today in women's herstory- 8 september

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September 8
This Day in Women's History

1560 – Amy Robsart, English wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (b. 1532)

1774 – Anne Catherine Emmerich, German nun, stigmatic, and mystic (d. 1824)

1784: Ann Lee died (Shaker founder)

1815 – Giuseppina Strepponi, Italian soprano (d. 1897)

1828: Margaret Slocum Sage born (philanthropist)

1857: Ida Henrietta Hyde born (physiologist)

1859: Mary Morton Kimball Kehew born (reformer)

1863: Jessie Willcox Smith born (painter, illustrator)

1886 – Ninon Vallin, French soprano (d. 1961)

1888 – In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found

1895 – Sara García, Mexican actress (d. 1980)

1898 - Queenie Smith, NYC, actress/dancer (Funny Side)

1903 – Jane Arbor, English author (d. 1994)

1905 – Ivy Bean, English centenarian (d. 2010)

1921 – 16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.

1924 – Grace Metalious, American novelist (peyton place) (d. 1964)

1924 – Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005)

1925 – Jacqueline Ceballos, American activist

1932: Patsy Cline born (singer)

1942 - Nancy Ann Dibble, Netherlands, sci-fi author (Summerfair)

1943 – Adelaide C. Eckardt, American politician

1947 – Ann Beattie, American author

1947 – Marianne Wiggins, American author

1948 - Lynn/Marilyn [Lorraine] Abbey, US, sci-fi author (Black Flame)

1954 – Anne Diamond, English journalist

1955 – Terry Tempest Williams, American author and environmentalist

1957 – Heather Thomas, American actress

1960 – Aimee Mann, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress ('Til Tuesday)

1965 – Darlene Zschech, Australian singer-songwriter, and pastor

1965 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922)

1966- Carola Häggkvist, Swedish singer-songwriter

1966 - "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV

1967 – Kimberly Peirce, American director, screenwriter, and producer

1968 - "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand premieres

1969 – Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and writer (b. 1868)

1971 – Brooke Burke Charvet, American model and actress

1972 – Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, American radio and television host

1976 – Sarah Kucserka, American screenwriter

1978 – Angela Rawlings, Canadian-American author

1979 – Pink, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

1994 - Deborah Bear, Engl still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44

1994 - Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies at 70 of cancer

1996 - Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, designer artist/writer, dies at 102

2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)

2006 - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)



http://womenshistory.about.com/od/09calendar/a/0908calendar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_8

http://www.historyorb.com/deaths/september/8