Commemoratives of Famous Women for 12 September 2010

90. birthday: Lore Lorentz
German cabaret artist
* 12 September 1920 in Mährisch Ostrau
† 22 February 1994 in Düsseldorf

145. birthday: Mary Bateson
English
* 12 September 1865 in Robin Hood's Bay
† 30 November 1906 in Cambridge

222. birthday: Charlotte Heidenreich-von Siebold
German midwife, obstetrician
* 12 September 1788 in Heiligenstadt
† 8 July 1859 in Darmstadt

218. birthday: Julie Gräfin von Egloffstein
German painter
* 12 September 1792 in Hildesheim
† 16 January 1869 in Marienroda

168. birthday: Marianne Brandt
Austrian
* 12 September 1842 in Wien
† 9 July 1921 in ebd.

148. birthday: Henriette Hahn-Brinckmann
German painter, graphic artist
* 12 September 1862 in Kopenhagen
† 1934 in ""

147. birthday: Enrichetta, Herzogin v. Andria Capecelatro Carafa
Italian writer
* 12 September 1863 in Turin
† 1941 in ebd.

137. birthday: Gertrud Bäumer
German womens' rights activist, writer, politician
* 12 September 1873 in Hohenlimburg bei Hagen/ Westf.
† 25 March 1954 in Bethel/ Bielefeld (PL) Gadderbaum bei Bielefeld (W 83))

134. birthday: Emilie Stöger
Austrian
* 12 September 1876 in Leoben
† 15 November 1936 in ebd.

129. birthday: Constanze Hallgarten
German
* 12 September 1881 in Leipzig
† 25 September 1969 in München 

127. birthday: Raissa Maritain, geb. Oumansoff
French poet; wife of Jacques Maritain
* 12 September 1883 in Rostov am Don
† 4 November 1960 in Paris

113. birthday: Irène Joliot-Curie
French physicist, chemist, Nobel laureate (1935, chemistry)
* 12 September 1897 in Paris
† 17 March 1956 in ebd.

103. birthday: Joe Lederer
Austrian writer
* 12 September 1907 in Wien
† 30 January 1987 in München

93. birthday: Han Suyin (eigtl. Elizabeth Comber, geb. Chow)
English-Chinese writer
* 12 September 1917 in Honan

73. birthday: Margo St. James
American feminist, activist for the rights of prostitutes
* 12 September 1937 in Bellingham, WA

61. birthday: Irina Rodnina

* 12 September 1949 in Moskau

56. birthday: Gülsin Oney

* 12 September 1954 in Istanbul

70. day of death: Cecilia Beaux
American portrait painter
* 1 May 1855 in Philadelphia, PA
† 12 September 1942 in Gloucester, MA

85. day of death: Sarah Frances Whiting
American
* 23 August 1847 in Wyoming? Waltham, MA?
† 12 September 1927 in Wilbraham, MA

15. day of death: Judith Merril
writer
* 21 January 1923 in Boston oder New York City
† 12 September 1997 in Toronto

644. day of death: Blanche of Lancaster
noblewoman; mother of king Henry IV (House of Lancaster)
* 25 March 1341
† 12 September 1368 in Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire

69. day of death: Elsbeth Funch
Swedish writer
* 30 March 1873 in Falun
† 12 September 1943 in Ökna

68. day of death: Noor (Nora) Inayat Khan
English
* 1 January 1914 in Kreml im
† 12 September 1944 in Dachau

68. day of death: Maria Rösler-Keuschnigg
German singer
* 11 August 1890 in Klagenfurt
† 12 September 1944 in Stuttgart

59. day of death: Sigrid Maren Boo
Norwegian writer
* 23 August 1898 in Oslo (Kristiania)
† 12 September 1953 in Oslo

48. day of death: Edith Terry Bremer
American
* 9 October 1885 in Hamilton, NY
† 12 September 1964 in Washington, DC

46. day of death: Florence Allen
American judge, lawyer, suffragist
* 23 March 1884 in Salt Lake City
† 12 September 1966 in Cleveland

37. day of death: Inga Tidblad
Swedish actress
* 1 May 1901 in Stockholm
† 12 September 1975 in ebd.

26. day of death: Charlotte Wolff
German-English writer, chirologist, physician, sexologist
* 30 September 1897 in Riesenburg, Westpr.
† 12 September 1986 in London

22. day of death: Irena Olympia Eichlerówna-Stypinska
Polish actress
* 19 April 1908 in Warschau / Warsaw
† 12 September 1990 in Warschau / Warsaw