1025: Tawosret The Last Pharaoh of Egypt’s 19th Dynasty Born: Ancient Egypt Died: c.1190 BC, Ancient Egypt Also Spelled: Twosret or Tausret Tawosret was one of a handful of women to ever become Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt in her own right. Over a four-thousand-year timespan, the only women ever confirmed to have ruled as Pharaoh…
1026: Tiye One of the Most Powerful Matriarchs in Egyptian History Born: c.1398 BCE, Ancient Egypt (Present-day Egypt) Died: c.1338 BCE, Thebes, Ancient Egypt (Present-day Luxor, Egypt) Tiye is best remembered today for being the mother of Pharaoh Akhenaten and the mysterious woman known as “The Younger Lady”. Tiye was also, therefore, the grandmother of…
1024: Agnes Howard The Duchess with Two Step-Granddaughter Queens Born: c.1477-1480, Present-day Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom Died: May 1545, Present-day Thetford, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom Also Known As: Agnes Tilney or Agnes Tylney Agnes is best known today for being the step-grandmother to both Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, who both went on to…
1023: Margaret Harwood The First Female Director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory Born: 19 March 1885, Littleton, Massachusetts, United States of America Died: 6 February 1979, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America Margaret was an astronomer focused on photometry (measuring variation in the light of stars and asteroids–most notably the asteroid Eros). Margaret was the…
1022: Henrietta Swan Leavitt The Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe Born: 4 July 1868, Lancaster, Massachusetts, United States of America Died: 12 December 1921, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America She is most known for discovering the relation between Luminosity and Period in Cepheid Variables. Don’t worry if that makes no sense…
“While we cannot maintain that in everything woman is man’s equal, yet in many things her patience, perseverance, and method make her his superior.” “Labor honestly, conscientiously, and steadfastly, and recognition and success must crown your efforts in the end.” 1021: Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming She Literally Did “Rewrite the Stars” Born: 15 May 1857,…
“I’d be perfectly happy to die in the DJ booth – or the kitchen.” 1020: Sumiko Iwamuro Japan’s DJ Grandma Born: c.1935, Tokyo, Japan Also Known As: DJ Sumirock Sumiko works at a family restaurant during the day and moonlights as a DJ in a local club a few nights a week. This makes her…
“I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.” 1019: Sophie Scholl Activist and Member of the White Rose Resistance Group Born: 9 May 1921, Forchtenberg, Baden-Württemberg,…
Courtesy of Yamato Magazine 1018: Nakano Takeko Female Samurai who Led a Squadron of Other Female Samurai Born: April 1847, Edo, Japan (Present-day Tokyo, Japan) Died: 10 October 1868, Near Aizu, Japan Takeko was born to a family from Aizu, but was adopted at a young age by a master swordsman. Takeko was trained in…
1017: Sheila Abdus-Salaam Associate Judge for the New York Court of Appeals Born: 14 March 1952, Washington DC, United States of America Died: 12 April 2017, Harlem, New York, United States of America Sheila was the first African American Woman to serve on New York’s highest court (the Court of Appeals). According to some reports,…