Commemoratives of Famous Women for 25 March 2012

100. birthday: Magda Olivero
Italian singer
* 25 March 1912 in Saluzzo b. Turin

140. birthday: Ichiyo Higuchi
Japanese writer
* 25 March 1872 in Tokio
† 23 November 1896 in Tokio

80. birthday: Penelope Gilliatt
English-American writer and critic
* 25 March 1932 in London
† 9 May 1993 in ebd.

70. birthday: Aretha Franklin
American singer
* 25 March 1942 in Memphis, TN

665. birthday: Katharina / Caterina Katharina / Caterina von Siena
Italian saint, mystic, scholar, philosopher
* 25 March 1347 in Siena
† 29 April 1380 in Rom/Rome

671. birthday: Blanche of Lancaster
noblewoman; mother of king Henry IV (House of Lancaster)
* 25 March 1341
† 12 September 1368 in Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire

418. birthday: Maria T. Roemers Visscher Tesselschade

* 25 March 1594 in Amsterdam
† 20 June 1649 in Alkmaar

234. birthday: Sophie Blanchard

* 25 March 1778 in Trois-Canon/Charente Maritime
† 6 July 1819 in Paris

186. birthday: Matilda Joslyn Gage
American feminist theorist and historian
* 25 March 1826 in Cicero, NY
† 18 March 1898 in Chicago, IL

186. birthday: Wilhelmina Lagerholm
Swedish
* 25 March 1826 in Oerebro
† 19 June 1917 in Stockholm

173. birthday: Marianne Hainisch, geb. Perger
Austrian politician; pioneer of the women"s movement
* 25 March 1839 in Baden bei/near Wien/Vienna
† 5 May 1936 in Baden bei/near Wien/Vienna

153. birthday: Johanna Wilhelmina Antoinette Naber
Dutch writer, socialist
* 25 March 1859 in Haarlem
† 30 May 1941 in den Haag

148. birthday: Marie Soldat-Röger
Austrian violinist
* 25 March 1864 in Graz
† 30 September 1955 in ebd.

147. birthday: Luise Zietz
German politician, pacifist
* 25 March 1865 in Bargteheide/ Holstein
† 27 January 1922 in Berlin

144. birthday: Agnes Karll
German social reformer (nursing)
* 25 March 1868 in Embsen (Dorf in d. Lüneburger Heide)
† 12 February 1927 in Berlin

139. birthday: Judith-Jeanne Cladel
French writer
* 25 March 1873 in Paris

131. birthday: Mary Gladys Webb
English
* 25 March 1881 in Leighton-under-the-Wrekin/Shropshire
† 8 October 1927 in St. Leonards /Sussex

124. birthday: Agnes Marie Schütt
German philologist
* 25 March 1888 in Hamburg
† 25 January 1978 in ebd.

114. birthday: Emma Barrett
American
* 25 March 1898 in New Orleans
† 28 January 1983 in ebd.

104. birthday: Ilse R. Wolff, geb. Zorek
German writer, publisher
* 25 March 1908 in Glatz, Schlesien
† 2001

103. birthday: Maria Gräfin von Maltzan
German veterinarian, biologist, journalist, resistance fighter
* 25 March 1909 in Mielitsch/ Breslau, Schlesien
† 12 November 1997 in Berlin

91. birthday: Simone Signoret
French actress, writer
* 25 March 1921 in Wiesbaden
† 30 September 1985 in Paris

88. birthday: Julia Amanda Perry
American
* 25 March 1924 in Lexington, KY
† 29 April 1979 in Akron, OH

87. birthday: Flannery O'Connor
American writer
* 25 March 1925 in Savannah, GA 
† 3 August 1964 in Milledgeville, GA

78. birthday: Gloria Steinem
American journalist, feminist
* 25 March 1934 in Toledo, OH

73. birthday: Toni Cade Bambara
American writer
* 25 March 1939 in New York, NY
† 9 December 1995 in Wallingford, PA

72. birthday: Mina (Anna Mazzini)
Italian singer
* 25 March 1940

150. day of death: Caroline Tridon
German miniaturist an portrait painter
* 15 April 1799 in Erlangen
† 25 March 1863 in Dresden

85. day of death: Nina Bang
Danish
* 6 October 1866 in Kopenhagen
† 25 March 1928 in ebd.

224. day of death: Julie von Voss, Gräfin von Ingenheim
German
* 24 July 1766 in Buch b. Berlin
† 25 March 1789 in Berlin

178. day of death: FRIEDERIKE BRUN, geb. MÜNTER
German writer
* 3 June 1765 in Gräfentonna/Thür.
† 25 March 1835 in Kopenhagen

133. day of death: Ludmilla Assing
German writer
* 22 February 1821 in Hamburg
† 25 March 1880 in Florenz, Manicomio di S. Bonifacio bei

118. day of death: Elizabeth Stirling
English
* 26 February 1819 in Greenwich
† 25 March 1895 in London

88. day of death: Amélie Moser
Swiss feminist, philanthropist
* 21 June 1839 in Herzogenbuchsee
† 25 March 1925

82. day of death: Ida B. Wells
American
* 16 July 1862 in Holly Springs, Miss.
† 25 March 1931 in Chicago

81. day of death: Harriet Backer
Norwegian painter, art teacher
* 21 January 1845 in Holmestrand
† 25 March 1932 in Oslo

59. day of death: Gertrud Bäumer
German womens' rights activist, writer, politician
* 12 September 1873 in Hohenlimburg bei Hagen/ Westf.
† 25 March 1954 in Bethel/ Bielefeld (PL) Gadderbaum bei Bielefeld (W 83))

47. day of death: Lola (Caroline Sophia Auguste ) Kreutzberg
German director, producer. cinematographer
* 2 August 1887 in Nürschau
† 25 March 1966 in Positano, Italien

22. day of death: Eileen Joyce
Australian pianist, harpsichordist
* 21 November 1912 in Zeehan, Tasmanien
† 25 March 1991 in Westerham, England

18. day of death: Eleanor Flexner
American writer, historian
* 4 October 1908 in New York City
† 25 March 1995 in Westboro o. Worcester, MA

17. day of death: Mary Lavin
Irish-American writer
* 11 June 1912 in East Walpole, MA
† 25 March 1996 in Dublin

6. day of death: Geno(veva) Hartlaub
German writer
* 7 June 1915 in Mannheim
† 25 March 2007 in Hamburg

3. day of death: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
German opinion pollster, entrepreneur
* 19 December 1916 in Berlin
† 25 March 2010 in Allensbach, Bodensee