2003 Death Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life', committed suicide 1997 Death Toni Carabillo, writer (Feminist Chronicles), dies of lymphoma at 71 1996 Death Helen Chadwick, born in Britain, conceptual artist, feminist perspective, dies at 42 1995 Death Nabila Diahnine, Algerian architect/feminist, murdered at 33 1994 Event 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin 1993 Event Bangladesh moslem call for murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin 1992 Death Audre Lorde, St. Croix' feminist author (Black Unicorn), dies 1990 Death Liesbeth de Uyl-of Vessem, feminist/wife of Joop du, dies 1990 Death Mari Mejia, Guatemalian feminist, murdered 1981 Death Joke Kool-Smit, Dutch feminist, dies 1970 Birthday Ani Difranco, born in Buffalo, New York, singer, musician, guitarist, songwriter, considered a feminist icon, released over twenty albums 1966 Death Margaret Sanger, U.S. feminist/birth control pioneer, dies at 86 1964 Death Nancy N Witcher Astor, U.S./English feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies 1964 Death Halide Edib Adevar/Salih, Turkish feminist (Handan), dies at about 80 1962 Birthday Taslima Nasrin, born in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, doctor turned author, fled Bangladesh to live in exile since 1994, radical feminist and critic of Islam, works for New York University 1960 Death Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist/daughter of Emmeline, dies at 78 1956 Birthday Judith Butler, born in Cleveland, Ohio, philosopher, professor, U of C, Berkeley, specialty, post-structuralism, Ph. D. Yale University, areas of study include feminist theory, Jewish philosophy, ethics, sexuality, developed idea of sex and gender as social construction 1953 Birthday Helen Chadwick, born in Britain, conceptual artist, feminist perspective 1952 Birthday Gloria Jean Watkins, born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, born Gloria Jean Watkins, author, feminist, focus on race, class, gender, wrote, 'Ain't I a Woman? : Black Women and Feminism' 1945 Birthday Patricia Ireland, feminist/president, National Organization of Women 1944 Birthday Annette Lu, bon in Taoyuan Formosa, Taiwanese politician, feminist activist, member, Democratic Progressive Party, former Vice President of the Republic of China 1941 Birthday Gloria Allred, feminist attorney 1940 Death Emma Goldman, U.S. anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies 1939 Birthday Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway, PM/feminist/conservatist 1939 Birthday Eleanor Smeal, feminist/president, NOW 1939 Birthday Germaine Greer, born in Melbourne, Australia, feminist/author, Female Eunich 1935 Birthday Susan Brownmiller, Brooklyn, feminist author, Against Our Wills 1934 Birthday Kate Millett, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, feminist/author, Sexual Politics 1934 Birthday Gloria Steinem, born in Toledo, Ohio, feminist/publisher, Ms. Magazine 1933 Birthday Joke Smit, Dutch feminist 1933 Death Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies 1930 Death Helena Lange, German feminist, dies 1929 Death Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor/feminist, dies at 75 1929 Death Mary MacLane, author, individualistic style included feminist rhetoric, raw admissions, first book, 'The Story of Mary Mac Lane' published in 1902, sold 100,000 copies in the first month, dies at age 48, in Chicago, Illinois 1929 Birthday Adrienne Rich, born in Baltimore, Maryland, feminist writer, 'The Diamond Cutters' and 'Arts of the Possible' 1928 Death Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist, dies 1926 Death Ellen K S Key, Swed author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76 1926 Birthday Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, born in East Orange, New Jersey, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life' 1925 Death Wilhelmina E Drucker, Lensing, Dutch feminist, dies at 78 1924 Birthday Liesbeth den Uyl-van Vessem, feminist/wife of Joop den Uyl 1922 Death [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, Dutch author/feminist, dies at 82 1922 Death Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German/Dutch anarchist/feminist, dies at 36 1921 Birthday Betty Friedan, born in Peoria, Illinois, feminist writer, Feminine Mystique 1919 Event J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia 1916 Death Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist, dies at 79 1916 Death Anne C A I van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist, dies at 73 1909 Death Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies 1906 Death Betsy Perk, Christina E, journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73 1902 Death Cornelie Huygens, Dutch feminist/writer, dies 1902 Death Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist, dies at 68 1893 Death Lucy [Blackwell-]Stone, U.S. abolitionist/feminist, dies 1892 Birthday Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet/writer/feminist 1885 Birthday Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist, Wife and society 1884 Birthday Christina C Bakker-van Bosse, feminist/pacifist 1882 Birthday Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist 1881 Birthday Mary MacLane, born in Winnipeg, Canada, author, individualistic style included feminist rhetoric, raw admissions, first book, 'The Story of Mary Mac Lane' published in 1902, sold 100,000 copies in the first month 1879 Birthday Margaret Sanger, feminist/nurse/birth control proponent 1879 Birthday Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, US/Eng's feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor 1876 Birthday Sibilla Aleramo, Rina Faccio, Italian feminist/poet, Una Donna 1868 Birthday Mary Austin, Illinois, feminist/nature writer, Land of Little Rain 1867 Birthday Emily Green Balch, U.S., sociologist/feminist/pacifist, Nobel 1946 1865 Birthday Lili Braun, born in Prussia, feminist/socialist writer, Im Schatten Titanen 1860 Birthday Jane Addams, U.S., pacifist/social worker/feminist, Nobel 1931 1860 Birthday Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist 1858 Birthday Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist 1850 Death [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, U.S. feminist/revolutionary, dies 1849 Birthday Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist, Courageous Woman 1848 Birthday Helena Lange, German feminist 1847 Birthday Wilhelmina E. Drucker, Dutch feminist 1847 Birthday Cornelie Huygens, feminist/author, Barthold Meryan 1842 Birthday Anne CAI van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist 1839 Birthday Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist 1837 Birthday Fredrik Bajer, born in Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist, Nobel 1908 1836 Birthday Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist 1833 Birthday Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist 1833 Birthday Betsy Perk, Dutch journalist, writer and feminist 1822 Birthday Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society 1819 Birthday Louise Otto, Germany, author and feminist 1810 Birthday [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, U.S. feminist/revolutionary, New York Tribune 1793 Birthday Lucretia Coffin Mott, U.S., teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist 1792 Event Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce 1787 Birthday Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/feminist 1759 Birthday Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, England, writer/feminist, Female Reader 1731 Death Mary Astell, English writer and feminist, wrote 'Some Reflections upon Marriage', dies soon after having breast cancer 1689 Birthday Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric 1666 Birthday Mary Astell, born in Newcastle, England, English writer and feminist, wrote 'Some Reflections upon Marriage' 1651 Birthday Juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexico, poet/nun/feminist, Primero Sueno
