Commemoratives of Famous Women for 13 September 2010

180. birthday: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Austrian writer
* 13 September 1830 in Zdislawice, Mähren
† 12 March 1916 in Wien/Vienna

235. birthday: Laura Ingersoll Secord
Canadian war heroine
* 13 September 1775 in Great Barrington, MA
† 17 October 1868 in Queenston, Ontario, Kanada

145. birthday: Maud Ballington Booth
English
* 13 September 1865 in Limpsfield
† 26 August 1948 in Great Neck

254. birthday: Christiane Benedicte Naubert
German writer
* 13 September 1756 in Leipzig
† 12 January 1819 in ebd.

191. birthday: Clara Schumann, geb. Wieck
German pianist, composer, wife of Robert Schumann
* 13 September 1819 in Leipzig
† 20 May 1896 in Frankfurt/M.

157. birthday: Sofia Lwowna Perowskaja
Russian
* 13 September 1853 in Petersburg
† 15 April 1881 in ebd.

154. birthday: Maria Louise Baldwin
American
* 13 September 1856 in Cambridge, MA
† 9 January 1922 in Boston

144. birthday: Lutie Eugenia Stearns
American
* 13 September 1866 in Stoughton, MA
† 25 December 1943 in Milwaukee

139. birthday: Marguerite Moreno
French actress
* 13 September 1871 in Paris
† 14 July 1948 in Touzac

133. birthday: Elisabeth Kuyper
Dutch composer and conductor
* 13 September 1877 in Amsterdam
† 26 February 1953 in Lugano

131. birthday: Annie Kenney
English
* 13 September 1879 in Shelderslow, Springhead, Yorkshire
† 9 July 1953 in Hitchin

118. birthday: Viktoria Luise Viktoria Luise, Herzogin von Braunschweig-Lüneburg
German philanthropist; only daughter of emperor Wilhelm II. and empress Auguste Viktoria
* 13 September 1892 in Potsdam
† 11 December 1980 in Braunschweig, Beisetzung in Hannover

107. birthday: Claudette Colbert (eig. Lily Chauchoin)
American actress
* 13 September 1903 in Paris
† 30 July 1996 in Cobblers Cove, Barbados

87. birthday: Soja Kosmodemjanskaja
Russian partisan, resistance fighter
* 13 September 1923 in Anatoljewna
† 29 November 1941 in Osinowsyja Gai

87. birthday: Natalia de Oliveira Correia
Portuguese writer
* 13 September 1923 in Insel S. Miguel, Azoren
† 16 March 1993 in Lissabon

83. birthday: Melitta Muszely
Austrian singer
* 13 September 1927 in Wien

71. birthday: Arleen Auger
American singer
* 13 September 1939 in Los Angeles, CA
† 10 June 1993 in Leusden b. Amsterdam

400. day of death: Karin Mansdotter
Swedish queen
* 1550 in Stockholm
† 13 September 1612 in ""

155. day of death: Johanna Fürstin von Salm-Reifferscheid
Austrian
* 18 March 1780 in Prag
† 13 September 1857 in ebd.

504. day of death: Beatrice d'Aragona, Königin von Ungarn

* 14 November 1457 in Neapel
† 13 September 1508 in Ischia

204. day of death: Catharina Elisabeth Goethe, geb. Textor (Frau Aja; Frau Rat)
German mother of Goethe
* 19 February 1731 in Frankfurt/M.
† 13 September 1808 in Frankfurt/M.

132. day of death: Penina Moïse
American writer
* 23 April 1797 in Charleston, SC
† 13 September 1880 in Charleston, SC

93. day of death: Leocadie Gerlach
singer
* 26 January 1826 in Stockholm
† 13 September 1919 in Frederiksborg b. Kopenhagen

87. day of death: Edith Thomas
American
* 12 August 1854 in Chatham, OH
† 13 September 1925 in New York

73. day of death: Gwen John
English painter
* 22 June 1876 in Haverfordwest, Wales
† 13 September 1939 in Dieppe

62. day of death: Sara Allgood
Irish actress
* 31 October 1879 in Dublin
† 13 September 1950 in Woodland

59. day of death: Ana Weiss de Rossi

* 30 November 1892 in Buenos Aires
† 13 September 1953 in Los Angeles, CA

39. day of death: Betty Field
American actress
* 8 February 1918 in Boston, MA
† 13 September 1973 in Hyannis, MA

11. day of death: Dorothy McGuire
American actress
* 14 June 1918 in Omaha, NE
† 13 September 2001 in Santa Monica, CA

6. day of death: Ann Richards
American politician (D); governor of Texas (1990-5)
* 1 September 1933 in Lakeview, TX
† 13 September 2006 in Houston, TX