Commemoratives of Famous Women for 3 March 2012

50. birthday: Jackie Joyner Kersee
American sprinter
* 3 March 1962 in East St. Louis, IL

75. birthday: Edith Peinemann
German violinist
* 3 March 1937 in Mainz

210. birthday: Françoise Arlaud
Swiss
* 3 March 1802 in Genf
† 29 June 1871 in Lyon b.

120. birthday: Beatrice Wood
American painter, ceramicist
* 3 March 1892 in San Francisco
† 12 March 1998 in Ojai, CA

110. birthday: Isabel Bishop
American painter
* 3 March 1902 in Cincinnati, OH
† 19 February 1988 in New York City

266. birthday: Izabela Czartoryska, geb. Fleming o. Flemming
Polish writer; princess
* 3 March 1746 in Warschau
† 17 June 1835 in Wiednin

162. birthday: Bertha Wegner-Zell
German writer
* 3 March 1850 in Bromberg
† 8 December 1927 in Berlin

142. birthday: Luise Thiersch-Patzk
German
* 3 March 1870 in Haynau
† 2 January 1937 in Leipzig

138. birthday: Ada Crossley
singer (alto)
* 3 March 1874 in Tarraville, Austr.
† 17 October 1929 in London

132. birthday: Maria Carmi
Italian actress
* 3 March 1880 in Florenz
† 4 August 1957 in Myrtle Beach (South Carolina) oder New York

129. birthday: Louise Modersohn-Breling
German painter
* 3 March 1883 in München
† 7 September 1950 in Gailenberg oberhalb Hindelang

121. birthday: Hilda Anna Hedvig Elsabeth Roslund-Aargard
Swedish
* 3 March 1891 in Karlskrona

119. birthday: Hanya Holm

* 3 March 1893 in Worms
† 3 November 1992 in New York, NY

114. birthday: Aenne Biermann
German photographer
* 3 March 1898 in Goch, Niederrhein
† 14 January 1933 in Gera

112. birthday: Edna Best
actress
* 3 March 1900 in Hove, Engl.
† 18 September 1974 in Genf

109. birthday: Margarete Teschemacher
German singer
* 3 March 1903 in Köln
† 19 May 1959 in Tegernsee

101. birthday: Jean Harlow
American actress
* 3 March 1911 in Kansas City, MO
† 7 June 1937 in Los Angeles, CA

99. birthday: Margaret Bonds
American composer
* 3 March 1913 in Chicago
† 26 April 1972 in Los Angeles, CA

93. birthday: Loki (eig. Hannelore) Schmidt, geb. Glaser
First Lady
* 3 March 1919 in Hamburg
† 21 October 2010 in Hamburg-Langenhorn

86. birthday: Käthe Reichel
German actress
* 3 March 1926 in Berlin

84. birthday: Gudrun Pausewang
German writer
* 3 March 1928 in Wichlstadt/ Ostböhmen

73. birthday: Ariane Mnouchkine
French director; actress
* 3 March 1939 in Boulogne-sur-Seine
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71. birthday: Jutta Hoffmann
German actress
* 3 March 1941 in Halle, Saale

68. birthday: Maria Nurowska
Polish writer
* 3 March 1944 in Okolek

15. day of death: Sabina Sesselmann
German actress
* 13 August 1936 in München / Munich
† 3 March 1998 in Tutzing (Starnberger See)

5. day of death: Annemarie Renger
German politician
* 7 October 1919 in Leipzig
† 3 March 2008 in Remagen-Oberwinter

142. day of death: Sophia Hawthorne
American
* 21 September 1809 in Salem, MA
† 3 March 1871 in London

134. day of death: Katharina (Kathi) Fröhlich
Austrian
* 10 June 1800 in Wien
† 3 March 1879 in ebd.

64. day of death: Sarojini Naidu

* 13 February 1879 in Haidarabad
† 3 March 1949 in Lucknow (Ind.)

58. day of death: Mother Katharine Mary Drexel
American
* 26 November 1858 in Philadelphia
† 3 March 1955 in Cornwells Heights

38. day of death: Therese Giehse
German actress
* 6 March 1898 in München/Munich
† 3 March 1975 in München/Munich

28. day of death: Connie Gilchrist
American actress
* 2 February 1901 in Brooklyn, NY
† 3 March 1985 in California

24. day of death: Sylta Busse
German costume designer
* 7 July 1906 in Westerland, Sylt
† 3 March 1989 in Augsburg

17. day of death: Marguerite Duras
French writer, director
* 4 April 1914 in Gia Dinh bei/near Saigon/ Süd/South Vietnam
† 3 March 1996 in Paris