Commemoratives of Famous Women for 3 January 2012

125. birthday: Harriet Ellen von Rathlef-Keilmann
German sculptor
* 3 January 1887 in Riga, Livland
† 1 May 1933 in Berlin.

90. birthday: Agnes Nemes Nagy
Hungarian poet, resistance fighter
* 3 January 1922
† 23 August 1991 in ""

215. birthday: Madame Vestris
English
* 3 January 1797 in London
† 8 August 1856 in London

155. birthday: Emma Ihrer
German politivian, union official
* 3 January 1857 in Glatz
† 8 January 1911 in Berlin

115. birthday: Dorothy Arzner
American director, film theorist, writer
* 3 January 1897 in San Francisco, CA
† 1 October 1979 in La Quinta, CA

219. birthday: Lucretia Mott
American abolitionist, Quaker minister, pioneer of the women's movement
* 3 January 1793 in Nantucket, MA
† 11 November 1880 in Roadside bei/near Philadelphia, PA

206. birthday: Henriette Sontag
German singer
* 3 January 1806 in Koblenz
† 17 June 1854 in Mexiko City

193. birthday: Franziska Schervier
German
* 3 January 1819 in Aachen
† 14 December 1876 in Aachen

162. birthday: Sofia Kowalewskaja
Russian mathematician
* 3 January 1850 in Moskau/Moscow
† 29 January 1891 in Stockholm

141. birthday: Emma Bertha Delaney
American
* 3 January 1871 in Fernandina Beach, FL
† 7 October 1922 in Fernandina Beach, FL

133. birthday: Grace Coolidge
American
* 3 January 1879 in Burlington, Vt.
† 8 July 1957 in Northampton

116. birthday: Änne Meier
German
* 3 January 1896 in Baltersweiler, Saar

114. birthday: ZaSu Pitts
American actress
* 3 January 1898 in Parsons, Kans.
† 7 June 1963 in Los Angeles, CA

107. birthday: Anna May Wong
Chinese-American actress
* 3 January 1905 in Los Angeles, CA
† 3 February 1961 in Santa Monica

104. birthday: Dorothea Olavia Wieck
German actress
* 3 January 1908 in Davos
† 19 February 1986 in Berlin

97. birthday: Mady Rahl (eig. Raschke)
German actress
* 3 January 1915 in Berlin-Charlottenburg

83. birthday: Gertrud Kückelmann
German actress
* 3 January 1929 in München/Munich
† 17 January 1979 in München/Munich

79. birthday: Maxie Wander
German writer
* 3 January 1933 in Wien
† 20 November 1977 in Berlin

77. birthday: RENATE Rasp, verh. Budzinski
German writer
* 3 January 1935 in Berlin

58. birthday: Maria Teresa di Lascia
Italian politician, writer
* 3 January 1954 in Rocchetta Sant'Antonio (Apulien, Italien)
† 10 September 1994 in Rom / Rome

25. day of death: Rose Ausländer
German poet
* 11 May 1901 in Czernowitz/Bukowina
† 3 January 1988 in Düsseldorf, Nelly-Sachs-Heim

10. day of death: Monique Wittig
French writer, feminist
* 13 July 1935 in Elsaß
† 3 January 2003 in Tucson, AZ

155. day of death: Elisabeth, genannt Rachel Félix
French actress
* 28 February 1820 in Mumpf, Kt. Aargau
† 3 January 1858 in Cannet, Südfr.

576. day of death: Katharina Katharina von Valois, Königin von England
French
* 27 October 1401 in Paris
† 3 January 1437 in Bermondsey

119. day of death: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
American
* 16 May 1804 in Billerica, MA
† 3 January 1894 in Jamaica Plain, MA

104. day of death: Bertha Schütte
German pianist, singer
* 5 July 1835 in Göttingen
† 3 January 1909 in ebd.

96. day of death: Helen Kendrick Johnson
American
* 4 January 1844 in Hamilton, NY
† 3 January 1917 in New York City

77. day of death: Ellin Johanna Revera
Swedish poet
* 28 May 1863 in Västeras
† 3 January 1936 in ""

47. day of death: Marguerite Higgins
American
* 3 September 1920 in Hongkong
† 3 January 1966 in Washington, DC

46. day of death: Mary Garden
American-Scottish singer
* 20 February 1874 in Aberdeen
† 3 January 1967 in Inverurie

41. day of death: Elisabeth Schiemann
German botanist
* 15 August 1881 in Viljandi/ Estland
† 3 January 1972 in Berlin

37. day of death: Freda (Clark) Kirchwey
American writer
* 26 September 1893 in Lake Placid
† 3 January 1976 in St. Petersburg, Florida

33. day of death: Joy Adamson
Austrian animal rights activist, painter, writer
* 20 January 1910 in Troppau
† 3 January 1980 in Kenya

32. day of death: Prinzessin Alice, Gräfin von Athlone
English
* 25 February 1883 in Windsor Castle
† 3 January 1981 in London

22. day of death: Anna Gmeyner
Austrian-German writer
* 16 March 1902 in Wien
† 3 January 1991 in York, England

21. day of death: Dame Judith Anderson
American-Australian actress
* 10 February 1898 in Adelaide, Australia
† 3 January 1992 in Santa Barbara, CA

3. day of death: Mary Daly
American feminist, philosopher. ex-theologist (now thealogist)
* 16 October 1928 in Schenectady, NY
† 3 January 2010 in Gardner, MA (Pflegeheim)

2. day of death: Eva Strittmatter
German writer
* 8 February 1930 in Neuruppin
† 3 January 2011 in Berlin