Commemoratives of Famous Women for 24 February 2012

125. birthday: Mary Ellen Chase
American writer
* 24 February 1887 in Blue Hill, ME
† 28 July 1973 in Northampton, MA

170. birthday: Janet Ross
English writer
* 24 February 1842 in London
† 24 August 1927 in b. Florenz

185. birthday: Lydia Ernestine Becker
English suffragist, botanist
* 24 February 1827 in Manchester
† 18 July 1890 in Genf o. Genua (Geneva o. Genova)

408. birthday: Suor Arcangela Tarabotti
Italian writer, nun
* 24 February 1604 in Venedig (Castello)
† 1652

202. birthday: Luisa Amelia Paladini
Italian educator, poet
* 24 February 1810 in Lucca
† 17 July 1872 in Lecce

188. birthday: Adeline Gräfin von Cardigan
English writer
* 24 February 1824
† 25 May 1915

183. birthday: Marie Seebach, verh. Niemann
German actress and philanthropist
* 24 February 1829 in Riga
† 3 August 1897 in St. Moritz

182. birthday: Karolina Svetlá
Czech writer
* 24 February 1830 in Prag / Prague
† 7 September 1899 in Prag / Prague

176. birthday: Anna Forcke
German deaconess, hospital matron
* 24 February 1836 in Wittingen
† 10 October 1904 in Hannover

172. birthday: Auguste Götze, Ps. A. Weimar

* 24 February 1840 in Weimar
† 29 April 1908 in Leipzig

163. birthday: Mari Jaszai ((eigentlich Maria Krippel))
actress
* 24 February 1849 in Aszar
† 5 October 1926 in Budapest

149. birthday: Ida Matton
Swedish painter, sculptor
* 24 February 1863 in Gefle
† 1940

147. birthday: Aino Malmberg
writer
* 24 February 1865 in Hollola
† 3 February 1933 in Helsinki

141. birthday: Hedwig Dransfeld
German politician
* 24 February 1871 in Dortmund-Hacheney
† 13 March 1925 in Werl, Westfalen

136. birthday: Martha Cunz
Swiss
* 24 February 1876 in St. Gallen
† 15 May 1961

129. birthday: Maria Maud Leonard McCreery
American feminist, socialist
* 24 February 1883 in Cedarburg, Wis.
† 10 April 1938 in Milwaukee

128. birthday: Marguerite Beclard d'Harcourt
French composer
* 24 February 1884 in Paris
† 2 August 1964 in Paris

107. birthday: La Jana (Jenny Hiebel)
German actress, dancer
* 24 February 1905 in Wien
† 13 March 1940 in Berlin

88. birthday: Margrit Weber
Swiss pianist
* 24 February 1924 in Ebnat-Kappel (St. Gallen)
† 2001

79. birthday: Renata Scotto
Italian singer and opera director
* 24 February 1933 in Savona, Ligurien
† Ê in  

61. birthday: Gabriele Schnaut
German singer
* 24 February 1951 in Mannheim

56. birthday: Judith Butler
American philosopher and feminist
* 24 February 1956 in Cleveland, OH

54. birthday: Valeri(j)a Spartakovna Narbikova
Russian writer
* 24 February 1958 in Moskau

75. day of death: Frieda Brosch
German actress
* 1880 um in Stettin
† 24 February 1938 in Görlitz

70. day of death: Helene Stöcker
German feminist, pacifist
* 13 November 1869 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld
† 24 February 1943 in New York, NY

60. day of death: Fanny Moser
Swiss
* 27 May 1872 in Badenweiler
† 24 February 1953 in Zürich

241. day of death: Anna Füssli
Swiss
* 16 September 1749 in Zürich
† 24 February 1772 in ebd.

113. day of death: Gabrielle-Marie Le Sueur
French
* 1854 in Janville
† 24 February 1900 in Bresse-sur-Braye

66. day of death: Dora von Stockert-Meynert

* 5 May 1870 in Wien / Vienna
† 24 February 1947 in Wien / Vienna

46. day of death: Dorothee Manski
American
* 11 March 1895 in New York
† 24 February 1967 in Atlanta, GA

39. day of death: Margaret (Kernochan) Leech
American writer
* 7 November 1893 in Newburgh, NY
† 24 February 1974

39. day of death: Irene Barnes Taeuber
American
* 25 December 1906 in Meadville
† 24 February 1974 in Princeton