User:Jane023/Top women born before 1900
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Women born before 1900 with more than 3 occupations on Wikidata and more than 30 sitelinks
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image | Article | description | date of birth | place of birth | date of death | place of death | occupation | links | item |
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Hypatia | Greek Neoplatonist philosopher | 0360 | Alexandria | 0415-03 | Alexandria | inventor
|
106 | Q11903 | |
Anne Hutchinson | participant in the Antinomian Controversy | 1591 | Alford | 1643 | New Netherland | theologian
preacher |
36 | Q11608 | |
Marie de France | medieval poet | 11th century | Brittany | 13th century | No/unknown value | 53 | Q5617 | ||
Héloïse d’Argenteuil | 12th-century French nun, philosopher and writer | 1101 | Paris | 1164-05-15 | Oratory of the Paraclete | philosopher
Christian nun |
42 | Q5656 | |
Clara Immerwahr | German chemist (1870-1915) | 1870-06-21 | Wojczyce | 1915-05-02 | Dahlem | peace activist
|
41 | Q7490 | |
Amelia Earhart | American aviation pioneer and author | 1897-07-24 | Atchison | 1939-01-05 | Howland Island | women's rights activist
aviation writer |
114 | Q3355 | |
Anna de Noailles | Romanian-French writer (1876-1933) | 1876-11-15 | 7th arrondissement of Paris | 1933-04-30 | 16th arrondissement of Paris | writer salonnière poet model novelist aristocrat monarch |
45 | Q6050 | |
Mary the Jewess | Alchemist who lived between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE in Alexandria. | -0200 | Alexandria | No/unknown value | Alexandria | architect alchemist writer |
37 | Q7499 | |
Irène Joliot-Curie | French scientist (1897-1956) | 1897-09-12 | 13th arrondissement of Paris | 1956-03-17 | Paris | researcher
|
108 | Q7504 | |
George Sand | French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin | 1804-07-01 | Paris | 1876-06-08 | Nohant-Vic | 126 | Q3816 | ||
Emmy Noether | German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935) | 1882-03-23 | Erlangen | 1935-04-14 | Bryn Mawr | mathematician physicist university teacher |
90 | Q7099 | |
Sophie Germain | French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831) | 1776-04-01 | Paris | 1831-06-27 | Paris | philosopher
|
67 | Q7103 | |
Marie Curie | Polish and French physicist and chemist (1867–1934) | 1867-11-07 | Warsaw | 1934-07-04 | Sancellemoz | physicist chemist university teacher |
221 | Q7186 | |
Elisabeth of Romania | German writer (1843-1916), queen consort of Romania as the wife of King Carol I of Romania | 1843-12-29 | Schloss Monrepos Neuwied |
1916-02-18 | Bucharest | 55 | Q57629 | ||
Maud Menten | Canadian physician and chemist (1879–1960) | 1879-03-20 | Port Lambton | 1960-07-26 | Ontario | pathologist
|
31 | Q7515 | |
Grazia Deledda | Italian novelist (1871-1936) | 1871-09-27 1871-11-11 |
Nuoro | 1936-08-15 | Rome | writer poet novelist playwright prose writer |
119 | Q7728 | |
Marie of Romania | last Queen consort of Romania (1875-1938; r. 1914-1927) | 1875-10-29 | Eastwell Park | 1938-07-18 | Peleș Castle | nurse
artist |
47 | Q57666 | |
Elsa Triolet | French writer | 1896-09-12 | Moscow | 1970-06-16 | Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines | writer novelist poet screenwriter French Resistance fighter |
43 | Q4137 | |
Emily Dickinson | American poet (1830-1886) | 1830-12-10 | Amherst | 1886-05-15 | Amherst | writer poet gardener |
138 | Q4441 | |
Wu Zetian | founding empress of Zhou dynasty (r. 690–705); de facto ruler of Tang dynasty from 665 to 690 | 0624-02-17 | Guangyuan | 0705-12-16 | Luoyang | empress consort poet empress regnant |
67 | Q9738 | |
Sophia Brahe | Danish horticulturalist | 1559-08-24 | Knutstorp Castle | 1643 | Helsingør | astronomer historian estate owner genealogist |
35 | Q56029 | |
Lise Meitner | Austrian-Swedish physicist | 1878-11-07 1878-11-17 |
Vienna | 1968-10-27 | Cambridge | nuclear physicist university teacher chemist physicist |
86 | Q56189 | |
Sarah Bernhardt | French stage actress (1844–1923) | 1844-10-23 | Paris | 1923-03-26 | 17th arrondissement of Paris | 184 | Q4605 | ||
Rosa Luxemburg | German-Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary, editor (1871–1919) | 1871-03-05 | Zamość | 1919-01-15 | Berlin | political theorist
botanical collector |
173 | Q7231 | |
Nelly Sachs | Jewish German poet and playwright | 1891-12-10 | Schöneberg | 1970-05-12 | Högalid Parish | translator
writer |
105 | Q57074 | |
Mary-Anne Paulze Lavoisier | French chemist and painter (1758-1836) | 1758-01-20 | Montbrison | 1836-02-10 | Paris | translator
|
31 | Q7229 | |
Else Lasker-Schüler | Jewish German poet | 1869-02-11 | Elberfeld Elberfeld |
1945-01-22 | Jerusalem | poet writer salonnière playwright |
47 | Q58033 | |
Victoria Ocampo | Argentine writer and translator (1890-1979) | 1890-04-07 | Buenos Aires | 1979-01-27 | Buenos Aires | 34 | Q72790 | ||
Anna Magdalena Bach | German singer and the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach (1701-1760) | 1701-12-22 | Zeitz | 1760-02-27 | Leipzig | 31 | Q57212 | ||
Bettina von Arnim | German writer and novelist (1785-1859) | 1785-04-04 | Frankfurt | 1859-01-20 | Berlin | singer
|
56 | Q57236 | |
Thea von Harbou | German actress and writer (1888–1954) | 1888-12-27 | Tauperlitz | 1954-07-01 | West Berlin | stage actor
|
32 | Q58866 | |
Fanny Mendelssohn | German pianist and composer | 1805-11-14 | Hamburg | 1847-05-14 | Berlin | composer pianist university teacher |
45 | Q57286 | |
Gertrude the Great | Roman Catholic Saint | 1256-01-06 | Lutherstadt Eisleben | 1302-11-17 1301-11-17 |
Lutherstadt Eisleben | nun writer mystic |
35 | Q61934 | |
Zinaida Gippius | Russian poet, playwright, editor, short story writer and religious thinker (1869-1945) | 1869-11-08 | Belyov | 1945-09-09 | Paris | poet writer playwright literary critic prose writer |
54 | Q61940 | |
Ada Lovelace | English mathematician (1815–1852) | 1815-12-10 | London | 1852-11-27 | Marylebone | 121 | Q7259 | ||
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff | German composer and writer | 1797-01-12 | Burg Hülshoff | 1848-05-24 | Meersburg Castle | writer poet composer novelist playwright |
43 | Q57307 | |
Josephine Hull | American stage and film actress (1877-1957) | 1877-01-03 | Newtonville | 1957-03-12 | The Bronx | 42 | Q59525 | ||
Ellen Swallow Richards | American chemist (1842-1911) | 1842-12-03 | Dunstable | 1911-03-30 | Boston | 36 | Q7273 | ||
Émilie du Châtelet | French mathematician, physicist, and author (1706-1749) | 1706-12-17 | Paris | 1749-09-10 | Lunéville | philosopher
|
62 | Q7286 | |
Edna St. Vincent Millay | American poet | 1892-02-22 | Rockland | 1950-10-19 | Austerlitz | librettist
writer |
57 | Q62134 | |
Maria Sibylla Merian | entomologist, botanist, naturalist, scientific illustrator, graphic artist, painter, and lepidopterologist (1647-1717) | 1647-04-02 | Frankfurt | 1717-01-13 | Amsterdam | 67 | Q62530 | ||
Ricarda Huch | German writer | 1864-07-18 | Brunswick | 1947-11-17 | Schönberg | philosopher
|
42 | Q60785 | |
Christina of Sweden | Queen of Sweden (1626-1689), ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654 | 1626-12-07 | Stockholm | 1689-04-09 | Rome | philosopher
|
80 | Q52937 | |
Eleanor Marx | English-born activist and daughter of Karl Marx (1855–1898) | 1855-01-16 | Soho | 1898-03-31 | Sydenham | 39 | Q61412 | ||
Emma Goldman | Russian anarchist | 1869-06-27 | Kaunas | 1940-05-14 | Toronto | philosopher
|
122 | Q79969 | |
Pearl S. Buck | American writer (1892–1973) | 1892-06-26 1892 |
Hillsboro | 1973-03-06 1973 |
Danby | 133 | Q80900 | ||
Ida Laura Pfeiffer | Austrian explorer and writer, editor (1797-1858) | 1797-10-14 | Vienna | 1858-10-27 1858-10-28 |
Vienna | editor
traveler |
35 | Q78873 | |
Murasaki Shikibu | Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014) | 090s | Heian-kyō | 11th century | Heian-kyō | philosopher
|
154 | Q81731 | |
Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria | German composer, opera singer and librettist (1724-1780) | 1724-07-18 | Munich | 1780-04-23 | Dresden | 32 | Q61649 | ||
Emily Brontë | British novelist and poet (1818–1848) | 1818-07-30 | The Brontë Birthplace | 1848-12-19 | Haworth | poet novelist writer teacher governess |
121 | Q80137 | |
Mata Hari | Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy (1876-1917) | 1876-08-07 | Leeuwarden | 1917-10-15 | Vincennes | 82 | Q82180 | ||
Anna Akhmatova | Russian poet (1889–1966) | 1889-06-11 1889-06-23 |
Odesa | 1966-03-05 | Domodedovo | 126 | Q80440 | ||
Mary I of England | Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 to 1558 | 1516-02-18 1516 |
Palace of Placentia | 1558-11-17 1558 |
St James's Palace | politician aristocrat queen regnant |
97 | Q82674 | |
Anne Boleyn | second wife of Henry VIII of England | 1507 | Blickling Hall | 1536-05-19 | Tower of London | aristocrat lady-in-waiting monarch |
96 | Q80823 | |
Eleanor Roosevelt | First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 | 1884-10-11 | Manhattan | 1962-11-07 | Upper East Side | peace activist
human rights activist |
136 | Q83396 | |
Gabriela Mistral | Chilean poet, diplomat and educator | 1889-04-07 | Vicuña | 1957-01-10 | Hempstead | poet diplomat teacher writer |
119 | Q80871 | |
Louise of Orléans | French princess; Queen consort of the Belgians (1832-1850) | 1812-04-03 | Palermo | 1850-10-11 | Ostend | watercolorist consort aristocrat |
37 | Q72795 | |
Sigrid Undset | Norwegian writer (1882–1949) | 1882-05-20 | Kalundborg | 1949-06-10 | Lillehammer Municipality | 114 | Q80889 | ||
Mary Anderson | inventor of the windshield wiper blade | 1866-02-19 | Greene County | 1953-06-27 | Monteagle | entrepreneur
real estate developer |
36 | Q17518 | |
Hertha Ayrton | English engineer, mathematician and inventor (1854-1923) | 1854-04-28 | Portsea Island | 1923-08-23 | Lancing | 40 | Q17522 | ||
Sappho | Ancient Greek poet from Lesbos (c. 630-c. 570 BC) | -06th century | Lesbos | -0570 | Lefkada | poet composer author writer |
143 | Q17892 | |
Bertha von Suttner | Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor | 1843-06-09 | Prague | 1914-06-21 | Vienna | editor
|
100 | Q18456 | |
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough | British duchess (1660-1744) | 1660-06-15 | Hertfordshire St Albans |
1744-10-18 | Marlborough House London |
Mistress of the Robes lady-in-waiting politician |
38 | Q19176 | |
Katharine Burr Blodgett | American physicist (1898-1979) | 1898-01-10 | Schenectady | 1979-10-12 | Schenectady | inventor
chemist |
30 | Q21482 | |
Cosima Wagner | daughter of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt and wife of Hans von Bülow and Richard Wagner (1837-1930) | 1837-12-24 | Bellagio | 1930-04-01 | Bayreuth | composer writer director |
34 | Q75789 | |
Hildegard of Bingen | German Medieval head of monastry, prophet, scientist, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179) | 1098 | Bermersheim vor der Höhe | 1179-09-17 | Kloster Rupertsberg | 105 | Q70991 | ||
Clara Zetkin | Communist activist, and advocate for women's rights | 1857-07-05 | Königshain-Wiederau | 1933-06-20 | Arkhangelskoye | 103 | Q75823 | ||
Natalie Clifford Barney | writer and salonist (1876-1972) | 1876-10-31 | Dayton | 1972-02-02 | 1st arrondissement of Paris | playwright poet writer salonnière novelist |
49 | Q34782 | |
Karen Horney | American-German psychoanalyst (1885-1952) | 1885-09-16 | Blankenese | 1952-12-04 | New York City | psychotherapist
|
59 | Q71020 | |
Agatha Christie | English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976) | 1890-09-15 | Ashfield | 1976-01-12 | Winterbrook Wallingford |
writer novelist crime fiction writer |
183 | Q35064 | |
Jane Austen | English novelist (1775–1817) | 1775-12-16 | Steventon | 1817-07-18 | Winchester | short story writer
novelist |
188 | Q36322 | |
Mileva Marić | Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein | 1875-12-19 | Titel | 1948-08-04 | Zürich
|
teacher physicist mathematician |
62 | Q76346 | |
Khadija bint Khuwaylid | first wife of the prophet Muhammad | 05th century | Mecca | 0619 | Mecca | businessperson wholesale merchant merchant |
88 | Q42034 | |
Selma Lagerlöf | Swedish writer | 1858-11-20 | Östra Ämtervik church parish | 1940-03-16 | Östra Ämtervik church parish | autobiographer
author |
149 | Q44519 | |
Catherine II of Russia | empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796 | 1729-05-02 | Szczecin | 1796-11-06 | Saint Petersburg | politician monarch art collector aristocrat |
147 | Q36450 | |
Edith Stein | Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942) | 1891-10-12 | Wrocław | 1942-08-09 | Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp
|
autobiographer
|
73 | Q76749 | |
Florence Nightingale | English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing (1820-1910) | 1820-05-12 | Florence | 1910-08-13 | London | sociologist
|
135 | Q37103 | |
Bessie Smith | American blues singer (1894–1937) | 1894-04-15 | Chattanooga | 1937-09-26 | Clarksdale | dancer
mime artist |
55 | Q93349 | |
Caroline Herschel | German-British astronomer (*1750 – †1848) | 1750-03-16 | Hanover | 1848-01-09 | Hanover | singer
|
66 | Q76948 | |
Anne Brontë | British novelist and poet (1820-1849) | 1820-01-17 | Thornton | 1849-05-28 | Scarborough | poet novelist governess writer |
103 | Q44520 | |
Helen Keller | American author and activist (1880–1968) | 1880-06-27 | Tuscumbia | 1968-06-01 | Easton | autobiographer
|
155 | Q38203 | |
Katharina von Bora | wife of Martin Luther | 1499-01-29 | Lippendorf | 1552-12-20 | Torgau | homemaker
nun |
46 | Q77239 | |
Berthe Morisot | French painter (1841-1895) | 1841-01-14 | Bourges | 1895-03-02 | Paris | engraver
lithographer |
68 | Q105320 | |
Coco Chanel | French fashion designer (1883–1971) | 1883-08-19 | Saumur | 1971-01-10 | Hôtel Ritz Paris | fashion designer textile designer business executive modiste grand couturier costume designer |
113 | Q45661 | |
Vicki Baum | Austrian writer | 1888-01-24 | Vienna | 1960-08-29 | Hollywood | harpist
musician |
46 | Q93444 | |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | Austrian writer | 1830-09-13 | Schloss Zdislawitz | 1916-03-12 | Vienna | writer playwright prose writer |
69 | Q93525 | |
Lou Andreas-Salomé | German-Russian Psychoanalyst and author | 1861-02-12 | Saint Petersburg | 1937-02-05 | Göttingen | philosopher
|
64 | Q38873 | |
Lotte Lenya | Austrian singer and actress (1898-1981) | 1898-10-18 | Vienna | 1981-11-27 | Manhattan | opera singer
|
39 | Q93604 | |
Dorothy L. Sayers | English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957) | 1893-06-13 | Oxford | 1957-12-17 | Witham | philologist
|
51 | Q106740 | |
Lillian Moller Gilbreth | American psychologist and industrial engineer | 1878-05-25 | Oakland | 1972-01-02 | Phoenix | 36 | Q40197 | ||
Mary Harris Jones | Irish-born American labor and community organizer (1837–1930) | 1830-05-01 | Cork | 1930-11-30 | Silver Spring | teacher trade unionist human rights activist writer union organizer community organizer |
66 | Q107082 | |
Georgia O'Keeffe | American modernist artist (1887–1986) | 1887-11-15 1887 |
Sun Prairie | 1986-03-06 1986 |
Santa Fe | 82 | Q46408 | ||
Liliʻuokalani | monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom (1838–1917) | 1838-09-02 | Honolulu | 1917-11-11 | Honolulu | autobiographer
|
66 | Q107288 | |
Virginia Woolf | English modernist writer (1882–1941) | 1882-01-25 | London | 1941-03-28 | Lewes | women's rights activist
author |
155 | Q40909 | |
Pandita Ramabai | Indian feminist historian and social reformer | 1858-04-23 | Mangaluru | 1922-04-05 | Kedgaon, Pune district | sociologist
|
36 | Q94889 | |
Mary Wollstonecraft | English writer and intellectual (1759–1797) | 1759-04-27 | Spitalfields | 1797-09-10 | Somers Town | 122 | Q101638 | ||
Mary Shelley | British writer (1797–1851) | 1797-08-30 | Somers Town | 1851-02-01 | Chester Square Bournemouth |
125 | Q47152 | ||
Empress Dowager Cixi | Chinese empress (1835-1908) | 1835-11-29 | Beijing | 1908-11-15 | Imperial City | 96 | Q47842 | ||
Alice Paul | American suffragist, feminist, and activist (1885–1977) | 1885-01-11 | Mount Laurel | 1977-07-09 | Moorestown Township | women's rights activist
suffragette |
41 | Q127328 | |
Charlotte Brontë | British novelist and poet (1816-1855) | 1816-04-21 | Thornton | 1855-03-31 | Haworth | poet novelist writer governess teacher |
124 | Q127332 | |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | American abolitionist and author (1811–1896) | 1811-06-14 | Litchfield | 1896-07-01 | Hartford | 114 | Q102513 | ||
Harriet Tubman | African-American abolitionist (1822–1913) | 1822-03-06 | Dorchester County | 1913-03-10 | Auburn | feminist
|
96 | Q102870 | |
Maria Zankovetska | Ukrainian actress | 1854-07-23 1854-08-04 1854 |
Zanky | 1934-10-04 1934 |
Kyiv | film actor
actor |
37 | Q130376 | |
Paula von Preradović | Austrian writer, poet (1887-1951) | 1887-10-12 | Vienna | 1951-05-25 | Vienna | writer poet composer |
31 | Q89560 | |
Elizabeth I of Russia | Empress of Russia (1741–1762) | 1709-12-29 | Kolomenskoye Moscow |
1762-01-05 | Saint Petersburg | monarch politician aristocrat |
82 | Q130752 | |
Mary, Queen of Scots | Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567 | 1542-12-08 1542 |
Linlithgow | 1587-02-08 1587 |
Fotheringhay Castle Northamptonshire |
politician sovereign aristocrat queen regnant queen consort |
106 | Q131412 | |
Maria Theresa of Austria | ruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780) | 1717-05-13 | Hofburg Palace | 1780-11-29 | Vienna | aristocrat monarch politician |
101 | Q131706 | |
Mary II of England | Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1694 (born 1662 died 1694) | 1662-04-30 | St James's Palace | 1694-12-28 1694 |
Kensington Palace | aristocrat politician queen regnant monarch |
77 | Q130812 | |
Louise Mountbatten | Queen consort of Sweden (1950-1965) | 1889-07-13 | Darmstadt | 1965-03-07 | Stockholm | philanthropist
|
39 | Q115477 | |
Marie Bonaparte | French author and psychoanalyst (1882-1962) | 1882-07-02 | Saint-Cloud | 1962-09-21 | Gassin | psychoanalyst
|
40 | Q115472 | |
Princess Alice of Battenberg | (1885-1969); mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | 1885-02-25 1885 |
Windsor Castle | 1969-12-05 | Buckingham Palace | 47 | Q116062 | ||
Clara Schumann | German musician and composer | 1819-09-13 | Leipzig | 1896-05-20 | Frankfurt | pianist composer music educator |
78 | Q132232 | |
Victoria, Princess Royal | British princess (1840-1901), Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia in 1888 | 1840-11-21 | Buckingham Palace London |
1901-08-05 | Schlosshotel Kronberg | drawer
|
48 | Q116728 | |
Maria Montessori | Italian pedagogue and physician | 1870-08-31 | Chiaravalle | 1952-05-06 | Noordwijk | essayist
|
102 | Q131117 | |
George Eliot | English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880) | 1819-11-22 | Nuneaton | 1880-12-22 | London | editor
|
130 | Q131333 | |
Nadia Boulanger | French musician, conductor, and teacher | 1887-09-16 | 9th arrondissement of Paris | 1979-10-22 | 9th arrondissement of Paris | music theorist
university teacher |
51 | Q140619 | |
Käthe Kollwitz | German printmaker and sculptor (1867—1945) | 1867-07-08 | Königsberg | 1945-04-22 | Moritzburg | 57 | Q142472 | ||
Camille Claudel | French sculptor | 1864-12-08 | Fère-en-Tardenois | 1943-10-19 | Montfavet | 52 | Q120582 | ||
Empress Meishō | empress of Japan (1624-1696) | 1624-01-09 | Kyoto | 1696-12-04 | Kyoto | politician monarch aristocrat |
41 | Q120564 | |
Angelica Kauffmann | Swiss artist (1741–1807) | 1741-10-30 | Chur | 1807-11-05 | Rome Austria |
printmaker
artist |
51 | Q123098 | |
Isabelle de Charrière | Dutch French-language writer and composer | 1740-10-20 | Zuylen Castle | 1805-12-27 | Colombier | philosopher
|
75 | Q123386 | |
Mina Witkojc | Sorbian poet | 1893-05-28 | Burg (Spreewald) | 1975-11-11 | Papitz | translator
writer |
31 | Q149516 | |
Anne of Great Britain | Queen of Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714 | 1665-02-06 | St James's Palace London |
1714-08-01 | Kensington Palace London |
aristocrat politician queen regnant ruler statesperson monarch |
92 | Q119702 | |
Dorothy Day | American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980) | 1897-11-08 | New York City | 1980-11-29 | New York City | autobiographer
suffragist |
48 | Q150281 | |
Pauline Viardot | French mezzo-soprano and composer | 1821-07-18 | Paris | 1910-05-18 | 7th arrondissement of Paris | 36 | Q122998 | ||
Germaine de Staël | Genevan-French author (1766-1817) | 1766-04-22 | Paris | 1817-07-14 | Paris | philosopher
|
86 | Q123041 | |
Johanna Spyri | Swiss writer | 1827-06-12 | Hirzel | 1901-07-07 | Zürich
|
writer novelist children's writer |
68 | Q123053 | |
Sophie of Württemberg | Queen Consort of the Netherlands | 1818-06-17 | Stuttgart | 1877-06-03 | Huis ten Bosch | patron of the arts
|
36 | Q168674 | |
Anne Catherine Emmerich | German Augustinian canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist (1774-1824) | 1774-09-08 | Coesfeld | 1824-02-09 | Dülmen | nun mystic writer |
34 | Q169321 | |
Wanda Landowska | (1879-1959) Polish-French harpsichordist | 1879-07-05 | Warsaw | 1959-08-16 | Lakeville | musicologist
composer |
38 | Q160257 | |
Peggy Guggenheim | American art collector, art dealer, museum founder and socialite | 1898-08-26 1999 |
New York City | 1979-12-23 1979 |
Venice Camposampiero |
35 | Q233806 | ||
Gale Sondergaard | American actress (1899–1985) | 1899-02-15 | Litchfield | 1985-08-14 | Woodland Hills | film actor
|
45 | Q233845 | |
Paula Modersohn-Becker | German expressionist painter (1876–1907) | 1876-02-08 | Dresden | 1907-11-20 | Worpswede | drawer
artist |
42 | Q234370 | |
Rachel Ruysch | Dutch painter (1664-1750) | 1664-06-03 | The Hague | 1750-08-12 | Amsterdam | drawer
|
34 | Q234385 | |
Mary Pickford | Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979) | 1892-04-08 1893-04-08 |
Toronto | 1979-05-29 | Santa Monica | 91 | Q104109 | ||
Ngaio Marsh | New Zealand writer (1895-1982) | 1895-04-23 | Christchurch | 1982-02-18 | Christchurch | film actor
playwright |
32 | Q234392 | |
Ninette de Valois | British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet | 1898-06-06 | Blessington | 2001-03-08 | London | 32 | Q234436 | ||
Lola Montez | Irish dancer and actress | 1821-02-17 | Grange, County Sligo | 1861-01-17 | New York City | stage actor
socialite |
42 | Q161154 | |
Lillian Gish | American actress (1893–1993) | 1893-10-14 | Springfield | 1993-02-27 | New York City | 88 | Q104183 | ||
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | Queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III | 1744-05-19 | Mirow | 1818-11-17 | Kew London |
art collector consort aristocrat artist |
47 | Q161159 | |
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll | British princess, sixth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (1848-1939) | 1848-03-18 | Buckingham Palace | 1939-12-03 | Kensington Palace London |
37 | Q161167 | ||
Emma Orczy | Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright (1865-1947) | 1865-09-23 1865-09-27 |
Tarnaörs | 1947-11-12 | Henley-on-Thames | short story writer
crime fiction writer |
40 | Q234530 | |
Catherine of Aragon | first wife of Henry VIII of England (1485–1536) | 1485-12-16 | Alcalá de Henares | 1536-01-07 1536 |
Kimbolton Castle | diplomat aristocrat queen consort |
81 | Q162819 | |
Hrotsvitha | German secular canoness, dramatist, and poet | 0935 | Duchy of Saxony | 0968 | Bad Gandersheim | playwright hagiographer poet writer canoness |
36 | Q170248 | |
Olga Alexandrovna of Russia | Last Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia (1882-1960) | 1882-06-01 | Petergof | 1960-11-24 | Toronto | philanthropist
aristocrat |
36 | Q163176 | |
Dorothy Gish | American actress (1898–1968) | 1898-03-11 | Dayton | 1968-06-04 | Rapallo | 32 | Q234536 | ||
Sojourner Truth | African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist | 1797 | Hurley | 1883-11-26 | Battle Creek | women's rights activist
suffragist |
72 | Q105180 | |
Madame de Pompadour | chief mistress of Louis XV of France (1721-1764) | 1721-12-29 | Paris | 1764-04-15 | Versailles | salonnière politician lady-in-waiting royal mistress |
68 | Q188965 | |
Helena Blavatsky | Russian occult writer | 1831-07-31 | Dnipro | 1891-04-26 | London | editor
theosophist |
72 | Q189454 | |
Louisa Ulrika of Prussia | Swedish queen (1720-1782) | 1720-07-24 | Berlin | 1782-07-16 | Svartsjö Palace | salonnière aristocrat consort |
32 | Q234251 | |
Margaret of Valois-Angoulême | Queen consort of Navarre | 1492-04-11 | Angoulême | 1549-12-21 | Odos | writer poet salonnière playwright king |
64 | Q190058 | |
Clare of Assisi | Italian saint | 1194-07-16 | Assisi | 1253-08-11 | Assisi | philosopher
|
67 | Q191107 | |
Enid Blyton | English author (1897–1968) | 1897-08-11 | East Dulwich | 1968-11-28 | Hampstead | 84 | Q192069 | ||
Joséphine de Beauharnais | Empress of the French, first wife of Napoleon (1763–1814) | 1763-06-23 | Les Trois-Îlets | 1814-05-29 | Rueil-Malmaison | patron of the arts
|
74 | Q171480 | |
Harriet Martineau | English writer and sociologist (1802–1876) | 1802-06-12 | Norwich | 1876-06-27 | Ambleside | 46 | Q234570 | ||
Mary Cassatt | American painter and printmaker (1844—1926) | 1844-05-22 | Allegheny | 1926-06-14 | Le Mesnil-Théribus | 82 | Q173223 | ||
Margaret Brown | survivor of the sinking of the Titanic (1867–1932), women's rights activist, philanthropist | 1867-07-18 | Hannibal | 1932-10-26 | New York City | 47 | Q229631 | ||
Elizabeth Blackwell | American physician, abolitionist, women's rights activist (1821-1910) | 1821-02-03 | Bristol | 1910-05-31 | Hastings | 62 | Q234572 | ||
Vera Mukhina | Soviet sculptor (1889-1953) | 1889-06-19 | Riga | 1953-10-06 | Moscow | 52 | Q234601 | ||
Teresa of Ávila | Roman Catholic saint (1515-1582) | 1515-03-28 | Gotarrendura | 1582-10-15 | Monastery of the Anunciación | 100 | Q174880 | ||
Theda Bara | American actress (1885–1955) | 1885-07-29 | Cincinnati | 1955-04-07 | Los Angeles | stage actor
actor |
48 | Q234615 | |
Susan B. Anthony | American women's rights activist | 1820-02-15 | Adams | 1906-03-13 | Rochester | feminist
suffragist |
81 | Q192245 | |
Halide Edib Adıvar | Turkish activist, writer and politician | 1884-06-11 1883 |
Constantinople | 1964-01-09 | Istanbul | politician novelist writer university teacher military personnel journalist |
43 | Q234289 | |
Irene Dunne | American actress and singer (1898–1990) | 1898-12-20 | Louisville | 1990-09-04 | Los Angeles | 45 | Q230099 | ||
Catherine Parr | sixth wife of Henry VIII; final queen consort of the House of Tudor | 1512 1512-08 |
Kendal | 1548-09-05 | Sudeley Castle | writer lady-in-waiting consort |
56 | Q192943 | |
Ban Zhao | late 1st/early 2nd century Chinese historian, philosopher and scholar | 0045 | Eastern Han
|
0116 | Han dynasty | 42 | Q177081 | ||
Julia Margaret Cameron | British photographer (1815–1879) | 1815-06-11 | Garden Reach | 1879-01-26 | Kalutara | photographer artist writer |
44 | Q230120 | |
Djuna Barnes | American Modernist writer, poet and artist (1892-1982) | 1892-06-12 | Cornwall-on-Hudson | 1982-06-18 | Greenwich Village | painter
|
46 | Q234721 | |
Laura Ingalls Wilder | American children's writer, diarist, and journalist | 1867-02-07 | Pepin County | 1957-02-10 | Mansfield | autobiographer
|
55 | Q237514 | |
Constance Markievicz | Irish politician, first woman elected to the Westminster House of Commons and the Dáil Éireann, and first female Cabinet member in Europe | 1868-02-04 | Westminster | 1927-07-15 | Dublin | stage actor
|
39 | Q195768 | |
Margaret Rutherford | British actress (1892–1972) | 1892-05-11 | London | 1972-05-22 | Chalfont St Peter | film actor
|
49 | Q230143 | |
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor | first female Member of Parliament to take her seat (1879-1964) | 1879-05-19 | Danville | 1964-05-02 | Grimsthorpe Castle | women's rights activist
suffragist |
35 | Q195013 | |
Ethel Barrymore | American actress (1879–1959) | 1879-08-15 | Philadelphia | 1959-06-18 | Beverly Hills | film actor
actor |
53 | Q230147 | |
Edith Cavell | British nurse (1865-1915) | 1865-12-04 | Swardeston | 1915-10-12 | Schaerbeek | 49 | Q237564 | ||
Jane Darwell | American actress (1879-1967) | 1879-10-15 | Marion County | 1967-08-13 | Woodland Hills | stage actor
actor |
47 | Q230159 | |
Nellie Bly | American journalist | 1864-05-05 1867 |
Burrell Township | 1922-01-27 | New York City | inventor
suffragist |
65 | Q230299 | |
Alexandra Kollontai | Soviet diplomat (1872-1952) | 1872-03-19 | Saint Petersburg | 1952-03-09 | Moscow | sociologist
|
82 | Q179558 | |
Judith Anderson | Australian stage and screen actress (1897–1992) | 1897-02-10 1897-02-20 |
Adelaide | 1992-01-03 | Santa Barbara | television actor
|
40 | Q230415 | |
Alexandra David-Néel | French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, Taoist, anarchist and writer | 1868-10-24 | Saint-Mandé | 1969-09-08 | Digne-les-Bains | singer
cult leader |
43 | Q230456 | |
Maria Edgeworth | Irish writer (1768-1849) | 1768-01-01 | Oxfordshire | 1849-05-22 | Edgeworthstown | 47 | Q237575 | ||
Kate Chopin | American author | 1850-02-08 | St. Louis | 1904-08-22 | St. Louis | translator
|
47 | Q230476 | |
Radclyffe Hall | British poet and author | 1880-08-12 | Bournemouth | 1943-10-07 | London | writer poet novelist |
32 | Q237639 | |
Mary Anning | British fossil collector, dealer, and paleontologist (1799-1847) | 1799-05-21 1800 |
Lyme Regis | 1847-10-21 | Lyme Regis | 59 | Q230491 | ||
Juana Inés de la Cruz | Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet | 1651-11-12 | Nepantla de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz | 1695-04-17 | Mexico City | 68 | Q183074 | ||
Rosalba Carriera | Rococo portrait painter (1673-1757) | 1675-10-07 1673-01-12 |
Venice | 1757-04-15 | Venice | 35 | Q237726 | ||
Maria Gaetan Agnesi | Italian mathematician and philanthropist (1718-1799) | 1718-05-16 | Milan | 1799-01-09 | Milan | polyglot
|
72 | Q200392 | |
Jane Addams | American activist, sociologist and writer (1860–1935) | 1860-09-06 | Cedarville | 1935-05-22 | Chicago | sociologist
|
90 | Q180989 | |
Inessa Armand | French communist politician, editor | 1874-04-26 | Paris | 1920-09-24 | Nalchik | feminist
|
45 | Q233514 | |
Lou Henry Hoover | First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933 | 1874-03-29 | Waterloo | 1944-01-07 | New York City | politician geologist president |
47 | Q233669 | |
Pola Negri | Polish actress (1897-1987) | 1897-01-03 | Lipno | 1987-08-01 | San Antonio | film actor
|
56 | Q230633 | |
Mamie Eisenhower | First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961 | 1896-11-14 | Boone | 1979-11-01 | Washington, D.C. | 53 | Q233686 | ||
Sofia Kovalevskaya | 19th-century Russian mathematician | 1850-01-03 | Moscow | 1891-02-10 | Hedvig Eleonora parish | mathematician physicist novelist university teacher communard writer |
87 | Q184535 | |
Annie Jump Cannon | American astronomer (1863-1941) | 1863-12-11 | Dover | 1941-04-13 | Cambridge | astronomer physicist university teacher astrophysicist |
63 | Q230650 | |
Mae West | American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer (1893–1980) | 1893-08-17 | Brooklyn | 1980-11-22 | Los Angeles | autobiographer
actor |
104 | Q202878 | |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | British poet, author | 1806-03-06 | Coxhoe Hall Durham |
1861-06-29 | Florence | translator
writer |
89 | Q228494 | |
Dorothea Lange | American photojournalist (1895-1965) | 1895-05-26 | Hoboken | 1965-10-11 | San Francisco | 56 | Q230673 | ||
Boudica | queen of the British Iceni tribe | 0030 | Roman Britain | 0061 0062 |
Roman Britain | military leader ruler queen regnant resistance fighter |
71 | Q184634 | |
Rani Lakshmibai | queen of a princely state in India | 1828-11-19 1835-11-19 |
Varanasi | 1858-06-18 1858-06-17 |
Gwalior | 67 | Q181878 | ||
Thérèse of Lisieux | French Discalced Carmelite nun, Doctor of the Church (1873–1897) | 1873-01-02 | Alençon | 1897-09-30 | Lisieux | 83 | Q181715 | ||
Louisa May Alcott | American novelist (1832–1888) | 1832-11-29 | Germantown | 1888-03-06 | Boston | 107 | Q185696 | ||
Madame du Barry | French noblewoman by marriage (1743-1793), last mistress of Louis XV (from 1768 to 1774) | 1743-08-19 | Vaucouleurs | 1793-12-08 | Paris | salesperson
|
53 | Q230677 | |
Barbara of Portugal, Queen of Spain | Queen Consort of Spain (1746 - 1758) | 1711-12-04 | Lisbon | 1758-08-27 | Aranjuez | patron of the arts
|
35 | Q230878 | |
Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon | Mistress and later secret wife of King Louis XIV of France (1635-1719) | 1635-11-27 | Niort | 1719-04-15 | Palace of Versailles | philosopher
|
45 | Q230670 | |
Aspasia | 5th-century BC partner of Athenian statesman Pericles | -0470 | Miletus | -0400 | Athens | 57 | Q228564 | ||
Marie de' Medici | Queen of France, second wife of King Henry IV of France (1575-1642) | 1575-04-26 | Florence | 1642-07-03 | Cologne | salonnière art collector politician |
66 | Q182021 | |
P. L. Travers | Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist (1899-1996) | 1899-08-09 | Maryborough | 1996-04-23 | London | poet writer novelist children's writer journalist actor |
53 | Q228901 | |
Gerty Cori | Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957) | 1896-08-15 | Prague | 1957-10-26 1956-10-26 |
Glendale St. Louis |
researcher
|
81 | Q204733 | |
Ana Pauker | Romanian politician (1893-1960) | 1893-12-13 | Vaslui County | 1960-06-03 | Bucharest | 38 | Q230974 | ||
Zelda Fitzgerald | American writer (1900–1948) | 1900-07-24 1900 |
Montgomery | 1948-03-10 1948 |
Asheville | dancer
|
45 | Q187324 | |
Margaret of Anjou | 15th-century English royal consort (1430-1482) | 1430-03-23 | Pont-à-Mousson | 1482-08-25 | Souzay-Champigny | politician aristocrat consort |
50 | Q231145 | |
Clara Barton | American Civil War nurse | 1821-12-25 | Oxford | 1912-04-12 | Glen Echo | 47 | Q188039 | ||
Anna Pavlova | Russian ballet dancer | 1881-02-12 1882-02-16 1881-01-31 |
Saint Petersburg | 1931-01-23 | The Hague | editor
silent film actor |
79 | Q151874 | |
Tamara Karsavina | Russian ballet dancer | 1885-02-25 1885-03-10 1885-03-09 |
Saint Petersburg | 1978-05-26 | Beaconsfield | autobiographer
music educator |
53 | Q231316 | |
Bridget of Sweden | Swedish nun, mystic, and saint (c.1303–1373) | 1303 | Finsta | 1373-07-23 | Rome | 65 | Q204996 | ||
Hattie McDaniel | American actress (1895-1952) | 1893-06-10 | Wichita | 1952-10-26 | Woodland Hills | philanthropist
|
58 | Q228904 | |
Alexandra Feodorovna | Empress of Russia from 1894 to 1917 | 1872-06-06 | Darmstadt | 1918-07-17 | Yekaterinburg | nurse
|
63 | Q152094 | |
Gertrude Stein | American author (1874–1946) | 1874-02-03 | Allegheny | 1946-07-27 | Neuilly-sur-Seine | 79 | Q188385 | ||
Catherine of Siena | Italian Dominican saint (1347-1380) | 1347-03-25 | Siena | 1380-04-29 | Rome | 80 | Q229190 | ||
Jenny Lind | Swedish classical singer | 1820-10-06 | Klara Church Parish | 1887-11-02 | Malvern | stage actor
|
57 | Q231345 | |
Gertrude Bell | British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926) | 1868-07-14 | Washington | 1926-07-12 | Baghdad | 54 | Q231360 | ||
Olympe de Gouges | French playwright and political activist | 1748-05-07 | Montauban | 1793-11-03 | Paris | 74 | Q206972 | ||
Fay Bainter | American actress (1893–1968) | 1893-12-07 | Los Angeles | 1968-04-16 | Los Angeles | film actor
|
46 | Q152888 | |
Marina Tsvetaeva | Russian poet (1892 – 1941) | 1892-10-08 | Moscow | 1941-08-31 | Yelabuga | translator
|
92 | Q188526 | |
Sei Shōnagon | Japanese author and court lady | 0966 | Heian-kyō | 1025 | Kyoto | 67 | Q231603 | ||
Saint Rita of Cascia | Italian Augustinian nun | 1381 | Roccaporena | 1457-05-22 | Cascia | philosopher
nun |
40 | Q153024 | |
Gloria Swanson | American actress (1899–1983) | 1899-03-27 | Chicago | 1983-04-04 | Weill Cornell Medical Center | film actor
producer |
81 | Q229232 | |
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | British author | 1810-09-29 | Cheyne Walk | 1865-11-12 | Holybourne House | biographer
|
66 | Q229226 | |
Marie Bashkirtseva | Ukrainian-French artist | 1858-11-23 | Havrontsi | 1884-10-31 1884 |
Paris | biographer
artist |
45 | Q255253 | |
Wallis Simpson | American socialite and wife of the Duke of Windsor (1896-1986) | 1896-06-19 | Blue Ridge Summit | 1986-04-24 | Villa Windsor | socialite collector aristocrat |
66 | Q209417 | |
Anna Maria van Schurman | Dutch painter (1607-1678) | 1607-11-05 | Cologne | 1678-05-04 | Wiuwert | 34 | Q255261 | ||
Emmeline Pankhurst | English suffragist | 1858-07-15 | Moss Side | 1928-06-14 | Hampstead | 74 | Q211519 | ||
Edith Nesbit | English author and poet (1858–1924) | 1858-08-15 | London Kennington |
1924-05-04 | New Romney | writer children's writer poet |
42 | Q231708 | |
Jeanne d'Albret | Queen of Navarre from 1555 to 1572 | 1528-01-07 | Saint-Germain-en-Laye | 1572-06-09 | Paris | politician poet writer |
43 | Q229286 | |
Aelia Eudocia | Greek Eastern Roman Empress by marriage to Byzantine emperor Theodosius II (c.401-460) | 040s | Athens | 0460-10-21 0460-10-20 |
Jerusalem | poet writer sovereign |
39 | Q229307 | |
Mae Marsh | American actress (1894-1968) | 1894-11-09 | Madrid | 1968-02-13 | Hermosa Beach | television actor
|
31 | Q153332 | |
Margaret Fuller | American writer and women's activist (1810–1850) | 1810-05-23 | Cambridge | 1850-07-19 | Fire Island | 52 | Q257953 | ||
Fanny Brice | American actress, singer and comedian (1891–1951) | 1891-10-29 | Manhattan | 1951-05-29 | Hollywood | 34 | Q153358 | ||
Alexine Tinne | Dutch explorer in Africa and photographer (1835-1869) | 1835-10-17 | The Hague | 1869-08-01 | Fezzan Libya |
explorer photographer adventurer scientific collector botanical collector |
30 | Q255347 | |
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) | Empress of Russia from 1881 to 1894 | 1847-11-26 | Yellow Palace Copenhagen |
1928-10-13 | Hvidøre | nurse
|
52 | Q153601 | |
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun | 18th- and 19th-century French painter (1755–1842) | 1755-04-16 | Paris | 1842-03-30 | Paris | 64 | Q213163 | ||
Eleanor Farjeon | English children's writer | 1881-02-13 | London | 1965-06-05 | Hampstead | biographer
playwright |
38 | Q258669 | |
Anna Sewell | English novelist | 1820-03-30 1820-03-20 |
Great Yarmouth | 1878-04-25 | Norwich | writer novelist children's writer |
42 | Q258741 | |
Beatrix Potter | British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943) | 1866-07-28 | South Kensington West Brompton |
1943-12-22 | Near Sawrey
|
80 | Q214565 | ||
Marie Under | Estonian poet (1883-1980) | 1883-03-27 | Tallinn | 1980-09-25 | Stockholm | translator
writer |
49 | Q154410 | |
Gracie Allen | American actress and entertainer (1896–1964) | 1895-07-26 | San Francisco | 1964-08-27 | Hollywood | film actor
|
31 | Q255786 | |
Nadezhda Mandelstam | Russian writer and educator | 1899-10-30 | Saratov | 1980-12-29 | Moscow | linguist
lecturer |
39 | Q234765 | |
Olga Constantinovna of Russia | Queen of the Hellenes (1851–1926) | 1851-09-03 | Pavlovsk | 1926-06-18 | Rome Pau |
philanthropist
|
41 | Q155178 | |
Betty Compson | American actress (1897–1974) | 1897-03-19 | Beaver | 1974-04-18 | Glendale | violinist
|
32 | Q255846 | |
Alla Nazimova | Russian-American actress, screenwriter and producer (1879–1945) | 1879-06-03 1879-05-22 |
Yalta | 1945-07-13 | Los Angeles | 33 | Q234795 | ||
Erinna | ancient Greek poet | -04th century | Rhodes | -04th century | poet writer epigrammatist |
30 | Q256241 | ||
Frances Burney | English satirical novelist, diarist, playwright (1752-1840) | 1752-06-13 | King's Lynn | 1840-01-06 1840 |
London | 41 | Q259530 | ||
Emily Greene Balch | American economist and writer | 1867-01-08 | Jamaica Plain | 1961-01-09 | Cambridge | peace activist
writer |
78 | Q215139 | |
Lyubov' Popova | Russian artist (1889-1924) | 1889-04-24 | Ivanovskoe | 1924-05-25 | Moscow | 34 | Q259594 | ||
Emma, Lady Hamilton | Mistress of Lord Nelson (1765-1815) | 1765-04-26 | Neston | 1815-01-15 | Calais | 34 | Q234811 | ||
Rabia of Basri
|
Iraqi sufi and poet | 070s | Basra | 0801 | Basra | 59 | Q256506 | ||
Christine de Pizan | French poet and author (1364 – c. 1430) | 1363 | Venice | 1431 | Poissy | philosopher
women letter writer |
68 | Q234816 | |
Inge Lehmann | Danish seismologist who discovered the Earth's inner core (1888-1993) | 1888-05-13 | Tommerup Østerbro |
1993-02-21 | Copenhagen | naturalist
geophysicist |
57 | Q256839 | |
Marie Dressler | Canadian-American actress (1868-1934) | 1868-11-09 | Cobourg | 1934-07-28 | Santa Barbara | 55 | Q253282 | ||
Milena Jesenská | Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator (1896-1944) | 1896-08-10 | Prague | 1944-05-17 | Ravensbrück concentration camp Ravensbrück |
opinion journalist
editing staff |
41 | Q234893 | |
Florence Lawrence | Canadian-American actress (1886-1938) | 1886-01-02 | Hamilton | 1938-12-27 | Beverly Hills | film actor
patent inventor |
32 | Q256968 | |
Nadezhda Krupskaya | Russian revolutionary and politician (1869-1939) | 1869-02-14 | Saint Petersburg | 1939-02-27 | Moscow | librarian writer teacher politician |
79 | Q215637 | |
Shirley Booth | American actress (1898–1992) | 1898-08-30 | Brooklyn | 1992-10-16 | Chatham | television actor
radio personality |
58 | Q253308 | |
Alice of the United Kingdom | Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877 to 1878 | 1843-04-25 | Buckingham Palace | 1878-12-14 | Darmstadt | 46 | Q155566 | ||
Fanny Crosby | 19th century Christian hymnist | 1820-03-24 | Brewster | 1915-02-12 | Bridgeport | 30 | Q257456 | ||
Louise Michel | French author and anarchist (1830-1905) | 1830-05-29 | Vroncourt-la-Côte | 1905-01-09 | Marseille | 62 | Q216092 | ||
Marie d'Agoult | Franco-German romantic author and historian (1805-1876) | 1805-12-31 | Frankfurt | 1876-03-05 | Paris | essayist
composer |
39 | Q253453 | |
Vera Zasulich | Russian revolutionary, editor (1849-1919) | 1849-07-27 1849-08-08 1849 |
Mikhaylovka | 1919-05-08 1919 |
Saint Petersburg | 37 | Q234980 | ||
Suzanne Valadon | French painter (1865—1938) | 1865-09-23 | Bessines-sur-Gartempe | 1938-04-07 | 16th arrondissement of Paris | printmaker
artist |
42 | Q156889 | |
Alma Mahler | Austrian composer, art collector, author, editor, and socialite (1879-1964) | 1879-08-31 | Vienna | 1964-12-11 | New York City | 48 | Q156898 | ||
Grace Moore | American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film (1898-1947) | 1898-12-05 | Cocke County | 1947-01-26 | Copenhagen Airport | stage actor
|
33 | Q253757 | |
Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy | Austrian archduchess and regent of the Netherlands (1480-1530) | 1480-01-10 | Brussels | 1530-12-01 | Mechelen | painter
composer |
44 | Q157100 | |
Maria Konopnicka | Polish writer and activist (1842-1910) | 1842-05-23 | Suwałki | 1910-10-08 | Lviv | editor
|
54 | Q257852 | |
Zofia Nałkowska | Polish prose writer, journalist & dramatist (1884-1954) | 1884-11-10 | Warsaw | 1954-12-17 | Warsaw | 34 | Q218319 | ||
Mary Baker Eddy | American founder of Christian Science (1821–1910) | 1821-07-16 | Bow | 1910-12-03 | Chestnut Hill | theologian
|
48 | Q235069 | |
Aspazija | Latvian poet and playwright (1865–1943) | 1865-03-04 | Zaļenieki Parish Mitava parish |
1943-11-05 | Dubulti | 32 | Q257872 | ||
Colette | French novelist | 1873-01-28 | Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye | 1954-08-03 | Paris | 82 | Q218679 | ||
Lady Caroline Lamb | English writer | 1785-11-13 | Dorset | 1828-01-26 | London | poet writer novelist |
32 | Q235665 | |
Marie Louise I, Duchess of Parma | Empress Consort of France (1810–1814) and Monarch of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla (1814-1847) | 1791-12-12 | Vienna | 1847-12-17 | Parma | ruler consort politician |
65 | Q157491 | |
Mabel Normand | American actress (1893–1930) | 1892-11-10 | Staten Island | 1930-02-23 1930-02-22 |
Monrovia | film actor
actor |
38 | Q235918 | |
Mary Wortley Montagu | noblewoman; writer and poet from England, editor (1689-1762) | 1689-05-15 | Nottingham | 1762-08-21 | Nottingham | editor
writer |
43 | Q235121 | |
Maria Anna Mozart | Austrian musician | 1751-07-30 | Salzburg | 1829-10-29 | Salzburg | pianist composer harpsichordist |
45 | Q157928 | |
Sofonisba Anguissola | Italian painter (c.1532-1625) | 1532 | Cremona | 1625-11-16 | Palermo | visual artist
designer |
59 | Q236038 | |
Božena Němcová | Czech writer (1820-1862) | 1820-02-04 | Vienna | 1862-01-21 | Prague | opinion journalist
|
58 | Q157970 | |
Lavinia Fontana | Italian painter (1552-1614) | 1552-08-24 | Bologna | 1614-08-11 | Rome | 41 | Q236050 | ||
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia | Grand Duchess of the Russian Empire and member of the House of Romanov | 1897-06-10 | Petergof | 1918-07-17 | Ipatiev House | chairperson
|
48 | Q158148 | |
Princess Margaret of Connaught | British princess (1882-1920); Crown Princess of Sweden as the first wife of the future King Gustaf VI Adolf | 1882-01-15 | Bagshot Park | 1920-05-01 | Stockholm | fundraiser
|
36 | Q158173 | |
Zora Neale Hurston | African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891-1960) | 1891-01-07 | Notasulga | 1960-01-28 | Fort Pierce | anthropologist historian novelist writer journalist folklorist civil rights advocate playwright film director |
57 | Q220480 | |
Anne of Denmark | Queen consort of James VI of Scots, I of England (1574-1619) | 1574-12-12 1574 |
Skanderborg Slot Skanderborg |
1619-03-02 | Hampton Court Palace | patron of the arts
|
48 | Q158248 | |
Harriet Quimby | American aviator, screenwriter (1875-1912) | 1875-05-11 | Arcadia Township | 1912-07-01 | Squantum | aircraft pilot journalist screenwriter |
34 | Q254352 | |
Bessie Coleman | American aviator (1892–1926) | 1892-01-26 | Atlanta | 1926-04-30 | Jacksonville | aircraft pilot human rights activist stunt pilot |
40 | Q254376 | |
Kōgyoku | Empress of Japan | 0594 050s |
0661-08-24 | monarch consort poet writer |
41 | Q235296 | |||
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić | Croatian writer (1874–1938) | 1874-04-18 | Ogulin | 1938-09-21 | Zagreb | poet writer children's writer |
43 | Q254383 | |
Gladys Cooper | British actress (1888-1971) | 1888-12-18 | Hither Green | 1971-11-17 | Henley-on-Thames | film actor
theatre manager |
33 | Q235299 | |
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia | Electress consort of the Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (1596-1662) | 1596-08-19 | Fife | 1662-02-13 | London | 47 | Q158252 | ||
Sophie Taeuber-Arp | Swiss artist (1889-1943) | 1889-01-19 | Davos | 1943-01-13 | Zürich
|
31 | Q254395 | ||
Agrippina Vaganova | Russian ballerina and founder of a ballet teaching method (1879-1951) | 1879-06-14 | Saint Petersburg | 1951-11-05 | Saint Petersburg | 30 | Q236413 | ||
Elizabeth Bowen | Anglo-Irish novelist and diarist | 1899-06-07 | Dublin | 1973-02-22 | London | short story writer
|
39 | Q235308 | |
Frances Perkins | Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933–1945 | 1880-04-10 | Boston | 1965-05-14 | New York City | 32 | Q254478 | ||
Voltairine de Cleyre | American anarchist writer and feminist | 1866-11-17 | Leslie | 1912-06-20 1912-06-19 |
Chicago | feminist
|
38 | Q235361 | |
Cécile Chaminade | French composer and pianist | 1857-08-08 | Batignolles-Monceau | 1944-04-13 | Monte Carlo | flautist
|
31 | Q236438 | |
Agnès Sorel | French Royal mistress | 1422 | Fromenteau Castle | 1450-02-09 | Le Mesnil-sous-Jumièges | lady-in-waiting royal mistress art model |
34 | Q231834 | |
Juliette Récamier | French salon-holder | 1777-12-03 | Lyon | 1849-05-11 | Paris | salonnière writer socialite |
38 | Q236442 | |
H.D. | American Imagist poet (1886–1961) | 1886-09-10 | Bethlehem | 1961-09-27 | Klinik Hirslanden | autobiographer
actor |
42 | Q236469 | |
Theano | 6th-century BC Pythagorean philosopher | -06th century | Crotone | -05th century | 36 | Q235426 | |||
Berenice Abbott | American photographer (1898-1991) | 1898-07-17 | Springfield | 1991-12-09 | Monson | inventor
|
39 | Q231861 | |
Archduchess Gisela of Austria | Austrian Imperial and Royal | 1856-07-12 | Laxenburg | 1932-07-27 | Munich | philanthropist
politician |
33 | Q231871 | |
Christina Rossetti | English poet | 1830-12-05 | London | 1894-12-29 | London | poet writer hymnwriter |
60 | Q236596 | |
Aphra Behn | British playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689) | 1640-07-10 | Canterbury | 1689-04-16 | London | women's rights activist
|
68 | Q231886 | |
Ethel Smyth | English composer | 1858-04-22 | Sidcup | 1944-05-08 | Woking | nurse
|
36 | Q236599 | |
Rebecca West | British writer, journalist, literary critic, and feminist | 1892-12-21 | London | 1983-03-15 | London | opinion journalist
novelist |
53 | Q236669 | |
Julian of Norwich | English theologian and anchoress | 1342-11-08 1343 |
Norwich | 15th century | Norwich | philosopher
|
40 | Q236699 | |
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson | English physician and feminist (1836-1917) | 1836-06-09 | Whitechapel | 1917-12-17 | Alde House | politician physician suffragist writer |
37 | Q235464 | |
Jitō | Empress of Japan (645-703) | 0645 | 0703-01-13 | Fujiwara-kyō | poet writer urban planner waka poet politician |
43 | Q232026 | ||
Francesca Caccini | Italian composer | 1587-09-18 | Florence | 1640 No/unknown value |
Florence | 31 | Q232035 | ||
Emily Davison | British activist who fought for women's suffrage | 1872-10-11 | Blackheath | 1913-06-08 | Epsom | 39 | Q254858 | ||
Vita Sackville-West | English writer, poet, and gardener | 1892-03-09 | Knole House | 1962-06-02 | Sissinghurst Castle Garden | biographer
|
39 | Q235505 | |
Mistinguett | French actress and singer | 1875-04-04 1875-04-05 1875-04-03 |
Enghien-les-Bains | 1956-01-05 | Bougival | dancer
screenwriter |
30 | Q235507 | |
Mary Kingsley | British ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer | 1862-10-13 | Islington | 1900-06-03 | Cape Town | 38 | Q235525 | ||
Angelica Balabanoff | Russian-Jewish-Italian dissident writer, social activist, politician, editor | 1877-08-04 1878-08-04 1876 |
Chernihiv | 1965-11-25 1965 |
Rome | political activist
|
33 | Q235537 | |
Louise Abbéma | French painter, sculptor, and designer of the Belle Époque (1853-1927) | 1853-10-30 | Étampes | 1927-07-10 | 9th arrondissement of Paris | sculptor
designer |
34 | Q237911 | |
Ichiyō Higuchi | Japanese writer | 1872-05-02 | Tokyo | 1896-11-23 | Uchisaiwaichō | novelist writer waka poet |
36 | Q237948 | |
Yekaterina Dashkova | Russian author and woman of letters (1743-1810) | 1743-03-17 1743-03-28 |
Saint Petersburg | 1810-01-04 1810-01-16 |
Moscow | 31 | Q235611 | ||
Eudokia Makrembolitissa | Byzantine Empress from 1059 to 1071 | 1021 | 1096 | writer sovereign Christian nun |
37 | Q232223 | |||
Ana Aslan | Romanian biologist and physician | 1897-01-01 | Brăila | 1988-05-20 | Bucharest | inventor
university teacher |
33 | Q270262 | |
Barbara Strozzi | Italian singer and composer | 1619-08-06 | Venice | 1677-11-11 | Padua | singer
|
36 | Q232235 | |
Jean Webster | American novelist (1876-1916) | 1876-07-24 | Fredonia | 1916-06-11 | New York City | short story writer
humorist |
31 | Q238140 | |
Arletty | French actress (1898–1992) | 1898-05-15 | Courbevoie | 1992-07-23 | 16th arrondissement of Paris | stage actor
|
35 | Q235617 | |
Sabina Spielrein | Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts (1885–1942) | 1885-10-25 | Rostov-on-Don | 1942-08-11 | Zmievskaya Balka | essayist
physician |
37 | Q232336 | |
Natalia Goncharova | Russian-French artist (1881-1962) | 1881-06-21 | Nagaevo-Karbonier | 1962-10-17 | Paris | 45 | Q232391 | ||
Louise of Sweden | Queen consort of Denmark; wife of Frederick VIII of Denmark | 1851-10-31 | Stockholm Palace | 1926-03-20 | Amalienborg | philanthropist
|
42 | Q232402 | |
Asta Nielsen | Danish actress (1881-1972) | 1881-09-11 | Gammel Kongevej | 1972-05-25 | Frederiksberg | film actor
film director |
63 | Q232404 | |
Jeannette Rankin | American congresswoman for Montana (1880-1973) | 1880-06-11 | Missoula | 1973-05-18 | Carmel-by-the-Sea | peace activist
suffragist |
42 | Q232407 | |
Sophia Tolstaya | Russian writer | 1844-08-22 | Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo | 1919-11-04 | Yasnaya Polyana | biographer
photographer |
37 | Q271934 | |
Geraldine Farrar | American soprano opera singer and film actress (1882–1967) | 1882-02-28 | Melrose | 1967-03-11 | Ridgefield | film actor
|
32 | Q241498 | |
Ellen Key | Swedish writer (1849-1926) | 1849-12-11 | Gladhammar church parish | 1926-04-25 | Västra Tollstad church parish | women's rights activist
|
44 | Q238443 | |
Ellen Terry | English actress (1847–1928) | 1847-02-27 | Coventry | 1928-07-21 | Small Hythe | 36 | Q241966 | ||
Juliette Adam | Author, salonnière | 1836-10-04 | Verberie | 1936-08-23 | Callian | editor
|
31 | Q270617 | |
Corinne Griffith | American actress, film producer, author (1894–1979) | 1894-11-21 | Waco | 1979-07-13 | Santa Monica | film actor
writer |
33 | Q272079 | |
Alfonsina Storni | Argentine writer | 1892-05-29 | Capriasca | 1938-10-25 | Mar del Plata | sociologist
|
51 | Q238557 | |
Katherine Mansfield | New Zealand author (1888–1923) | 1888-10-14 | Wellington | 1923-01-09 | Avon | 67 | Q270632 | ||
Anita Loos | American screenwriter, playwright, author, actress and television producer (1888-1981) | 1889-04-26 1888-04-26 |
Mount Shasta | 1981-08-18 | New York City | film actor
memoirist |
38 | Q272088 | |
Enheduanna | Sumerian high priestess of Inanna | -23th century | Minas, Lavalleja | -23th century | philosopher
|
64 | Q232505 | ||
Aleksandra Ekster | Ukrainian and French painter and designer (1882–1949) | 1882-01-06 | Białystok | 1949-03-17 | Fontenay-aux-Roses | 37 | Q242121 | ||
Dorothy Parker | American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967) | 1893-08-22 | West End | 1967-06-07 | New York City | columnist poet screenwriter writer literary critic journalist songwriter dialogue writer |
70 | Q270707 | |
Ruth Gordon | American actress and writer (1896–1985) | 1896-10-30 | Quincy | 1985-08-28 | Edgartown | 47 | Q232562 | ||
Dolores Ibárruri | Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician (1895-1989) | 1895-12-09 | Gallarta | 1989-11-12 1989 |
Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal | activist
|
65 | Q238955 | |
Sacagawea | Native American woman & companion to Lewis and Clark at age 16 | 1788-05-16 1786 |
Salmon | 1812-12-12 1884-04-09 |
Fort Lisa | explorer interpreter Aitzindari |
47 | Q238960 | |
Maria Malibran | Spanish opera singer and composer | 1808-03-24 | Paris | 1836-09-23 | Manchester | stage actor
|
34 | Q232783 | |
Maria Mitchell | American astronomer | 1818-08-01 | Nantucket | 1889-06-29 | Lynn | naturalist
|
52 | Q239229 | |
Edith Sitwell | British poet (1887-1964) | 1887-09-07 | Scarborough | 1964-12-09 | St Thomas' Hospital | biographer
|
41 | Q259921 | |
Sonia Delaunay | French painter (1885-1979) | 1885-11-14 | Hradyzk | 1979-12-05 | Paris | visual artist
|
42 | Q232972 | |
Lucretia Mott | American suffragist | 1793-01-03 1793 |
Nantucket | 1880-11-11 1880 |
Philadelphia | 41 | Q267107 | ||
Madame d'Aulnoy | French writer | 1652 | Barneville-la-Bertran | 1705-01-14 | Paris | writer salonnière novelist collector of fairy tales |
33 | Q260006 | |
Anne Bradstreet | Anglo-American poet (1612-1672) | 1612-03-20 | Northampton | 1672-09-16 | Andover | philosopher
|
35 | Q242332 | |
Marie Laurencin | French painter, poet and printmaker (1885–1956) | 1883-10-31 | 10th arrondissement of Paris | 1956-06-08 | Paris | 39 | Q233088 | ||
Marion Davies | American actress, producer, screenwriter and socialite (1897–1961) | 1897-01-03 | Brooklyn | 1961-09-22 | Hollywood | film actor
|
35 | Q242416 | |
Victoria Woodhull | American suffragist, editor (1838-1927) | 1838-09-23 | Homer | 1927-06-09 | Bredon | women's rights activist
writer |
50 | Q260378 | |
Edith Evans | British actress (1888–1976) | 1888-02-08 | London | 1976-10-14 | Cranbrook | film actor
actor |
44 | Q236718 | |
Louise Bryant | American activist and journalist (1885–1936) | 1885-12-05 | San Francisco | 1936-01-06 | Sèvres | journalist writer suffragette |
30 | Q267629 | |
Billie Burke | American stage and film actress (1884–1970) | 1884-08-07 | Washington, D.C. | 1970-05-14 | Los Angeles | 41 | Q235639 | ||
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | English socialite, style icon, author, and activist | 1757-06-07 | Althorp | 1806-03-30 | Devonshire House | political activist
aristocrat |
32 | Q235644 | |
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard | French painter (1749-1803) | 1749-04-11 | Paris | 1803-04-24 | Paris | 35 | Q235647 | ||
Maria Dąbrowska | Polish writer (1889-1965) | 1889-10-06 | Russów | 1965-05-19 1965 |
Warsaw | 44 | Q242423 | ||
Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange | British princess (1709-1759); eldest daughter of George II | 1709-11-02 | Hanover | 1759-01-12 | The Hague | painter
|
33 | Q239487 | |
Ma Rainey | American blues singer (1886–1939) | 1886-04-26 | Columbus | 1939-12-22 | Columbus | singer
songwriter |
34 | Q239533 | |
Lilya Brik | muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky | 1891-10-30 1891-11-11 |
Moscow | 1978-08-04 | Peredelkino | translator
memoirist |
34 | Q260537 | |
Lynn Fontanne | British actress (1887–1983) | 1887-12-06 | London Woodford |
1983-07-30 1983-07-10 |
Genesee Depot | television actor
actor |
31 | Q242484 | |
Margaret Murray | Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (1863–1963) | 1863-07-13 | Kolkata | 1963-11-13 | Welwyn | egyptologist
|
32 | Q242542 | |
Grandma Moses | American artist (1860-1961) | 1860-09-07 | Greenwich | 1961-12-13 | Hoosick Falls | 34 | Q260683 | ||
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | English aristocrat, prolific writer, and scientist | 1623 1617 |
Colchester | 1673-12-15 | Kingdom of England | 42 | Q242640 | ||
Augusta, Lady Gregory | Irish playwright, poet, folklorist (1852-1932) | 1852-03-15 | Loughrea | 1932-05-22 | Coole Park | diarist
writer |
40 | Q239540 | |
Katherine Anne Porter | American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist | 1890-05-15 | Indian Creek | 1980-09-18 | Silver Spring | 44 | Q236958 | ||
Radegund | Frankish queen consort | 0518 | Erfurt | 0587-08-13 | Poitiers | poet monarch writer nun |
38 | Q236974 | |
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands | Dutch queen consort (from 1815 to 1837); second daughter and fourth child of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt | 1774-11-18 | Potsdam | 1837-10-12 | The Hague | consort aristocrat photographer |
33 | Q236978 | |
Kasturba Gandhi | wife of Mahatma Gandhi, an Indian leader of British era (1869-1944) | 1869-04-11 | Porbandar | 1944-02-22 | Aga Khan Palace | 43 | Q264908 | ||
Beatrice Webb | English sociologist, economist, socialist, and social reformer | 1858-01-22 | Gloucestershire | 1943-04-30 | Liphook | 36 | Q242666 | ||
Eliza Orzeszkowa | Polish writer | 1841-06-06 | Miĺkaŭščyna | 1910-05-18 | Hrodna | translator
|
47 | Q240174 | |
Amy Lowell | US writer (1874-1925) | 1874-02-09 | Brookline | 1925-05-12 | Brookline | poet writer socialite |
36 | Q265841 | |
May Whitty | English actress (1865-1948) | 1865-06-19 | Liverpool | 1948-05-29 | Beverly Hills | film actor
actor |
33 | Q240193 | |
Bessie Love | American actress (1898-1986) | 1898-09-10 | Midland | 1986-04-26 | London | television actor
writer |
37 | Q240238 | |
Ethel Waters | American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress (1896-1977) | 1896-10-31 | Chester | 1977-09-01 | Chatsworth | film actor
|
32 | Q242725 | |
Gerda Wegener | Danish artist (1885-1940) | 1885-03-15 | Hammelev | 1940-07-20 | Frederiksberg | 39 | Q266086 | ||
Ninon de Lenclos | French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the arts | 1620-11-10 | Paris | 1705-10-17 | Paris | patron of the arts
|
56 | Q237045 | |
Lydia Koidula | Estonian poet | 1843-12-12 | Vändra | 1886-07-30 | Kronstadt | 49 | Q237056 | ||
Harriet Taylor Mill | British philosopher (1807–1858) | 1807-10-08 | London | 1858-11-03 | Avignon | 37 | Q240782 | ||
Lucy Maud Montgomery | Canadian writer (1874–1942) | 1874-11-30 | Prince Edward Island | 1942-04-24 | Toronto | 64 | Q273034 | ||
Vera Figner | Russian political activist (1852-1942) | 1852-06-25 | Kazan | 1942-06-15 | Moscow | 30 | Q266783 | ||
Madame de Lafayette | French writer (1634-1693) | 1634-03-18 1634-03-16 |
Paris | 1693-05-25 | Paris | writer salonnière novelist historian correspondent lady-in-waiting |
50 | Q237090 | |
Madeleine de Scudéry | French writer (1607–1701) | 1607-11-15 | Le Havre | 1701-06-02 | Paris | philosopher
|
53 | Q237095 | |
Louise Labé | French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon | 1524 | Lyon | 1566-04-25 | Parcieux | poet salonnière writer |
48 | Q237098 | |
Madame de Sévigné | French noble and epistolarian writer | 1626-02-05 | Paris | 1696-04-17 1695-04-17 |
Grignan | philosopher
|
58 | Q237103 | |
Emma Lazarus | American poet (1849–1887) | 1849-07-22 1849 |
New York City | 1887-11-19 1887 |
New York City | translator
|
37 | Q240959 | |
Christabel Pankhurst | suffragette, co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, editor (1880-1958) | 1880-09-22 | Manchester | 1958-02-13 | Santa Monica | feminist
|
39 | Q269863 | |
Corrie ten Boom | Dutch resistance hero and writer | 1892-04-15 | Amsterdam | 1983-04-15 | Placentia | autobiographer
resistance fighter |
32 | Q241097 | |
Hedda Hopper | American gossip columnist and actress (1885–1966) | 1885-05-02 | Hollidaysburg | 1966-02-01 | Hollywood | film critic
writer |
42 | Q271324 | |
Marianne Moore | American poet (1887–1972) | 1887-11-15 | Kirkwood | 1972-02-05 | New York City | translator
literary critic |
44 | Q278495 | |
Edna Ferber | American novelist, short story writer and playwright | 1885-08-15 | Kalamazoo | 1968-04-16 1968 |
New York City | playwright novelist writer screenwriter journalist |
40 | Q283496 | |
Ida Kamińska | Polish actress (1899-1980) | 1899-09-18 | Odesa | 1980-05-21 | New York City | 32 | Q284087 | ||
Julia Ward Howe | American abolitionist, social activist, and poet | 1819-05-27 | New York City | 1910-10-17 | Portsmouth | 34 | Q241299 | ||
Alice Hamilton | American physician and toxicologist (1869–1970) | 1869-02-27 | Manhattan | 1970-09-22 | Hadlyme North Historic District | 32 | Q275600 | ||
Táhirih | influential poet and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran (1814–1852) | 1817 | Qazvin | 1852-08-27 | Tehran | 30 | Q255221 | ||
Elizabeth Fry | social reformer from England (1780-1845) | 1780-05-21 | Norwich | 1845-10-12 | Ramsgate | 32 | Q271477 | ||
Margaret Sanger | American birth control activist, educator and nurse (1879-1966) | 1879-09-14 | Corning | 1966-09-06 | Tucson | 58 | Q285514 | ||
Alice Guy-Blaché | French film director (1873–1968) | 1873-07-01 | Saint-Mandé | 1968-03-24 | Mahwah | film actor
theatrical director |
37 | Q263367 | |
Annette Kellermann | Australian swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress and writer (1887–1975) | 1886-07-06 | Sydney | 1975-11-06 | Southport | film actor
writer |
30 | Q274172 | |
Ida Tarbell | American journalist (1857-1944) | 1857-11-05 1857 |
Erie County | 1944-01-06 1944 |
Bridgeport | 31 | Q271712 | ||
Gertrude Jekyll | garden designer, artist, editor (1843-1932) | 1843-11-29 | London | 1932-12-08 | Surrey | editor
|
31 | Q452354 | |
Lucy Stone | American abolitionist and suffragist (1818-1893) | 1818-08-13 | West Brookfield | 1893-10-19 1893-10-18 |
Boston | 39 | Q452281 | ||
Elizabeth Magie | American board game designer (1866–1948) | 1866-05-09 | Macomb | 1948-03-02 | Arlington County | stenographer
writer |
30 | Q273459 | |
Kassia | Byzantine abbess, poet, composer, and hymnographer | 0810 | Constantinople Istanbul |
0865 | Constantinople Istanbul |
composer poet writer nun |
36 | Q263592 | |
Dorothea Dix | American author and social reformer | 1802-04-04 | Hampden | 1887-07-17 | Trenton | 32 | Q452469 | ||
Millicent Garrett Fawcett | English politician, writer, and activist (1847–1929) | 1847-06-11 | Aldeburgh | 1929-08-05 | Gower Street | 34 | Q442818 | ||
Agnodice | Athenian physician, midwife and gynecologist | -04th century | Athens | -03th century | gynaecologist midwife physician obstetrician |
32 | Q263812 | ||
Lydia Maria Child | American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880) | 1802-02-11 | Medford | 1880-10-20 | Wayland | philosopher
|
32 | Q443132 | |
Anna Atkins | English botanist and photographer (1799-1871) | 1799-03-16 | Tonbridge | 1871-06-09 | Halstead Place | 41 | Q264269 | ||
Nadežda Petrović | Serbian artist (1873-1915) | 1873-10-12 | Čačak | 1915-04-03 | Valjevo | visual artist
|
40 | Q264453 | |
Emilia Pardo Bazán | Spanish author, editor | 1851-09-16 | A Coruña | 1921-05-12 | Madrid | editor
gastronomist |
38 | Q275929 | |
Lady Randolph Churchill | American-born British mother of Winston Churchill (1854–1921) | 1854-01-09 1851 |
Brooklyn | 1921-06-29 | London | editor
|
32 | Q243011 | |
Louise Dresser | American actress (1878–1965) | 1878-10-05 | Evansville | 1965-04-24 | Woodland Hills | television actor
actor |
33 | Q275952 | |
Eleonora Duse | Italian stage actress (1858-1924) | 1858-10-03 | Vigevano | 1924-04-21 | Pittsburgh | film actor
|
50 | Q275970 | |
Florence Foster Jenkins | American soprano, renowned for her lack of musical skill and singing ability | 1868-07-19 | Wilkes-Barre | 1944-11-26 | New York City | 38 | Q275982 | ||
La Belle Otero | Spanish dancer, actress and courtesan in France | 1868-11-04 | Valga | 1965-04-10 | Nice | dancer
screenwriter |
31 | Q275991 | |
Jeanne Baret | French explorer, naturalist, botanist (1740-1807) | 1740-07-27 | La Comelle | 1807-08-05 | Saint-Aulaye | naturalist
|
39 | Q437168 | |
Frances Hodgson Burnett | English-American playwright and author | 1849-11-24 | Manchester | 1924-10-29 | Plandome Manor | short story writer
playwright |
71 | Q276028 | |
Edith Wharton | American novelist, short story writer, designer (1862–1937) | 1862-01-24 | New York City | 1937-08-11 | Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt | art historian
|
82 | Q276032 | |
Sarojini Naidu | Indian poet, politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949 | 1879-02-13 | Hyderabad | 1949-03-02 | Lucknow | poet politician independence activist writer freedom fighter |
64 | Q250165 | |
Ida B. Wells | American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931) | 1862-07-16 | Holly Springs | 1931-03-25 | Chicago | 46 | Q289428 | ||
Emily Carr | Canadian painter and writer (1871–1945) | 1871-12-13 | Victoria | 1945-03-02 | Victoria | ceramicist
artist |
35 | Q289624 | |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld | English author (1743–1825) | 1743-06-20 | Kibworth Harcourt | 1825-03-09 | Stoke Newington | essayist
writer |
31 | Q268305 | |
Ruth Chatterton | American actress (1892–1961) | 1892-12-24 | New York City | 1961-11-24 | Norwalk | 33 | Q287713 | ||
Tomoe Gozen | Female Samurai | 1157 | Japan | 1247 | samurai military personnel onna-musha |
31 | Q450780 | ||
Vera Brittain | English writer (1893-1970) | 1893-12-29 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | 1970-03-29 | Wimbledon | peace activist
suffragist |
33 | Q450802 | |
Sibilla Aleramo | Italian writer and feminist, editor (1876-1960) | 1876-08-14 | Alessandria | 1960-01-13 | Rome | editor
|
32 | Q287741 | |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935) | 1860-07-03 | Hartford | 1935-08-17 | Pasadena | editor
suffragist |
49 | Q287752 | |
Fernán Caballero | Spanish women novelist | 1796-12-24 | Morges | 1877-04-07 | Seville | writer folklorist novelist |
34 | Q291397 | |
Mary Somerville | British science writer and polymath (1780-1872) | 1780-12-26 | Jedburgh | 1872-11-28 | Naples | mathematician writer scientist physicist geologist |
48 | Q268702 | |
Isabella Bird | British traveler, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831–1904) | 1831-10-15 | Boroughbridge | 1904-10-08 | Edinburgh | 36 | Q288210 | ||
Gabriela Zapolska | Polish novelist, prose writer, publicist, feuilletonist, theatre critic, stage actress | 1857-03-30 | Pidhaitsi | 1921-12-21 1921-12-17 |
Lviv | opinion journalist
|
32 | Q454870 | |
Carrie Chapman Catt | American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947) | 1859-01-09 | Ripon | 1947-03-09 | New Rochelle | 37 | Q270207 | ||
Kate Sheppard | prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage (1847-1934) | 1847-03-10 | Liverpool | 1934-07-13 | Christchurch | 41 | Q455072 | ||
Mirra Alfassa | spiritual guru and collaborator of Sri Aurobindo | 1878-02-21 | 9th arrondissement of Paris | 1973-11-17 | Pondicherry | translator
|
32 | Q464879 | |
Fatima Jinnah | Pakistani dental surgeon, biographer and stateswoman (1893–1967) | 1893-07-30 | Karachi | 1967-07-09 | Karachi | biographer
writer |
39 | Q464947 | |
Catherine of Bologna | Italian cloistered nun (1413-1463) | 1413-09-08 | Bologna | 1463-03-09 | Bologna | 33 | Q455252 | ||
Minna Canth | Finnish writer, editor | 1844-03-19 | Tampere | 1897-05-12 | Kuopio | editor
|
44 | Q298027 | |
Lesya Ukrainka | Ukrainian poet and writer (1871-1913) | 1871-02-13 | Zviahel | 1913-08-01 | Surami | 88 | Q298033 | ||
Akiko Yosano | Japanese tanka poet | 1878-12-07 | Sakai | 1942-05-29 | Ogikubo | essayist
writer |
46 | Q464104 | |
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont | French writer, editor | 1711-04-26 | Rouen | 1776-12-06 | Avallon | editor
|
33 | Q466788 | |
Elena Cornaro Piscopia | Venetian philosopher (1646–1684) | 1646-06-05 | Venice | 1684-07-26 | Padua | 48 | Q466851 | ||
Tina Modotti | Italian photographer and actress | 1896-08-17 | Udine | 1942-01-05 | Mexico City | stage actor
artist |
34 | Q466946 | |
Sylvia Pankhurst | English feminist and socialist (1882–1960) | 1882-05-05 | Manchester | 1960-09-27 | Addis Ababa | feminist
|
39 | Q298213 | |
Qiu Jin | Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer (1875-1907) | 1875-11-08 | Xiamen | 1907-07-15 | Shaoxing | feminist
|
40 | Q465324 | |
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore | French poet and novelist | 1786-06-20 | Douai | 1859-07-23 | Paris | stage actor
|
40 | Q466987 | |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist | 1815-11-12 | Johnstown | 1902-10-26 | New York City | women's rights activist
abolitionist |
70 | Q465335 | |
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain | Bengali feminist writer and social reformer (1880-1932) | 1880-12-09 | Rangpur District | 1932-12-09 | Kolkata | social reformer
|
36 | Q467083 | |
Elizabeth Ann Seton | first native-born American saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1774-1821) | 1774-08-28 | New York City | 1821-01-04 | Emmitsburg | nurse
|
33 | Q459032 | |
Lola Anglada | Spanish writer, comics artist and illustrator | 1892-10-28 1891-11-30 1892-01-01 |
Barcelona | 1984-09-12 | Tiana | drawer
collector |
30 | Q459343 | |
Susanne Langer | American philosopher | 1895-12-20 | Manhattan | 1985-07-17 | Old Lyme | 32 | Q466026 | ||
Marie Stopes | British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958) | 1880-10-15 1881 |
Edinburgh | 1958-10-02 | Dorking | sexologist
botanical collector |
44 | Q442231 | |
Ethel Lilian Voynich | British writer and musician | 1864-05-11 | Ballintemple
|
1960-07-27 1960-07-28 |
New York City | translator
suffragist |
43 | Q466068 | |
Madam C. J. Walker | American entrepreneur (1867-1919) | 1867-12-23 | Delta | 1919-05-25 | Irvington | entrepreneur
|
38 | Q447716 | |
Meera | 16th-century Hindu mystic poet, saint and devotee of the god Krishna | 1498 1504 |
Merta City Kudki |
1546 1547 1552 |
Dwarka | poet writer mystic |
56 | Q466330 | |
Yaa Asantewaa | Ashanti Queen Mother and military leader | 1832 1840 |
Besease | 1921-10-17 | Seychelles | ruler military leader resistance fighter |
32 | Q467803 | |
Beulah Bondi | American actress (1888/1889–1981) | 1888-05-03 | Valparaiso | 1981-01-11 | Hollywood | television actor
|
37 | Q466440 | |
Na Hye-sok | writer and painter from Korea (1896-1948) | 1896-04-18 | Suwon | 1948-12-10 | Seoul | activist
|
36 | Q466477 | |
Matilda of Tuscany | Italian feudal margrave of Tuscany, ruler in northern Italy and the chief Italian supporter of Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy | 100s | Mantua | 1115-07-24 | Bondeno di Roncore | feudatory politician aristocrat |
43 | Q464162 | |
Eva Gonzalès | French painter (1849-1883) | 1849-04-19 1847-04-19 |
Marruecos Paris |
1883-05-05 | Paris | 32 | Q464300 | ||
Annie Besant | British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator (1847-1933) | 1847-10-01 | Clapham | 1933-09-20 | Adyar | 73 | Q464318 | ||
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn | American politician (1890-1964) | 1890-08-07 | Concord | 1964-09-05 | Moscow | autobiographer
|
36 | Q463265 | |
Fanny Elssler | Austrian ballerina (1810-1884) | 1810-06-23 | Gumpendorf | 1884-11-27 | Vienna | choreographer
ballet dancer |
44 | Q435304 | |
Hannah Höch | German artist (1889-1978) | 1889-11-01 | Gotha | 1978-05-31 | Berlin | 35 | Q463411 | ||
Aletta Jacobs | Dutch physician and feminist, editor | 1854-02-09 | Sappemeer | 1929-08-10 | Baarn | editor
suffragist |
34 | Q463478 | |
Tatyana Afanasyeva | Russian/Dutch mathematician and physicist (1876-1964) | 1876-11-19 | Kyiv | 1964-04-14 | Leiden | mathematician physicist architect |
31 | Q463530 | |
Frances Marion | American journalist, author, film director and screenwriter (1888-1973) | 1888-11-18 | San Francisco | 1973-05-12 | Los Angeles | 51 | Q463883 | ||
Princess Eugénie of Sweden | Swedish princess (1830-1889); daughter of Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg | 1830-04-24 | Stockholm City | 1889-04-23 | Stockholm City | 32 | Q526915 | ||
Gabriele Münter | German painter (1877-1962) | 1877-02-19 | Berlin | 1962-05-19 | Murnau am Staffelsee | printmaker
artist |
37 | Q463978 | |
Elsa Schiaparelli | Italian fashion designer and couturier (1890-1973) | 1890-09-10 | Rome | 1973-11-13 | 8th arrondissement of Paris Paris |
jewelry designer
|
35 | Q464023 | |
Matilde Serao | Italian journalist and writer, editor | 1856-03-07 1856 |
Patras | 1927-07-25 1927 |
Naples | editor
|
30 | Q384594 | |
Agnes Arber | British botanist (1879-1960) | 1879-02-23 | Primrose Hill | 1960-03-22 | Cambridge | 30 | Q394451 | ||
Hwang Jini | Korean gisaeng, poet, dancer and philosopher (1506-1544) | 1506 | Kaesong | 1544 | Kaesong | painter
writer |
32 | Q464510 | |
Shin Saimdang | calligraphist and noted poet (1504-1551) | 1504-10-29 | Gangneung | 1551-05-17 | Paju | 30 | Q464485 | ||
Li Qingzhao | Chinese Song Dynasty poet, known as "the most talented woman in all ages" | 1084-03-19 | Zhangqiu District | 1155-05-19 | Hangzhou | essayist
ci lyric writer |
40 | Q464470 | |
Faina Ranevskaya | Soviet actress (1896-1984) | 1896-08-15 1896-08-27 |
Taganrog | 1984-07-19 | Moscow | film actor
actor |
53 | Q470466 | |
Isadora Duncan | American dancer and choreographer | 1877-05-26 1878-05-27 |
San Francisco | 1927-09-14 | Nice | 102 | Q483512 | ||
Nettie Stevens | American geneticist | 1861-07-07 | Cavendish | 1912-05-04 | Baltimore | zoologist
librarian |
38 | Q433487 | |
Martha Graham | American dancer and choreographer | 1894-05-11 | Pittsburgh | 1991-04-01 | New York | dancer
|
55 | Q487604 | |
Lotte Reiniger | German silhouette animator and film director (1899–1981) | 1899-06-02 | Charlottenburg | 1981-06-19 | Dettenhausen | film director animator silhouette artist screenwriter director |
36 | Q444011 | |
Dodie Smith | English children's novelist and playwright | 1896-05-03 1896 |
Whitefield | 1990-11-24 1990 |
Finchingfield | 35 | Q449085 | ||
Laura Bassi | Italian physicist (1711-1778) | 1711-10-29 | Bologna | 1778-02-20 | Bologna | philosopher
biologist |
54 | Q541652 | |
Margaret Chase Smith | member of the United States Senate from Maine (1897-1995) | 1897-12-14 | Skowhegan | 1995-05-29 | Skowhegan | politician teacher business executive |
31 | Q456750 | |
Beatrice d’Este | duchess of Milan and Bari | 1475-06-29 | Ferrara | 1497-01-03 | Milan | 30 | Q813280 | ||
Rosika Schwimmer | Hungarian activist, editor (1877-1948) | 1877-09-11 | Budapest | 1948-08-03 | New York City | 35 | Q853932 | ||
Umm Kulthum | Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress | 1898-12-31 | Tamay Ez-Zahayra | 1975-02-03 | Cairo | film actor
|
101 | Q1110560 | |
Fatma Aliye Topuz | Turkish feminist writer (1862-1936) | 1862-10-09 | Istanbul | 1936-07-13 | Istanbul | 33 | Q1136761 | ||
Mary Seacole | British-Jamaican businesswoman and nurse | 1805 | Kingston | 1881-05-14 | London | 34 | Q963703 | ||
Isidora Sekulić | Serbian writer | 1877-02-16 | Mošorin | 1958-04-05 | Belgrade | writer literary critic art critic |
35 | Q1279865 | |
Desanka Maksimović | Serbian writer (1898-1993) | 1898-05-16 | Divci | 1993-02-11 | Belgrade | translator
|
33 | Q1280792 | |
Eva Ekeblad | Swedish scientist (1724-1786) | 1724-07-10 | Stockholm | 1786-05-15 | Lidköping | 42 | Q1393227 | ||
Dinah Craik | British novelist and poet | 1826-04-20 | Stoke-on-Trent | 1887-10-12 | Shortlands | essayist
children's writer |
31 | Q2331155 | |
Sister Nivedita | Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda | 1867-10-28 | County Tyrone | 1911-10-13 | Darjeeling | 37 | Q2353846 | ||
Marko Vovchok | Ukrainian writer | 1833-12-10 | Yekaterininskoye | 1907-07-28 | Nalchik | editor
|
36 | Q2421158 | |
Huda Sha'rawi | Egyptian feminist and nationalist | 1879-06-23 | Minya | 1947-12-12 1947 |
Cairo | 39 | Q2423343 | ||
Anne Lister | English landowner and lesbian diarist | 1791-04-03 | Halifax | 1840-09-22 | Kutaisi | diarist
writer |
30 | Q2745195 | |
Zitkala-Sa | Yankton Dakota writer (1876-1938) | 1876-02-22 | Yankton Indian Reservation | 1938-01-28 | Washington, D.C. | violinist
human rights activist |
31 | Q2668090 | |
Agnes Mary Clerke | British astronomer (1842–1907) | 1842-02-10 | Skibbereen | 1907-01-20 | London | astronomer science writer writer |
30 | Q2826927 | |
May Ziadeh | Lebanese-Palestinian writer (1886-1941) | 1886-02-11 | Palestine | 1941-10-17 | Cairo | translator
|
34 | Q2919042 | |
Caterina Albert | Spanish writer (1869-1966) | 1869-09-11 | L'Escala | 1966-01-27 | L'Escala | painter
|
43 | Q2914475 | |
Matilda Joslyn Gage | American abolitionist, writer | 1826-03-24 | Cicero | 1898-03-18 | Chicago | 32 | Q3119366 | ||
Clara Campoamor | Spanish politician, feminist (1888-1972) | 1888-02-12 | Madrid | 1972-04-30 | Lausanne | politician lawyer writer jurist suffragist |
31 | Q3321142 | |
Zabel Yesayan | Armenian writer | 1878-02-04 | Üsküdar | 1943 | South Caucasus | 30 | Q3574447 | ||
Diana Abgar | Armenia ambassador | 1859-10-12 | Yangon | 1937-07-08 | Yokohama | opinion journalist
prose writer |
31 | Q4054419 | |
Nataliya Kobrynska | Ukrainian writer, editor (1855-1920) | 1855-06-08 1851-06-08 |
Beleluia | 1920-01-22 | Bolekhiv | feminist
|
32 | Q4225202 | |
Janaki Ammal | Indian botanist (1897-1984) | 1897-11-04 | Thalassery | 1984-02-07 | Chennai | 34 | Q4794782 | ||
Stefania Turkevych-Lukiianovych | Ukrainian pianist, composer, and musicologist (1898-1977) | 1898-04-25 | Lviv | 1977-04-08 | Cambridge | musicologist
music educator |
102 | Q12162960 | |
Eunice Newton Foote | American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist (1819–1888) | 1819-07-17 | Goshen | 1888-09-30 | Lenox | women's rights activist
|
33 | Q26763822 | |
Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin de Genlis | French writer, editor and botanical historian (1746-1830) | 1746-01-25 | Issy-l'Évêque | 1830-12-31 | Paris | philosopher
|
31 | Q55037230 |
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