Commemoratives of Famous Women for 17 September 2010

100. birthday: Gertrud Schlotterbeck-Lutz
German
* 17 September 1910 in Reutlingen o. Stuttgart
† 30 November 1944 in ebd.

110. birthday: Martha Ostenso
writer
* 17 September 1900 in Haulkand bei Bergen (Norw.)
† 24 November 1963 in Seattle, WA

70. birthday: Karin Reschke
German writer
* 17 September 1940 in Krakau

70. birthday: HEIDELINDE WEIS

* 17 September 1940 in Villach/Kärnten -

505. birthday: Maria von Ungarn und Böhmen

* 17 September 1505 in Brüssel
† 18 October 1558 in Cigales, Spanien

156. birthday: Effie Ellsler
American actress
* 17 September 1854 in Philadelphia
† 8 October 1942 in Los Angeles, CA

127. birthday: Käthe Kruse
German entrepreneur, doll designer
* 17 September 1883 in Breslau
† 19 July 1968 in Murnau

118. birthday: Katharine White
American publisher, entrepreneur
* 17 September 1892 in Winchester
† 20 July 1977 in North Brooklyn

109. birthday: Helen Hemingway Benton
American
* 17 September 1901 in North Haven, CN
† 3 May 1974 in Phoenix, AZ

109. birthday: Edith Weyde
German chemist, physicist
* 17 September 1901 in Prag
† 10 February 1989 in Kürten

88. birthday: Marianne Cohn
French resistance fighter
* 17 September 1922 in Mannheim
† 8 July 1944 in Annemasse?

79. birthday: Anne Bancroft (eig. Italiano)
American actress
* 17 September 1931 in Bronx, New York
† 6 June 2005 in Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan

77. birthday: Angelica May
German cellist
* 17 September 1933 in Reutlingen

76. birthday: Maureen Connolly (Little Mo)
American tennis player
* 17 September 1934 in San Diego, CA
† 21 June 1969

73. birthday: Albertine Sarrazin
French writer
* 17 September 1937 in Algier
† 10 July 1967 in Paris

20. day of death: Judith Nisse Shklar

* 1928 in Riga
† 17 September 1992

115. day of death: Anna Schepeler-Lette
German
* 10 December 1827 in Soldin, Neumark
† 17 September 1897 in Berlin

35. day of death: Ruth Andreas-Friedrich
German writer, member of the resistance
* 23 September 1901 in Berlin
† 17 September 1977 in Gauting b./n. München/Munich

833. day of death: Hildegard von Bingen
German abbess, saint, mystic, composer, philosopher, healer
* 1098 in Bermersheim b./n. Alzey
† 17 September 1179 in Bingen (Kloster Rupertsberg)

288. day of death: Glückel von Hameln
German writer of memoirs
* 1646 in Hamburg
† 17 September 1724 in Metz

108. day of death: Raden Adjeng Kartini

* 21 April 1879 in Majong
† 17 September 1904 in Rembang

102. day of death: Susan Hale
American painter, writer
* 5 December 1833 in Boston
† 17 September 1910 in Matunuck, (Matunach,) RI

89. day of death: Luise Mendelssohn
German singer, composer
* 22 October 1863 in Ratibor
† 17 September 1923

73. day of death: Ethel Mary Dell
English writer
* 2 August 1881 in Streatham
† 17 September 1939 in Hereford

64. day of death: Maria Homscheid
German writer
* 19 December 1872 in Herdorf/ Rhld.
† 17 September 1948 in Koblenz

64. day of death: Ruth Benedict, geb. Fulton
American anthropologist
* 5 June 1887 in New York
† 17 September 1948 in New York

27. day of death: Laura Ashley
English fashion desgner, entrepreneur
* 7 September 1925 in Dowlais, South Wales
† 17 September 1985 in Coventry

24. day of death: Hilde Güden
Austrian singer
* 15 September 1917 in Wien
† 17 September 1988 in München oder Klosterneuburg b. Wien

21. day of death: Thelma Reiss
English cellist
* 2 July 1906 in Plymouth
† 17 September 1991

16. day of death: Marianne Bachmeier
German avenger
* 3 June 1950 in Sarstedt
† 17 September 1996 in Lübeck

13. day of death: Ellen Frank
German actress
* 9 March 1904 in Aurich
† 17 September 1999 in Klagenfurt