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M. Ozella Shields Head (19 oct 1869 – unknown | Macon GA – unknown) Southern romance novelist

Emma Bell Miles (19 oct 1879 – 19 mar 1919 | Evansville IN – Chattanooga TN) poet, artist, author, focus on Southern Appalachian culture / natural world, one first writers to show appreciation for Appalachian music / culture

Fannie Hurst (19 oct 1885 – 23 feb 1968 | Hamilton OH – New York NY) novelist, social activist, playwright, film writer, short story writer, autobiographical author

Lucy Wilson (19 oct 1888 – 22 sep 1980 | Bloomington IL – Wellesley MA) academic, professor of physics and psychology, focus on vision / optics / x-ray spectroscopy

Elizabeth [Bessie] Freedman Breuer (19 oct 1893 – 26 sep 1975 | Cleveland OH – New York NY) writer, novelist, journalist, playwright

Lois Meek Stolz (19 oct 1894 – 24 oct 1984 | Washington DC – Palo Alto CA) author, educator, psychologist, adult education activist

Consuelo [Connie] Northrop Bailey (19 oct 1899 – 09 sep 1976 | Sheldon VT – Burlington VT) attorney, politician, women’s activist, autobiographical author

Maria Rudnytsky Sokil (19 oct 1902 – 20 jan 1999 | Zherebets UA – Youngstown OH) Ukrainian opera singer

Laura Margolis Jarblum (19 oct 1903 – 09 sep 1991 | Constantinople TOE – Brookline MA) social worker, first female Country Director / overseas field agent representative American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Elizabeth Armstrong Wood (19 oct 1912 – 23 mar 2006 | New York NY – Upper Darby PA) author, crystallographer, first woman scientist at Bell Labs, research focus on electromagnetic properties of crystals

Margaret Hunt Hill (19 oct 1915 – 14 jun 2007 | Lake Village AR – Dallas TX) heiress, philanthropist, resort owner, landscape artist, founder / director Dallas County Heritage Society

Beatrix Hamburg (19 oct 1923 – 15 apr 2018 | Jacksonville FL – Washington DC) author, child and adolescent psychiatrist, first African-American to attend Vassar College, first African-American woman to attend Yale Medical School

Ruth Carter Stevenson (19 oct 1923 – 06 jan 2013 | Fort Worth TX – Fort Worth TX) patron of arts, founder / first board president Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Phyllis Morris (19 oct 1925 – 05 sep 1988 | Chicago IL – Los Angeles CA) furniture designer, interior decorator, aka Designer to the Stars, founded Phyllis Morris Originals

Marjorie Louise Tallchief (19 oct 1926 – Denver CO) Osage, ballerina, first Native American named première danseuse étoile for Paris Opera Ballet

Marion Irvine (19 oct 1929 – San Francisco CA) school teacher and administrator,  former marathon runner, aka Sister Bonaventure and the Flying Nun, then-oldest person [in 1984] to participate in United States Olympic Trials in track and field

Joanne Koch (19 October 1929 – 16 August 2022 | New York NY – New York NY) executive director emeritus at Film at Lincoln Center, publisher Film Comment magazine

Joan Semmel (19 oct 1932 – New York NY) painter, writer, feminist, professor

Cynthia Arden Brown Kelly (19 oct 1933 – 29 mar 2015 | San Francisco CA – San Francisco CA) teacher, patron of arts / artists, political family member

Benita Valente (19 oct 1934 – Delano CA) operatic soprano

Sylvia Celeste Browne (19 oct 1936 – 20 nov 2013 | Kansas City MO – San Jose CA) author, psychic, spiritual medium

Johnnetta Betsch Cole (19 oct 1936 – Jacksonville FL) author, educator, college president, humanitarian, cultural anthropologist

Renata Adler (19 oct 1937 – Milan IT) American author, journalist, film critic

Doris Wood Schattschneider (19 oct 1939 – Staten Island NY) author, biographer, mathematician, tessellation / tiling expert

Maryse Holder (19 oct 1940 – sep 1977 | Paris FR – Mexico City MX) American feminist, memoirist, murder victim

Anne Hendricks Bass (19 oct 1941 – 01 apr 2020 | Indianapolis IN – New York NY) investor, art collector, philanthropist, documentary filmmaker

Cora Cohen (19 oct 1943 – New York NY) abstract artist working with altered x-rays, paintings, drawings, photographs

Kathleen Hurst Hughes (19 oct 1944 – Tooele UT) LDS leader, educator

Patricia Ireland (19 oct 1945 – Oak Park IL) feminist, women’s rights activist, autobiographical author, former president National Organization for Women [NOW], national presidential campaign manager

Grace Paine Terzian (19 oct 1952 – Boston MA) chief communications officer of MediaDC

[Nazik] Cynthia Cozette Lee (19 oct 1953 – Pittsburgh PA) librettist, classical music composer, first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania with Masters of Arts in music composition

Deborah Blum (19 oct 1954 – Urbana IL) author, journalist, professor, Pulitzer Prize laureate

Noenoe K. Silva (19 oct 1954 – Oahu HI) author, scholar, political science professor

Betsy Dehaas Holden (19 oct 1955 – Lubbock TX) businesswoman, corporate director

Tonette Marie Tarentino Walker (19 oct 1955 – Milwaukee WI) social activist, First Lady of Wisconsin, trauma-education activist and advocate

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Theodosia Johnes Ford (13 September 1741 – 31 August 1824 | Southampton NY – Morristown NJ) historical folk figure, land / estate manager, hosted winter headquarters for Washington family / guests / troops | Women.Bourne.Works © Susan.Powers.Bourne

Laura Ingersoll Secord (13 September 1775 – 17 October 1868 | Great Barrington, Province of Massachusetts Bay – Village of Chippewa ON) folk figure, Canadian heroine, cookbook author | Women.Bourne.Works © Susan.Powers.Bourne

Emily Bradley Neal Haven (13 September 1827 – 23 August 1863 | Hudson NY – Mamaroneck NY) children’s author, magazine editor, popular Episcopal writer, pen names: Cousin Alice, Alice B. Neal, Alice B. Haven, Clara Cushman, Cornelia Holyroyd, Mrs Manners | Women.Bourne.Works © Susan.Powers.Bourne

Pamela Clemens Moffett (13 sep 1827 – 31 aug 1904 | Jamestown TN – Greenwich CT) musician, music teacher, literary family figure | Women.Bourne.Works © Susan.Powers.Bourne

Marian [Clover] Hooper Adams (13 September 1843 – 06 December 1885 | Boston MA – Washington DC) hostess, socialite, pioneering portrait photographer | Women.Bourne.Works © Susan.Powers.Bourne

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Amy Morris Bradley (12 September 1823 – 15 April 1904 | East Vassalboro ME – Wilmington NC) teacher, translator, Unitarian, aka Our School Mother, Civil War Union nurse / administrator, founded free schools in Wilmington NC, established first English-language school in Central America | Women.Bourne.Works © Susan.Powers.Bourne

Celestia Susannah Parrish (12 September 1853 – 07 September 1917 | Pittsylvania VA – Clayton GA) author, educator, child psychologist, university professor, aka Georgia’s Greatest Woman | Women.Bourne.Works © Susan.Powers.Bourne

Florence Kelley (12 September 1859 – 17 February 1932 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) author, factory inspector, co-founder NAACP, autobiographical author, consumer’s advocate, social / political reformer, children’s labor rights activist, pioneered use of term ‘wage abolitionism’ | Women.Bourne.Works © Susan.Powers.Bourne

Ethel Atwood (12 September 1866 – 09 April 1948 | Fairfield ME – Los Angeles CA) violinist, sole professional US female prompter, leader / co-founder of Fadette Ladies’ Orchestra aka The Fadettes of Boston | Women.Bourne.Works © Susan.Powers.Bourne

Grace Harriet Macurdy (12 September 1866 – 23 October 1946 | Robbinston ME – Poughkeepsie NY) author, historian, professor, first US female to earn PhD from Columbia University, focus on royal women during Hellenistic period | Women.Bourne.Works © Susan.Powers.Bourne

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Gertrude Elzora Durden Rush (05 aug 1880 – 05 sep 1962 | Navasota TX – Des Moines IA) attorney, first African-American female lawyer in Iowa, National Bar Association co-founder

Ruth Sawyer (05 aug 1880 – 03 jun 1970 | Boston MA – Lexington MA) storyteller, adult / children’s fiction / non-fiction author, aka The Great Lady of Storytelling

Maud Fuller Petersham (05 aug 1890 – 29 nov 1971 | Kingston NY – Ravenna OH) children’s book writer / illustrator

Harriet Spiller Daggett (05 aug 1891 – 22 jul 1966 | Springfield LA – Louisiana US) lawyer, author, academic, schoolteacher, law professor, first female full professor of law at college credited by American Bar Association and Association of American Law Schools

Clare Eames (05 aug 1896 – 08 nov 1930 | Hartford CT – London UK) actress, stage director

Irene Rice Pereira (05 aug 1902 – 11 jan 1971 | Chelsea MA – Marbella ES) poet, artist, writer, philosopher

Nancy Elizabeth [Betty] Oliphant (05 aug 1918 – 12 jul 2004 | London UK – St Catherines ON) aka Miss O, ballerina, memoirist, National Ballet School of Canada co-founder

Heidi Krall (05 aug 1920 – 16 aug 2013 | Toledo OH – Hamilton NJ) operatic soprano

Selma Diamond (05 aug 1920 – 13 may 1985 | London ON – Los Angeles CA) Canadian-American memoirist, comic actress, radio / television writer

Margaret [Maggie] Gee Mei Gue (05 aug 1923 – 01 feb 2013 | Berkeley CA – Oakland CA) physicist, memoirist, politician, WWII WASP aviator / trainer

Josefina Villalobos (05 aug 1924 – New York NY) American-born, former First Lady of Ecuador,  Columbian-Ecuadorian public servant, helped create  National Institute of the Child and the Family [INNFA]

Joan Walters (04 aug 1925 – 31 jul 2011 | Providence RI – Prescott Valley AZ) pioneer economist, first female full-time professor at Fairfield University

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga (05 aug 1925 – 18 jul 2018 | Los Angeles CA – Torrance CA) political activist, WWII US internee, Japanese-American redress movement leader

Pat Passlof (05 aug 1928 – 13 nov 2011 | Brunswick GA – New York NY) abstract expressionist painter

Joyce Hooper Corrington (05 aug 1936 – Harris County TX) film and television screenwriter

Therese May (05 aug 1943 – Madison WI) author, fine quilt artist, fantasy painter

H. Lyn Miles (05 aug 1944 – New Haven CT) author, bio-cultural anthropologist, animal rights advocate

Ariane Lopez-Huici (05 aug 1945 – Biarritz FR) French-American photographer

Deanna Bowling Marcum (05 aug 1946 – Salem IN) author, librarian, former Associate Librarian for Library Services at US Library of Congress

France Anne-Dominic Córdova (05 aug 1947 – Paris FR) American, author, astrophysicist, former president of Purdue University, former director of US National Science Foundation

Linda Gregerson (05 aug 1950 – Illinois US) poet, professor, Chancellor of Academy of American Poets [2014]

Holly Kathleen Palance (05 aug 1950 – Los Angeles CA) actress, journalist, of Ukrainian descent, daughter of actor Jack Palance

Sharon Salzberg (05 aug 1952 – New York NY) author, Buddhist, meditation teacher, co-founded Insight Meditation Society in Barre MA, focus on practices of vipassanā [insight] and mettā [loving-kindness]

Maureen McCormick (05 aug 1956 – Encino CA) author, actress, recording artist

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Elizabeth [Eliza] Kortright Monroe (30 jun 1768 – 23 sep 1830 | New York, British America – Richmond VA) US First Lady / Hostess, world traveler, political activist, aka La Belle Américaine, White House social customs advocate / innovator | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Mabel Cratty (30 jun 1868 – 27 feb 1928 | Bellaire OH – New York NY) writer, teacher, YWCA activist / administrator, women’s rights advocate | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Louise Pound (30 jun 1872 – 27 jun 1958 | Lincoln NE – Lincoln NE) author, athlete, feminist, folklorist, professor | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Lydia Jane Roberts (30 jun 1879 – 28 may 1965 | Hope Township MI – Rio Piedras PR) author, nutritionist, home economics pioneer, vitamin / mineral RDA innovator | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Bertha Pitts Campbell (30 jun 1889 – 02 apr 1990 | Winfield KS – Seattle WA) educator, suffragist, civil rights activist, founding member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

June Beulah Hughes Mathis (30 jun 1889 – 26 jul 1927 | Leadville CO – New York NY) screenwriter, first female executive for Metro / MGM,  highest-paid Hollywood executive [1920s]

Hannah Kahn (30 jun 1911 – 01 feb 1988 | New York NY – Miami FL) poet, author, co-editor

Ruthe Katherine Gottman Pearlman (30 jun 1913 – 30 jan 2007 | Connersville IN – Cincinnati OH) artist, painter, art educator, art propagandist, philanthropist

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (30 jun 1917 – 05 may 2010 | Brooklyn NY – New York NY) singer, dancer, actress, civil rights activist, recording artist, autobiographical author

Willa Kim (30 jun 1917 – 23 dec 2016 | Orange County CA – Vashon Island WA) born Wullah Mei Ok Kim, film / stage / dance costume designer

Eleanor Ross Taylor (30 jun 1920 – 30 dec 2011 | Norwood NC – Falls Church VA) poet

Micki Grant (30 jun 1929 – 22 aug 2021 | Chicago IL – New York NY) writer, singer, actress, composer, born Minnie Louise 

Joyce Wieland (30 jun 1931 – 27 jun 1998 | Toronto ON – Toronto ON) experimental filmmaker, mixed media artist

Joan Murrell Owens (30 jun 1933 – 25 may 2011 | Miami FL – Washington DC) author, educator, marine biologist, expert focus on corals, received degrees in fine art / geology / guidance counseling

Jeri Taylor (30 jun 1938 – Evansville IN) television scriptwriter / producer

Bonnie G. Smith (30 jun 1940 – Bridgeport CT) author, feminist, historian, women’s history activist

Roxanne Barton Conlin (30 jun 1944 – Huron SD) author, attorney, Association of Trial Lawyers of America [ATLA] first female president, founder / first chair Iowa Women’s Political Caucus

Joellyn Duesberry (30 jun 1944 – 05 aug 2016 | Richmond VA – Greenwood Village CO) artist, author, landscape painter

Sheryl Allen (30 jun 1946 – Salt Lake City UT) politician, Mormon educator, school district foundation director

Elaine Scarry (30 jun 1946 – United States) editor, author, essayist, literary critic, professor of English and American Literature

Alice Siu-Ping Chan Wong (30 jun 1948 – British Hong Kong) Canadian politician, educator, entrepreneur

Ilene Chaiken (30 jun 1957 – Elkins Park PA) television director, producer, screenwriter

Lauren Susan Green (30 jun 1958 – Minneapolis MN) news anchor, chief religion correspondent

Barbara Jean Burns Comstock (30 jun 1959 – Springfield MA) author, politician, former lobbyist / political consultant

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Hannah Maria Libby Smith (29 jun 1828 – 21 sep 1906 | Ossipee NH – Provo UT) bobbin doffer, rug weaver, needleworker, historical figure, Mormon pioneer / educator | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Celia Laighton Thaxter (29 jun 1835 – 25 aug 1894 | Portsmouth NH – Appledore Island ME) poet, gardener, short story writer | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Julia Clifford Lathrop (29 jun 1858 – 15 apr 1932 | Rockford IL – Rockford IL) author, social worker, educational reformer, mother / child rights activist, Director US Children’s Bureau, first-ever female to head federal US bureau | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Emma Azalia Hackley (29 jun 1867 – 13 dec 1922 | Murfreesboro TN – Detroit MI) singer, author, lecturer, musician, child prodigy, school teacher, music publisher, civic / social / civil rights activist, founding executive director Colored Women’s League, founded Hackley Choral Society and Voice Normal Institute | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Elizabeth Lehman Myers (29 jun 1869 – 06 jan 1936 | Bethlehem PA – Bethlehem PA) historical author / essayist | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Ida Maud Cannon (29 jun 1877 – 08 jul 1960 | Milwaukee WI – Cambridge MA) author, social work activist / reformer, founder of medical social work specialty

Elizabeth Stewart Magee (29 jun 1889 – 14 may 1972 | Des Moines IA – Cleveland OH) social activist, women’s rights advocate

Helen Elna Hokinson (29 jun 1893 – 01 nov 1949 | Mendota IL – over Washington DC) cartoonist, mid-air plane crash victim

Louise Seaman Bechtel (29 jun 1894 – 12 apr 1985 | Brooklyn NY – Mount Kisco NY) critic, editor, teacher, children’s author

María Gómez Carbonell (29 jun 1903 – 24 may 1988 | Havana CU – Miami FL) author, educator, attorney, first woman in Cuban House of Representatives, Alliance of National Feminists founder

Jane Bissell Grabhorn (29 jun 1911 – 01 oct 1973 | San Francisco CA – San Francisco CA) artist, author, printer, illustrator, typographer, bookbinder, Jumbo Press imprint creator

Ruth Elizabeth Warrick (29 jun 1916 – 15 jan 2005 | Saint Joseph MO – New York NY) singer, actress, memoirist, political activist

Marilyn Mason (29 jun 1925 – 04 apr 2019 | Alva OK – Fort Lauderdale FL) teacher, organ soloist, concert organist, recording artist

Susan George (29 jun 1934 – Akron OH) anti-war activist, non-fiction author, social / political scientist, president of Transnational Institute in Amsterdam

JoAnne Akalaitis (29 jun 1937 – Chicago IL) Lithuanian-American, avant-garde playwright, theater director

Madeleine Grumet (29 jun 1940 – Brooklyn NY) author, academic, feminist / curriculum theorist, Bridges to Brooklyn / Center for Educational Change founder

Samaria Mitcham Bailey (29 jun 1947 – Macon GA) pianist, civil rights activist, high school integrator, one of first female African-American students at Mercer University

Ann Margaret Veneman (29 jun 1949 – Modesto CA) author, social activist, former UNICEF Executive Director, former / first / only female US Secretary of Agriculture

Joan Claire Tronto (29 jun 1952 – United States) author, ethicist, political scientist, former women’s studies professor

Renu Khator (29 jun 1955 – Farrukhabad IND) author, academic, university chancellor / president

Kate Lynch (29 jun 1959 – Canada) playwright, drama teacher, theatre director, film / stage / television actress

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Mother Benedicta [Sybilla] Riepp (28 jun 1825 – 15 mar 1862 | Waal DEU – St. Cloud MN) Benedictine nun, educator, missionary to Pennsylvania Germans | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (28 jun 1851 – 24 apr 1920 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) writer, hymnist, educator, Sunday School superintendent | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Helen Francis Hood (28 jun 1863 – 22 jan 1949 | Chelsea MA – Brookline MA) pianist, composer, teacher | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Alice May Douglas (28 jun 1865 – 06 jan 1943 | Bath ME – Bath ME) poet, peace activist, children’s author, newspaper editor, founder and composer of Peace Makers’ Band, head of Women’s Christian Temperance Union’s Peace and Arbitration | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Grace Rainey Rogers (28 jun 1867 – 09 may 1943 | Cleveland OH – Greenwich CT) heiress, art collector, philanthropist | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Anne Goldthwaite (28 jun 1869 – 29 jan 1944 | Montgomery AL – New York NY) painter, printmaker, women’s / equal rights advocate

Clara Maass (28 jun 1876 – 24 aug 1901 | East Orange NJ – Havana CU) nurse, medical martyr, victim of yellow fever human research experiments

Valeska Suratt (28 jun 1882 – 02 jul 1962 | Owensville IN – Washington DC) Bah’ai, silent film actress, autobiographical author, aka Empress of Fashions

Esther Forbes (28 jun 1891 – 12 aug 1967 | Westborough MA – Worcester MA) novelist, historian, children’s writer

Florence Henri (28 jun 1893 – 24 jul 1982 | New York NY – Laboissière-en-Thelle FR) avant-garde artist, photographer

Maria Goeppert-Meyer (28 jun 1906 – 20 feb 1972 | Katowice PL – San Diego CA) author, professor, theoretical physicist, Manhattan Project member, second female Nobel Prize winner in Physics

Marie Joan Lyons Killilea (28 jun 1913 – 23 oct 1991 New York NY – Larchmont NY) author, activist, cerebral palsy activist, National United Cerebral Palsy Foundation co-founder

Allie Beth Dent Martin (28 jun 1914 – 11 apr 1976 | Lawrence County AR – Tulsa OK) librarian, director of Tulsa City-County Library, ALA president

Martha Elizabeth Burchfield Richter (28 jun 1924 – 10 apr 1977 | Buffalo NY – Buffalo NY) artist, watercolorist

Betty Skelton Erde (28 jun 1926 – 31 aug 2011 | Pensacola FL – The Villages FL) author, aerobatics pilot, race car driver / land speed record holder, first female technical narrator for GM at auto shows, aviation / auto racing / astronautics / advertising pioneer / record-breaker, aka The First Lady of Firsts

Janet Cox-Rearick (28 jun 1930 –  27 nov 2018 | Bronxville NY – New York NY) author, art historian, American-British, Distinguished Professor of art history

Maureen Theresa Kearns Howard (28 jun 1930 – 13 mar 2022 | Bridgeport CT – Manhattan NY) writer, editor, autobiographical author

Sarah Mae Flemming Brown (28 jun 1933 – 16 jun 1993 | Eastover SC – Eastover SC) domestic worker, civil rights activist, bus action / lawsuit preceded Rosa Parks

Gisèle Deschamps Lalonde (28 jun 1933 – Vanier ON) Vanier city mayor, community activist, autobiographical author

Anne Rose Pellowski (28 jun 1933 – Arcadia WI) Polish-American librarian, storyteller, children’s novelist, non-fiction author

Bette Greene (28 jun 1934 – 02 oct 2020 | Memphis TN – Lakewood Ranch FL) reporter, essayist, screenwriter, short fiction writer, children’s / young adult novelist

Shelagh Dawn Adams Grant (28 jun 1938 – 11 jul 2020 | Montreal QC – Peterborough ON) author, co-editor, historian, retired professor of History and Canadian Studies

Barbara Ellen Handschu (29 jun 1942 – Brooklyn NY) attorney, political activist, former criminal defense lawyer, first female president of American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

Sena Jeter Naslund (28 jun 1942 – Birmingham AL) novelist, short fiction writer, Writer-in-Residence, Spalding MFA Program Director

Louise Virginia Snodgrass (28 jun 1942 – 12 jun 2009 | Baltimore MD – Dover DE) mayor, politician, special needs activist / advocate

Enid Dame (28 jun 1943 – 25 dec 2003 | Beaver Falls PA – Brooklyn NY) poet, editor, teacher, publisher, fiction writer

Janelle Diane Williams Taylor (28 jun 1944 – Athens GA) historical romance novelist

Laura Kalpakian (28 jun 1945 – Long Beach CA) author, memoirist, aka Juliet Fitzgerald and Carenna Jane Greye

Gilda Radner (28 jun 1946 – 20 may 1989 | Detroit MI – Los Angeles CA) actress, comedian, memoirist, cancer awareness advocate

Laura D’Andrea Tyson (28 jun 1947 – Bayonne NJ) author, economist

Kathleen Doyle [Kathy] Bates (28 jun 1948 – Memphis TN) actress, director, producer

Peggy A. Nash (28 jun 1951 – Toronto ON) author, essayist, politician, labor official

Gloria M. Coruzzi (28 jun 1954 – New York NY) author, molecular biologist, plant genomics professor / researcher

Deborah Grabien (28 jun 1954 – San Francisco CA) editor, novelist, essayist, short story writer

Darcy Pattison (28 jun 1954 – Albuquerque NM) blogger, indie publisher, writing teacher, children’s fiction / nonfiction author

Achy Obejas (28 jun 1956 – Havana CU) Cuban-American poet, editor, novelist, translator, journalist

Suzanne M. Levine (28 jun 1957 – New York NY) author, podiatrist, social activist, television commentator

Linda Amyot (28 jun 1958 – Montreal QC) novelist, short fiction writer, television documentary writer / editor

Donna F. Edwards (28 jun 1958 – Yanceyville NC) lawyer, state politician, community activist, co-founder / first Executive Director of National Network to End Domestic Violence

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Hannah Mather Crocker (27 jun 1752 – 11 jul 1829 | Roxbury MA – Boston MA) essayist, educator, school founder, women’s rights activist, advocate for women Freemasons, Revolutionary War spy, authored first American book on rights of women | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Maria Monk (27 jun 1816 – 08 sep 1849 | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu QC – Roosevelt Island NY) author, memoirist, religious sister, controversial Canadian folk figure, alleged infanticide / systemic sexual abuse in Catholic convent | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney (27 jun 1824 – 19 nov 1904 | Boston MA – Jamaica Plain MA) writer, editor, reformer, philanthropist, secretary of School of Design for Women | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Eugenia Scholay Washington (27 jun 1838 – 30 nov 1900 | Charles Town WV – Washington DC) historian, civil servant, co-founded Daughters of American Revolution / Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Harriet Hubbard Ayer (27 jun 1849 – 23 nov 1903 | Chicago IL – New York NY) socialite, journalist, essayist, kidnap victim, proto-feminist, founded first successful US female-owned cosmetics company, editor of New York World newspaper women’s pages, highest paid US female journalist at the time of her death | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Leonora Evelina Simonds Piper (27 jun 1857 – 03 jul 1950 | Nashua NH – Brookline MA) author, speaker, spiritual medium

Mildred Jane Hill (27 jun 1859 – 05 jun 1916 | Louisville KY – Chicago IL) author, teacher, songwriter, musicologist, aka Johann Tonsor, created Happy Birthday to You melody

Varina Anne [Winnie] Davis (27 jun 1864 – 09 sep 1898 | Richmond VA – Narragansett Pier RI) diarist, novelist, daughter of Confederate President

Julie Mathilde Lippman (27 jun 1865 – 10 apr 1952 | Brooklyn NY – Cincinnati OH) author, playwright, literary / political activist

Mary Williams (27 jun 1869 – 11 feb 1961 | Oakland CA – Monterey CA) artist, painter, newspaper caricaturist, aka Kate Carew, The Only Woman Caricaturist

Emma Goldman (27 jun 1869 – 14 may 1940 | Kovno RU – Toronto ON) author, editor, activist, speaker, anarchist

Helen Adams Keller (27 jun 1880 – 01 jun 1968 | Tuscumbia AL – Westport CT) author, lecturer, peace / political activist

Mary Antoinette Frueauff Perry (27 jun 1888 – 28 jun 1946 | Denver CO – New York NY) theater actress / director, Tony Awards namesake, co-founded American Theatre Wing

Crystal Bird Fauset (27 jun 1894 – 27 mar 1965 | Princess Ann MD – Philadelphia PA) politician, first black woman elected to US state legislature, Swarthmore Institute of Race Relations executive secretary, US Presidential Black Cabinet member

Helen Sewell (27 jun 1896 – 24 feb 1957 | Mare Island CA – New York NY) children’s book author / illustrator

Joan Mowat Erikson (27 jun 1903 – 03 aug 1997 | Brockville ON – Brewster MA) author, educator, psychologist, craftsperson, dance ethnographer, born Sarah Lucretia Serson, collaborative innovator in human psychosocial development with husband Erik Erikson

Ruby Middleton Forsythe (27 jun 1905 – 29 may 1992 | Charleston SC – Mt Pleasant SC) educator, aka Miss Ruby

India Boyer (27 jun 1907 – 09 feb 1998 | Sidney OH – Cincinnati OH) architect

Rose Katz Cabat (27 jun 1914 – 25 jan 2015 | Bronx NY – Tucson AZ) studio ceramicist, at death oldest [100] known practicing US potter

Grace Chin Lee Boggs (27 jun 1915 – 05 oct 2015 | Providence RI – Detroit MI) author, feminist, philosopher, social activist

Sylvia Zipser Schur (27 jun 1917 – 08 sep 2009 | Brooklyn NY – Chicago IL) Polish-American cookbook author, food writer / columnist / innovator, Creative Food Services founder

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (27 Jun 1929 – 29 August 2022 | New Orleans LA – Guanajuato City MX) author, historian, public intellectual, civil rights activist, genealogy researcher / database innovator

Loree Rackstraw (27 jun 1931 –  08 may 2018 | Omaha NE – Grinnell IA) memoirist, literary critic, born Lora Lee Pugh, known as Kurt Vonnegut friend / confidant

Anna Moffo (27 jun 1932 – 09 mar 2006 | Wayne PA – New York NY) actress, television personality, operatic lyric-coloratura soprano

Lucille Clifton (27 jun 1936 – 13 feb 2010 | Depew NY – Baltimore MD) poet, writer, educator

Vera Chino Ely (27 jun 1943 – Acoma Pueblo NM) Native American Pueblo potter

Norma Arraez Kamali (27 jun 1945 – New York NY) fashion designer, known for sleeping bag coat

Janice Giteck (27 jun 1946 – Hicksville NY) composer, educator

Sally Jane Priesand (27 jun 1946 – Cleveland OH) author, women’s activist, first US female ordained rabbi, second female formally ordained rabbi worldwide

Daria Semegen (27 jun 1946 – Bamberg DEU) Ukrainian-American composer, academic

Julie Clark (27 jun 1948 – Hayward CA) author, aerobatic air show pilot, former commercial airline pilot, one of first female major US airline pilots

Esther Blackburn Rochon (27 jun 1948 – Quebec City QC) science fiction writer

Ann Louise Gittleman (27 jun 1949 – Hartford CT) author, columnist, nutritionist, public speaker

Vera Ellen Wang (27 jun 1949 – New York NY) author, fashion designer, former figure skater

Jane Hammond (27 jun 1950 – Bridgeport CT) painter, printmaker, language artist

Anita Diamant (27 jun 1951 – New York NY) former freelance journalist, fiction / non-fiction author

Alice McDermott (27 jun 1953 – Brooklyn NY) novelist, essayist, university professor

Maria Zuber (27 jun 1958 – Norristown PA) author, scientist, professor, first female head of MIT science department

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Harriet Mann Miller (25 jun 1831 – 25 dec 1918 | Auburn NY – Los Angeles CA) naturalist, birdwatcher, ornithologist, children’s writer, pen name Olive Thorne Miller | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Clara Whitehill Hunt (25 jun 1871 – 10 jan 1958 | Utica NY – Sudbury MA) teacher, librarian, author, advocate for children’s library services | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Sarah Birdsall Otis Edey (25 jun 1872 – 17 mar 1940 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, editor, suffragist, Girl Scout activist | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Rose Cecil O’Neill (25 jun 1874 – 06 apr 1944 | Wilkes-Barre PA – Springfield MO) author, illustrator, fine artist, comics artist, Kewpie Doll creator | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Katherine Kennicott Davis (25 jun 1892 – 20 apr 1980 | St Joseph MO – Littleton MA) pianist, lyricist, teacher, composer | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Katherine Linn [Kay] Sage (25 jun 1898 – 08 jan 1963 | Albany NY – Woodbury CT) poet, painter, Surrealist

Georgia Theodora Hale (25 jun 1900 – 17 jun 1985 | St. Joseph MO – Hollywood CA) memoirist, silent actress, dance teacher, real estate investor, Christian Scientist

Evelyn Maurine Norton Lincoln (25 jun 1909 – 11 may 1995 | Polk County NE – Washington DC) memoirist, secretary to Senator-then-President JFK

Mary Alice Tieche Smith (25 jun 1918 – 13 apr 1987 | Beckley WV – Beckley WV) WV State First Lady, public health / early education advocate

Celia Franca (25 jun 1921 – 19 feb 2007 | London UK – Ottawa ON) ballerina, founder / artistic director National Ballet of Canada

Dorothy Edith Gilman (25 jun 1923 – 02 feb 2012 | New Brunswick NJ – Rye Brook NY) art teacher, memoirist, women’s mystery novelist, known for Mrs. Pollifax series

June Lockhart (25 jun 1925 – New York NY) actress, children’s book co-author, anti-Vietnam war activist

Pat Martin Bates (25 jun 1927 – Saint John NB) artist, printmaker, monoprint innovator

Carol Junge Loomis (25 jun 1929 – Cole Camp MO) author, financial journalist, Fortune magazine senior editor-at-large

Beatriz Sheridan (25 jun 1934 – 30 apr 2006 | Mexico City MX – Mexico City MX) actress, director, born Elizabeth Ann Sheridan Scarbrough

Fran Ross (25 jun 1935 – 17 sep 1985 | Philadelphia PA – New York NY) novelist, journalist, comedy writer

Lois Begitske DeFleur (25 jun 1936 – Illinois US) author, sociology professor, university provost / president

Barbara Montgomery (25 jun 1939 – Queens NY) film / stage / television actress, film / theatrical director

Mary Beth Peil (25 jun 1940 – Davenport IA) actress, opera / musical singer

Margo Humphrey (25 jun 1942 – Oakland CA) art teacher, printmaker, illustrator

Dean Falk (25 jun 1944 – United States) author, co-author, essayist, anthropology professor, academic neuroanthropologist, research focus on brain evolution / cognition in higher primates

Sharon [Kristin] Harmon Nelson (25 jun 1945 – 27 apr 2018 | Burbank CA – Santa Fe NM) author, actress, primitive painter

Carly Elisabeth Simon (25 jun 1945 – New York NY) musician, singer-songwriter, children’s author

Isabel Campoy (25 jun 1946 – Alicante ES) Spanish-American, translator, multi-genre writer of poetry, pedagogical books, children’s literature, textbook reading program  materials

Donna Hilbert (25 jun 1946 – Grandfield OK) poet, essayist, playwright, philanthropist, short story writer, social justice / community arts activist, Progressive Dinner Party founding member

Phyllis Ann George (25 jun 1949 – 14 may 2020 | Denton TX – Lexington KY) author, sportscaster, art collector, arts and crafts museum founder, First Lady of Kentucky [1979-1983]

Diana Carlin (25 jun 1950 – Pittsburgh KS) author, essayist, journal editor, professor emerita of communication, focus on political debates / communication

Lois Marie Gibbs (25 jun 1951 – United States) author, speaker, environmental activist, founded non-profit Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste now Center for Health, Environment, and Justice (CHEJ)

Judith Orloff (25 jun 1951 – Philadelphia PA) author, psychiatrist, motivational speaker

Barbara Harper (25 jun 1952 – Oregon US) author, speaker, child-birth educator, maternity reform activist, warm-water labor / birth immersion expert proponent

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Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (24 jun 1831 – 29 sep 1910 | Washington PA – Mount Kisco NY) author, novelist, journalist | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Elizabeth [Lizzie] Sewall Alcott (24 jun 1835 – 14 mar 1858 | Boston MA – Concord MA) writer, literary figure, literary family member | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Ruth Miriam Randall Edström (24 jun 1867 – 05 oct 1944 | Wilmington IL – Stockholm SE) peace activist, Unitarian, expatriate, Swedish-American, women’s rights activist, participated in International Women’s Congress, worked on Hague peace conference | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Caroline Ellen Furness (24 jun 1869 – 09 feb 1936 | Cleveland OH – New York NY) author, astronomer, astronomy professor at Vassar College, women’s education advocate, first female PhD in Astronomy from Columbia University | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Beatrice Tonnesen (24 jun 1871 – 12 may 1958 | Winneconne WI – Oshkosh WI) artist, inventor, photographer, Mars Ware sculpture innovator, pioneer in picture calendar photographs, developed process for silhouette photographs, pioneered use of live models in print advertising | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Alma Bennett Morgan (24 jun 1877 – 05 apr 1960 | Monongalia WV – Morgantown WV) suffragist, temperance advocate, women’s rights activist, First Lady of West Virginia

[Edna] Marion Nicholl Rawson (24 jun 1878 – 04 dec 1956 | Plainfield NJ – Providence RI) artist, author, lecturer, illustrator

Myrtelle May Moore Canavan (24 jun 1879 – 04 aug 1953 | Greenbush MI – Boston MA) author, physician, medical researcher, professor of neuropathology, one of first US female pathologists, best known for publishing description of Canavan disease

Agnes Nestor (24 jun 1880 – 28 dec 1948 | Grand Rapids MI – Chicago IL) politician, labor leader, social reformer, autobiographical author

Ethel Wright Nesbitt (24 jun 1884 – 07 nov 1958 | Mineral Point WI – New Jersey US) silent film actress, high school teacher, principal of Professional Children’s School

Helen Lundeberg Feitelson (24 jun 1908 – 19 apr 1999 | Chicago IL – Los Angeles CA) Swedish-American painter

Mildred Nixon Gordon (24 jun 1912 – 03 feb 1979 | Eureka KS – Tucson AZ) teacher, magazine editor, crime fiction author

Marion Rosen (24 jun 1914 – 18 jan 2912| Nuremberg DEU – Berkeley CA) author, physical therapist, massage / breathing / movement technique innovator, Rosen Method of massage work creator / founder

Ruth Shaw Wylie (24 jun 1916 – 30 jan 1989 | Cincinnati OH – Estes Park CO) author, musician, composer, musical consolidator

Lucile [Lucy] Howard Jarvis (24 jun 1917 – 26 jan 2020 | New York NY – New York NY) television producer

Helen Fisher Frye (24 jun 1918 – 26 nov 2014 | Danville KY – Danville KY) educator, civil rights activist, first Africa-American at Centre College, first African-American woman to receive Master of Arts in Library Science at University of Kentucky

Mildred Diefenderfer Ladner Thompson (24 jun 1918 – 25 jun 2013 | Allentown PA – Sarasota FL) author, journalist, columnist, biographer, one of first female reporters at Wall Street Journal / Associated Press / Tulsa World

Mary Ann Aspinwall Owens (24 jun 1928 – 21 nov 2005 | Fort Atkinson WI – Brooklyn NY) philatelist, collector, known for thematic and topical collections / exhibitions

Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (24 jun 1929 – 26 aug 2016 | Bronx NY – New York NY) chemist, principal research scientist at Johns Hopkins, known for biomedical coding / research on clinical effects of narcotics / tranquilizers

Carolyn Jean Spellman Shoemaker (24 jun 1929 – 13 aug 2021 | Gallup NM – Flagstaff AZ) astronomer, comet hunter, record-breaking comet discoverer

Hope Cooke (24 jun 1940 – San Francisco CA) author, lecturer, Queen Consort, aka Her Highness Hope La, the Gyalmo of Sikkim

Jeanne-Mance Delisle (24 jun 1941 – Barraute QC) author, novelist, screenwriter

Michele Lee (24 jun 1942 – Los Angeles CA) singer, dancer, actress, director, producer, born Michele Lee Dusick

Kathryn Lasky (24 jun 1944 – Indianapolis IN) adult / children’s / young adult fiction / non-fiction author, aka E. L. Swann and Kathryn Lasky Knight

Linda Susanne Howarth Gottfredson (24 jun 1947 – San Francisco CA) author, professor, educational psychologist

Suzy Lake (24 jun 1947 – Detroit MI) artist, photographer, video maker, performance artist, American-Canadian

Mercedes Ritchie Lackey (24 jun 1950 – Chicago IL) fantasy novelist, short story writer

Sandra Segal Ikuta (24 jun 1950 – Los Angeles CA) attorney, journalist, US federal judge

Anna Louizos (24 jun 1957 – Marysville CA) art director, scenic designer

Kathleen Colleen [Kathy] Troccoli (24 jun 1958 – Brooklyn NY) contemporary Christian singer, author, speaker

Mary Youngblood (24 jun 1958 – Kirkland WA) Aleut-Seminole, Native American flute player / composer, first female Flutist of the Year, first Native American woman Grammy Award recipient