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label	occupation	date of birth	date of death
Maria Gaetana Agnesi	philosopher mathematician philanthropist theologian pedagogue polyglot	1718-05-16	1799-01-09
Mary Prince	writer enslaved person	1788-10-01	1833
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff	writer poet composer novelist playwright	1797-01-12	1848-05-24
Fanny Eaton	art model domestic worker Charwoman	1835-06-23	1924-03-04
Mekatilili wa Menza		1840	1925
Cecilia Grierson	physician university teacher suffragette	1859-11-22	1934-04-10
Manlee Khongprapath	dancer	1885-01-20	1971-11-05
Marie Thomas	physician	1896-02-17	1966-10-10
Saniya Habboub	physician	1901	1986-09
Asmahan	actor film producer singer film score composer	1912-11-25	1944-07-14
Martha E. Bernal	clinical psychologist psychologist university teacher	1931-04-13	2001
Bunpheng Faiphiuchai	singer	1932-09-22	2008
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Lucy
Bécassine
Hamida Banu	professional wrestler
Lizzie Emeh	singer disability rights activist		2021-11-05

Algeria

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Baya	painter	Algeria France	1931-12-12	1998-11-09
Miriam Makeba	singer actor recording artist composer	Algeria South Africa	1932-03-04	2008-11-09
Warda El- Djazairia	singer actor artist	Algeria France Egypt Jordan	1939-07-22	2012-05-17

Argentina

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Mariquita Sánchez	salonnière chronicler politician society hostess correspondent	Argentina	1786-11-01	1868-10-23
Juana Paula Manso	writer journalist	Argentina	1819-06-26	1875-04-24
Petrona Eyle	physician	Argentina	1866-01-18	1945-04-12
Lola Mora	sculptor painter	Argentina	1866-11-17	1936-06-07
Elvira Rawson	politician physician professor suffragist	Argentina	1867-04-19	1954-06-04
Victoria Ocampo	writer translator publisher critic public figure	Argentina	1890-04-07	1979-01-27
Alfonsina Storni	diarist poet journalist writer teacher sociologist	Argentina	1892-05-29	1938-10-25
Irene María Bernasconi	biologist zoologist teacher	Argentina	1896-09-25	1989-07-07
Olga Cossettini	teacher	Argentina	1898-08-18 1898-08-09	1987-05-24
Olga Orozco	writer poet journalist translator screenwriter	Argentina	1920-03-17	1999-08-15
Olga Ferri	choreographer ballet dancer	Argentina	1928-09-20	2012-09-15
María Elena Walsh	writer screenwriter journalist singer novelist composer children's writer film score composer singer-songwriter poet	Argentina	1930-02-01	2011-01-10
Mercedes Sosa	singer recording artist	Argentina	1935-07-09	2009-10-04
Aimé Painé	singer	Argentina	1943-08-23	1987-09-10

Australia

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Henrietta Dugdale	suffragette suffragist	Australia	1827-05-14	1918-06-17
Nellie Melba	opera singer autobiographer	Australia	1861-05-19	1931-02-23
Lily Poulett-Harris	cricketer	Australia	1873-09-02	1897-08-15
May Gibbs	writer children's writer illustrator cartoonist comics artist	Australia	1877-01-17	1969-11-27
Miles Franklin	non-fiction writer novelist writer women's rights activist	Australia	1879-10-14	1954-09-19
Elizabeth Kenny	nurse	Australia	1880-09-20	1952-11-30
Dorothea Mackellar	poet writer	Australia	1885-07-01	1968-01-14
Fanny Durack	swimmer competitive diver	Australia	1889-10-27	1956-03-20
Mina Wylie	swimmer	Australia	1891-06-27	1984-07-06
Grace Cossington Smith	painter artist	Australia	1892-04-22	1984-12-20
Mary Ellinor Lucy Archer	librarian botanist researcher botanical collector	Australia	1893-11-13	1979-05-03
Maude Bonney	aircraft pilot	Australia	1897-11-20	1994-02-24
Jean Macnamara	physician medical researcher orthopedic surgeon	Australia	1899-04-01	1968-10-13
Pearl Gibbs	human rights activist linguist translator	Australia	1901-07-18	1983-04-28
Gladys Elphick		Australia	1904-08-27	1988-01-19
Dorothy Hill	geologist paleontologist	Australia	1907-09-10	1997-04-23
Fearless Nadia	actor stunt performer	Australia India British Raj Dominion of India	1908-01-08	1996-01-09
Ruby Payne-Scott	physicist astronomer university teacher	Australia	1912-05-28	1981-05-25
Oodgeroo Noonuccal	poet human rights activist writer philosopher	Australia	1920-11-03	1993-09-16
Mum Shirl	activist social worker political activist	Australia	1921-11-22	1998-04-28
Margaret Fulton	cook writer journalist television presenter celebrity chef	Australia United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1924-10-10	2019-07-24
Maureen Watson	activist	Australia	1931-11-09	2009-01-04
Evelyn Scott	activist politician	Australia	1935	2017-09-21
Doris Pilkington Garimara	writer nurse	Australia	1937-07-14	2014-04-10
Elizabeth Hastings	disability rights activist psychologist civil servant	Australia	1949-01-01	1998-12-31

Bangladesh

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Sufia Kamal	poet writer journalist	Bangladesh British Raj Pakistan	1911-06-20	1999-11-20
Zohra Begum Kazi	physician	Bangladesh British Raj Pakistan	1912-10-15	2007-11-07
Firoza Begum	singer	Bangladesh British Raj Pakistan	1930-07-28	2014-09-09
Novera Ahmed	sculptor	Bangladesh British Raj Pakistan	1939-03-29	2015-05-05
Rosy Afsari	actor film actor	Bangladesh British Raj Pakistan	1940s 1946-04-23	2007-03-09

Belgium

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Isala Van Diest	physician women's rights activist	Belgium	1842-05-07	1916-02-06
Marie Popelin	lawyer women's rights activist	Belgium	1846-12-16 1846-09-17	1913-06-05
Jacqueline Harpman	psychologist writer	Belgium	1929-07-05 1929-07-29	2012-05-24
Chantal Akerman	film director actor screenwriter film producer university teacher visual artist photographer performing artist cinematographer video installation artist director artist filmmaker writer	Belgium France	1950-06-06	2015-10-05

Brazil

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Maria Firmina dos Reis	writer poet novelist teacher	Brazil	1825-10-11	1917-11-11
Chiquinha Gonzaga	composer conductor pianist activist	Brazil	1847-10-17	1935-02-28
Rita Lobato	writer physician	Brazil	1866-06-07	1954-01-06
Tarsila do Amaral	painter sculptor drawer artist	Brazil	1886-09-01	1973-01-17
Cora Coralina	poet writer sociologist children's writer	Brazil	1889-08-20	1985-04-10
Cecília Meireles	journalist poet translator writer novelist university teacher	Brazil	1901-11-07	1964-11-09
Laudelina de Campos Melo	domestic worker activist	Brazil	1904-10-12	1991-05-12
Nise da Silveira	psychologist psychiatrist artist physician writer	Brazil	1905-02-15	1999-10-30
Dercy Gonçalves	comedian actor stage actor	Brazil	1907-06-23	2008-07-19
Lota de Macedo Soares	architect	Brazil	1910-03-16	1967-09-25
Rachel de Queiroz	journalist translator playwright novelist writer politician	Brazil	1910-11-17	2003-11-04
Virgínia Leone Bicudo	psychoanalyst sociologist	Brazil	1910-11-21	2003
Enedina Alves Marques	civil engineer teacher	Brazil	1913-01-13	1981-08
Tomie Ohtake	artist painter sculptor	Brazil	1913-11-21	2015-02-12
Carolina Maria de Jesus	writer autobiographer poet waste picker maid	Brazil	1914-03-14	1977-02-13
Lina Bo Bardi	architect drawer illustrator exhibition curator writer scenographer designer university teacher	Brazil Italy Kingdom of Italy	1914-12-05	1992-03-20
Cármen Costa	composer	Brazil	1920-01-05	2007-04-25
Elizete Cardoso	singer jazz musician actor	Brazil	1920-07-07	1990-05-07
Lygia Clark	painter sculptor university teacher performance artist installation artist artist	Brazil	1920-10-23 1920-09-23	1988-04-25 1988-04-26
Ruth de Souza	actor	Brazil	1921-05-12	2019-07-28
Zuzu Angel	fashion designer	Brazil	1921-06-05	1976-04-14
Bibi Ferreira	stage actor film actor theatrical director film director	Brazil	1922-06-01 1922-06-10	2019-02-13
Dona Militana	singer	Brazil	1925-03-19	2010-06-19
Lélia Gonzalez	anthropologist professor politician human rights activist philosopher	Brazil	1935-02-01	1994-07-10
Chu Ming Silveira	architect designer	Brazil	1941-04-04	1997-06-18
Jovelina Pérola Negra	singer-songwriter singer author songwriter	Brazil	1944-07-21	1998-11-02
Cássia Eller	guitarist singer	Brazil	1962-12-10	2001-12-29
Dina Di	rapper	Brazil	1976-02-19	2010-03-20
Rosane Kaingang	activist social activist	Brazil		2016-10-16

British Raj

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Savitribai Phule	poet writer	British Raj	1831-01-03	1897-03-10
Kadambini Ganguly	physician politician	British Raj	1862-07-18	1923-10-03
Kamini Roy	writer professor	British Raj	1864-10-12	1933-09-27
Anandi Gopal Joshi	physician	British Raj	1865-03-31	1887-02-26
Cornelia Dorabuji	lawyer	British Raj India Dominion of India	1866-11-15	1954-07-06
Gauhar Jaan	singer dancer	British Raj	1873-06-26	1930-01-17
Sarojini Naidu	poet politician independence activist freedom fighter	British Raj India	1879-02-13	1949-03-02
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain	writer science fiction writer social reformer	British Raj	1880-12-09	1932-12-09
Mahadevi Varma	poet writer prose writer	British Raj India Dominion of India	1907-03-26	1987-09-11
Zohra Sehgal	dancer choreographer stage actor film actor television actor	British Raj India	1912-04-27	2014-07-10
Amrita Sher-Gil	painter	British Raj	1913-01-30	1941-12-05
M. S. Subbulakshmi	singer film actor	British Raj India Dominion of India	1916-09-16	2004-12-11
Asima Chatterjee	chemist botanist university teacher	British Raj Dominion of India India	1917-09-23	2006-11-22
Anna Mani	physicist meteorologist	British Raj India	1918-08-23	2001-08-16
Amrita Pritam	politician autobiographer poet writer journalist novelist	British Raj India	1919-08-31	2005-10-31
Sitara Devi	choreographer actor	British Raj India Dominion of India	1920-11-08	2014-11-25
Mahasweta Devi	human rights activist writer poet novelist educator short story writer	British Raj India	1926-01-14	2016-07-28
Iqbal Bano	singer	British Raj India Dominion of India Pakistan	1928-08-27	2009-04-21
Bano Qudsia	writer novelist	British Raj Pakistan	1928-11-28 1928	2017-02-04
Nargis	film actor screenwriter politician actor	British Raj India	1929-06-01	1981-05-03
Madhubala	film actor	British Raj India	1933-02-14	1969-02-23
Meena Kumari	actor poet costume designer singer	British Raj India	1933-08-01	1972-03-31

Canada

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Laura Secord		Canada	1775-09-13	1868-10-17
Jennie Kidd Trout	physician teacher philanthropist	Canada	1841-04-21	1921-11-10
Henrietta Edwards	women's rights activist	Canada	1849-12-18	1931-11-10
Carrie Matilda Derick	botanist geneticist university teacher	Canada	1862-01-14	1941-11-10
Emily Carr	painter autobiographer writer ceramicist artist	Canada	1871-12-13	1945-03-02
Lucy Maud Montgomery	writer novelist children's writer poet diarist biographer short story writer journalist teacher	Canada	1874-11-30	1942-04-24
Mary Pickford	film producer film actor film director screenwriter writer stage actor actor producer	Canada	1892-04-08 1893-04-08	1979-05-29
Carrie Best	journalist autobiographer	Canada	1903-03-04	2001-07-24
Bobbie Rosenfeld	athletics competitor sprinter	Canada	1904-12-28	1969-11-14
Mary Two-Axe Earley	activist	Canada	1911-10-04	1996-08-21
Agnes Martin	painter drawer printmaker artist	Canada United States of America	1912-03-22	2004-12-16
Viola Desmond	business executive cosmetologist civil rights advocate	Canada	1914-07-06	1964-02-07
Jane Jacobs	journalist urban planner writer sociologist author economist	Canada United States of America	1916-05-04	2006-04-25
Marcelle Ferron	painter university teacher glass artist	Canada	1924-01-29	2001-11-19
Kenojuak Ashevak	sculptor printmaker drawer	Canada	1927-10-03	2013-01-08
Violet King Henry	lawyer	Canada	1929-10-18	1982-03-30
Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk	writer teacher sculptor translator	Canada	1931	2007-04-30

Chile

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Aurélia de Souza	painter	Chile Portugal Kingdom of Portugal	1866-06-13	1922-05-26
Eloísa Díaz	physician surgeon	Chile	1866-06-25	1950-11-01
Gabriela Mistral	poet diplomat teacher writer	Chile	1889-04-07	1957-01-10
Justicia Acuña	civil engineer	Chile	1893-01-14	1980-08-16
Marcela Paz	writer novelist poet	Chile	1902-02-28	1985-06-12
Elena Caffarena	politician lawyer suffragette organizational founder president of a non-profit organisation	Chile	1903-03-23	2003-07-19
Lenka Franulic	journalist translator	Chile	1908	1961
Matilde Pérez	sculptor painter visual artist	Chile	1916-12-07	2014-10-01
Violeta Parra	singer-songwriter poet painter sculptor embroiderer ceramicist writer recording artist	Chile	1917-10-04	1967-02-05
Adelina Gutiérrez	astrophysicist academic	Chile	1925-05-27	2015-04-11
Marlene Ahrens	javelin thrower athletics competitor	Chile	1933-07-27	2020-06-17

Colombia

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Soledad Acosta	journalist writer historian poet editor translator playwright literary scholar man of letters novelist	Colombia	1833-05-05	1913-03-17
Débora Arango	painter	Colombia	1907-11-11	2005-12-04
Emma Reyes	painter writer	Colombia	1919-07-09	2003-07-12
Lucy Tejada	artist	Colombia	1920-10-09	2011-11-02
Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda	anthropologist sociologist	Colombia	1921-11-04	1999-09-02
Feliza Bursztyn	sculptor painter	Colombia	1933-09-08	1982-01-08
Ana Mercedes Hoyos	painter visual artist	Colombia	1942-09-29	2014-09-05

Czech Republic

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Eliška Junková	racing automobile driver memoirist writer	Czech Republic Czechoslovakia Austria-Hungary	1900-11-16	1994-01-05
Dana Zátopková	javelin thrower athletics competitor track and field coach athlete Olympic competitor	Czech Republic Czechoslovakia	1922-09-19	2020-03-13
Helena Zmatlíková	illustrator painter	Czech Republic	1923-11-19	2005-04-04

Dutch East Indies

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Kartini	women's rights activist textile artist	Dutch East Indies	1879-04-21	1904-09-17
Rohana Kudus	journalist	Dutch East Indies Indonesia	1884-12-20	1972-08-17
Sariamin Ismail	teacher writer journalist	Dutch East Indies Indonesia	1909-07-31	1995-12-15

Ecuador

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Dolores Cacuango	activist	Ecuador	1881-10-26	1971-04-23
Matilde Hidalgo	physician poet politician suffragette activist	Ecuador	1889-09-29	1974-02-20
Carlota Jaramillo	singer	Ecuador	1904-07-09	1987-12-10
Tránsito Amaguaña	political activist	Ecuador	1909-09-10	2009-05-10

Egypt

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Marie Monib	actor	Egypt	1902-02-11	1969-01-21
Gamila El Alaily	poet writer novelist	Egypt	1907-03-20	1991-04-11
Lotfia Elnadi	aircraft pilot	Egypt	1907-10-29	2002
Bahiga Hafez	actor composer screenwriter writer film director	Egypt	1908-08-04	1983-12-13
Doria Shafik	translator editor journalist women's rights activist philosopher writer	Egypt	1908-12-14	1975-09-20
Suhayr al-Qalamawi	translator writer novelist	Egypt	1911-07-20	1997-05-04
Mufidah Abdul Rahman	lawyer	Egypt	1914-01-20	2002-09-03
Tahia Halim	painter	Egypt	1919-09-09	2003-05-24
Latifa al-Zayyat	translator university teacher writer novelist activist	Egypt	1923-08-08	1996-09-11 1996-09-10
Inji Aflatoun	painter women's rights activist activist	Egypt	1924-04-16	1989-04-17
Samia Gamal	actor dancer	Egypt	1924-08-22 1924-03-05	1994-12-01
Alifa Rifaat	poet writer novelist	Egypt	1930-06-05	1996-01-01
Shadia	singer actor	Egypt	1931-02-08 1929-02-08	2017-11-28
Faten Hamama	actor film actor film producer screenwriter	Egypt	1931-05-27	2015-01-17
Hend Rostom	actor film actor	Egypt	1931-11-12 1926-11-11	2011-08-08
Ratiba El-Hefny	opera singer singer	Egypt	1931-12-02	2013-09-16
Notaila Rashed	writer	Egypt	1934-09-19	2012-05-26
Soad Hosni	actor singer film actor	Egypt	1943-01-26	2001-06-21
Radwa Ashour	writer literary critic university teacher novelist	Egypt	1946-05-26	2014-11-30
Madiha Kamel	actor	Egypt	1948-08-03	1997-01-13

France

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Christine de Pizan	writer poet translator philosopher women letter writer	France	1364-09-11	1431
Émilie du Châtelet	Maths Physics philosopher Essay salonnière translator	France	1706-12-17	1749-09-10
Jeanne Baret	botanist explorer naturalist housekeeper	France	1740-07-27	1807-08-05
Olympe de Gouges	playwright journalist philosopher writer politician author	France	1748-05-07	1793-11-03
Marie Harel	farmer	France	1761-04-28	1844-11-09
Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur	children's writer writer	France	1799-08-01	1874-02-09
Rosa Bonheur	painter sculptor drawer artist head teacher	France	1822-03-16	1899-05-25
Julie-Victoire Daubié	women's rights activist economist columnist conferencier	France	1824-03-26	1874-08-26
Isabelle Gatti de Gamond	women's rights activist editor	France	1839-07-28	1905-10-11
Madeleine Brès	physician	France	1849-11-25	1921-11-30
Camille Claudel	painter art model sculptor architectural draftsperson graphic artist artist	France	1864-12-08	1943-10-19
Marie Curie	physicist chemist university teacher	France Russian Empire Second Polish Republic	1867-11-07	1934-07-04
Eugénie Brazier	chef	France	1895-06-12	1977-03-02
Paulette Nardal	journalist women's rights activist writer	France	1896-10-12	1985-02-16
Anita Conti	oceanographer photographer explorer writer journalist	France	1899-05-17	1997-12-25
Suzanne Lenglen	tennis player	France	1899-05-24	1938-07-04
Marguerite Yourcenar	novelist poet essayist translator university teacher writer playwright literary critic	France United States of America Belgium	1903-06-08	1987-12-17
Simone de Beauvoir	political philosopher journalist novelist autobiographer essayist political activist diarist women letter writer philosopher literary critic writer author feminist philosophy teacher	France	1908-01-09	1986-04-14
Hélène Boucher	aircraft pilot	France	1908-05-23	1934-11-30
Simone Louise des Forest	racing automobile driver	France	1910-03-07	2004-11-15
Taos Amrouche	singer novelist poet	France Algeria	1913-03-04	1976-04-02
Édith Piaf	singer actor recording artist chansonnier street artist songwriter	France	1915-12-19	1963-10-10
Agnès Varda	photographer screenwriter documentarian plastic artist film director	France Belgium	1928-05-30	2019-03-29
Niki de Saint Phalle	model painter visual artist sculptor illustrator jewelry designer conceptual artist watercolorist installation artist performance artist scenographer filmmaker printmaker architectural draftsperson graphic artist artist film director	France Switzerland United States of America	1930-10-29	2002-05-21
Dalida	film actor singer model dancer	France	1933-01-17	1987-05-03
Assia Djebar	linguist film director professor translator writer historian	France Algeria	1936-06-30	2015-02-06
Romy Schneider	film actor stage actor	France Germany Austria	1938-09-23	1982-05-29
France Gall	singer	France	1947-10-09	2018-01-07

German Empire

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Helene Stöcker	journalist writer activist philosopher editor LGBTQ rights activist abortion rights activist women's rights activist	German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany	1869-11-13	1943-02-24
Paula Modersohn-Becker	painter printmaker drawer artist	German Empire	1876-02-08	1907-11-20
Marlene Dietrich	film actor singer autobiographer entertainer violinist stage actor actor television actor resistance fighter	German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany United States of America German Reich	1901-12-27	1992-05-06

Germany

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Dorothea Erxleben	physician	Germany Holy Roman Empire	1715-11-13	1762-06-13
Hedwig Dohm	writer women's rights activist opinion journalist playwright	Germany	1831-09-20	1919-06-01
Sidonie Werner	women's rights activist school teacher	Germany	1860-03-16	1932-12-27
Else Lasker-Schüler	poet writer salonnière playwright	Germany statelessness	1869-02-11	1945-01-22
Alice Salomon	social reformer university teacher writer social pedagogue women's rights activist economist	Germany United States of America	1872-04-19	1948-08-30
Gabriele Münter	painter drawer printmaker artist	Germany	1877-02-19	1962-05-19
Emmy Noether	mathematician physicist university teacher	Germany Kingdom of Bavaria	1882-03-23	1935-04-14
Hedwig Kohn	physicist university teacher	Germany United States of America	1887-04-05	1964-03-26
Nelly Sachs	poet playwright translator writer	Germany Sweden	1891-12-10	1970-05-12
Mina Witkojc	journalist poet translator writer	Germany	1893-05-28	1975-11-11
Lotte Reiniger	film director animator silhouette artist screenwriter director	Germany	1899-06-02	1981-06-19
Maria Reich	archaeologist mathematician language teacher	Germany Peru	1903-05-15	1998-06-08
Herta Heuwer	chef	Germany	1913-06-30	1999-07-13
Meret Oppenheim	photographer lyricist painter model visual artist sculptor illustrator jewelry designer drawer artist	Germany Switzerland	1913-10-06	1985-11-15
Marga Faulstich	chemist	Germany	1915-06-16	1998-02-01
Ellis Kaut	actor audio drama actor radio personality sculptor painter writer photographer screenwriter children's writer	Germany	1920-11-17	2015-09-24
Fasia Jansen	Liedermacher peace activist	Germany	1929-06-06	1997-12-26
Ruth Pfau	physician nun	Germany Pakistan British Raj	1929-09-09	2017-08-10
Aiga Rasch	illustrator graphic designer photographer	Germany	1941-07-09	2009-12-24
Renate Krößner	actor film actor	Germany	1945-05-17	2020-05-25
May Ayim	poet writer pedagogue activist speech and language therapist	Germany	1960-05-03	1996-08-09

Ghana

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Esther Afua Ocloo	entrepreneur	Ghana	1919-04-18	2002-02-08
Theodosia Okoh	artist	Ghana	1922-06-14	2015-04-19
Efua Theodora Sutherland	poet writer playwright educator children's writer	Ghana	1924-06-27	1996-01-02

India

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Fatima Sheikh	social worker school teacher	India	1831-01-09	1900-10-09
Rukhmabai	physician	India British Raj Dominion of India	1864-11-22	1955-09-25 1955-12-25
Anasuya Sarabhai	activist politician	India British Raj Dominion of India	1885-11-11	1972
Muthulakshmi Reddy	politician physician autobiographer	India British Raj Dominion of India	1886-07-30	1968-07-22
P K Rosy	actor film actor	India British Raj Dominion of India	1903-02-10	1975
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay	political activist freedom fighter	India British Raj Dominion of India	1903-04-03	1988-10-29
Rukmini Devi Arundale	politician dancer	India British Raj Dominion of India	1904-02-29	1986-02-24
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan	poet writer	India British Raj Dominion of India	1904-08-16	1948-02-15
Balamani Amma	poet writer	India British Raj Dominion of India	1909-07-19	2004-09-29
Kamala Sohonie	biochemist researcher	India British Raj Dominion of India	1911-06-18 1912	1998-06-28
Ismat Chughtai	writer screenwriter film director	India British Raj Dominion of India	1911-08-21 1915-08-15 1911-08-15 1915-08-21	1991-10-24
Venu Chitale	writer announcer secretary	India	1912	1995
Homai Vyarawalla	photographer journalist photojournalist	India British Raj Dominion of India	1913-12-09	2012-01-15
Sarla Thakral	painter aircraft pilot	India British Raj Dominion of India	1914	2008-03-15
Begum Akhtar	actor singer	India British Raj Dominion of India	1914-10-07	1974-10-30
Kamal Ranadive	medical researcher biologist	India British Raj Dominion of India	1917-11-08	2001-04-11
Mrinalini Sarabhai	dancer choreographer teacher writer	India British Raj Dominion of India	1918-05-11 1918 1928 1918-05-18	2016-01-21
Shakuntala Devi	mathematician astrologer writer mental calculator	India British Raj Dominion of India	1929-11-04	2013-04-21
Kamala Surayya	poet short story writer autobiographer writer	India British Raj Dominion of India	1934-03-31	2009-05-31
Nutan	film actor beauty pageant contestant actor	India	1936-06-04	1991-02-21
Zarina	printmaker sculptor painter graphic artist drawer	India British Raj United States of America Dominion of India	1937-07-16	2020-04-25
Arati Saha	swimmer	India British Raj Dominion of India	1940-09-24	1994-08-23
Sridevi	film actor film producer	India	1963-08-13	2018-02-24

Indonesia

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Lasminingrat	writer	Indonesia	1854-03-29	1948-04-10
Maria Walanda Maramis	warrior	Indonesia	1872-12-01	1924-04-22
Dewi Sartika	women's rights activist	Indonesia	1884-12-04	1947-09-11
Ibu Sud	artist batikontwerper	Indonesia	1908-03-26	1993 1993-05-26
Rasuna Said	politician	Indonesia	1910-09-14	1965-11-02
Herawati Diah	journalist	Indonesia	1917-04-03	2016-09-30
Julie Sulianti Saroso	physician	Indonesia	1917-05-10	1991-04-29
Ani Idrus	journalist	Indonesia	1918-11-25	1999-01-09
Ibu Kasur	songwriter television presenter	Indonesia	1926-01-16	2002-10-22
Nh. Dini	writer women's rights activist novelist	Indonesia Dutch East Indies	1936-02-29	2018-12-04
Aminah Cendrakasih	actor	Indonesia	1938-01-29	2022-12-21
Minarni	badminton player	Indonesia	1944-05-10	2003-05-14
Ellya Khadam	actor singer	Indonesia		2009-11-02

Iraq

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Afifa Eskandar	singer writer	Iraq	1921-12-10	2012-10-21
Nazik Al-Malaika	poet writer university teacher literary critic critic	Iraq	1922-08-23 1923	2007-06-20
Naziha Salim	painter art historian	Iraq	1927	2008-02-15

Israel

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Mascha Kaléko	poet writer	Israel United States of America	1907-06-07 1907-06-17 1912-06-07	1975-01-21
Miriam Roth	writer educator children's writer	Israel	1910-02-16	2005-11-13
Leah Goldberg	poet pedagogue translator playwright literary critic literary editor children's writer literary theorist opinion journalist writer	Israel	1911-05-29	1970-01-15
Shoshana Damari	singer stage actor film actor actor performing artist artist music artist visual artist	Israel	1923-03-31	2006-02-14
Naomi Shemer	composer singer songwriter	Israel	1930-07-13	2004-06-26
Ofra Haza	singer-songwriter voice actor composer journalist pianist film actor stage actor singer	Israel	1957-11-19	2000-02-23
Ronit Elkabetz	film director screenwriter singer film actor stage actor	Israel	1964-11-27	2016-04-19

Italy

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Artemisia Gentileschi	painter artist	Italy	1593-07-08	1653
Anna Castelli Ferrieri	designer architect	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1918-08-06	2006-06-22
Margherita Hack	astrophysicist astronomer non-fiction writer researcher university teacher science communicator athletics competitor secularist	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1922-06-12	2013-06-29
Alda Merini	poet writer	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1931-03-21	2009-11-01

Japan

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Kusunose Kita	activist	Japan	1836-10-18	1920-10-18
Ogino Ginko	physician	Japan	1851-04-04	1913-06-23
Tsuda Umeko	women's rights activist teacher	Japan	1864-12-31	1929-08-16
Ichiyō Higuchi	novelist writer waka poet	Japan	1872-05-02	1896-11-23
Uemura Shōen	Nihonga painter	Japan Empire of Japan	1875-04-23	1949-08-27
Akiko Yosano	poet translator waka poet essayist writer	Japan	1878-12-07	1942-05-29
Tamaki Miura	opera singer	Japan	1884-02-22	1946-05-26
Raicho Hiratsuka	journalist novelist writer critic anarchist	Japan Empire of Japan	1886-02-10	1971-05-24
Michiyo Tsujimura	agronomist biochemist	Japan Empire of Japan	1888-09-17	1969-06-01
Kimiko Tsumura	actor playwright	Japan Empire of Japan	1902-08-16	1974-04-12
Misuzu Kaneko	poet writer composer	Japan	1903-04-11	1930-03-10
Yukie Chiri	poet translator writer ethnographer	Japan	1903-06-08	1922-09-18
Aya Kōda	novelist essayist writer	Japan Empire of Japan	1904-09-01	1990-10-31
Fumiko Enchi	writer novelist playwright	Japan Empire of Japan	1905-10-02	1986-11-12 1986-11-14
Chihiro Iwasaki	painter illustrator	Japan Empire of Japan	1918-12-15	1974-08-08
Katsuko Saruhashi	chemist geologist geochemist	Japan	1920-03-22	2007-09-29
Mitsuko Mori	actor singer seiyū	Japan Empire of Japan	1920-05-09 1923-05-09	2012-11-10
Hibari Misora	actor singer jazz musician lyricist impresario child actor	Japan	1937-05-29	1989-06-24
Eiko Ishioka	costume designer graphic designer designer	Japan Empire of Japan	1938-07-12	2012-01-21
Junko Tabei	explorer mountaineer	Japan Empire of Japan	1939-09-22	2016-10-20

Kingdom of Denmark

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Kamma Rahbek	salonnière writer	Kingdom of Denmark	1775-10-19	1829-01-21
Emma Gad	writer editor	Kingdom of Denmark	1852-01-21	1921-01-08
Anna Ancher	painter artist	Kingdom of Denmark	1859-08-18	1935-04-15
Karen Blixen	short story writer	Kingdom of Denmark	1885-04-17	1962-09-07
Inge Lehmann	seismologist geologist surveyor naturalist geophysicist	Kingdom of Denmark	1888-05-13	1993-02-21

Kingdom of Italy

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Grazia Deledda	writer poet novelist playwright prose writer short story writer	Kingdom of Italy	1871-09-27 1871-11-11	1936-08-15
Julieta Lanteri	physician pharmacologist politician women's rights activist suffragette suffragist	Kingdom of Italy Argentina	1873-03-22	1932-02-23
Tina Modotti	photographer activist model actor film actor stage actor artist	Kingdom of Italy	1896-08-17	1942-01-05
Giovanna Boccalini Barcellona	educator women's rights activist sports executive resistance fighter trade unionist	Kingdom of Italy Italy	1901-09-24	1991-06-24
Gae Aulenti	architect scenographer designer costume designer interior designer furniture designer	Kingdom of Italy Italy	1927-12-04	2012-11-01 2012-10-31

Kingdom of the Netherlands

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Aletta Jacobs	physician women's rights activist peace activist editor suffragist	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1854-02-09	1929-08-10
Annie M.G. Schmidt	playwright writer poet children's writer librarian screenwriter	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1911-05-20	1995-05-21
Fanny Blankers-Koen	sprinter athletics competitor long jumper high jumper	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1918-04-26	2004-01-25

Lebanon

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Anbara Salam Khalidy	translator poet writer women's rights activist	Lebanon	1897-08-04	1986
Saloua Raouda Choucair	painter sculptor artist	Lebanon	1916-06-24	2017-01-26
Etel Adnan	painter poet essayist drawer teacher writer designer	Lebanon United States of America France	1925-02-24	2021-11-14
Sabah	singer actor	Lebanon Egypt	1927-11-10	2014-11-26

Mexico

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Ángela Peralta	opera singer composer	Mexico	1845-07-06	1883-08-30
Matilde Montoya	obstetrician	Mexico	1857-03-14	1938-01-26
Elvia Carrillo	politician	Mexico	1878-12-06	1968-04-15
María Grever	composer songwriter singer conductor businessperson	Mexico United States of America	1885-09-14	1951-12-15
Hermila Galindo	politician journalist women's rights activist activist writer	Mexico	1886-06-02	1954-08-19
Maria L. de Hernández	activist	Mexico	1896-07-29	1986-01-08
Luz Jiménez	art model Informant (linguistics) narrator research assistant writer	Mexico	1897-01-28	1965-01-28
Lola Cueto	painter puppeteer university teacher printmaker	Mexico	1897-03-02	1978-01-24
Concha Michel	singer-songwriter playwright writer	Mexico	1899	1990-12-27
Nellie Campobello	writer choreographer poet	Mexico	1900-11-07	1986-07-09
Helia Bravo Hollis	botanist university teacher botanical collector director	Mexico	1901-09-30	2001-09-26
María Izquierdo	painter	Mexico	1902-10-30	1955-12-03
Lola Álvarez Bravo	photographer	Mexico	1903-04-03 1907	1993
Dolores del Rio	actor film actor stage actor television actor	Mexico	1904-08-03	1983-04-11
Esther Chapa	writer trade unionist surgeon suffragist	Mexico	1904-10-22	1970-12-14
Frida Kahlo	painter artist	Mexico	1907-07-06	1954-07-13
Dolores Olmedo	musician art collector	Mexico	1908-12-14	2002-07-26
Matilde Landeta	filmmaker screenwriter film director	Mexico	1910-09-20	1999-01-30
María de los Angeles Felix Güereña	film actor model singer television actor actor	Mexico	1914-04-08 1914-05-04	2002-04-08
Consuelo Velázquez	composer songwriter lyricist pianist	Mexico	1916-08-29	2005-01-22
Leonora Carrington	painter scenographer novelist drawer sculptor artist	Mexico United Kingdom	1917-04-06	2011-05-25
Amalia Hernández Navarro	teacher ballet dancer choreographer dancer	Mexico	1917-09-19	2000-11-04
Emma Godoy	writer philosopher psychologist psychopedagogue announcer novelist poet short story writer	Mexico	1918-03-25	1989-07-30
Chavela Vargas	street artist singer musician film actor recording artist	Mexico	1919-04-17	2012-08-05
Katy Jurado	actor journalist critic television actor film actor stage actor	Mexico	1924-01-16	2002-07-05
Rosario Castellanos	poet diplomat writer screenwriter university teacher playwright journalist literary scholar	Mexico	1925-05-25	1974-08-07
Evangelina Elizondo	actor singer	Mexico	1929-04-28	2017-10-02
Lola Beltrán	actor singer television actor film actor presenter	Mexico	1935-03-07	1996-03-24
Gloria E. Anzaldúa	writer poet literary critic children's writer journalist novelist philosopher	Mexico	1942-09-26	2004-05-15
Gabriela Brimmer	writer human rights activist poet	Mexico	1947-09-12	2000-01-03
Soraya Jiménez	weightlifter	Mexico	1977-08-05	2013-03-28

New Zealand

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Katherine Mansfield	writer diarist poet prose writer	New Zealand	1888-10-14	1923-01-09
Ngaio Marsh	writer theatrical director novelist autobiographer screenwriter stage actor film actor playwright	New Zealand	1895-04-23	1982-02-18
Whina Cooper	teacher historian activist community leader	New Zealand	1895-12-09	1994-03-26
Jean Batten	aircraft pilot engineer	New Zealand	1909-09-15	1982-11-22

Nigeria

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti	teacher politician activist suffragette	Nigeria	1900-10-25	1978-04-13
Ladi Kwali	ceramicist pedagogue	Nigeria	1925-03-16 1925	1984-08-12
Flora Nwapa	novelist children's writer writer poet	Nigeria	1931-01-13	1993-10-16
Buchi Emecheta	writer novelist sociologist playwright editor children's writer	Nigeria	1944-07-21	2017-01-25
Ameyo Adadevoh	physician endocrinologist	Nigeria	1956-10-27	2014-08-19
Christy Essien-Igbokwe	singer actor songwriter	Nigeria	1960-11-11	2011-06-30
Amaka Igwe	film producer film director writer	Nigeria	1963-01-02	2014-04-28

Ottoman Empire

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Huda Sha'rawi	politician social activist poet journalist	Ottoman Empire Sultanate of Egypt Kingdom of Egypt	1879-06-23	1947-12-12 1947
May Ziadeh	salonnière poet writer novelist translator	Ottoman Empire Sultanate of Egypt Kingdom of Egypt	1886-02-11 1886	1941-10-17 1941
Safiye Ali	physician	Ottoman Empire Turkey	1891-02-02	1952-07-05
Karimeh Abbud	photographer	Ottoman Empire Mandatory Palestine	1893-11-18	1940

Pakistan

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Anna Molka Ahmed	painter writer	Pakistan British Raj	1917-08-13	1994-04-20
Noor Jehan	film director singer film actor actor	Pakistan British Raj	1926-09-21	2000-12-23 2003
Fatima Surayya Bajia	novelist playwright screenwriter writer	Pakistan British Raj	1930-09	2016-02-10
Parveen Shakir	poet writer	Pakistan	1952-11-24	1994-12-26
Perween Rahman	architect social worker	Pakistan	1957-01-22	2013-03-13
Nazia Hassan	singer	Pakistan United Kingdom	1965-04-03	2000-08-13

Peru

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Juana Alarco de Dammert	educator philanthropist	Peru	1842-05-27	1932-08-02
Laura Esther Rodriguez Dulanto	physician professor	Peru	1872-10-18	1919-07-06
Eloísa Angulo	singer	Peru	1919-10-31	1991-10-30
Chabuca Granda	lyricist	Peru	1920-09-03	1983-03-08
Lucha Reyes	musician singer	Peru	1936-07-19	1973-10-31
María Luisa Aguilar	astronomer	Peru	1938-06-20	2015-10-29

Philippines

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Rosa L. Sevilla ni Alvero	writer educator suffragist	Philippines	1879-03-04	1954-05-11
Maria Orosa	chemist food scientist	Philippines	1893-11-29	1945-02-13
Paz Márquez-Benítez	writer	Philippines	1894-03-03	1983-11-10
Josefa Llanes Escoda	suffragist	Philippines	1898-09-20	1945-01-06
Francisca Reyes-Aquino	dancer	Philippines	1899-03-09	1983-11-21
Fe del Mundo	pediatrician scientist	Philippines	1900-11-27	2011-08-06
Genoveva Matute	writer	Philippines	1915-01-03	2009-03-21
Pacita Abad	painter	Philippines	1946-10-05	2004-12-07

Poland

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Zofia Stryjeńska	painter graphic designer illustrator graphic artist scenographer visual artist	Poland	1891-05-13	1976-02-28
Irena Sendler	clinical nurse specialist resistance fighter	Poland	1910-02-15	2008-05-12
Irena Kwiatkowska	stage actor film actor actor radio personality	Poland	1912-09-17	2011-03-03
Wisława Szymborska	poet writer translator essayist mechanic literary critic critic	Poland	1923-07-02	2012-02-01
Magdalena Abakanowicz	sculptor textile artist athletics competitor university teacher designer architectural draftsperson painter performance artist artist	Poland	1930-06-20	2017-04-20
Agnieszka Osiecka	poet writer journalist songwriter lyricist	Poland	1936-10-09	1997-03-07
Zofia Nasierowska	photographer writer	Poland	1938-04-24	2011-10-03
Wanda Rutkiewicz	mountaineer	Poland	1943-02-04	1992-05-13

Portugal

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Adelaide Cabete	gynecologist obstetrician editor suffragist	Portugal Kingdom of Portugal	1867-01-25	1935-09-14
Carolina Beatriz Ângelo	surgeon gynecologist physician suffragist	Portugal Kingdom of Portugal	1878-04-16	1911-10-03
Carmen Miranda	actor singer dancer	Portugal Brazil	1909-02-09	1955-08-05
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen	poet translator children's writer writer politician	Portugal	1919-11-06 1919	2004-07-02
Amália Rodrigues	actor singer musician recording artist fado singer	Portugal	1920-07-23	1999-10-06

Romania

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Ștefania Mărăcineanu	physicist chemist teacher	Romania	1882-06-18	1944-08-15
Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu	aircraft pilot	Romania	1887-05-13	1929-03-29
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu	engineer teacher inventor	Romania	1887-11-10	1973-11-25
Maria Tănase	singer actor recording artist	Romania	1913-09-25	1963-06-22 1963-07-22
Geta Brătescu	painter lithographer graphic artist conceptual artist photographer collagist visual artist	Romania	1926-05-04	2018-09-19

Russian Empire

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Marko Vovchok	translator writer children's writer editor short story writer	Russian Empire Ukraine	1833-12-10	1907-07-28
Maria Konopnicka	poet writer essayist children's writer literary critic translator children's rights activist editor	Russian Empire	1842-05-23	1910-10-08
Sofia Kovalevskaya	mathematician physicist novelist university teacher communard writer	Russian Empire Sweden	1850-01-03	1899-02-10
Zinaida Gippius	poet writer playwright literary critic prose writer	Russian Empire France	1869-11-08	1945-09-09
Vera Gedroits	physician surgeon poet physician writer writer	Russian Empire Soviet Union	1870-04-07	1932-03
Anna Pavlova	ballet dancer choreographer editor silent film actor	Russian Empire	1881-02-12 1882-02-16 1881-01-31	1931-01-23
Natalia Goncharova	painter scenographer costume designer illustrator drawer fashion designer writer artist	Russian Empire France Russia	1881-06-21	1962-10-17
Zofia Nałkowska	writer playwright journalist poet essayist politician prose writer	Russian Empire Poland	1884-11-10	1954-12-17
Zinaida Serebryakova	painter artist	Russian Empire Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Soviet Union France	1884-11-28	1967-09-19
Marina Tsvetaeva	poet writer diarist prose writer translator	Russian Empire Soviet Union	1892-10-08	1941-08-31
Varvara Stepanova	painter designer poet illustrator textile artist scenographer graphic artist performance artist artist	Russian Empire Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Soviet Union Russia	1894-11-05 1894-10-28 1894-11-09 1894-10-09	1958-05-20
Faina Ranevskaya	stage actor film actor actor	Russian Empire Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Soviet Union Russian Republic	1896-08-15 1896-08-27	1984-07-19
Katarzyna Kobro	painter sculptor art theorist	Russian Empire Soviet Union Poland	1898-01-26	1951-02-21
Tamara de Lempicka	painter artist	Russian Empire Poland	1898-05-16	1980-03-18
Zinaida Yermolyeva	physician virologist microbiologist epidemiologist university teacher	Russian Empire Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Soviet Union	1898-10-15 1899	1974-12-02
Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur	painter visual artist	Russian Empire Soviet Union	1900-11-25	1961-06-10
Natalya Sats	theatrical director writer music director opera director opinion journalist playwright drama teacher	Russian Empire Soviet Union Russia	1903-08-14 1903-08-27	1993-12-18
Clara Rockmore	violinist composer musician	Russian Empire United States of America	1911-03-09	1998-05-10
Olga Skorokhodova	writer research fellow	Russian Empire Soviet Union	1911-06-11 1914-07-11 1911 1911-05-11 1914-07-24	1982-05-07

Singapore

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Georgette Chen	painter	Singapore Republic of China (1912–1949)	1906 1907 1906-10-23	1993-03-15
Che Zahara binte Noor Mohamed	activist	Singapore	1907	1962
Maggie Lim	physician teacher civil servant	Singapore	1913-01-05	1995
Azah Aziz	journalist writer	Singapore Malaysia	1928-08-21	2012-07-09

South Africa

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Charlotte Maxeke	politician social activist missionary	South Africa	1871-04-07	1939-10-16
Helen Joseph	politician trade unionist	South Africa	1905-04-08	1992-12-25
Nadine Gordimer	poet writer novelist playwright short story writer scientific editor prose writer film director	South Africa	1923-11-20	2014-07-13
Fatima Meer	writer university teacher politician	South Africa	1928-08-12	2010-03-12 2010-03-13
Miriam Tlali	writer novelist journalist	South Africa	1933-11-11	2017-02-24
Nomhle Nkonyeni	actor	South Africa	1942-04-09	2019-07-10

South Korea

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Esther Park	physician	South Korea	1877-03-16 1876-03-16 1879	1910-04-13
Na Hye-sok	poet journalist philosopher painter writer politician printmaker sculptor activist	South Korea	1896-04-18	1948-12-10
Lee Tai-young	lawyer judge	South Korea	1914-08-10	1998-12-16
Seund Ja Rhee	painter ceramicist graphic artist printmaker	South Korea Korea	1918-06-03 1918	2009-03-08 2009
Hwang Hye-seong	writer	South Korea	1920-07-05	2006-12-14
Park Kyung-ni	poet writer	South Korea	1926-10-28	2008-05-05
Park Wan-suh	writer	South Korea	1931-10-20	2011-01-22
Ji Hyeon-Ok	mountaineer	South Korea	1959	1999

Soviet Union

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Agniya Barto	poet translator children's writer screenwriter writer radio personality ballet dancer turner	Soviet Union Russian Empire	1901-02-04 1906-02-04 1906-11-17	1981-04-01 1981-01-01
Sophia Mogilevskaya	children's writer writer	Soviet Union	1903-04-03	1981
Lyudmila Rudenko	chess player	Soviet Union	1904-07-27	1986-03-04
Veronika Dudarova	conductor pianist music educator	Soviet Union Russia	1916-12-05	2009-01-15
Olga Ladyzhenskaya	mathematician university teacher	Soviet Union Russia	1922-03-07	2004-01-12
Natalia Bekhtereva	neuroscientist psychologist politician physician neurophysiologist university teacher	Soviet Union Russia	1924-07-07	2008-06-22
Tatyana Lioznova	film director screenwriter drama teacher theatrical director	Soviet Union Russia	1924-07-20	2011-09-29
Galina Vishnevskaya	actor opera singer music educator biographer diarist theatrical director opera director	Soviet Union Russia	1926-10-25	2012-12-11
Lyudmila Gurchenko	singer film actor film score composer film director screenwriter actor memoirist stage actor	Soviet Union Russia	1935-11-12	2011-03-30
Bella Akhmadulina	poet translator writer playwright screenwriter actor	Soviet Union Russia	1937-04-10	2010-11-29

Spain

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Luisa de Medrano	university teacher intellectual writer poet	Spain	1484-08-09	1527
Concepción	writer editor social worker novelist journalist poet	Spain	1820-01-31	1893-02-04
Rosalía de Castro	writer poet novelist short story writer	Spain	1837-02-23	1885-07-22
Emilia Pardo Bazán	essayist literary critic novelist journalist salonnière writer poet editor gastronomist short story writer	Spain	1851-09-16	1921-05-12
Clara Campoamor	politician lawyer writer jurist suffragist	Spain	1888-02-12	1972-04-30
Ángela Ruiz Robles	teacher inventor	Spain	1895-03-28	1975-10-27
María Moliner	lexicographer linguist archivist	Spain	1900-03-30	1981-01-22
María Zambrano	philosopher writer poet	Spain	1904-04-22	1991-02-06
Carmen Conde	poet writer literary critic teacher	Spain	1907-08-15	1996-01-08
Remedios Varo	painter sculptor drawer artist	Spain	1908-12-16	1963-10-08
María de los Ángeles Alvariño González	biologist oceanographer professor	Spain	1916-10-03	2005-05-29
Gloria Fuertes	writer poet children's writer	Spain	1917-07-28	1998-11-27
Carmen Amaya	singer bailadora flamenca actor	Spain	1918-11-02	1963-11-19
Carmen Laforet	writer novelist	Spain	1921-09-06	2004-02-28
Lola Flores	singer bailadora flamenca actor film actor television actor	Spain	1923-01-21	1995-05-16
Montserrat Caballé	opera singer recording artist	Spain	1933-04-12	2018-10-06

Sweden

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Eva Ekeblad	salonnière land owner botanist chemist agronomist	Sweden	1724-07-10	1786-05-15
Amalia Eriksson	merchant	Sweden	1824-11-18	1923-01-25
Selma Lagerlöf	novelist children's writer biographer teacher poet writer prose writer translator autobiographer author	Sweden	1858-11-20	1940-03-16
Erika Aittamaa	fashion designer	Sweden	1866-02-22	1952-12-15
Elsa Beskow	writer illustrator children's writer artist painter graphic artist art educator	Sweden	1874-02-11	1953-06-30
Margit Nordin	cross-country skier	Sweden	1897-08-10	1982-05-03
Karin Boye	translator poet novelist literary critic science fiction writer writer critic	Sweden	1900-10-26	1941-04-24
Birgit Cullberg	choreographer dancer ballet master ballet dancer theatre manager film director	Sweden	1908-08-03	1999-09-08

Taiwan

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Chen Jin	painter	Taiwan Empire of Japan	1907-11-02	1998-03-27
Sanmao	writer novelist translator screenwriter lyricist	Taiwan Spain	1943-03-26	1991-01-04
Teresa Teng	singer actor film actor television actor recording artist	Taiwan	1953-01-29	1995-05-08
Feng Fei-fei	singer actor film actor recording artist	Taiwan	1953-08-20	2012-01-03
Lo Man-fei	choreographer	Taiwan	1955-09-16	2006-03-24

Thailand

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Margaret Lin Xavier	physician	Thailand	1898-05-29	1932-12-06
Payom Sinawat	textile artist	Thailand	1909-02-03	2008-10-25
Puangroi Abhayavongsa	composer	Thailand	1915-03-28	2000-08-17
Nilawan Pintong	writer	Thailand	1916-12-06	2017-02-07
Saeng-da Bunsiddhi	artist weaver artisan	Thailand	1919-04-14	1993-01-11
Penpan Sittitrai	teacher artist	Thailand	1926-01-28	2015-08-03
Ratchanee Sripraiwan	writer	Thailand	1931-03-11	2014-04-15
Prayoon Yomyiam	artist	Thailand	1933-11-30	2010-11-20
Kaimook Chuto	sculptor	Thailand	1938-04-19	1996-10-31
Pumpuang Duangjan	singer actor	Thailand	1961-08-04	1992-06-13
Lamun Yamakhup	artist	Thailand		1982

Turkey

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Mihri Müşfik Hanım	painter	Turkey Ottoman Empire United States of America	1886-02-26	1954
Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid	painter stained-glass artist mosaicist lithographer printmaker collagist	Turkey Jordan	1901-01-07	1991-09-05
Remziye Hisar	chemist	Turkey	1902	1992-06-13
Aliye Berger	painter	Turkey Ottoman Empire	1903-12-24	1974-08-10
Safiye Ayla	singer songwriter recording artist actor	Turkey	1907-09-13	1998-01-14
Sabire Aydemir	civil servant veterinarian	Turkey	1910-02-01	1991-07-04
Semiha Berksoy	opera singer	Turkey	1910-05-24	2004-08-15
Füreya Koral	ceramicist	Turkey	1910-06-12	1997-08-25
Nüzhet Gökdoğan	astronomer	Turkey Ottoman Empire	1910-08-14	2003-04-24
Sabiha Gökçen	aircraft pilot military personnel	Turkey Montenegro	1913-03-22	2001-03-22
Jale İnan	archaeological monument keeper classical archaeologist university teacher archaeologist	Turkey	1914-02-01	2001-02-26
Halet Çambel	anthropologist archaeologist fencer university teacher Hittitologist	Turkey	1916-08-27	2014-01-12
Müzeyyen Senar	singer film actor recording artist	Turkey	1918-07-16	2015-02-08
Dilhan Eryurt	astrophysicist professor	Turkey	1926-11-29	2012-09-13
Leyla Gencer	opera singer	Turkey	1928-10-10 1924-10-10	2008-05-10 2008-05-09
Aysel Gürel	lyricist	Turkey	1929-02-07	2008-02-17
Adile Naşit	stage actor film actor voice actor narrator	Turkey	1930-06-17	1987-12-11
Türkan Saylan	writer teacher physician activist	Turkey	1935-12-13	2009-05-18
Tomris Uyar	journalist translator writer	Turkey	1941-03-15	2003-07-04
Duygu Asena	writer journalist actor activist pedagogue presenter	Turkey	1946-04-19	2006-07-30

United Kingdom

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Gertrude Jekyll	horticulturist painter gardener non-fiction writer botanist architect landscape architect garden designer photographer editor	United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1843-11-29	1932-12-08
Louisa Aldrich-Blake	physician surgeon	United Kingdom	1865-08-15	1925-12-28
Amanda Aldridge	opera singer music educator composer	United Kingdom	1866-03-10	1956-03-09
Beatrix Potter	writer illustrator painter children's writer mycologist scientific illustrator botanist novelist conservationist artist	United Kingdom	1866-07-28	1943-12-22
Virginia Woolf	novelist essayist autobiographer short story writer diarist literary critic publisher writer women's rights activist author	United Kingdom	1882-01-25	1941-03-28
Lucy Wills	physician hematologist	United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1888-05-10	1964-04-26
Agatha Christie	writer novelist crime fiction writer	United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1890-09-15	1976-01-12
Gluck	painter artist	United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1895-08-13	1978-01-10
Anna Freud	psychoanalyst non-fiction writer	United Kingdom Austria	1895-12-03 1896	1982-10-09
Evelyn Dove	actor cabaret performer jazz singer	United Kingdom	1902-01-11	1987-03-07
Barbara Hepworth	sculptor painter drawer photographer artist visual artist	United Kingdom	1903-01-10	1975-05-20
Dorothy Hodgkin	biologist chemist physicist biochemist crystallographer biophysicist	United Kingdom	1910-05-12	1994-07-29
Mary Leakey	anthropologist archaeologist prehistorian paleoanthropologist biologist paleontologist	United Kingdom	1913-02-06	1996-12-09
Cicely Saunders	physician nurse writer	United Kingdom	1918-06-22	2005-07-14
Joan Aiken	writer novelist children's writer science fiction writer editor	United Kingdom	1924-09-04	2004-01-04
Jackie Forster	television presenter activist actor film actor	United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1926-11-06	1998-10-10
Anne McLaren	developmental biologist geneticist zoologist	United Kingdom	1927-04-26	2007-07-07
Audrey Hepburn	stage actor model film actor philanthropist dancer ballet dancer actor humanitarian	United Kingdom	1929-05-04	1993-01-20
Dorothy Miles	poet writer	United Kingdom	1931-08-19	1993-01-30
Diana Wynne Jones	writer children's writer novelist science fiction writer poet	United Kingdom	1934-08-16	2011-03-26
Dusty Springfield	singer recording artist television presenter	United Kingdom	1939-04-16	1999-03-02
Zaha Hadid	architect designer university teacher jewelry designer artist sculptor painter	United Kingdom Iraq	1950-10-31	2016-03-31
Olive Morris	women's rights activist	United Kingdom	1952-06-26	1979-07-12

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Joanna Baillie	poet writer playwright tragedy writer	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain	1762-09-11	1851-02-23
Jane Austen	writer short story writer novelist	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain	1775-12-16	1817-07-18
Mary Somerville	mathematician writer scientist physicist geologist	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1780-12-26	1872-11-28
Mary Shelley	travel writer novelist essayist playwright biographer writer science fiction writer poet short story writer	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain United Kingdom	1797-08-30	1851-02-01
Anna Atkins	photographer illustrator botanist writer botanical collector	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1799-03-16	1871-06-09
Mary Anning	paleontologist dealer of naturalia fossil collector	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1799-05-21 1800	1847-03-09
Mary Seacole	nurse autobiographer writer traditional healer	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1805	1881-05-14
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	poet screenwriter essayist pamphleteer translator writer abolitionist	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1806-03-06	1861-06-29
Ada Lovelace	mathematician programmer poet computer scientist inventor translator writer engineer	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1815-12-10	1852-11-27
Charlotte Brontë	poet novelist writer governess teacher	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1816-04-21	1855-03-31
Florence Nightingale	nurse statistician writer politician teacher sociologist	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1820-05-12	1910-08-13
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson	politician physician suffragist writer	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1836-06-09	1917-12-17
Millicent Garrett Fawcett	politician women's rights activist writer economist	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1847-06-11	1929-08-05
Annie Besant	essayist writer orator journalist editor politician feminist theosophist suffragist women's rights activist civil rights advocate freedom fighter	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom	1847-10-01	1933-09-20
Hertha Ayrton	mathematician electrical engineer physicist inventor women's rights activist suffragette suffragist writer	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom	1854-04-28	1923-08-23
Emmeline Pankhurst	suffragette politician women's rights activist human rights activist writer	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1858-07-15	1928-06-14
Edith Nesbit	writer children's writer poet	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom	1858-08-15	1924-05-04
Edith Cavell	nurse matron governess	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1865-12-04	1915-10-12
Alicia Moreau de Justo	politician university teacher journalist physician suffragette	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Argentina United Kingdom	1885-10-11	1986-05-12
Amy Johnson	aircraft pilot	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom	1903-07-01	1941-01-05
Rosalind Franklin	chemist molecular biologist physicist biochemist biophysicist crystallographer university teacher geneticist biologist	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom	1920-07-25	1958-04-16
Connie Mark	activist medical secretary	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Jamaica	1923-12-21	2007-06-03

United States of America

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Sojourner Truth	human rights activist writer abolitionist women's rights activist suffragist	United States of America	1797	1883-11-26
Maria Mitchell	astronomer librarian university teacher writer naturalist	United States of America	1818-08-01	1889-06-29
Eunice Newton Foote	physicist climatologist inventor women's rights activist	United States of America	1819-07-17	1888-09-30
Susan B. Anthony	women's rights activist human rights activist abolitionist writer civil rights advocate feminist suffragist	United States of America	1820-02-15	1906-03-13
Elizabeth Blackwell	physician medical writer essayist women's rights activist human rights activist writer	United States of America United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1821-02-03	1910-05-31
Harriet Tubman	writer nurse human rights activist abolitionist political activist spy suffragist feminist	United States of America	1822-03-06	1913-03-10
Mary Ann Shadd	journalist civil rights advocate newspaper proprietor suffragist lawyer	United States of America	1823-10-09	1893-06-05
Louisa May Alcott	writer nurse poet novelist children's writer teacher domestic worker suffragist	United States of America	1832-11-29	1888-03-06
Helena Modjeska	actor stage actor	United States of America Poland Russian Empire	1840-10-12	1909-04-08
Ida Lewis	lighthouse keeper	United States of America	1842-02-25	1911-10-24
Mary Cassatt	painter printmaker graphic artist photographer etcher	United States of America	1844-05-22	1926-06-14
Edmonia Lewis	sculptor artist	United States of America	1844-07-04	1907-09-17
Jane Addams	journalist philosopher writer women's rights activist autobiographer social reformer social critic suffragette peace activist human rights activist political theorist sociologist	United States of America	1860-09-06	1935-05-22
Nettie Stevens	biologist geneticist zoologist librarian	United States of America	1861-07-07	1912-05-04
Ida B. Wells	journalist sociologist suffragist writer human rights activist	United States of America	1862-07-16	1931-03-25
Annie Jump Cannon	astronomer physicist university teacher astrophysicist	United States of America	1863-12-11	1941-04-13
Nellie Bly	writer journalist novelist traveler inventor suffragist entrepreneur	United States of America	1864-05-05 1867	1922-01-27
Susan La Flesche Picotte	physician teacher	United States of America	1865-06-17	1915-09-18
Laura Ingalls Wilder	writer novelist teacher reporter journalist children's writer autobiographer	United States of America	1867-02-07	1957-02-10
Marie Dressler	film actor film producer stage actor screenwriter film director	United States of America Canada	1868-11-09	1934-07-28
Ynes Mexia	botanist botanical collector lecturer social worker photographer	United States of America Mexico	1870-05-24	1938-07-12
Zitkala-Sa	writer poet violinist human rights activist	United States of America	1876-02-22	1938-01-28
Alice Paul	jurist women's rights activist suffragette	United States of America	1885-01-11	1977-07-09
Jovita Idár	journalist activist	United States of America	1885-09-07	1946-06-15
Zora Neale Hurston	anthropologist historian novelist writer journalist folklorist civil rights advocate playwright film director	United States of America	1891-01-07	1960-01-28
Myrtle Gonzalez	actor stage actor film actor	United States of America	1891-09-28	1918-10-22
Bessie Coleman	aircraft pilot human rights activist stunt pilot	United States of America	1892-01-26	1926-04-30
Martha Graham	ballet dancer choreographer music educator ballet master costume designer dancer film director	United States of America	1894-05-11	1991-04-01
Amelia Earhart	aircraft pilot memoirist travel writer journalist women's rights activist aviation writer	United States of America	1897-07-24	1939-01-05
Edith Head	costume designer fashion designer	United States of America	1897-10-28	1981-10-24
Adelaide Hall	singer jazz musician stage actor	United States of America	1901-10-20 1904-10-20	1993-11-07
Anna May Wong	film actor stage actor television actor singer writer	United States of America	1905-01-03 1904-01-03	1961-02-03 1961-02-02
Josephine Baker	singer vedette film actor street artist dancer jazz musician model actor military officer intelligence officer writer civil rights advocate	United States of America France	1906-06-03	1975-04-12
Grace Hopper	mathematician naval officer computer scientist university teacher programmer physicist	United States of America	1906-12-09	1992-01-01
Rachel Carson	marine biologist environmentalist zoologist essayist author conservationist non-fiction writer writer whistleblower	United States of America	1907-05-27	1964-04-14
Altina Schinasi	film producer film director sculptor	United States of America	1907-08-04	1999-08-19
Luisa Moreno	trade unionist activist	United States of America	1907-08-30	1992-11-04
Mary Golda Ross	mathematician military flight engineer	United States of America	1908-08-09	2008-04-29
Virginia Apgar	pediatrician physician university teacher anesthesiologist	United States of America	1909-06-07	1974-08-07
Elizabeth Peratrovich	civil rights advocate	United States of America	1911-07-04	1958-12-01
Jackie Ormes	cartoonist comics artist activist journalist	United States of America	1911-08-01	1985-12-26 1985
Lucille Ball	television actor film actor comedian television producer film studio executive actor film director director producer	United States of America	1911-08-06	1989-04-26
Mary Blair	illustrator painter concept artist	United States of America	1911-10-21	1978-07-26
Dorthy Hieghts	educator journalist social worker politician human rights activist pedagogue political activist	United States of America	1912-03-24	2010-04-20
Julia Child	writer cook television presenter copywriter typist research assistant administrative assistant clerk	United States of America	1912-08-15	2004-08-13
Masako Katsura	carom billiards player	United States of America	1913	1995
Rosa Parks	autobiographer human rights activist civil rights advocate public figure political activist	United States of America	1913-02-04	2005-10-24
Felicitas Mendez	activist	United States of America	1916-02-05	1998-04-12
Ella Fitzgerald	singer-songwriter composer conductor bandleader film actor recording artist jazz musician singer	United States of America	1917-04-25 1918-04-25	1996-06-15 1996-08-15
Corita Kent	graphic designer printmaker postage stamp designer artist	United States of America	1918-11-20	1986-09-18
Marie Tharp	cartographer oceanographer geologist	United States of America	1920-07-30	2006-08-23
Eileen Chang	screenwriter journalist translator writer novelist	United States of America Taiwan People's Republic of China	1920-09-30 1920-09-20	1995-09-08
Yuri Kochiyama	human rights activist	United States of America	1921-05-19	2014-06-01 2014-06-02
Marcenia Lyle Stone "Toni"	baseball player	United States of America	1921-07-17	1996-11-02
Hisaye Yamamoto	short story writer writer	United States of America	1921-08-23	2011-01-30
Yma Sumac	singer model actor composer record producer	United States of America Peru	1922-09-13	2008-11-01
Vicki Draves	competitive diver	United States of America	1924-12-31	2010-04-11
Maria Tallchief	ballet dancer	United States of America	1925-01-24	2013-04-11
Celia Cruz	singer actor	United States of America Cuba	1925-10-21	2003-07-16
Ruth Asawa	sculptor artist lithographer graphic artist textile artist	United States of America	1926-01-24	2013-08-06
Althea Gibson	tennis player tennis coach autobiographer golfer	United States of America	1927-08-25	2003-09-28
Maya Angelou	politician comedian dancer film producer television producer playwright film director professor screenwriter writer essayist songwriter autobiographer singer television actor stage actor journalist novelist human rights activist	United States of America	1928-04-04	2014-05-28
Shirley Temple	actor film actor singer diplomat child actor dancer television actor politician	United States of America	1928-04-23	2014-02-10
Amanda Crowe	wood carver sculptor	United States of America Mexico	1928-07-16	2004-09-27
Helen Rodríguez Trías	scientist	United States of America	1929-07-07	2001-12-27
Phoebe Snetsinger	zoologist ornithologist	United States of America	1931-06-09	1999-11-23
Dian Fossey	anthropologist primatologist ethologist zoologist biologist academic writer ecologist	United States of America	1932-01-16	1985-12-26 1985-12-27
Sylvia Plath	poet writer novelist essayist autobiographer diarist children's writer	United States of America	1932-10-27	1963-02-11
Audre Lorde	librarian poet novelist writer women's rights activist essayist university teacher teacher feminist philosopher	United States of America	1934-02-18	1992-11-17
Beatrice Tinsley	astronomer university teacher	United States of America	1941-01-27	1981-03-23
Kitty O'Neil	engineer racing automobile driver stunt performer competitive diver	United States of America	1946-03-24	2018-11-02
Octavia E. Butler	science fiction writer novelist writer	United States of America	1947-06-22	2006-02-24
Jeanne Córdova	journalist	United States of America	1948-07-18	2016-01-10
Meena Alexander	novelist poet writer university teacher	United States of America India	1951-02-17	2018-11-21
Sally Ride	physicist astronaut astrophysicist writer university teacher children's writer	United States of America	1951-05-26	2012-07-23
Barbara May Cameron	activist human rights activist	United States of America	1954-05-22	2002-02-12
Selena	singer spokesperson actor television actor film actor fashion designer	United States of America	1971-04-16	1995-03-31
Stacey Milbern	disability rights activist poet blogger	United States of America	1987-05-19	2020-05-19
Mama Cax	model disability rights activist	United States of America Haiti	1989-11-20	2019-12-16
Sophie Araque-Liu		United States of America

Misc

label	occupation	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death
Shin Saimdang	painter poet writer	Joseon	1504-10-29	1551-05-17
Judith Leyster	painter artist	Dutch Republic	1609	1660-02-10
Michaelina Wautier	painter	Spanish Netherlands	1614 1604	1689
Justine Siegemund	midwife writer gynecologist	Duchies of Silesia	1636-12-26	1705-11-10
Elena Cornaro Piscopia	mathematician philosopher theologian university teacher medic	Republic of Venice	1646-06-05	1684-07-26
Maria Sibylla Merian	entomologist lepidopterist botanist naturalist painter illustrator scientific illustrator botanical illustrator graphic artist artist	Dutch Republic Germany Kingdom of the Netherlands	1647-04-02	1717-01-13
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	poet religious sister writer mathematician philosopher composer playwright cloistered nun nun	Spanish Empire	1651-11-12	1695-04-17
Hannah Glasse	author cookbook writer	Kingdom of Great Britain	1708-03	1770-09-01
Laura Bassi	physicist university teacher mathematician anatomist professor of philosophy philosopher biologist	Papal States	1711-10-29	1778-02-20
Francesca Sanna Sulis	businessperson benefactor sericulturist	Kingdom of Sardinia	1716-06-11	1810-02-04
Caroline Herschel	astronomer mathematician singer violinist	Kingdom of Hanover	1750-03-16	1848-01-09
Fanny Mendelssohn	composer pianist university teacher	Hamburg	1805-11-14	1847-05-14
Josephine Lang	composer pianist music teacher	Kingdom of Bavaria	1815-03-14	1880-12-02
Clara Schumann	pianist composer music educator	Kingdom of Saxony	1819-09-13	1896-05-20
Maria Severa Onofriana	singer	Kingdom of Portugal	1820	1846-11-30
Božena Němcová	writer poet children's writer collector of fairy tales editor national revival activist opinion journalist novelist	Austrian Empire	1820-02-04	1862-01-21 1862-04-21
Bertha von Suttner	writer novelist translator journalist pacifist science fiction writer editor	Austrian Empire Cisleithania	1843-06-09	1914-06-21
Minna Canth	writer journalist playwright businessperson editor short story writer	Grand Principality of Finland	1844-03-19	1897-05-12
Žemaitė	writer	Lithuania	1845-06-04	1921-12-07
Teresa Carreño	composer conductor pianist opera singer	Venezuela	1853-12-22	1917-06-12
Maria Zankovetska	stage actor film actor actor	Ukrainian People's Republic Russian Empire Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet Union	1854-07-23 1854-08-04 1854	1934-10-04 1934
Draga Ljocic-Milosevic	physician activist military personnel suffragist	Principality of Serbia Kingdom of Serbia Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes	1855-02-22	1926-11-05
Emma Ihrer	politician trade unionist editor	Kingdom of Prussia	1857-01-03	1911-01-08
Lou Andreas-Salomé	writer psychoanalyst essayist autobiographer philosopher	German Reich	1861-02-12	1937-02-05
Sương Nguyệt Anh	journalist poet physician teacher	Vietnam	1864-03-08	1921-01-20
Käthe Kollwitz	printmaker drawer lithographer poster artist illustrator sculptor autobiographer designer graphic artist painter architectural draftsperson artist	Weimar Republic German Empire	1867-07-08	1945-04-22
Maria Montessori	physician pedagogue essayist	Zorroza Kingdom of Italy	1870-08-31	1952-05-06
Lesya Ukrainka	poet translator writer playwright	Ukraine	1871-02-13	1913-08-01
Solomea Krushelnytska	opera singer music educator	Austria-Hungary Kingdom of Italy Soviet Union	1872-09-23	1952-11-16
Marija Jurić Zagorka	journalist playwright writer novelist	Kingdom of Hungary Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Kingdom of Yugoslavia Independent State of Croatia Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	1873-03-02	1957-11-30
Nadežda Petrović	art critic painter visual artist	Principality of Serbia Kingdom of Serbia	1873-10-12	1915-04-03
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić	poet writer children's writer	Kingdom of Hungary Kingdom of Yugoslavia	1874-04-18	1938-09-21
Františka Plamínková	writer journalist politician suffragette	Austria-Hungary Czechoslovakia	1875-02-05	1942-06-30
Sophie Taeuber-Arp	painter sculptor architect dancer teacher illustrator textile artist artist	Switzerland	1889-01-19	1943-01-13
Hannah Höch	photographer painter drawer graphic artist collagist artist	West Germany German Reich	1889-11-01	1978-05-31
Rachel Bluwstein	poet writer translator	Mandatory Palestine	1890-10-03	1931-04-16
María Teresa Vera	singer composer guitarist songwriter	Cuba	1895-02-06	1965-12-17
Omm Kalthum	singer actor film actor	Kingdom of Egypt Republic of Egypt United Arab Republic	1898-12-31	1975-02-03
Sybil Kathigasu	nurse	British Malaya	1899-09-03	1948-06-12
Mária Telkes	chemist biophysicist inventor	Hungary United States of America	1900-12-12	1995-12-02
Lyubov Orlova	actor singer pianist film actor dancer	Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Soviet Union	1902-01-29	1975-01-26
Una Marson	poet broadcaster journalist writer playwright tvůrce rozhlasových pořadů political activist feminist	Jamaica	1905-02-06	1965-05-06
Klavdiya Shulzhenko	actor singer	Ukrainian People's Republic Soviet Union	1906-03-11	1984-06-17
Hannah Arendt	philosopher historian writer political scientist essayist university teacher sociologist political theorist author resistance fighter	Prussia statelessness United States of America	1906-10-14	1975-12-04
Tewhida Belshikh	physician politician	Tunisia	1909-01-02	2010-12-06
Gerda Taro	war photographer photojournalist photographer	Weimar Republic	1910-08-01	1937-07-26
Clare Hollingworth	journalist war correspondent writer	England United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1911-10-10	2017-01-10
Yam Kim-fai	opera singer actor	Hong Kong	1913-02-04 1912-12-29	1989-11-29
Hedy Lamarr	actor inventor autobiographer screenwriter film actor film producer musician model entertainer	Austria United States of America	1914-11-09	2000-01-19
Claudia Jones	journalist political activist	Trinidad and Tobago	1915-02-15	1964-12-24 1964-12-25
Magda Szabó	translator screenwriter poet children's writer prose writer writer short story writer	Hungary	1917-10-05	2007-11-19
Dorina Nowil	educator philanthropist	Bolivia	1919-05-28	2010-08-29
Louise Bennett-Coverley	actor poet singer television presenter radio personality folklorist writer	Jamaica	1919-09-07	2006-07-26
Ousha The Poet	poet writer	United Arab Emirates	1920-01-01	2018-07-27
Anne-Cath. Vestly	actor writer translator children's writer	Norway	1920-02-15	2008-12-15
Ildaura Murillo-Rohde	nurse	Panama	1920-09-06	2010-09-05
Melina Mercouri	actor singer politician writer stage actor film actor	Greece	1920-10-18	1994-03-06
Clarice Lispector	screenwriter translator journalist novelist painter writer	Ukraine Brazil	1920-12-10	1977-12-09
Elena Lacková	poet writer playwright	Slovakia	1921-03-22	2003-01-01
Sophie Scholl	university student resistance fighter	German Reich	1921-05-09	1943-02-22
Maria Callas	opera singer singer actor	Greece United States of America	1923-12-02	1977-09-16
Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye	writer poet essayist	Kenya	1928-10-21	2015-12-01
Anne Frank	diarist writer	Nazi Germany Kingdom of the Netherlands statelessness Weimar Republic	1929-06-12	1945-02
Haja El Hamdaouia	singer	Morocco	1930	2021-04-05
Fu Pei-mei	television presenter chef	Republic of China (1912–1949) Taiwan	1931-10-01	2004-09-16
Sunčana Škrinjarić	poet writer journalist screenwriter children's writer	Croatia	1931-12-11	2004-04-21
Salmah Ismail	singer actor	Malaysia	1935-01-22	1983-04-25
Maliheh Afnan	artist	Iran	1935-03-24	2016-01-06
Asma Hamza	composer	Sudan	1936	2018-05-21
Wangari Muta Maathai	biologist teacher veterinarian politician environmentalist activist	Kenya Colony Kenya	1940-04-01	2011-09-25
Cesária Évora	singer	Cape Verde	1941-08-27	2011-12-17
Xuân Quỳnh	poet writer journalist dancer	Vietnam	1942-10-06	1988-08-29
Lydia Shum	actor comedian television presenter singer film director	Hong Kong Canada	1945-06-01	2008-02-19
Etab	singer	Saudi Arabia Egypt	1947-12-30	2006-08-19
Grete Waitz	athletics competitor teacher	Norway	1953-10-01	2011-04-19
Yasmin Ahmad	screenwriter film director film producer actor	Malaysia	1958-01-07	2009-07-25
Margaret Ogola	physician writer pediatrician	Kenya	1958-06-02	2011-09-22