Commemoratives of Famous Women for 2 September 2010

190. birthday: Lucretia Peabody Hale
American writer
* 2 September 1820 in Boston
† 12 May 1900 in Boston

170. birthday: Emily Dilke
English
* 2 September 1840 in Ilfracombe
† 24 October 1904 in Pryford Rough

140. birthday: Luise Gräfin von Montignoso

* 2 September 1870 in Salzburg
† 23 March 1947 in Brüssel

115. birthday: Monique Saint-Hélier
Swiss writer
* 2 September 1895 in La-Chaux-de-Fonds
† 9 March 1955 in Pacy-sur-Eure

247. birthday: Caroline von Schlegel-Schelling
German writer
* 2 September 1763 in Göttingen
† 7 September 1809 in Maulbronn

203. birthday: Fredrika Runeberg
Finnish writer
* 2 September 1807 in Jakobstad/Pietarsaari, Finnland
† 27 May 1879 in Helsingfors/Helsinki

189. birthday: Anne Whitney
American sculptor, poet
* 2 September 1821 in Watertown, MA
† 23 January 1915 in Boston, MA

172. birthday: Liliuokalani
American-Hawaiian; last sovereign of Hawaii; composer
* 2 September 1838 in Honolulu
† 11 November 1917 in Honolulu

167. birthday: Julie Bebel geb. Otto
German socialist, wife of August Bebel
* 2 September 1843 in Leipzig
† 22 November 1910 in Zürich

157. birthday: Emma Hopkins
American
* 2 September 1853 in Killingly, CN
† 25 April 1925 in New York

153. birthday: Wilhelmina Carlson
Swedish
* 2 September 1857 in Stockholm
† 9 June 1943 in ebd.

149. birthday: Henriette Crosman
American actress
* 2 September 1861 in Wheeling
† 31 October 1944 in New York

146. birthday: Séraphine Louis
French painter, cleaning woman
* 2 September 1864 in Arsy (Oise)
† 11 December 1942 in Clermont-de-l'Oise

139. birthday: Lisa Hausmann- Löns
German wife of Herrmann Löns
* 2 September 1871 in Hannover
† 2 December 1955 in Bad Oeynhausen

139. birthday: Hildegard Wegscheider
German
* 2 September 1871 in Liegnitz, Schlesien
† 4 April 1953 in Berlin

129. birthday: Elisabeth Christman
American labor organizer
* 2 September 1881 in Chicago
† 26 April 1975 in Delphi, Ind.

116. birthday: Bryher (eig. Annie Winifred Ellerman)
English writer, matron (patron) of the arts
* 2 September 1894 in Margate, Kent
† 28 January 1983 in Vevey, Schweiz/Switzerland

109. birthday: Else Meidner
German painter
* 2 September 1901 in Berlin
† 5 May 1987 in London

97. birthday: Ruth Blum
Swiss writer
* 2 September 1913 in Wilchingen
† 2 August 1975 in ebd.

89. birthday: ANNEMARIE BLANC
Swiss actress
* 2 September 1921 in Vevey
† 5 February 2009 in Zürich / Zurich

83. birthday: Trude Jochum- Beiser
Austrian skier (descent)
* 2 September 1927 in Lech, Arlberg

76. birthday: Hilla Becher

* 2 September 1934 in Potsdam

62. birthday: Christa McAuliffe
American teacher; victim of the Challenger explosion
* 2 September 1948 in Boston, MA
† 28 January 1986 in Cape Canaveral, FL

52. birthday: Barbara Woof
Australian composer
* 2 September 1958 in Sydney

70. day of death: Maria Leo
German
* 18 October 1873 in Berlin
† 2 September 1942 in Berlin

20. day of death: Barbara McClintock
American biochemist, Nobel laureate
* 16 June 1902 in Hartford, CN
† 2 September 1992 in Huntington, NY

185. day of death: Ludovika Simanowitz
German painter
* 21 February 1759 in Schorndorf
† 2 September 1827 in Ludwigsburg

201. day of death: Julie von Charpentier
German second bride of Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
* 16 March 1776 in Freiberg?
† 2 September 1811 in Schemnitz (heute Slowakei)

153. day of death: Delia Bacon
American literary scholar
* 2 February 1811 in Tallmadge (Ohio)
† 2 September 1859 in New York

97. day of death: Bertha Tapper

* 25 January 1859 in Oslo
† 2 September 1915 in New York

47. day of death: Ethel Browne Harvey
American
* 14 December 1885 in Baltimore, MD
† 2 September 1965 in Falmouth, MA

37. day of death: Mabel Vernon
American feminist, pacifist
* 10 September 1883 in Wilmington, DE
† 2 September 1975 in Washington, DC

32. day of death: Nina Kandinsky
Russian wife and heir of Kandinsky
* 1893
† 2 September 1980 in Gstaad

32. day of death: Marguerite Jason
Swiss writer
* 18 January 1904 in Biel
† 2 September 1980 in Leubringen ob Biel

27. day of death: Anna Banti
Italian writer
* 27 June 1895 in Florenz
† 2 September 1985 in Ronchi, Rom

21. day of death: Laura Riding
American
* 16 January 1901 in New York City
† 2 September 1991 in Sebastian, FL

19. day of death: JOANA MARIA Gorvin
German actress
* 30 September 1922 in Hermannstadt/Siebenbürgen (Rumänien)
† 2 September 1993 in Wien

16. day of death: Emily Kame Kngwarreye

* 1910 ca in Utopia, Soakage Bore, N.Terr.
† 2 September 1996 in Alice Springs, N.Terr.

13. day of death: Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda
Colombian anthropologist, family sociologist
* 4 November 1921
† 2 September 1999

4. day of death: Andrea C. Busch
German writer
* 22 June 1963 in Darmstadt
† 2 September 2008