Commemoratives of Famous Women for 15 January 2012

150. birthday: Loïe Fuller
American dancer, actress, entrepreneur, innovator in stage lighting
* 15 January 1862 in Fullersburg, IL
† 1 January 1928 in Paris

240. birthday: Victoire (Marie-Victoire) Jaquotot
French
* 15 January 1772 in Paris
† 27 April 1855 in Toulouse

180. birthday: Louisa Duchess of Manchester, später Devonshire, geb. von Alten
English Leading Lady
* 15 January 1832 in Hannover
† 15 July 1911

301. birthday: Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann
German poet
* 15 January 1711 in Erfurt
† 11 December 1740 in Arnstadt b.

212. birthday: Adelheid Reinbold, Ps. Franz Berthold
German writer
* 15 January 1800 in Hannover
† 14 February 1839 in Dresden

199. birthday: Laura Mantegazza Solera
Italian philanthropist
* 15 January 1813 in Mailand
† 15 September 1873 in Sabbioncella di Cannero (Lago Maggiore)

196. birthday: Katharina Felder
Austrian
* 15 January 1816 in Ellenbogen b. Bezau (Bregenzerwald)
† 13 February 1848 in Berlin

188. birthday: Marie Duplessis
French
* 15 January 1824 in Nonant
† 3 September 1847 in Paris

176. birthday: Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie
American
* 15 January 1836 in Indianapolis
† 17 May 1911 in Winnetka, IL

169. birthday: Sarah Doudney
English writer
* 15 January 1843 in Portsmouth
† 15 December 1926 in ""

152. birthday: Katherine Bement Davis

* 15 January 1860 in Buffalo
† 10 December 1935 in Pacific Grove

148. birthday: Sabine Lepsius, geb. Graef
German painter, musician
* 15 January 1864 in Berlin
† 29 November 1942 in Bayreuth

134. birthday: Johanna Müller-Hermann
Austrian
* 15 January 1878 in Wien
† 15 April 1941 in ebd.

133. birthday: Mazo de la Roche
writer
* 15 January 1879 in Newmarket
† 12 July 1961 in Toronto

114. birthday: Martha Saalfeldt
German writer
* 15 January 1898 in Landau/ Pfalz
† 14 March 1976 in Bergzabern/Pfalz

113. birthday: RIKI RAAB
Austrian
* 15 January 1899 in Wien

104. birthday: Florence Bayard Bird

* 15 January 1908 in Philadelphia, PA
† 18 July 1998 in Ottawa

98. birthday: Etty Hillesum
Dutch writer, mystic, Nazi victim
* 15 January 1914 in Middelburg
† 30 November 1943 in Auschwitz

97. birthday: Marjo Tal

* 15 January 1915 in Amsterdam

86. birthday: Maria Schell
Austrian-Swiss actress
* 15 January 1926 in Wien / Vienna
† 26 April 2005 in Preitenegg, Kärnten, auf ihrer Alm

69. birthday: Margaret Beckett
English politician. first woman Foreign Secretary of Great Britain
* 15 January 1943 in Ashton-under-Lyne (Lancashire)

56. birthday: Kumari Mayawati

* 15 January 1956 in Delhi

43. birthday: Meret Becker
German actress, singer-songwriter
* 15 January 1969 in Bremen

120. day of death: Fanny Kemble
English actress, author, abolitionist
* 27 November 1809 in London
† 15 January 1893 in London

20. day of death: Annemarie von Gabain
German
* 4 July 1901 in Mörchingen/ Lothringen
† 15 January 1993

105. day of death: Mary Hayden Green Pike
American writer
* 30 November 1824 in Eastport, Maine
† 15 January 1908 in Baltimore

137. day of death: Eliza Johnson
American
* 4 October 1810 in Greenville, TN
† 15 January 1876 in Greenville n.

118. day of death: Lady Elizabeth Charlotte Guest
Welsh writer, entrepreneur, collector
* 19 May 1812 in Uffington House
† 15 January 1895 in Canford Manor

112. day of death: WILHELMINE CANZ
German kindergarden pioneer; writer
* 27 February 1815 in Hornberg
† 15 January 1901 in Großheppach

106. day of death: Marie-Félicie-Clémence de Reiset, Vicomtesse de Grandval
French
* 21 January 1830 in Le Mans b.
† 15 January 1907 in Paris

102. day of death: Carolina Coronado
Spanish
* 12 December 1823 in Almendralejo
† 15 January 1911 in Lissabon

98. day of death: Fannie Farmer
American
* 23 March 1857 in Boston (Medford)
† 15 January 1915 in Boston (Medford)

94. day of death: Rosa Luxemburg
German revolutionary, politician, socialist theorist, economist
* 5 March 1871 in Zamosc bei/near Lublin, (Russisch-)Polen/Poland
† 15 January 1919 in Berlin

43. day of death: Lea Goldberg

* 29 May 1911 in Königsberg
† 15 January 1970 in Jerusalem

37. day of death: Nina Makarowa
Russian composer
* 12 August 1908 in Jurino
† 15 January 1976 in Moskau 

21. day of death: Karla Höcker
German writer, musician
* 1 September 1901 in Berlin
† 15 January 1992 in Berlin

8. day of death: Elizabeth Janeway
American writer
* 7 October 1913 in Brooklyn, NY
† 15 January 2005 in Rye. NY

8. day of death: Victoria de los Angeles
Spanish singer (soprano)
* 1 November 1923 in Barcelona
† 15 January 2005 in Barcelona

7. day of death: Inge Merkel
Austrian writer
* 1 October 1922 in Wien
† 15 January 2006 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexiko