1102: Aung San Suu Kyi The First State Counsellor of Myanmar Born: 19 June 1945, Yangon, Myanmar Aung is the daughter of Myanmar’s political democratic icon General Aung San. Just before Myanmar gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1948, the general was assassinated. Aung was only two years old when her father was…
1101: Maria Montessori Creator of the Montessori Learning Technique Born: 31 August 1870, Chiaraville, Italy Died: 6 May 1952, Noordwijk, Netherlands Maria was a Pioneer in Scientific Pedagogy. She was an educator, physician, and innovator who opened her first school in Rome in 1906. There are thousands of Montessori schools located in countries around the…
1100: Mandukhai Khatun Empress of the Northern Yuan Dynasty (Also Known as Post-Imperial Mongolia) Born: c.1449, Present-day Mongolia Died: c.1510, Present-day Mongolia Mandukhai was born into an aristocratic family and married the Emperor (or Khan) when she was eighteen years old, giving birth to a daughter. Mandukhai took precedence over the emperor’s first wife who…
1099: Fanya Kaplan Tried to Assassinate Vladimir Lenin Born: 10 February 1890, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire (Present-day Northern Ukraine) Died: 3 September 1918, Moscow, Bolshevik-Controlled Russia (Present-day Moscow, Russia) Original Name: Feiga Chaimovna Roytblat Fanya was one of six or seven children (sources differ) born into a peasant family. All of the children were educated…
1098: Aloisia Veit Hitler’s Distant Cousin Who Became One of His Many Victims Born: 18 July 1891, Pontafel, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Possibly Present-day Villach, Austria if I’m Reading Google Maps Correctly) Died: 6 December 1940, Hartheim Euthenasia Center, Alkoven, Upper Austria (Present-day Alkoven, Austria) Aloisia was related to the dictator through his Schicklegruber side for those…
1097: Simone Veil It Takes a Special Person to Become an Immortal Born: 13 July 1927, Nice, France Died: 30 June 2017, Paris, France Simone was a lawyer, magistrate, and politician. She also became a champion of women’s rights (today, she is most remembered in France for pushing through and succeeding in seeing abortion legalized…
1096: Joan B Lee Voice actress, Hat Model, and Stan Lee’s Wife Born: 5 February 1922, Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom Died: 6 July 2017, Los Angeles, California, United States of America Joan was actually married twice. According to IMDb, her first marriage ended in divorce after four years and she then went…
1095: Amanda Foreman Biographer and Historian Born: June 1968, London, United Kingdom Amanda wrote and starred in the 4 Part Docu-series “Ascent of Woman.” This series helped spur on my love of women’s history and helped provide several of the entries for my list of women, including the Ice Maiden of Pazyryk, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Alexandra…
1094: Ltc. Charity Edna Adams Earley The First African American Woman Officer in the Women’s Army Corps Born: 5 December 1918, Kittrell, North Carolina, United States of America Died: 13 January 2002, Dayton, Ohio, United States of America Charity was also a Commanding Officer of the first battalion of African American women to serve overseas…
“Every domestic enjoyment depends on the unimpaired possession of civil and religious liberty.” 1093: Mercy Otis Warren A Woman of Many Words Born: 14 September 1728, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Present-day Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States of America) Died: 19 October 1814, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States of America Mercy was a Political Writer, Historian, and Propagandist…