Commemoratives of Famous Women for 17 March 2012

230. birthday: Sophie von Kühn
German first bride of Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
* 17 March 1782
† 19 March 1797 in Grüningen, Brandenburg

110. birthday: Kitty Kuse
German
* 17 March 1902
† 1999

70. birthday: Monika Wulf- Mathies
German union leader
* 17 March 1942 in Wernigerode, Harz

40. birthday: Mia Hamm
American soccer player
* 17 March 1972 in Selma, AL

105. birthday: Ellabelle Davis
American singer (soprano)
* 17 March 1907 in New Rochelle
† 16 November 1960 in ebd.

258. birthday: Marie-Jeanne Roland
French writer, revolutionary
* 17 March 1754 in Paris
† 8 November 1793 in Paris

221. birthday: Maria Hegel
German
* 17 March 1791 in Nürnberg
† 6 July 1855 in Berlin?

192. birthday: Jean Ingelow
English writer
* 17 March 1820 in Boston (Linc.)
† 20 July 1897 in London

164. birthday: Clara Morris, eig. Morrison
American actress
* 17 March 1848 in Toronto (Kan.)
† 20 November 1925 in New Canaan, CT

163. birthday: Cornelia Maria Clapp

* 17 March 1849 in Montague
† 31 December 1934 in Mount Dora

146. birthday: Augusta Lindberg
Swedish actress
* 17 March 1866 in Stockholm
† 3 December 1943 in ebd.

139. birthday: Margaret Grace Bondfield
English
* 17 March 1873 in Chard, Somerset
† 16 June 1953 in Blackpool

138. birthday: PAULA DOENGES
German singer
* 17 March 1874 in Leipzig
† 15 June 1931 in Dresden, Langenbrück bei

131. birthday: Helene Weber
German politician; one of the four "Mothers of the German constitution"
* 17 March 1881 in Elberfeld
† 25 July 1962 in Bonn

129. birthday: Bertha Thalheimer-Schöttle
German politician
* 17 March 1883 in Affaltrach
† 23 April 1959 in Stuttgart

107. birthday: Margit Charlotta Söderholm
Swedish writer
* 17 March 1905 in Stockholm
† 23 November 1986 in Stockholm ?

106. birthday: Brigitte Helm
German actress
* 17 March 1906 in Berlin
† 11 June 1996 in Ascona

98. birthday: Mary Patricia Hornsby-Smith
English
* 17 March 1914 in East Sheen
† 3 July 1985 in London

79. birthday: Penelope Lively

* 17 March 1933

76. birthday: Ann Quin
English writer
* 17 March 1936
† August 1973

50. day of death: Elizabeth Miles
American blues singer
* 31 March 1895
† 17 March 1963 in ""

125. day of death: MARIE Humbert
Swiss philanthropist
* 20 July 1819 in Stuttgart
† 17 March 1888 in Neuenburg

20. day of death: Helen Hayes
American actress
* 10 October 1900 in Washington, DC
† 17 March 1993 in Nyack, NY

153. day of death: Anna Jameson
English writer, illustrator, art critic
* 17 May 1794 in Dublin
† 17 March 1860 in Ealing/ Middlesex

84. day of death: Johanna Bertha Just
German school director
* 10 June 1861 in Dresden
† 17 March 1929 in Potsdam

78. day of death: Mary Grant Carmichael

* 1851 in Birkenhead
† 17 March 1935 in London

71. day of death: Isabel Bevier

* 14 November 1860 in Plymouth b.
† 17 March 1942 in Urbana, Ill.

67. day of death: Mabel Thorp Boardman
American secretary of the Red Cross
* 12 October 1860 in Cleveland, OH
† 17 March 1946

66. day of death: Margarethe Raabe
German painter and executrix of her father, Wilhelm Raabe
* 17 July 1863 in Stuttgart
† 17 March 1947 in Wolfenbüttel

64. day of death: Alma Söderhjelm

* 10 May 1870 in Viipuri
† 17 March 1949 in Stockholm

64. day of death: Alexandra Exter
Russian painter, designer, stage designer
* 6 January 1882 in Kiew/Kiev
† 17 March 1949 in Fontenay-aux-Roses

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

23. day of death: Capucine
French actress
* 6 January 1928 in Toulon
† 17 March 1990 in Lausanne

21. day of death: Monika Mann
German writer
* 7 June 1910 in München
† 17 March 1992 in Leverkusen

19. day of death: Charlotte Auerbach
English biologist, geneticist
* 14 May 1899 in Krefeld
† 17 March 1994 in Edinburgh

17. day of death: Elsa Respighi, geb. Olivieri Sangiacomo
Italian composer, singer, wife of Ottorino Respighi
* 24 March 1894 in Rom
† 17 March 1996 in ""

11. day of death: Luise Rinser
German writer
* 30 April 1911 in Pitzling/ Obb.
† 17 March 2002 in Unterhaching, Bayern

8. day of death: Leona Rostenberg
American bookseller
* 28 December 1908 in Bronx
† 17 March 2005 in Manhattan

6. day of death: Renate Zeiss
German painter, writer, adventurer
* 28 July 1934 in Bielefeld
† 17 March 2007 in Allensbach bei Konstanz