Commemoratives of Famous Women for 20 February 2012

190. birthday: AGATHE KNOPP
German singer
* 20 February 1822 in Berlin
† 27 September 1877 in Weimar

130. birthday: Mia Munier-Wroblewska
German writer
* 20 February 1882 in Schleck/ Lettland
† 19 October 1965 in Itzehoe

130. birthday: Margarethe Hardegger, verh. Faas
Swiss women"s rights pioneer
* 20 February 1882 in Bern
† 23 September 1963 in Minusio

399. birthday: Catherine de Meurdrac de La Guette
French writer, memoirist
* 20 February 1613 in Mandres
† 1681 vermu in Holland

399. birthday: Luise Francisca de Guzmán
Portuguese queen and regent
* 20 February 1613 in Sanlucar de Barrameda
† 27 February 1666 in Xabregas

207. birthday: Angelina Emily Grimké
American feminist, abolitionist
* 20 February 1805 in Charleston, SC
† 26 October 1879 in Hyde Park, MA

177. birthday: Eleonore Fürstin Reuss
German writer
* 20 February 1835 in Gedern/ Oberhessen / Nidda (O 83)
† 18 September 1903 in Ilsenburg/ Harz

167. birthday: Anna Sofie Petersen

* 20 February 1845 in Kopenhagen
† 6 August 1910 in ebd.

138. birthday: Mary Garden
American-Scottish singer
* 20 February 1874 in Aberdeen
† 3 January 1967 in Inverurie

129. birthday: Lucie Höflich
German actress, acting teacher
* 20 February 1883 in Hannover
† 9 October 1956 in Berlin

127. birthday: Zdenka Baldova
Czech actress
* 20 February 1885 in Böhmisch Trübau
† 26 September 1958 in Prag / Prague

124. birthday: Dame Marie Rambert
English-Polish dancer and dancing teacher
* 20 February 1888 in Warschau / Warsaw
† 12 June 1982 in London

122. birthday: FaltisEvelyn
German-Czech composer
* 20 February 1890 in Trautenau, Böhmen
† 13 May 1937 in Wien

109. birthday: Ella K. Maillart
Swiss writer
* 20 February 1903 in Genf
† 27 March 1997 in Chandolin bei Genf

101. birthday: Margot Grahame
English actress
* 20 February 1911 in Canterbury
† 1 January 1982 in London

91. birthday: Ruth Gipps
English composer, conductor, pianist, oboist
* 20 February 1921 in Bexhill
† 23 February 1999

46. birthday: Cindy Crawford
American
* 20 February 1966 in Sycamore, IL

42. birthday: Julia Franck
German writer
* 20 February 1970 in Berlin (Ost)

34. birthday: Julia Jentsch
German actress
* 20 February 1978 in Berlin

210. day of death: Marie-Françoise Marchand Dumesnil
French actress
* 2 January 1713 in Paris
† 20 February 1803 in Boulogne-sur-Mer

40. day of death: Brigitte Reimann
German writer
* 21 July 1933 in Burg bei/near Magdeburg
† 20 February 1973 in Berlin

235. day of death: Laura Bassi
Italian philosopher, physicist, anatomist
* 29 October 1711 in Bologna
† 20 February 1778 in Bologna

276. day of death: Elizabeth Singer Rowe
English
* 11 September 1674 in Ilchester
† 20 February 1737

158. day of death: Angélique Lavol Mongez
French
* 1 May 1775 in Conflans
† 20 February 1855 in Paris

92. day of death: Jessie Love Gaynor, geb. Smith
American composer
* 17 February 1863 in St. Louis
† 20 February 1921 in Webster Groves, Mo.

77. day of death: Alma (Evelina) Fohström (von Rode)
Finnish singer
* 2 January 1856 in Helsinki  
† 20 February 1936 in Helsinki (vermutlich)

52. day of death: Mary Sewall Gardner
American
* 5 February 1871 in Newton, MA
† 20 February 1961 in Providence, RI

41. day of death: Maria Goeppert-Mayer
German-American physicist, Nobel laureate (1963)
* 28 June 1906 in Kattowitz
† 20 February 1972 in San Diego, CA

37. day of death: Kathryn Kuhlman
American
* 1915 ? in Concordia, Mo.
† 20 February 1976 in Tulsa

36. day of death: Jarmila Glazarova

* 7 September 1901 in Mala Skala
† 20 February 1977 in Prag

33. day of death: Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth
American
* 12 February 1884 in New York
† 20 February 1980 in Washington, DC

24. day of death: Erika Köth
German singer
* 15 September 1925 in Darmstadt
† 20 February 1989 in Speyer

23. day of death: Verdina Rachel Shlonsky
Israeli pianist; composer
* 22 January 1905 in Kremenchuk, Ukraine
† 20 February 1990 in Tel Aviv

14. day of death: Sarah Kane
English playwright
* 3 February 1971 in Essex
† 20 February 1999 in London

12. day of death: Dana Meadows
American biophysicist, activist, environmentalist, author
* 13 March 1941 in Elgin, IL
† 20 February 2001 in New Hampshire

3. day of death: Johanna Dohnal
Austrian politician, feminist
* 14 February 1939 in Wien / Vienna
† 20 February 2010 in Grabern, Weinviertel