Commemoratives of Famous Women for 12 May 2012

150. birthday: Louise Phelps Kellogg
American historian
* 12 May 1862 in Milwaukee
† 11 July 1942 in Madison

75. birthday: Beryl Burton
English
* 12 May 1937 in Leeds
† 5 May 1996 in Yorkshire

140. birthday: Eleanor Florence Rathbone
English
* 12 May 1872 in London
† 2 January 1946 in ebd.

155. birthday: Lillian Nordica, eig. Norton
American singer
* 12 May 1857 in Farmington, ME
† 10 May 1914 in Batavia (Java)

105. birthday: Katharine Hepburn
American actress
* 12 May 1907 in Hartford, CN
† 29 June 2003 in Old Saybrook, CN, Fenwick Section

256. birthday: Maria Pellegrina Amoretti
Italian
* 12 May 1756 in Oneglia
† 12 November 1787 in Oneglia

239. birthday: Henriette Rath
Swiss
* 12 May 1773
† 24 November 1856 in Genf

199. birthday: Helene Sedlmayer
German painter"s model
* 12 May 1813 in Trostberg b. Traunstein
† 18 November 1898 in München

192. birthday: Florence Nightingale
English nurse, reformer, writer
* 12 May 1820 in Florenz/Florence
† 13 August 1910 in London

174. birthday: Sarah Elizabeth Emery
American
* 12 May 1838 in Phelps, N.Y
† 10 October 1895 in Lansing

166. birthday: Beta (Wobetha) Isenberg
German
* 12 May 1846 in Bremen
† 10 March 1933 in Bremen

163. birthday: Matilda Coxe Stevenson
American
* 12 May 1849 in San Augustine, TX
† 24 June 1915 in Oxon Hill, MD

128. birthday: Marguerite Steen
English writer
* 12 May 1884 in Liverpool
† 4 August 1975 in Newbury

112. birthday: Helene Weigel
Austrian-German actress, theater director
* 12 May 1900 in Wien/Vienna
† 6 May 1971 in Berlin

103. birthday: Margaret Harshaw
American singer
* 12 May 1909 in ""
† 7 November 1997 in ""

102. birthday: Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin
English biochemist, Nobel laureate, pacifist
* 12 May 1910 in Kairo/Cairo
† 30 July 1994 in Shipston-on-Stour

102. birthday: Lida Baarova
Czech actress
* 12 May 1910 in Prag
† 27 October 2000 in Salzburg

102. birthday: Giulietta Simionato
Italian singer
* 12 May 1910 in Forli
† 5 May 2010 in Rom

92. birthday: Krystina Wituska
Polish
* 12 May 1920
† 26 June 1944 in Halle

84. birthday: Gabriele von Glasow
German painter, voice teacher
* 12 May 1928 in Partheinen, Ostpreußen
† 24 July 2004 in Hannover

83. birthday: Agnes Heller

* 12 May 1929 in Budapest

68. birthday: Eva Demski
German writer
* 12 May 1944 in Regensburg

24. birthday: Babett Peter
German soccer player
* 12 May 1988 in Oschatz

170. day of death: Charlotte von Kalb
German writer, friend of Schiller, Jean Paul and Hölderlin
* 25 July 1761 in Schloß Waltershausen bei Königshofen im Grabfeld
† 12 May 1843 in Berlin

20. day of death: Edda Seippel
German actress
* 19 December 1919 in Braunschweig
† 12 May 1993 in München

10. day of death: Renate Riemeck
German historian, politician, pacifist
* 4 October 1920 in Breslau
† 12 May 2003 in Alsbach, Bergstaße

135. day of death: Catharine Esther Beecher
American
* 6 September 1800 in East Hampton, Long Island
† 12 May 1878 in Elmira

5. day of death: Irena Sendler
Polish nurse, "Righteous Among the Nations", Holocaust Hero
* 15 February 1910 in Otwock, Kongresspolen
† 12 May 2008 in Warschau

221. day of death: Albertine von Grün
German writer
* 11 October 1749 in Hachenburg (Westerwald)
† 12 May 1792 in ebd.

163. day of death: Frances Sargent Locke Osgood
American writer
* 18 June 1811 in Boston
† 12 May 1850 in New York

116. day of death: Minna Canth
Finnish writer, feminist
* 19 March 1844 in Tampere
† 12 May 1897 in Kuopio

113. day of death: Lucretia Peabody Hale
American writer
* 2 September 1820 in Boston
† 12 May 1900 in Boston

111. day of death: Marie Zakrzewska
Polish physician and suffragist
* 6 September 1829 in Berlin
† 12 May 1902 in Boston

101. day of death: CLOTHILDE Bressler-Gianoli
Swiss singer
* 3 June 1875 in Genf / Geneva
† 12 May 1912 in Genf / Geneva

92. day of death: Emilia Pardo Bazan
Spanish writer
* 16 September 1851 in La Coruña
† 12 May 1921 in Madrid

88. day of death: Amy Lowell
American poet, critic, biographer, lecturer, celebrity, eccentric, salon hostess, book collector
* 9 February 1874 in Brookline, MA
† 12 May 1925 in Brookline, MA

86. day of death: Louise Catherine Breslau
German-Swiss painter
* 6 December 1856 in München
† 12 May 1927 in Neuilly bei Paris

58. day of death: Margarethe Steinhäuser
German
* 26 September 1874 in Kitzingen, Schwaben
† 12 May 1955 in Offenbach

47. day of death: Mathilde Ludendorff (-Kemnitz), geb. Spieß
German
* 4 October 1877 in Wiesbaden
† 12 May 1966 in Weilheim

44. day of death: Bess Furman
American
* 2 December 1894 in Danbury, NE
† 12 May 1969 in Woodacres, MD

43. day of death: Nelly Sachs
German poet, Nobel laureate
* 10 December 1891 in Berlin
† 12 May 1970 in Stockholm

33. day of death: Bette Clair Graham
American
* 23 March 1924 in Dallas
† 12 May 1980

27. day of death: Elisabeth Bergner
Austrian actress
* 22 August 1897 in Drohobycz/ Galizien
† 12 May 1986 in London

23. day of death: Hanne Wieder
German actress, cabaret artist
* 8 May 1929 in Hannoversch Münden
† 12 May 1990 in München- Feldafing