Commemoratives of Famous Women for 12 January 2012

150. birthday: Michael Field (=Edith Emma Cooper)
English writer
* 12 January 1862 in Birmingham
† 13 December 1913 in Hawksyard Priory?

176. birthday: Arabella Goddard
English
* 12 January 1836 in St. Servan
† 6 April 1922 in Boulogne

173. birthday: Marie Effie Wilton, Lady Bancroft
English
* 12 January 1839 in Doncaster
† 22 May 1921 in Folkestone

148. birthday: Annie Russell
American actress
* 12 January 1864 in Liverpool
† 16 January 1936 in Winter Park, FL

138. birthday: Tatjana Ljovovna Scepkina-Kupernik
Russian writer
* 12 January 1874 in Moskau
† 1952 in ebd.

137. birthday: Marika Stiernstedt
Swedish writer
* 12 January 1875 in Stockholm
† 25 October 1954 in Tyringe

134. birthday: Sella Hasse
German graphic artist
* 12 January 1878 in Bitterfeld (LdF: 12.2.1880 Berlin)
† 27 April 1963 in Ostberlin

114. birthday: Melitta Amerling
Austrian singer
* 12 January 1898 in Wien

102. birthday: Luise Rainer
American actress
* 12 January 1910 in Düsseldorf

102. birthday: Mary R. Haas
American linguist
* 12 January 1910
† 17 May 1996

89. birthday: Alice Miller
Swiss psychoanalyst and author
* 12 January 1923 in Lemberg
† 14 April 2010 in Provence

82. birthday: Luitgard Im
German actress
* 12 January 1930 in Wemding b. Donauwörth
† 21 April 1997 in Wemding b. Donauwörth

79. birthday: Liliana Cavani
Italian director; screen writer
* 12 January 1933 in Carpi, Modena

68. birthday: Viktoria Postnikova
Russian pianist
* 12 January 1944 in Moskau

57. birthday: Kirstie Alley
American actress
* 12 January 1955 in Wichita, KS

54. birthday: Christiane Amanpour
English-Iranian journalist, foreign correspondent (CNN)
* 12 January 1958 in London

47. birthday: Maybrit Illner
German (political) talk show host, journalist
* 12 January 1965 in Berlin Ost

60. day of death: Rösy von Känel
Swiss writer
* 23 January 1895 in Aarau
† 12 January 1953 in Zürich

30. day of death: Frederique Petrides
Dutch-American conductor, violinist
* 26 September 1903
† 12 January 1983 in New York

95. day of death: Anna Lisa Hwasser-Engelbrecht
Swedish actress
* 16 August 1861 in Solna
† 12 January 1918 in Stockholm

85. day of death: Maria Amanda Gerner
writer
* 2 April 1843 in Schweinfurt
† 12 January 1928 in Zürich

55. day of death: Emmy Leisner
German singer
* 7 August 1885 in Flensburg
† 12 January 1958

15. day of death: Libuse Moníková
German-Czech writer
* 30 August 1945 in Prag
† 12 January 1998 in Berlin

194. day of death: Christiane Benedicte Naubert
German writer
* 13 September 1752 in Leipzig
† 12 January 1819 in ebd.

133. day of death: Ida Gräfin von Hahn-Hahn
German travel writer
* 22 June 1805 in Remplin (W 83) Tressow (Wi 76, M., LdF) in Mecklenburg
† 12 January 1880 in Mainz

126. day of death: Isabella Valancy Crawford

* 25 December 1850 in Dublin
† 12 January 1887 in Ontario

124. day of death: ELISE Bethge-Truhn
German actress, playwright
* 4 March 1838 in Berlin
† 12 January 1889 in Hannover

123. day of death: Minna Peschka-Leutner
Austrian singer
* 25 October 1839 in Wien
† 12 January 1890 in Wiesbaden

102. day of death: Mary Kollock
American painter
* 1840 in Norfolk
† 12 January 1911 in New York

101. day of death: Clara von Rappard
Swiss painter
* 19 May 1857 in Wabern b. Bern
† 12 January 1912 in Bern

74. day of death: Susanna von Orelli
Swiss social worker
* 27 December 1845 in Zürich
† 12 January 1939 in ebd.

69. day of death: Marie Henriques
Danish
* 26 June 1866 in Petershoj
† 12 January 1944 in Montebello

68. day of death: Gertrud Seele
German
* 22 September 1917 in Berlin
† 12 January 1945 in Berlin- Plötzensee

66. day of death: Rosa Smith Eigenmann
American
* 7 October 1858 in Monmouth, IL
† 12 January 1947 in San Diego, CA

59. day of death: Ellen Thesleff

* 5 October 1869 in Helsinki
† 12 January 1954

48. day of death: Lorraine Hansberry
American playwright, civil rights reormer
* 19 May 1930 in Chicago, IL
† 12 January 1965 in Chicago, IL

37. day of death: Agatha Christie
English writer
* 15 September 1890 in Torquay, Devon
† 12 January 1976 in Wallingford/ Oxfordshire

6. day of death: Alice Coltrane
American jazz pianist
* 27 August 1937 in Detroit
† 12 January 2007 in West Hills, CA