Women in History

1957 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, diplomat and feminist, Nobel Prize laureate, to-date the only Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920.
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1912 – Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, British physician, educator and feminist, founder of medical schools for women
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1812 – Melchora Aquino, Filipino activist, “Grand Woman of the Revolution”
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1914 – Noor Inayat Khan, Russian-English SOE agent, sent from Britain into France to aid the French Resistance during WWII. She died in Dachau concentration camp.
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2012 Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and member of the Italian Senate, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 and the National Medal of Science in 1987.
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1934- Forugh Farrokhzad one of Iran's most influential female poets of the 20th century.
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December 28, 1894 (1988) - Burnita Matthews, suffragist, the first woman to serve as a Federal district judge Her activities on behalf of women's rights began in law school.
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December 26, 1981 – Execution of Mojahed mother, Massoumeh Shademani (Mother Kabiri), champion of resistance under torture One of the lofty peaks of the Iranian people’s resistance and the PMOI history is the courageous participation of…
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1853 – Sarada Devi, Indian philosopher.
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