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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

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