notre-Dame-de-la-Doré, Québec
† 2 February 1985 in Montreal

19. day of death: Marija Gimbutas
Lithuanian-American prehistorian, acheologist, ethnologist
* 23 January 1921 in Vilnius, Litauen
† 2 February 1994 in Los Angeles, CA