today in women's herstory-30 august

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August 31
This Day in Women's History.

1769: Rose Philippine Duchesne born (religious; beatified May, 1940)

1797 – Mary Shelley, English author (d. 1851)

1808 – Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)

1813 – Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (d. 1862)

1821 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi (d. 184

1827: Anna Bartlett Warner born (writer, hymnwriter)

1837 - Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85)

1842: Mary Putnam Jacobi born (physician, writer)

1842: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin born (reformer, clubwoman)

1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)

1844: Elizabeth Phelps Ward born (writer, poet)

1869: Elizabeth Sprague Williams born (social worker)

1870: Maria Montessori born (educator)

1872: Edith Rockefeller McCormick born (philanthropist, socialite, patron of Carl Jung)

1898 – Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)

1904 - Kate Fanny Loder, composer, dies at 79

1906 – Joan Blondell, American actress (d. 1979)

1909 – Virginia Lee Burton, American children's author (d. 1968)

1912 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English war agent (d. 2011)

1915 – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (d. 2013)

1918 – Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.

1919 – Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)

1920: At 7 a.m. in Hannibal, Missouri, Mrs. Marie Ruoff Byrum became the first woman to vote under the 19th Amendment.

1922 – Regina Resnik, American soprano (d. 2013)

1923 - Barbara Mary Ansell, UK founder of paediatric rheumatology (d. 2001)

1923 – Charmian Clift, Australian author (d. 1969)

1927 – Anne Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (d. 2013)

1928 - Ruth Westerheimer, sex therapist (Dr Ruth)

1931 - Carrie Saxon Perry, 1st black mayor of a major US city (Hartford CT)

1936: Marva Collins born (educator)

1939 – Elizabeth Ashley, American actress

1937: Actress Tallulah Bankhead married actor John Emery (they divorced, childless, in 1941)

1944 – Molly Ivins, American journalist (d. 2007)

1946 – Queen Anne-Marie of Greece

1946 – Peggy Lipton, American actress

1951 – Dana Rosemary Scallon, English-Irish singer and politician

1958 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (d. 2006)

1973 – Lisa Ling, American journalist

1976 – Sarah-Jane Potts, English actress

1981 – Vera-Ellen, American actress (b. 1921)

1985 – Éva Risztov, Hungarian swimmer

1985 – Anna Ushenina, Ukrainian chess player

1986 – Lelia Masaga, New Zealand rugby player

1987 – Tania Foster, English singer-songwriter

1988 – Laura Põldvere, Estonian singer (Suntribe)

1989: Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips officially separated

1997: Diana, Princess of Wales died of injuries from a High-speed car crash in a Paris road tunnel

2001 – Emily Bear, American pianist and composer

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