Commemoratives of Famous Women for 17 April 2012

100. birthday: Martha Eggerth
Hungarian-German actress, singer
* 17 April 1912 in Budapest

160. birthday: Ida Boy-Ed
German
* 17 April 1852 in Bergedorf b. Hamburg
† 13 May 1928 in Travemünde

85. birthday: Margot Honecker
German
* 17 April 1927 in Halle, Saale

85. birthday: Graziella Sciutti
Italian singer
* 17 April 1927 in Turin
† 9 April 2001 in Genf

392. birthday: Marguerite Bourgeois, Bourgeoys
French-Canadian saint; founder of a catholic order
* 17 April 1620 in Troyes
† 2 January 1700 in Montreal

201. birthday: Ann Sheppard Mounsey
English organ player, composer
* 17 April 1811 in London
† 24 June 1891 in ebd.

199. birthday: Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper
American writer
* 17 April 1813 in Scarsdale, NY
† 31 December 1894 in Cooperstown, NY

184. birthday: Johanna Mestorf
German prehistorian
* 17 April 1828 in Bramstedt (Holstein)
† 20 July 1909 in Kiel

167. birthday: (Katherine) Isabel Hayes Barrows
American physician, stenographer, reformer
* 17 April 1845 in Irasburg
† 25 October 1913 in Croton-on-Hudson

161. birthday: Anna Garlin Spencer
American
* 17 April 1851 in Attleboro, MA
† 12 February 1931 in New York

151. birthday: Helen Peabody Grant
American painter
* 17 April 1861 in Keytesville Landing, Mo.

127. birthday: Karen (Tania) Blixen
Danish writer
* 17 April 1885 in Rungsted
† 7 September 1962 in Rungstedlund

124. birthday: Maggie Teyte
English singer
* 17 April 1888 in Wolverhampton
† 26 May 1976 in Staffordshire

121. birthday: Margaret Morris
English
* 17 April 1891 in London
† 29 February 1980 in Glasgow

98. birthday: Janine Micheau
French singer
* 17 April 1914 in Toulouse
† 18 October 1976 in Paris

96. birthday: Sirimawo Bandaranaike
Sri Lankan (Ceylonese) politician; the world's first woman prime minister (1960)
* 17 April 1916 in Balangoda, Ceylon
† 10 October 2000 in Colombo

93. birthday: Chavela Vargas
Mexican folk singer
* 17 April 1919 in Guerrero, mex. Pazifik-Küste

84. birthday: Cynthia Ozick
American writer
* 17 April 1928 in New York

83. birthday: Helen Meier
Swiss writer
* 17 April 1929 in Mels (Kanton St. Gallen)

72. birthday: Anja Silja
German
* 17 April 1940 in Berlin

72. birthday: Claire Bretécher
French cartoonist
* 17 April 1940 in Nantes

175. day of death: Johanna Schopenhauer
German writer; mother of Arthur and Adele Schopenhauer
* 9 July 1766 in Danzig
† 17 April 1838 in Weimar

25. day of death: Louise Nevelson
American sculptor
* 23 September 1899 in Kiew
† 17 April 1988 in New York

120. day of death: Lucy Larcom
American
* 5 March 1824 in Beverly, MA
† 17 April 1893 in Boston, MA

80. day of death: Harriet Brooks Pitcher
Canadian nuclear physicist
* 2 July 1876 in Exeter, Ontario
† 17 April 1933

30. day of death: Anne Marie Telmany
Danish painter
* 4 March 1893 in Kopenhagen
† 17 April 1983

15. day of death: Linda McCartney
English
* 24 September 1941 in New York
† 17 April 1998 in Sta. Barbara, CA

318. day of death: Juana Ines de la Cruz
Mexican nun, poet, scholar
* 12 November 1648 in San Miguel de Nepanthla
† 17 April 1695 in Mexiko

317. day of death: Marquise de Sévigné
French letter writer
* 5 February 1626 in Paris
† 17 April 1696 in Château de Grignan

181. day of death: Auguste Bussmann
German
* 1 January 1791 in Frankfurt/M.
† 17 April 1832 in Frankfurt/M.

173. day of death: Hannah Webster Foster
American writer
* 10 September 1758 in Boston
† 17 April 1840 in Montreal

128. day of death: Emmy von Rhoden
German writer
* 15 November 1829 in Magdeburg
† 17 April 1885 in Dresden

126. day of death: Angelika Facius
German
* 14 October 1806 in Weimar
† 17 April 1887 in Weimar

76. day of death: Agnes MacLaren
English
* 1837 in Edinburg
† 17 April 1937 in Antibes

73. day of death: Katharina Schratt
Austrian actress, mistress of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria
* 11 September 1853 in Baden bei/near Wien/Vienna
† 17 April 1940 in Wien/Vienna

71. day of death: Gertrude Whitney
American
* 9 January 1875 in New York
† 17 April 1942 in ebd.

54. day of death: BARBARA KEMP
German singer
* 12 December 1881 in Cochem
† 17 April 1959 in Berlin

52. day of death: Elda Emma Anderson
American
* 5 October 1899 in Green Lake, Wis.
† 17 April 1961 in Oak Ridge, TN

48. day of death: Claribel Kendall

* 23 January 1889 in Denver
† 17 April 1965 in Boulder

27. day of death: Bessie Head
South African writer
* 6 July 1937 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal
† 17 April 1986 in Serowe, Botswana

12. day of death: Vera Brühne
German alleged murderer
* 6 February 1910 in Essen-Kray
† 17 April 2001 in München