Commemoratives of Famous Women for 28 March 2012

110. birthday: Flora Robson
English actress
* 28 March 1902 in South Shields (Durham)
† 7 July 1984 in Brighton

90. birthday: Grace Hartigan
American painter
* 28 March 1922 in Newark, NJ
† 15 November 2008 in Baltimore, MD

135. birthday: Liesbet Dill
German writer
* 28 March 1877 in Dudweiler
† 15 April 1962 in Wiesbaden

85. birthday: Marianne Fredriksson
Swedish writer
* 28 March 1927 in Göteborg
† 11 February 2007

497. birthday: Teresa / Theresa / Therese Teresa / Theresa / Therese von Avila
Spanish abbess, saint, mystic, poet, philosopher, founder
* 28 March 1515 in Avila
† 4 October 1582 in Alba de Tormes

269. birthday: Jekaterina Daschkowa
Russian writer
* 28 March 1743 in Petersburg
† 16 January 1810 in Moskau

233. birthday: Josephine Gräfin Brunswick de Korompa
Hungarian student and friend of Beethoven, his "immortal beloved"
* 28 March 1779 in Preßburg
† 31 March 1821

139. birthday: Anne Douglas Sedgwick
American writer
* 28 March 1873 in Englewood
† 21 July 1935 in Hampstead

137. birthday: Ragnhild Jølsen

* 28 March 1875 in Ekeberg (Enebakk)
† 28 January 1908 in Enebakk

132. birthday: Rosina Lhévinne
Russian
* 28 March 1880 in Kiew
† 9 November 1976

129. birthday: Marie Jorns
German art historian
* 28 March 1883 in Hannover
† 1 June 1975 in Hannover

122. birthday: Dorette Hanhart
Swiss writer
* 28 March 1890 in Zürich
† 25 November 1943 in Rapperswil

118. birthday: Sylvia von Harden
German poet, feature writer
* 28 March 1894 in Hamburg- Rotherbaum
† 4 June 1964 in Croxley Green, Rickmansworth, Herts.

102. birthday: Ingrid
Danish queen
* 28 March 1910 in Stockholm
† 7 November 2000 in Schloß Fredensborg bei Kopenhagen

53. birthday: Laura Chinchilla
Costarican (first female) president od Costa Rica
* 28 March 1959 in San José

44. birthday: Iris Chang

* 28 March 1968 in Princeton, NJ
† 9 November 2004 in Los Gatos, CA

25. day of death: Else Elster
German actress
* 22 February 1910 in Danzig
† 28 March 1988 in Günzburg

110. day of death: Magdalene Thoresen
Danish-Norwegian writer
* 3 June 1819 in Frederica
† 28 March 1903 in Kopenhagen

40. day of death: Ida Cohen Rosenthal
American inventor, entrepreneur
* 9 January 1886 in Rakov b. Minsk, Rußld.
† 28 March 1973 in New York City

253. day of death: Margaret (Peg) Woffington

* 18 October 1718 in Dublin
† 28 March 1760 in London

214. day of death: Etta Palm, geb. d"Aelders
Dutch women"s rights pioneer
* 1743 in Groningen
† 28 March 1799 in Rijswijk

142. day of death: Giuditta Sidoli Bellerio
Italian
* 16 January 1804 in Mailand
† 28 March 1871 in Turin

137. day of death: Nimfodora Semjonova
Russian singer
* 1788 in ""
† 28 March 1876 in ""

117. day of death: Elizabeth Rundle Charles
English writer
* 2 January 1828 in Tavistock
† 28 March 1896 in London

84. day of death: Katharine Lee Bates
American poet
* 12 August 1859 in Falmouth, MA
† 28 March 1929 in Wellesley, MA

72. day of death: Virginia Woolf
English writer
* 25 January 1882 in London
† 28 March 1941 in Lewes/ Sussex

56. day of death: Hedwig Andersen
German voice therapist
* 9 June 1866 in Memel
† 28 March 1957 in Schönborn bei Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein

48. day of death: Crystal Dreda Bird Fauset
American
* 27 June 1893 in Princess Anne, MD
† 28 March 1965 in Philadelphia

46. day of death: Berta Lask
German
* 17 November 1878 in Wadowice, Galizien
† 28 March 1967 in Ost Berlin

44. day of death: Jennie Loitman Barron
American judge, lawyer, suffragist, community leader
* 12 October 1891 in Boston
† 28 March 1969 in Boston

39. day of death: Françoise Rosay
French
* 19 April 1891 in Paris
† 28 March 1974 in ebd.

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

19. day of death: Helen Wolff

* 1906 in Skopje, Makedonien
† 28 March 1994 in Hanover, NH

8. day of death: Moura Lympany
English pianist
* 18 August 1916 in Plymouth
† 28 March 2005 in Menton, Frkr.

4. day of death: Helen Levitt
American photograper
* 31 August 1913 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
† 28 March 2009 in Manhattan