450: Erika Ervin Transgender Model and Actress Born: 23 February 1979, Turlock, California, United States of America Known Professionally as: Amazon Eve She has starred on American Horror Story in the seasons Freakshow and Apocalypse. Erika stands at six foot eight without heels. This impressive stature made her the Guinness Book of World Record Holder…
449: Maude E Steane She served as a Second Radio Officer in the Canadian Merchant Navy Born: c.1916, Possibly Toronto, Canada Died: 14 August 1944, Naples, Italy Maude is one of eight Canadian women confirmed killed in action during World War II. She was the first woman from Toronto to ever die in active service…
These are the entries born in the modern country of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which used to be a part of Yugoslavia. Entries: Andreja Pejic, Transgender Model Kosem Sultan, One of the Most Powerful Women in the History of the Ottoman Empire
448: Andreja Pejić Transgender Model Born: 28 August 1991, Tuzla, Yugoslavia (Present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) Before announcing her transition in 2013, Andreja was known as the first and only completely androgynous supermodel in the world. Post-transition, Andreja was the first transgender woman to be featured in American Vogue. She then went on to become the…
447: Carlina White Abducted Child Who Solved Her Own Kidnapping Case Born: 15 July 1987, Harlem, New York, United States of America Also Known As: Netty Nance Carlina also found her birth parents twenty-three years after being abducted from a hospital in Harlem as a nineteen-day-old. She solved her own kidnapping after getting pregnant in…
446: Minnie Vautrin Missionary and Humanitarian Born: 27 September 1886, Secor, Illinois, United States of America Died: 14 May 1941, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America Original Name: Wilhelmina Vautrin Minnie helped build and found the Ginling Girls College in Nanking (Today Nanjing, People’s Republic of China) later becoming acting president. She strove to increase…
“As you pass through life, be a positive influence on the people you meet.” 445: Helen Graham Gill Born: 13 April 1937, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States of America Died: 4 February 2000, Plano, Texas, United States of America Dr. Gill was born in Rural Pennsylvania to farm folk, plain and simple. She was the…
“Common charity, that is, feeding and clothing people, I am beginning to look upon as wicked! Not in its intention, of course, but in its carelessness and its results, which certainly are to destroy people’s character and make them poorer and poorer. If it could only be drummed into the rich that what the poor…
443: Doris Buck Figgins Victim of the Eugenics Movement in the United States Born: 17 August 1911, Virginia, United States of America Died: 13 June 1982, Berryville, Virginia, United States of America Like her more famous sister Carrie, Doris was forcibly sterilized under Virginia law because she was an “Imbecile”; and neither she nor Carrie…
442: Joanne Hayes-White San Francisco’s Former Fire Chief Born: 1964, San Francisco, California, United States of America Joanne is the first woman to ever serve as Chief of the department in San Francisco and the longest serving woman of any fire chief in the United States. She is also the first openly gay fire chief…