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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Kathy Acker
Author
18-Apr-1947 30-Nov-1997 Blood and Guts in High School
Luana Anders
Actor
12-May-1938 21-Jul-1996 The Pit and the Pendulum
V. C. Andrews
Author
6-Jun-1923 19-Dec-1986 Flowers in the Attic
Mary Anning
Paleontologist
21-May-1799 9-Mar-1847 Self-taught paleontologist
Ingrid Bergman
Actor
29-Aug-1915 29-Aug-1982 Murder on the Orient Express
Bibi Besch
Actor
1-Feb-1942 7-Sep-1996 Who's That Girl?
Rose Bird
Judge
2-Nov-1936 4-Dec-1999 California Chief Justice, 1977-87
Coral Browne
Actor
23-Jul-1913 29-May-1991 The Killing of Sister George
Mary-Ellis Bunim
Film/TV Producer
9-Jul-1946 29-Jan-2004 Co-creator of The Real World, etc.
Rachel Carson
Scientist
27-May-1907 14-Apr-1964 Mother of the environmental movement
Norma Crane
Actor
10-Nov-1928 28-Sep-1973 Fiddler on the Roof
Bette Davis
Actor
5-Apr-1908 6-Oct-1989 All About Eve
Jo Ann Davis
Politician
29-Jun-1950 6-Oct-2007 Congresswoman from Virginia, 2001-07
Skeeter Davis
Country Musician
30-Dec-1931 19-Sep-2004 Country vocalist at Grand Ole Opry
Grazia Deledda
Author
27-Sep-1871 15-Aug-1936 Novels of Sardinia
Patricia Dunn
Business
27-Mar-1953 4-Dec-2011 Hewlett Packard chair, 2005-06
Elizabeth Edwards
Relative
3-Jul-1949 7-Dec-2010 Wife of ex-Senator John Edwards
Oriana Fallaci
Journalist
29-Jun-1929 15-Sep-2006 The Rage and the Pride
Kate Greenaway
Artist
17-Mar-1846 6-Nov-1901 British illustrator
Alaina Reed Hall
Actor
10-Nov-1946 17-Dec-2009 Sesame Street
Fannie Lou Hamer
Activist
6-Oct-1917 14-Mar-1977 Organizer, Mississippi Freedom Summer
Patricia Roberts Harris
Government
31-May-1924 23-Mar-1985 Cabinet Secretary under Jimmy Carter
Judy Holliday
Actor
21-Jun-1921 7-Jun-1965 Born Yesterday
Diana Hyland
Actor
25-Jan-1936 27-Mar-1977 Susan Winter on Peyton Place
Trina Schart Hyman
Artist
8-Apr-1939 19-Nov-2004 Children's book illustrator
Jill Ireland
Actor
24-Apr-1936 18-May-1990 Love and Bullets
Molly Ivins
Columnist
30-Aug-1944 31-Jan-2007 Loudmouthed Texas dame
Pauline Johnson
Poet
10-Mar-1860 7-Mar-1913 Mohawk Canadian poet and actress
June Jordan
Poet
9-Jul-1936 14-Jun-2002 Who Look At Me
Caron Keating
TV Personality
5-Oct-1962 13-Apr-2004 Host of Blue Peter
Dorothea Kent
Actor
6-Jun-1916 10-Dec-1990 It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Joi Lansing
Actor
6-Apr-1929 7-Aug-1972 Gladys Flatt on The Beverly Hillbillies
Audre Lorde
Author
18-Feb-1934 17-Nov-1992 A Burst of Light
Juliette Gordon Low
Activist
31-Oct-1860 18-Jan-1927 Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA
Linda McCartney
Musician
24-Sep-1941 17-Apr-1998 Beatle wife and photographer
Hattie McDaniel
Actor
10-Jun-1893 26-Oct-1952 Mammy in Gone with the Wind
Grace Paley
Author
11-Dec-1922 22-Aug-2007 The Little Disturbances of Man
Barbara Pym
Novelist
2-Jun-1913 11-Jan-1980 Some Tame Gazelle
Lynn Redgrave
Actor
8-Mar-1943 2-May-2010 The Happy Hooker
Wendy Richard
Actor
20-Jul-1943 26-Feb-2009 Are You Being Served?
Minnie Riperton
Singer
8-Nov-1947 12-Jul-1979 Lovin' You
Roxie Roker
Actor
28-Aug-1929 2-Dec-1995 Helen Willis on The Jeffersons
Patsy Rowlands
Actor
19-Jan-1934 22-Jan-2005 Carry on...
Rosalind Russell
Actor
4-Jun-1907 28-Nov-1976 Auntie Mame
Anabel Shaw
Actor
7-Jun-1921 16-Apr-2010 Gun Crazy
Carol Shields
Novelist
2-Jun-1935 16-Jul-2003 The Stone Diaries
Ricky Silberman
Activist
1937 18-Feb-2007 Cofounder, Independent Women's Forum
Naomi Sims
Model
30-Mar-1948 1-Aug-2009 Pioneering black supermodel
Wendie Jo Sperber
Actor
15-Sep-1958 29-Nov-2005 Amy on Bosom Buddies
Dusty Springfield
Singer
16-Apr-1939 2-Mar-1999 Son of a Preacher Man
Kaye Stevens
Singer
21-Jul-1932 28-Dec-2011 Ruckus at the Riviera
Nettie Stevens
Biologist
7-Jul-1861 4-May-1912 X and Y chromosomes
Marie Stopes
Scientist
15-Oct-1880 2-Oct-1958 Scientist and birth control advocate
Susan Strasberg
Actor
22-May-1938 21-Jan-1999 Picnic
Jacqueline Susann
Novelist
20-Aug-1918 21-Sep-1974 Valley of the Dolls
Tatiana Troyanos
Singer
12-Sep-1938 21-Aug-1993 Operatic Mezzo-Soprano
Margaret Walker
Novelist
7-Jul-1915 30-Nov-1998 Jubilee



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