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March 5
This Day in Women's History


1723 – Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)

1819: Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt born (author, playwright, public reader, actress)

1840: Constance Fenimore Woolson born (novelist, poet, short story writer)

1854: Mary Elizabeth Garrett born (suffragist, philanthropist)

1854: Eliza Ann Cooper Blaker born (social reformer, educator)

1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, Russian economist and philosopher (d. 1919)

1882 – Dora Marsden, English author and activist (d. 1960)

1885: Louise Pearce born (physician, pathologist, found cure for african sleeping sickness)

1892: Josephine Herbst born (writer and journalist)

1898 – Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-Shek, 2nd First Lady of China (d. 2003)

1898 – Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian

1914 – Ursula Reit, German actress (d. 1998)

1920 – Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)

1934 - Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Tx)

1939 – Samantha Eggar, English actress

1946 – Lova Moor, French singer, dancer, and actress

1947 – Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer and actress

1948 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress

1948: Leslie Marmon Silko born (writer, key figure in native american renaissance)

1954 – Marsha Warfield, American actress

1956 – Adriana Barraza, Mexican actress and director

1956 – Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2010)

1962 - Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic, dies at 82

1963 – Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)

1966: Anna Akhmatova died (russian modernist poet)

1974 – Eva Mendes, American actress

1974 – Jill Ritchie, American actress

1975 – Jolene Blalock, American actress

1980 – Winifred Wagner, German wife of Siegfried Wagner (b. 1897)


http://womenshistory.about.com/od/03calendar/a/0305calendar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_5

http://www.historyorb.com/day/march/5