Commemoratives of Famous Women for 2 June 2012

110. birthday: Hanna Stephan
German writer
* 2 June 1902 in Dramburg/ Pommern
† 12 April 1980 in Osterode/ Harz

185. birthday: Bertha Augusti
German writer
* 2 June 1827 in Köln
† 12 December 1886 in Koblenz

105. birthday: Dorothy West
American writer
* 2 June 1907 in Boston, MA
† 16 August 1998 in Boston, MA

281. birthday: Martha Custis Washington
American First Lady (1789-97)
* 2 June 1731 in New Kent County
† 22 May 1802 in Mount Vernon

281. birthday: Charlotte Dorothea Biehl
Danish
* 2 June 1731 in Kopenhagen
† 17 May 1788 in ebd.

217. birthday: Jenny von Droste-Hülshoff
German sister of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
* 2 June 1795 in Hülshoff bei Münster
† 29 December 1859

213. birthday: Louise-Charles-Théophile Mante
French
* 2 June 1799 in Paris
† 25 May 1849 in ebd.

151. birthday: Helen Herron Taft
American
* 2 June 1861 in Cincinnati
† 22 May 1943 in Washington, DC

137. birthday: Winifred Cullis
English
* 2 June 1875 in Gloucester
† 1956

128. birthday: Mia May
Austrian actress
* 2 June 1884 in Wien
† 28 November 1980 in Los Angeles

127. birthday: Hedda Hopper
American
* 2 June 1885 in Hollidaysburg, PA
† 1 February 1966 in Los Angeles, CA

113. birthday: Lotte Reiniger
German-English pioneer of animated film
* 2 June 1899 in Berlin
† 19 June 1981 in Dettenhausen/ Tübingen

104. birthday: Steffie Spira
German actress
* 2 June 1908 in Wien
† 11 May 1995

103. birthday: Martha Rohs

* 2 June 1909 in Saarbrücken
† 27 July 1963 in Wien

101. birthday: Xiao Hong
Chinese writer
* 2 June 1911 in Bezirk Hulan (Provinz Heilongjiang)
† 22 January 1942 in Hongkong

89. birthday: Brigitte Matschinsky-Denninghoff
German sculptor
* 2 June 1923 in Berlin
† 11 April 2011 in Berlin

89. birthday: Margot Trooger
German actress
* 2 June 1923 in Gorma, Thür. o. Rositz
† 24 April 1994 in Mörlenbach im Odenwald

77. birthday: Carol Shields geb. Warner
American-Canadian writer
* 2 June 1935 in Oak Park, IL
† 16 July 2003 in Victoria, BC

71. birthday: Irene Schweizer
Swiss jazz pianist
* 2 June 1941 in Schaffhausen

66. birthday: Inga Nielsen
Danish singer
* 2 June 1946 in Holbæk
† 10 February 2008 in Gentofte bei Kopenhagen

49. birthday: Cornelia Monske
German percussionist
* 2 June 1963 in Hannover

48. birthday: Caroline Link
German
* 2 June 1964 in Bad Nauheim

32. birthday: Abby Wambach
American soccer player
* 2 June 1980 in Pittsford

130. day of death: Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann
German singer
* 15 July 1853 in München
† 2 June 1883 in Triest

85. day of death: Adela Zamudio
Bolivian writer and social reformer
* 11 October 1854 in Cochabamba
† 2 June 1928 in Cochabamba

312. day of death: Madeleine de Scudéry
French writer, salon hostess
* 15 October 1607 in Le Havre
† 2 June 1701 in Paris

184. day of death: Eleanor Butler
one of the two Ladies of Llangollen
* 11 May 1737
† 2 June 1829

149. day of death: Caroline Bardua
German
* 11 November 1781 in Ballenstedt, Harz
† 2 June 1864 in Ballenstedt, Harz

93. day of death: Rhoda Broughton
English writer
* 29 November 1840 in Denbighshire, North Wales
† 2 June 1920 in Headington Hill, Oxford

92. day of death: Phebe Hanaford
American writer, feminist
* 6 May 1829 in Siasconset, Nantucket, MA
† 2 June 1921 in Rochester, NY

88. day of death: Emilia Broome
Swedish
* 13 January 1866 in Jönköping
† 2 June 1925 in Stockholm

71. day of death: Helene Neumann
German painter
* 14 March 1874 in Königsberg
† 2 June 1942

51. day of death: Vita Sackville-West
English writer, gardener, friend of Virginia Woolf
* 9 March 1892 in Knole Sevenoaks
† 2 June 1962 in Sissinghurst Castle

2. day of death: Rosalyn Yalow
American physicist, nuclear physician; Npbel laureate (medicine)
* 19 July 1921 in New York
† 2 June 2011 in Bronx, New York