Database of notable women
At the moment the online database holds 12959 records.For instance:
39 astronomers
303 women born in Paris
115 entrepreneurs
75 women born in Chicago
78 women born in Prague
166 sculptors
On this day …
- 180th birthday: Bertha von Suttner
- 130th birthday: Erna Gentsch
- 130th birthday: Bertha Middelhauve
- 130th birthday: Gertrud von Brockdorf (Ps. und Mädchenname G. Stendal)
- 120th birthday: Sarah Ratner
- 110th birthday: Ellen Nielsen
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Right now you'll find 278 biographies of notable women in English on Fembio.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American writer
born June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut
died July 1, 1896 in Hartford, Connecticut
120th anniversary of death on July 1 2016
Alice B. Sheldon
born August 24, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois
died May 19, 1987 in Maclean, Virginia
US science fiction writer
35th death anniversary on May 19, 2022
Grazia Deledda
born September 27, 1871 in Nuoro, Sardinia
died August 15, 1936 in Rome
Italian writer; Nobel Prize winner (1926)
150th birthday on September 27, 2021
Sarah Moore Grimké und Angelina Emily Grimké
Sarah Moore and Angelina Emily Grimké
Sarah Moore Grimké
born 26 November 1792 in Charleston, South Carolina
died 23 December 1873 in Hyde Park near Boston, Massachusetts
Angelina Emily Grimké
born 20 February 1805 in Charleston, South Carolina
died 26. October 1879 in Hyde Park near Boston, Massachusetts
U.S. abolitionist and feminist activists and writers