Commemoratives of Famous Women for 31 May 2012

400. birthday: Margherita de Medici, Herzogin von Parma-Piacenza
Italian duchess
* 31 May 1612 in Florenz
† 6 February 1679 in Parma

160. birthday: Josephine Grau
German writer
* 31 May 1852 in Schlüchtern (Hessen)
† 4 April 1920 in Fulda

130. birthday: Marietta Amstad
Swiss singer
* 31 May 1882 in Beckenried
† 7 August 1972 in Stans

205. birthday: Luise Reinhardt, geb. Ditfurth
German mystery writer
* 31 May 1807 in Magdeburg
† 24 October 1878 in Merseburg

115. birthday: Hilde Vérène Borsinger
Swiss
* 31 May 1897 in Baden
† 21 January 1986 in Luzern

45. birthday: Sandrine Bonnaire
French actress
* 31 May 1967 in Clermont-Ferrand

569. birthday: Margaret, Gräfin von Richmond and Derby
English mother of Henry VII.
* 31 May 1443
† 29 June 1509

256. birthday: Maximiliane La Roche
German mother of Bettine and Clemens Brentano; daughter of Sophie von La Roche
* 31 May 1756 in Mainz
† 19 November 1793 in Frankfurt

221. birthday: Caroline-Charlotte Dupont
French actress
* 31 May 1791 in Valenciennes
† 25 October 1864 in Paris

208. birthday: Louise Farrenc
French pianist, composer, piano teacher, musicologist
* 31 May 1804 in Paris
† 15 September 1875 in Paris

191. birthday: Henriette Ronner

* 31 May 1821 in Amsterdam
† 2 March 1909 in Brüssel

172. birthday: Regina Friedländer
Austrian
* 31 May 1840 in Wien
† 15 February 1894 in Amstetten

142. birthday: Theodore von Rommel
German
* 31 May 1870 in Mainz
† 2 December 1950 in Tutzing

137. birthday: Helga Kristine Eng

* 31 May 1875 in Degernes

129. birthday: Frances Alda, geb. Davies
New Zealand singer
* 31 May 1883 in Christchurch
† 18 September 1952 in Venedig

122. birthday: Hilla Rebay
American painter, art expert
* 31 May 1890 in Straßburg
† 27 September 1967 in Greens Farms, CT

119. birthday: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
American writer
* 31 May 1893 in Buffalo, NY

107. birthday: Angela Nikoletti
South Tyrolian (Italian) "catacombs teacher" of German during Fascism
* 31 May 1905 in Margreid an der Weinstraße, Südtirol/Italien
† 11 January 1930 in Kurtatsch an der Weinstraße, Südtirol/Italien

104. birthday: Edith Mary Coates

* 31 May 1908 in Lincoln
† 7 January 1983 in Worthing

103. birthday: Eliza Hansen
Romanian-German piano teacher, pianist, harpsichordist
* 31 May 1909 in Bukarest
† 19 May 2001 in Hamburg?

99. birthday: Chien Shiung Wu
Chinese-American
* 31 May 1913 in Liuhe bei Shanghai
† 16 February 1997 in New York

91. birthday: Alida Maria Valli, geb. Altenburger
Italian actress
* 31 May 1921 in Pola
† 22 April 2006 in Rom

88. birthday: Patricia Roberts Harris
American politician
* 31 May 1924 in Mattoon, IL
† 23 March 1985 in Washington, DC.

88. birthday: Gisela May
German actress and singer
* 31 May 1924 in Wetzlar

88. birthday: Ida Presti
French
* 31 May 1924 in Suresnes b. Paris
† 24 April 1967 in Rochester (USA)

81. birthday: Shirley Verrett
American singer
* 31 May 1931 in New Orleans

69. birthday: Antje Vollmer
German politician (the Greens), theologian.
* 31 May 1943 in Lübbecke

64. birthday: Swetlana Alexijewitsch
Belarussian writer, documentarist
* 31 May 1948 in Iwano-Frankowsk, Ukraine

47. birthday: Brooke Shields
American actress
* 31 May 1965

50. day of death: Edith Hamilton
American writer, classicist, educator
* 12 August 1867 in Dresden (während e. Reise d. Eltern)
† 31 May 1963 in Washington, DC

70. day of death: Berthie (Berty) Albrecht, geb. Wild
French resistance fighter; Journalist
* 15 February 1893 in Marseille
† 31 May 1943 in Vichy

415. day of death: Maria Strick

* 1577 in Herzogenbusch
† 31 May 1598

165. day of death: Eugenie de Guerin
French writer
* 29 January 1805 in Schloß Cayla b. Albi, Tarn
† 31 May 1848 in ebd.

95. day of death: Helene von Druskowitz
Austrian writer
* 2 May 1856 in Wien, Hietzing b.
† 31 May 1918 in Mauer-Öhling (Landeskrankenhaus

35. day of death: Hannah Höch
German painter, graphic artist, photographer
* 1 November 1889 in Gotha
† 31 May 1978 in Berlin

15. day of death: Lotti Huber
German actress and author
* 16 October 1912 in Kiel
† 31 May 1998 in Berlin

489. day of death: Camilla Battista Varano, Fürstin von Camerino

* 9 April 1458 in Camerino o. Pesaro
† 31 May 1524 in Camerino

103. day of death: Elizabeth Blackwell
English-American physician
* 3 February 1821 in Counterslip b./n. Bristol
† 31 May 1910 in Kilmun, Schottland/Scotland

86. day of death: Mary Hannah Krout
American
* 3 November 1857 in Crawfordsville
† 31 May 1927 in Crawfordsville

44. day of death: Hilde Körber
Austrian actress
* 3 July 1906 in Wien / Vienna
† 31 May 1969 in Berlin

39. day of death: Daisie Adelle Davis
American dietician, nutritionist
* 25 February 1904 in Lizton, IN
† 31 May 1974 in Palos Verdes Estates, CA

27. day of death: Dora Russell
English
* 3 April 1894 in Thornton Heath, Essex
† 31 May 1986 in Porthcurno, Cornwall

24. day of death: Raissa Orlowa Kopelew
Russian writer, dissident
* 23 July 1918 in Moskau/Moscow
† 31 May 1989 in Köln/Cologne

3. day of death: Louise Bourgeois
American sculptor
* 25 December 1911 in Aubusson
† 31 May 2010 in New York City