“Nobody ought ever to do that again.” 495: Annie Edson Taylor The First Person to Survive After Going Down Niagara Falls in a Barrel Born: 24 October 1838, Auburn, New York, United States of America Died: 29 April 1901, Lockport, New York, United States of America Annie performed this stunt in 1901. She was sixty-three…
436: Lucie Aubrac World War II Schoolteacher and Member of the French Resistance Born: 29 June 1912, Châtenay-sur-Seine, France Died: 14 March 2007, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France In 1938, Lucie was awarded the highest degree one can earn in France, the agrégation in history, before becoming a schoolteacher. Her husband’s original last name (and her married name)…
434: Anna D Allen World War II Veteran and Teacher Born: 12 September 1913, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States of America Died: 1 July 2000, Daytona Beach, Florida, United States of America Anna served as a WAVES during World War II (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services) and worked as a schoolteacher in Pennsylvania and…
408: Leonore Goldschmidt Berlin Schoolteacher Born: 16 November 1897, Gosda, Germany Died: 7 March 1983, London, United Kingdom Leonore taught Jewish children in the heart of Berlin during the Nazi occupation. Luckily for the world, documentation, photographs, and footage survive of the school, some of which came from Julien Bryan, the photographer who dared to…
387: Alice Ball Chemist Born: 24 July 1892, Seattle, Washington, United States of America Died: 31 December 1916, Seattle, Washington, United States of America Alice created the first successful treatment for those suffering from Hansen’s Disease (also known as Leprosy). She was the first woman and the first African American to graduate with an MS…
385: Edith Clarke The First Female Electrical Engineer Born: 10 February 1883, Ellicott City, Maryland, United States of America Died: 29 October 1959, Olney, Maryland, United States of America Edith was also the first female professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas Austin (she was also the first female professor of electrical engineering…
302: Julia Child Celebrity Chef Born: 15 August 1912, Pasadena, California, United States of America Died: 14 August 2004, Montecito, California, United States of America Julia is remembered for teaching the American television viewing public all about French cuisine. She also wrote several cookbooks over the course of her life. Julia stood at six foot…
80) Anne Sullivan T-E-A-C-H-E-R Born: 14 April 1866, Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, United States of America Died: 20 October 1936, Forest Hills, New York, United States of America The woman who is responsible for bringing Helen Keller out of her shell and able to communicate to the world. Anne was one of five siblings but two…
79) Jane Stanford Co-founder of Stanford University Alongside Her Husband. Born: 25 August 1828, Albany, New York, United States of America Died: 28 February 1905, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America They created the university to honor their only son who died at the age of fifteen from typhoid fever. Jane ran the University from…
75) Hildegard von Bingen, Nun, Scientist, Composer, Author, and So Much More Born: 1098, Present-day Germany Died: 1179, Present-day Bingen, Germany Feast Day: 17 September She became a nun at the age of eighteen. Hildegard had been receiving visions since the age of three and it took her ten years to write all of them…