702: Joanne Winter All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Player Born: 24 November 1924, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America Died: 22 September 1996, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America Also Known As: Jo or Joanie Jo played from 1943 to 1950 for the Racine Belles. She ranks third of seven players who had more than…
701: Janet Wojcicki Anthropologist and Epidemiologist Born: 8 January 1970, California, United States of America Janet’s sisters are the CEOs of YouTube (Susan) and 23andMe (Anne). Janet’s main study is obesity and how it develops in large populations. She has also studied the link between nutritional factors and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa and the link…
700: Peggy Whitson Oldest Female Astronaut in Space to Date Born: 9 February 1960, Mount Ayr, Iowa, United States of America Peggy went up for the final time at the age of fifty-six. She is also a biochemistry researcher. Peggy also holds the United States record for longest cumulative time in space (665 days). She…
699: Dorothy Ferguson Key All American Girls Professional Baseball League Player Born: 17 February 1923, Virden, Manitoba, Canada Died: 8 May 2003, Rockford, Illinois, United States of America Also Known As: Dottie Dottie played for the Rockford Peaches and the Peoria Redwings from 1945 to 1954 until the AAGPBL disbanded. She was also a speed…
“I’ll probably be remembered as a crowd favorite, a little crazy. I always had fun.” 698: Faye Dancer All American Girls Professional Baseball League Player Born: 24 April 1925, Santa Monica, California, United States of America Died: 22 May 2002, Los Angeles, California, United States of America Faye’s nickname was All the Way Faye because…
697: Claire Schillace Donahoe All American Girls Professional Baseball League Player Born: 29 March 1921, Melrose Park, Illinois, United States of America Died: 17 January 1999, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America Also Known As: Clara Claire played for the Racine Belles from 1943 to 1946. She was twenty-one years old when she began to…
696: Toni Palermo All American Girls Professional Baseball League Player Born: 1934, Forest Park, Illinois, United States of America Also Known As: Peanuts Toni played for the Chicago Colleens and the Springfield Sallies during the 1949 and 1950 seasons. She started playing softball when she was eleven years old and was fourteen when she began…
695: Gretchen Carlson Journalist and Miss America 1989 Born: 21 June 1966, Anoka, Minnesota, United States of America Gretchen was one of the first major names to come forward in the #MeToo movement when she made a complaint against the chairman of Fox News in 2016. Gretchen’s report would later partially inspire the film Bombshell,…
694: Paris Jackson Actress, Musician, and Model Born: 3 April 1998, Beverly Hills, California, United States of America Paris is most known for being the daughter of Michael Jackson. She has over fifty tattoos, with at least nine of them being devoted to her father. In interviews, Paris’s older brother Prince Michael has stated Paris…
693: Clara Petacci Mussolini’s Mistress Born: 28 February 1912, Rome, Italy Died: 28 April 1945, Giulino de Mezzegra, Azzano, Italy Also Known As: Claretta Petacci Clara is most known for what happened to her after her death. After she and Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, were murdered, their bodies were strung up in a public…