Born: August 3, 1941, Jersey City, New Jersey Stewart is an American entrepreneur and domestic lifestyle innovator who built a catering business into an international media and home furnishing corporation, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.Raised in Nutley, New Jersey, Stewart grew up in a Polish American household where the traditional arts of cooking, sewing, canning […]
Born: March 5, 1897, Shanghai, ChinaDied: October 23, 2003, New York, U.S.Soong Mei-ling or Soong May-ling was the third daughter of Chinese industrialist Charlie Soong, who became one of the most influential women in the 20th century as the wife of Kuomintang (KMT) leader Chiang Kai-shek. Born to a wealthy Christian family in Shanghai, Mei-ling
Born: January 27, 1893, Shanghai, ChinaDied: May 29, 1981, Beijing Song Qingling was the second wife of the Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen (Sun Zhongshan). She became an influential political figure in China after her husband’s death.A member of the prominent Soong family, Song Qingling was educated in the United States. She married Sun Yat-sen,
Born: February 4, 1952, Gore, New Zealand Shipley is a New Zealand politician who was New Zealand’s first female prime minister (1997-99).After graduating from Christchurch Teachers’ College in 1972, Jennifer married Burton Shipley, a farmer, and began teaching at a primary school. Active in the community, she joined the National Party (NP) in 1975. Shipley
Flourished 10th century BCQueen Sheba of, biblical character also figures in Islamic tradition-where she is named Bilqis-and in Ethiopian legend, where, as Makeda, wife of King Solomon, she is credited with founding the first royal line of the Kingdom of Sheba in southwest Arabia.In the biblical Book of Kings, the Queen of Sheba (or Saba’,
Born: October 11, 1884, New York, U.S.Died: November 7, 1962, New York City Eleanor Roosevelt was a social activist, author, lecturer, and United States representative to the United Nations. She was the wife of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt.Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 11, 1884, to Elliott Roosevelt and
Born: May 21, 1944, Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland Mary Robinson is an Irish lawyer and politician, president of Ireland (1990-1997). The first woman to serve as Irish president, Robinson worked to transform the largely ceremonial office into a platform from which to campaign for peace, social reforms, and environmental causes.She was born Mary Bourke in
Born: November 14, 1954, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.Condoleezza Rice was a national security adviser (2001) under President George W. Bush. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and moved to Denver, Colorado, with her family when she was a teenager. She began attending the University of Denver at the age of 15, graduating with a bachelor’s degree
Born: July 21, 1938, Miami, Florida, U.S. Janet Reno was the United States attorney general (1993-2001), the first woman to hold the position. She was born in Miami, Florida, and educated at Cornell University and Harvard Law School. After graduating from Harvard in 1963, she practised law in Miami with several firms. She became staff
Born: June 11, 1880, near Missoula, Montana, U.S.Died: May 18, 1973, Carmel, California Jeannette Rankin was an American legislator, born near Missoula, Montana, and educated at the University of Montana and at the School of Philanthropy, New York City. She attained prominence as a leader of the woman suffrage movement in Washington and Montana and
Died: Aug 13, 587, Poitiers [now in France];feast day August 13 Radegunda was the queen of the Merovingian king Chlotar I, who left her husband to become a nun and later founded a monastery at Poitiers. She was one of the first of the Merovingian saints.A Thuringian princess, Radegunda was captured about 531 by Chlotar
Born: c. 1596, near present-day Jamestown, Virginia, U.S.Died: March 1617, Gravesend, Kent, EnglandPocahontas was the daughter of the Native American chief Powhatan. She was born in Virginia. Her real name was Matoaka; the name Pocahontas means “playful one”. According to a legend, in 1608 Pocahontas saved the life of Captain John Smith by holding his
Born: May 7, 1919, Los Toldos, ArgentinaDied: July 26, 1952, Buenos Aires Eva Perón, née María Eva Duarte (1919-1952), was is Argentina political figure and second wife of Juan Domingo Perón. Born in Los Toldos, she began an acting career at the age of 15. She met Perón in 1944, when she was a successful
Born: April 10, 1882, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.Died: May 14, 1965, New York Frances Perkins was an American social reformer, who became the first female member of the Cabinet when United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt named her secretary of labour in 1933.Perkins was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Mount Holyoke College, the University
Born: Aug. 18, 1900, Allahabad, IndiaDied: Dec. 1, 1990, DehradunVijaya Lakshmi Pandit was an Indian diplomat, who was active in the Indian struggle for independence. She was born in Allahabad, the sister of the statesman Jawaharlal Nehru, and educated at the University of Allahabad. In 1921, she married the Indian lawyer and nationalist leader Ranjit