Commemoratives of Famous Women for 17 January 2012

180. birthday: Marie Wieck
German pianist
* 17 January 1832 in Leipzig
† 22 November 1916 in Dresden

365. birthday: ELISABETH Hewelke
German astronomer
* 17 January 1647 in Danzig
† 1693 in  

399. birthday: Anna Maria Brentel (auch Brentelin., Brendlerin)
French miniaturist
* 17 January 1613 in Straßburg
† 1633 in ebd.

198. birthday: Ellen Wood
English writer
* 17 January 1814 in Worcester
† 10 February 1887 in London

192. birthday: Anne Brontë
English writer
* 17 January 1820 in Thornton
† 28 May 1849 in Scarborough

191. birthday: Laura Mancini
Italian
* 17 January 1821 in Neapel
† 17 July 1869 in Fiesole

183. birthday: Catherine Booth, geb. Mumford
English pioneer of the Salvation Army, philanthropist
* 17 January 1829 in Ashbourne, Derbyshire
† 4 October 1890 in Clacton on Sea

159. birthday: Viktorine Endler, geb. Bleser, Ps. Antonie Haupt
German writer
* 17 January 1853 in Trier
† 29 January 1932 in Hannover

152. birthday: Marie von Bunsen
German writer
* 17 January 1860 in London
† 28 June 1941 in Berlin

136. birthday: Olga Fastrova
writer
* 17 January 1876 in Prag

127. birthday: Emmy Ball-Hennings
German writer, actress, wife of Hugo Ball
* 17 January 1885 in Flensburg
† 10 August 1948 in Sorengo bei/near Lugano

119. birthday: Evelyn Scott
American writer
* 17 January 1893 in Clarksville
† 3 August 1963 in New York?

104. birthday: Bronislawa Wajs, gen. Papuscha
Polish poet
* 17 January 1908 in Lublin/Polen
† 8 February 1987 in Inowroclaw

103. birthday: Karen Jonsson
Swedish pianist and composer (Jazz)
* 17 January 1909
† 2 December 1942 in Stockholm

86. birthday: Moira Shearer
English dancer
* 17 January 1926 in Dunfermline
† 31 January 2006 in Oxford, England

79. birthday: Dalida
Egyptian-French singer, actress
* 17 January 1933 in Kairo
† 3 May 1987

68. birthday: Françoise Hardy
French singer-songwriter, producer
* 17 January 1944 in Paris

67. birthday: Liv Køltzow
writer
* 17 January 1945 in Oslo

66. birthday: Jessica Benjamin
American feminist, theorist, psychoanalyst
* 17 January 1946

48. birthday: Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama
American lawyer, First Lady (2009-)
* 17 January 1964 in Chicago, IL

80. day of death: Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
English designer
* 5 November 1864 in Newcastle-under-Lyme
† 17 January 1933 in Chelsea

20. day of death: LI STADELMANN
German
* 2 February 1900 in Würzburg
† 17 January 1993 in Gauting

684. day of death: Priorin Roselina, hl.
French prior
* 27 January 1263 in Chateau d'Arcs
† 17 January 1329 in Le Celle-Roubaud

557. day of death: Elisabeth Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken

* 1394 (LdF: in Vezelise?
† 17 January 1456 in Saarbrücken

238. day of death: Caroline Mathilde von Dänemark
Danish-English queen
* 22 July 1751 in Wales
† 17 January 1775 in Celle

152. day of death: Lola Montez
Irish dancer, actress, adventurer; mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
* 17 February 1821 in Limerick (GroßeFrauen: Montrose/Schottland) -
† 17 January 1861 in New York

133. day of death: Armgart von Arnim

* 4 March 1821 in Berlin
† 17 January 1880 in Karlsruhe

131. day of death: Margaretta Angelica Peale
American
* 1 October 1795 in Philadelphia
† 17 January 1882 in ebd.

128. day of death: Marie Léopoldine Blahetka
Austrian
* 16 November 1809 in Guntramsdorf b. Wien
† 17 January 1885 in Boulogne sur Mer

97. day of death: Marie Braquemond
French painter, Impressionist
* 1 December 1840 in Argentan (Bretagne)
† 17 January 1916 in Sèvres

68. day of death: Ina Jens
Swiss writer
* 22 October 1880 in Thusis (GR)
† 17 January 1945 in Valparaíso, Chile

64. day of death: Flora Drummond
English suffragist
* 1879 ca in Manchester
† 17 January 1949

44. day of death: Grazyna Bacewicz
Polish composer, violinist, writer
* 5 February 1909 in Lodz
† 17 January 1969 in Warschau/Warsaw

41. day of death: Betty Smith
American writer
* 1896 in Brooklyn
† 17 January 1972

34. day of death: Gertrud Kückelmann
German actress
* 3 January 1929 in München/Munich
† 17 January 1979 in München/Munich

17. day of death: Barbara Jordan
American politician; lawyer
* 21 February 1936 in Houston, TX
† 17 January 1996 in Austin, TX