“…a woman with a plan is persistent.” -Waterlily (1948) 957: Ella Cara Deloria Yankton Sioux Linguist, Ethnographer and Anthropologist Born: c.1888*, Yankton Sioux Reservation, Dakota Territory, United States of America (Present-day Yankton Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, United States of America) Died: 12 February 1971, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America Original Name: Anpetu Washte-win…
945: Jane Dieulafoy Parisian Gender Non-Conformist & Archaeologist Born: 29 June 1851, Toulouse, France Died: 25 May 1916, Haute-Garonne, France Also Spelled: Jeanne Dieulafoy Jane is most known for wearing pants when it was illegal to do so in France (don’t worry, she got special permission from the government allowing her to walk around wearing…
944: Anne Sheafe Miller The First Person Saved by Penicillin Born: 13 October 1908, New York, United States of America Died: 27 May 1999, Salisbury, Connecticut, United States of America Anne was suffering from a Streptococcal Infection. She got the infection in 1942 and was in the hospital for over a month. What today is…
938: Fereshteh Forough Founder, CEO, & President of Code to Inspire Born: 1985, Iran* Code to Inspire is the first school to teach girls coding in Afghanistan. Fereshteh is an education advocate for gender equality and women’s empowerment in developing countries. Fereshteh is one of eight children. Her family left Afghanistan after the Soviet Invasion…
“The kids were shipped like cattle on train cars, with up to 300 on each trip. The adult agents who accompanied the children dressed them up and groomed them like livestock for a show. They taught them poems and songs to present to their prospective owners.” 937: Alice Bullis Ayler One of the Last Three…
“A black face in all that white snow was a pretty easy target. Those Germans must be terrible marksmen.” 917: Augusta Chiwy Volunteer Nurse During the Siege of Bastogne in World War II Born: 4 June 1921, Belgian Controlled German East Africa (Present-day Mubavu, Burundi) Died: 23 August 2015, Brussels, Belgium Augusta was born to…
909: Lady Jane Franklin Sponsored Many Voyages to Explore and Map the Arctic Born: 4 December 1791, London, England (Present-day United Kingdom) Died: 18 July 1875, London, United Kingdom Jane’s mother died when she was young. Her father was a silk merchant who educated his daughter in the bare minimum most girls received at the…
“Love all, trust few, and do right.” 904: Dr. Olivia Hooker The First African American Woman to Enter the US Coast Guard Born: 12 February 1915, Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States of America Died: 21 November 2018, White Plains, New York, United States of America Olivia enlisted in 1945 and worked in the SPARs Program, also…
892: Olga Erteszek The Queen of Ladies’ Lingerie Born: 15 June 1916, Krakow, Poland Died: 15 September 1989, Brentwood, California, United States of America Olga had several patents (Wikipedia claims twenty-eight) for women’s undergarments–including the first nightgown with a built-in bra, the seamless bra, and her first product, a lacy garter belt (ooh la la)….
“I made up my mind that if the army wanted nurses, they would be glad of me…I would go to the Crimea; and go I did, as all the world knows.” 890: Mary Seacole Nurse during The Crimean War Born: 14 October 1805, Kingston, Jamaica Died: 14 May 1881, Paddington, Greater London, United Kingdom Mary…