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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
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/08calendar/a/0831calendar.htm
http://www.historyorb.com/day/august/30
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