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March 12
This Day in Women's History


1637: Anne Hyde born: first wife of King James II of Great Britain, mother of Mary II of Great Britain

1781 - Frederica of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1826)

1806: Jane Means Appleton Pierce born: First Lady of the U.S., wife of President Franklin Pierce

1819: Sarah Eleanor Bayliss Royce born: writer, western pioneer; wrote A Frontier Lady: Recollections of the Gold Rush and Early California

1845: Blanche Galton Whiffen born (Mrs. Thomas Whiffen): stage actress born in London, worked in London and America

1862: Jane Delano born: nurse; founded American Red Cross Nursing Service; responsible for identifying mosquito as carrier of Yellow Fever (later confirmed by Walter Reed)

1864: Alice Tegnér born: composer, organist

1871: Louise Mathilde Powell born: nursing educator

1876: Helen Sumner Woodbury born: historian of labor movement and women's suffrage

1877: Annette Abbott Adams born: lawyer; first woman to serve as Assistant Attorney General in the U.S.

1883: Ethel Collins Dunham born: physician, pediatrician, chief of child development at the Children's Bureau, pioneer in care of newborns

1906: Gracie Bowers Pfost born: member of House of Representatives, Idaho, 1953 - 1963

1907: Dorrit Hoffleit born: astronomer

1909 - Johanna "Lena" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach, dies at 34

1911: Alice-Leone Moats born: writer

1912: Kylie Tennant born: writer

1912: Girl Guides -- later the Girls Scouts -- founded in the United States by Juliette Gordon Low, modeled on the Boy Scouts

1913 – Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author (d. 2010)

1914 – Julia Lennon, English mother of John Lennon (d. 1958)

1916 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)

1917 – Googie Withers, Indian-English actress (d. 2011)

1918 – Elaine de Kooning, American painter (d. 1989)

1923 – Clara Fraser, American activist, co-founded Radical Women (d. 1998)

1928 – Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, Canadian politician (d. 2009)

1933 – Barbara Feldon, American actress

1934 – Virginia Hamilton, African-AMerican children's author (d. 2002)

1935 – Valentyna Shevchenko, Ukrainian politician

1945 - Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp aged 15

1946: Liza Minelli born: singer, actress

1948: Virginia Bottomley born: politician

1948 – Sandra Brown, American author

1956 – Lesley Manville, English actress

1957 - Josephine Hull, actress (Harvey), dies at 71

1958 - Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden, dies at 79

1961 - Belinda Lee, actress (Joseph & his Brethren), dies in car crash at 25

1962 – Julia Campbell, American actress

1965 – Coleen Nolan, English singer, author, and television host (The Nolans)

1965 – Liza Umarova, Kazakh singer and actress

1994 - Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59

1998 - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (b. 1893)

2003 – Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)

2011 – Olive Dickason, Canadian historian (b. 1920)

2011 – Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (b. 1919)


http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0312calendar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_12

http://www.historyorb.com/day/march/12