today in women's herstory-5 march
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