Commemoratives of Famous Women for 4 January 2012

200. birthday: Dragolja Jarnevic
Croatian writer
* 4 January 1812
† 1875

75. birthday: Grace Bumbry
American singer
* 4 January 1937 in St. Louis, MO

390. birthday: Anne Murray Lady Halkett
English
* 4 January 1622 in London
† 22 April 1699

140. birthday: Kerstin Hesselgren
Swedish social politician
* 4 January 1872 in Torsäker/Gem. Hofors i. Gästrikland
† 19 August 1962 in Stockholm

120. birthday: Adeline De Sale Link
American
* 4 January 1892 in Omaha (Nebr.)
† 20 November 1943 in Chicago

60. birthday: Michele Wallace
American writer, feminist theorist
* 4 January 1952 in Harlem, New York City

105. birthday: MARTE HARELL (eig. Martha Schömig)
Austrian actress
* 4 January 1907 in Wien / Vienna
† 12 August 1996 in Wien / Vienna

176. birthday: Ilma de Murska
Croatian singer
* 4 January 1836 in Zagreb
† 14 January 1898 in München

168. birthday: Helen Kendrick Johnson
American
* 4 January 1844 in Hamilton, NY
† 3 January 1917 in New York City

136. birthday: Paola Drigo
Italian writer
* 4 January 1876 in Castelfranco Veneto
† 4 January 1938 in Mussolente

129. birthday: Johanna Westerdijk
Dutch botanist
* 4 January 1883 in Nieuwer-Amstel
† 15 November 1961 in Baarn

126. birthday: Rosa Menzer
Lithuanian resistance fighter
* 4 January 1886 in Plunge, Litauen
† 1942 FrŸhj in KZ Ravensbrück

122. birthday: Wilhelmine Siefkes
German poet
* 4 January 1890 in Leer
† 28 August 1984 in ebd.

121. birthday: Nelly Diem
Swiss
* 4 January 1891 in St. Gallen

116. birthday: Pola, Apolonia Gojawiczynska
Polish writer
* 4 January 1896 in Warschau
† 29 March 1963

113. birthday: Alma Buscher, verh. Siedhoff
German designer, carpenter
* 4 January 1899
† 25 September 1944 in Frankfurt/M.

103. birthday: Cilly Aussem
German tennis player
* 4 January 1909 in Köln
† 22 March 1963 in Positano od. Portofino

97. birthday: Marie-Louise von Franz

* 4 January 1915 in München
† 16 February 1998 in Küsnacht

69. birthday: Doris Kearns Goodwin
American writer, historian
* 4 January 1943 in Brroklyn, New York

75. day of death: Paola Drigo
Italian writer
* 4 January 1876 in Castelfranco Veneto
† 4 January 1938 in Mussolente

25. day of death: Lily Laskine
French harpist
* 31 August 1893 in Paris
† 4 January 1988 in ebd.

95. day of death: Johanna Wege
German writer
* 15 December 1844 in Neustädtel, Schlesien
† 4 January 1918 in Weimar

45. day of death: Donaldina Mackenzie Cameron
American
* 26 July 1869 in Neuseeland
† 4 January 1968 in Palo Alto, CA

209. day of death: Charlotte Ramsay Lennox
writer
* 1720 in New York
† 4 January 1804 in ebd.

192. day of death: Elizabeth Ann Seton
American philanthropist, founder of the order of the Sisters of Charity; first US-American Saint
* 28 August 1774 in New York
† 4 January 1821 in Emmitsburg b. Baltimore

169. day of death: Mary Hack
English writer
* 10 November 1777 in Carlisle
† 4 January 1844 in Southampton

161. day of death: Frances Berry Whitcher
American writer
* 1 November 1811 in Whitesboro, NY
† 4 January 1852 in ebd.

138. day of death: Martha Coffin Wright, Martha
American
* 25 December 1806 in Boston
† 4 January 1875 in Boston

113. day of death: Luise Fröbel, geb. Levin
German kindergarden pioneer
* 15 April 1815 in Osterode
† 4 January 1900 in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel

87. day of death: Margherita Margherita von Savoyen
Italian
* 20 November 1851 in Turin
† 4 January 1926 in Bordighera

67. day of death: Emilie Gourd
Swiss feminist
* 19 December 1879 in Genf / Geneva
† 4 January 1946 in Genf / Geneva

61. day of death: Frances Kellor
American sociologist, writer
* 20 October 1873 in Columbus
† 4 January 1952 in New York

56. day of death: Caroline Haslett
English electrical engineer
* 17 August 1895 in Three Bridges, Sussex
† 4 January 1957 in Bungay, Suffolk

17. day of death: Maria Wimmer
German actress
* 27 January 1911 in Dresden
† 4 January 1996 in Bühl, Schwarzwald

12. day of death: Erika Wisselinck
German feminist, German translator of Mary Daly"s works
* 6 October 1926 in Görlitz
† 4 January 2001 in Madeira

9. day of death: Joan Aiken
English writer
* 4 September 1924 in Rye, Sussex
† 4 January 2004 in Petworth, West Sussex