Commemoratives of Famous Women for 26 January 2012

140. birthday: Julia Morgan
American architect
* 26 January 1872 in San Francisco
† 2 February 1957 in San Francisco

215. birthday: Talvj = Therese Albertine Luise von Jacob von Jacob / Talvj
German writer, ethnologist, historian
* 26 January 1797 in Halle
† 13 April 1870 in Hamburg

105. birthday: Marie Jahoda
Austrian sociologist
* 26 January 1907 in Wien
† 29 April 2001 in Sussex

208. birthday: Delphine de Girardin
French writer
* 26 January 1804 in Aachen
† 29 June 1855 in Paris

201. birthday: KAROLINE FLIEDNER geb. BERTHEAU
German deaconess
* 26 January 1811 in Hamburg
† 15 April 1892

186. birthday: Leocadie Gerlach
singer
* 26 January 1826 in Stockholm
† 13 September 1919 in Frederiksborg b. Kopenhagen

186. birthday: Julia Dent Grant
American
* 26 January 1826 in St. Louis bei
† 14 December 1902 in Washington, DC

181. birthday: Mary Elizabeth Dodge
American writer
* 26 January 1831 in New York
† 21 August 1905 in Tannersville

179. birthday: Elisabet Ney
German-American sculptor
* 26 January 1833 in Münster /Westf.
† 29 June 1907 in Austin, TX

173. birthday: Anna Eliza Hardy
American
* 26 January 1839 in Bangor, Maine
† 15 December 1934 in Jamaica Plain, MA

116. birthday: Maria Ossowska
Polish
* 26 January 1896
† 13 August 1974

114. birthday: Katarzyna Kobro
Polish sculptor
* 26 January 1898 in Riga
† 26 February 1951 in Lodz

114. birthday: Hildegard Domizlaff
German sculptor
* 26 January 1898 in Erfurt
† 22 February 1987

113. birthday: May Sullivan Miller
American writer
* 26 January 1899

112. birthday: GERHART ELLERT
Austrian writer
* 26 January 1900 in Wolfsberg/ Kärnten
† 7 May 1975 in ebd.

107. birthday: Maria Baronin von Trapp
Austrian-American mother of the Trapp family
* 26 January 1905
† 28 March 1987 in Morrisville, Vt.

84. birthday: Eartha Kitt
American singer, dancer, actress
* 26 January 1928 in North, SC
† 25 December 2008 in Connecticut

69. birthday: Susan Griffin
American writer, feminist
* 26 January 1943 in Los Angeles, CA

68. birthday: Angela Davis
American civil rights activist, philosopher
* 26 January 1944 in Birmingham, AL
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67. birthday: Jacqueline du Pré
English cellist
* 26 January 1945 in Oxford (Purley)
† 19 October 1987 in London

54. birthday: Ellen DeGeneres

* 26 January 1958 in Metairie, LA

140. day of death: Amelia Augusta de Braganca, Kaiserin v. Brasilien
Brazilian philanthropist
* 31 July 1812 in München
† 26 January 1873 in Lissabon

153. day of death: Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient
German singer (soprano); actress.
* 6 December 1804 in Hamburg
† 26 January 1860 in Coburg

134. day of death: Julia Margaret Cameron
English pioneer of photograpy
* 11 June 1815 in Kalkutta/Calcutta, Indien/India
† 26 January 1879 in Kalutara, Ceylon

87. day of death: Rosa von Milde
German singer (soprano)
* 25 June 1827 in Weimar
† 26 January 1926 in ebd.

78. day of death: Hilda Gustafva Sachs
Swedish
* 13 March 1857 in Norrköping
† 26 January 1935 in Stockholm

66. day of death: Grace Moore
American
* 5 December 1898 in Jellico, TN
† 26 January 1947 in Kopenhagen bei

32. day of death: Constance M. K. Applebee
English
* 4 June 1873 in Chigivall o. Chigwell, Essex
† 26 January 1981 in Burley, Hampshire, England,

29. day of death: Leni Marenbach
German actress
* 20 December 1907 in Essen
† 26 January 1984 in Berlin

17. day of death: Ruth Berghaus
German director, choreographer, legislator
* 2 July 1927 in Dresden
† 26 January 1996 in Zeuthen

14. day of death: Jeanne-Marie Darré
French
* 30 July 1905 in Givet, Ardennen
† 26 January 1999 in Paris