1/ Ada Winifred Weekes Baker (11 December 1866 – 24 July 1949), known professionally as Madame Ada Baker, was an Australian soprano, vaudeville star and singing teacher. #WomanToday

1/ Nannette Streicher (née Anna-Maria Stein; 2 January 1769, Augsburg – 16 January 1833, Vienna) was a German piano maker, composer, music educator, writer and a close friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. #WomanToday

1/ Jane Colden (March 27, 1724 – March 10, 1766) was an American botanist.

1/ Emma Smith DeVoe (née Smith; August 22, 1848 – September 3, 1927) was an American women suffragist in the early twentieth century, changing the face of politics for both women and men alike. #WomanToday

1/ Indira Goswami (14 November 1942 – 29 November 2011), known by her pen name Mamoni Raisom Goswami and popularly as Mamoni Baideo, was an Indian writer, poet, professor, scholar and editor. #WomanToday

1/ Catherine Ann "Kate" Barnard (May 23, 1875 – February 23, 1930) was the first woman to be elected as a state official in Oklahoma, and the eleventh woman to be elected to a statewide public office in the United States, in 1907. #WomanToday

1/ Amelia Isadora Platts Boynton Robinson (1911–2015) was an American activist who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama, and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. #WomanToday

1/ Maria Cunitz or Maria Cunitia (other versions of surname include: Cunicia, Cunitzin, Kunic, Cunitiae, Kunicia, Kunicka; 1610 – 22 August 1664) was an accomplished Silesian astronomer, and the most notable female astronomer of the early modern era. #WomanToday 1/

1/ Virginia Louisa Minor (March 27, 1824 – August 14, 1894) was an American women's suffrage activist in Missouri. She is best remembered as the plaintiff in Minor v. Happersett, an 1875 United States Supreme Court case. #WomanToday

1/ Miao Poya (born 2 October 1987) is a Taiwanese politician and activist for humanitarianism, anti-death penalty, social feminism, LGBT rights and Taiwanese independence, also known for being one of Taiwan's first-ever openly lesbian council members. #WomanToday

1/ Jelena Dimitrijević (27 March 1862 – 10 April 1945) was a Serbian short story writer, novelist, poet, traveller, social worker, feminist, and a polyglot. #WomanToday

1/ Daniela Hodrová (5 July 1946 – 30 August 2024) was a Czech writer and literary scholar. #WomanToday

1/ Sir Lady Java (August 20, 1942 – November 16, 2024), also known simply as Lady Java, was an American transgender rights activist, exotic dancer, singer, comedian, and actress.

💙📚⚡️1/ Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (1890–1976) was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections. #WomanToday She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections.

1/ Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) was an Indian-American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. #WomanToday

/1 Riin Tamm (born 12 August 1981) is an Estonian geneticist and a proponent of science in popular culture. She is head of the Department of Youth and Talent Policy within the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research. #WomanToday

1/ Ellen Cicely Wilkinson (8 October 1891 – 6 February 1947) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death. #WomanToday

1/ Constance of Austria (24 December 1588 – 10 July 1631) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of King-Grand Duke Sigismund III Vasa. #WomanToday

1/ Dame Clare Philomena Grey DBE FRS is Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Grey uses nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study and optimize batteries. #WomanToday

1/ Merle Grace Kearns (May 19, 1938 – August 9, 2014) was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. #WomanToday

1/ Marion Marguerite Stokes (1929–2012) was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, access television producer, civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, and prolific archivist. #WomanToday

1/ Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese retired artist, musician, and activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York City in 1952 to join her family. #WomanToday

1/ Laurel Blair Clark (née Salton; March 10, 1961 – February 1, 2003) was an American NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist. She died along with her fellow crew members in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. #WomanToday

1/ Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, businesswoman, and actress. Known for her artistic reinventions, she is an influential figure in both music and fashion.

1/ Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer and pianist. #WomanToday

1/ Anne Carroll Moore (July 12, 1871 – January 20, 1961) was an American educator, writer and advocate for children's libraries. From 1906 to 1941, she headed children's library services for the New York Public Library system. #WomanToday

1/ Flora Mae Hunter (née Ross, November 29, 1910 or 1911 – December 8, 2003) was an American cook and cookbook author. She was a longtime cook on plantations in northern Florida—in particular, cooking for 36 years at Horseshoe Plantation near Tallahassee, Florida. #WomanToday

1/ Mary Henderson Eastman (February 24, 1818 – February 24, 1887) was an American historian and novelist who is noted for her works about Native American life. #WomanToday

1/ Susan Elizabeth Blow (June 7, 1843 – March 27, 1916) was an American educator who opened the first successful public kindergarten in the United States. She was known as the "Mother of the Kindergarten." #WomanToday

1/ Annkathrin Kammeyer (born 12 January 1990) is a German Social Democratic politician and Member of the Hamburg Parliament since 7 March 2011. #WomanToday

1/ Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (June 24, 1929 – August 13, 2021) was an American astronomer and a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She discovered 32 comets (then a record for the most by an individual) and more than 500 asteroids. #WomanToday

1/ Therese Charlotte Luise of Saxony-Hildburghausen (8 July 1792 – 26 October 1854) was queen of Bavaria as the wife of King Ludwig I. Oktoberfest was created in honour of their wedding and is still celebrated annually on Theresienwiese in Munich. #WomanToday

1/ Kathleen Mary Norton (née Pearson; 10 December 1903 – 29 August 1992), known professionally as Mary Norton, was an English writer of children's books. #WomanToday

1/ Zita Leeson Weinshienk (April 3, 1933 – October 7, 2022) was an American lawyer who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado from 1979 to 2011. #WomanToday

1/ Hypatia (c. 350–370-415 AD) was a Hellenistic Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was prominent in the Neoplatonic school in Alexandria, teaching philosophy and astronomy. #WomenInSTEM #WomanToday

1/ Bronwyn Law-Viljoen is a South African writer, editor, publisher and professor. She is the co-founder of the publisher Fourthwall Books and owns a bookstore called Edition.

1/ Tara Oi-kwan Teng (born August 17, 1988), is a Canadian former pageant winner. She was crowned Miss Canada 2011 and also Miss World Canada 2012. During her title reigns she was an advocate for human rights and spoke about human trafficking. #WomanToday

1/ Eliza Maud "Elsie" Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) was a Scottish medical doctor, surgeon, teacher, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. She was the first woman to hold the Serbian Order of the White Eagle. #WomanToday

1/ Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American-Ghanaian writer, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American causes, among others. She won the Messner and the Anisfield-Wolf prizes for her works. #WomanToday

1/ Clara Isabel Alegría Vides (May 12, 1924 – January 25, 2018), also known by her pseudonym Claribel Alegría, was a Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America. #WomanToday

1/ Tumāḍir bint ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith ibn al-Sharīd al-Sulamīyah usually simply referred to as al-Khansāʾ was a 7th-century tribeswoman, living in the Arabian Peninsula. She was one of the most influential poets of the pre-Islamic and early Islamic periods. #WomanToday

1/ Kathleen Marie Karpan (born 1942) is an American politician who served as Secretary of State of Wyoming from 1987 to 1995, as a member of the Democratic Party. #WomanToday Karpan was educated at the University of Wyoming and the University of Oregon.

1/ Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is an American actress. With a career spanning over five decades, she is known for her roles on stage and screen. #WomanToday

1/ Hatice Nüzhet Gökdoğan (14 August 1910 – 24 April 2003) was a Turkish astronomer, mathematician and academic. #WomanToday

1/ Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry (1999), which won Hilary Swank her first Academy Award for Best Actress.

1/ Ida Gertrude Carroll OBE (1 December 1905 – 9 September 1995) was a British music educator, university administrator, double bassist, and composer. #WomanToday After completing her schooling, Carroll was hired by Collens as the Northern School of Music's secretary.

1/ Clare M. Waterman is a cell biologist who has worked on understanding the role of the cytoskeleton in cell migration.

1/ Hilda Crosby Standish (1902 – June 1, 2005) was a pioneer in the birth control movement in the state of Connecticut.

1/ Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (1717–1780) was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions, ruling from 1740 until her death in 1780. #WomanToday

1/ Opha May Johnson (née Jacob, May 4, 1878 – August 11, 1955) was an American Marine reservist who was the first woman known to have enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. #WomanToday