1/ Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995) was an American singer-songwriter. Known as the "Queen of Tejano Music", her contributions to music and fashion made her one of the most celebrated Mexican-American entertainers of the late 20th century. #WomanToday

1/ Elisabeth of Bavaria (Elisabeth Gabriele Valérie Marie; 25 July 1876 – 23 November 1965) was Queen of the Belgians from 23 December 1909 to 17 February 1934 as the wife of King Albert I, and a duchess in Bavaria by birth. #WomanToday

1/ Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. #WomanToday

1/ Grace M. Sparkes (January 21, 1893-October 22, 1963) was an influential booster in Arizona. As a secretary of the Yavapai County and Bisbee Chambers of Commerce, she managed community projects and tourism. #WomanToday

1/ Dilma Vana Rousseff (born 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011-16. She was the first woman to hold the Brazilian presidency. #WomanToday

1/ Laura Chinchilla Miranda (born 28 March 1959) is a Costa Rican political scientist and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. #WomanToday

1/ Pauline Forstall Colclough Adams (June 29, 1874 – September 10, 1957) was an Irish American suffragist who took a militant approach to the campaign and then went to prison for her political beliefs. #WomanToday

1/ Emily Jean "Emma" Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress and film producer. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Volpi Cup. #WomanToday

1/ Buchi Emecheta OBE (born Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta; 21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian writer who was the author of novels, plays, autobiography, and children's books. #WomanToday

1/ Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (née Drabble; 24 August 1936 – 16 November 2023), known professionally by her former married name, A. S. Byatt, was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer. #WomanToday

1/ Helen Wallbank Milliken (December 4, 1922 – November 16, 2012) was an American women's rights activist, environmentalist, and former First Lady of Michigan. #WomanToday

1/ Sorghaghtani Beki or Bekhi (Bek(h)i is a title) (c. 1190–1252) was a Keraite princess and daughter-in-law of Genghis Khan. Like most Mongol women of the time, Sorghaghtani wielded great authority at home. #WomanToday

1/ Megan Phelps-Roper (born January 31, 1986) is an American political activist who is formerly a member of, and spokesperson for, the Westboro Baptist Church, a Hyper-Calvinist Christian sect, widely regarded as a hate group. #WomanToday

1/ Karen LuJean Nyberg (born October 7, 1969) is an American mechanical engineer and retired NASA astronaut. Nyberg became the 50th woman in space on her first mission in 2008. #WomanToday

1/ Freida Selena Pinto (born 18 October 1984) is an Indian actress who has appeared mainly in American and British films. Born and raised in Mumbai, Maharashtra, she resolved at a young age to become an actress. #WomanToday

1/ Stephanie Lynn Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist. #WomanToday

1/ Inga Žolude (born August 9, 1984) is a Latvian writer and translator. She studied English literature at the University of Latvia, before winning a Fulbright scholarship to attend Southern Illinois University in the USA. #WomanToday

1/ Masuada Karokhi is an Afghan peace activist, women's rights advocate, and recipient of the N-Peace Award in 2013. Karokhi twice ran to be a member of the Lower House for Herat, in 2005 and 2010. She won in 2010. Learn more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masuad...

1/ Mattie Edwards Hewitt (1869 – 1956) was an American photographer of architecture, landscape, and design, primarily based on the East Coast. #WomanToday After a period of studying art she married Arthur Hewitt, a photographer.

1/ Julie Hayden (c. 1857 – August 21, 1874), sometimes Julia Hayden, was an American seventeen-year-old Black school teacher murdered by members of the White Man's League within days of starting a teaching position at a school for Black children in Tennessee. #WomanToday

1/ María de los Ángeles Trinidad de Moya Pérez (January 13, 1863 – March 13, 1941) was a Dominican Republic poet and writer. She served as the First Lady of the Dominican Republic as the wife of President Horacio Vásquez for three nonconsecutive terms. #WomanToday

1/ Anna Louise Strong (November 24, 1885 – March 29, 1970) was an American journalist and activist, best known for her reporting on and support for communist movements in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. #WomanToday

1/ Anna Marie Duke (December 14, 1946 – March 29, 2016), known professionally as Patty Duke, was an American actress. #WomanToday

1/ Jan Low (born 1955) is an American food scientist. She is known for her work helping develop the biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potato at the CGIAR International Potato Center. #WomanToday

1/ Tenley Emma Albright (born July 18, 1935) is an American former figure skater and surgeon. She is the 1956 Olympic champion, the 1952 Olympic silver medalist, the 1953 and 1955 World Champion, the 1953 and 1955 North American champion, and the 1952–1956 U.S. national champion.

1/ Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844–1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was described as one of "les trois grandes dames" (the three great ladies) of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot. #WomanToday

1/ Niijima Yae (1 December 1845 – 14 June 1932), also known as Yamamoto Yaeko, was a Japanese educator, nurse, and scholar during the Bakumatsu and Meiji era. Her samurai family belonged to the Hoshina clan, loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate. #WomanToday

1/ Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. #WomanToday

1/ Chloe Sophia Maxmin (born 1992) is an American Democratic politician and environmental activist who served as the Maine State Senator for District 13. #WomanToday

1/ Princess Kaʻiulani (October 16, 1875 – March 6, 1899) was a Hawaiian royal, the only child of Princess Miriam Likelike, and the last heir apparent to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom. She was the niece of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani. #WomanToday

1/ Dolley Todd Madison (née Payne; May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) was the wife of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. #WomanToday

1/ María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952), better known as Eva Perón or by the nickname Evita was an Argentine politician, activist, actress, and philanthropist. #WomanToday

Brené Brown (born 1965) is an American professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host. Brown holds the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work #WomanToday

1/ Katharine Bullitt (née Muller; February 22, 1925 – August 22, 2021) was an American education reformer, civil rights activist, and philanthropist. Bullitt was instrumental in attempts to desegregate Seattle's public schools. #WomanToday

1/ Velma Caldwell Melville (née, Caldwell; July 1, 1858 – August 25, 1924) was an American editor, and writer of prose and poetry from Wisconsin. She edited the Practical Farmer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and the Wisconsin Farmer (Madison, Wisconsin). #WomanToday

1/ Margaret Alice Murray FSA Scot FRAI (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist. #WomanToday

1/ Shirley Chiang is an American microscopist focused on the use of scanning tunneling microscopy and low-energy electron microscopy. Known for capturing the first image showing the ring structure of benzene molecules. #WomanToday

1/ Karen Louise Erdrich (born June 7, 1954) is an American author of novels, short stories, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. #WomanToday

1/ Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect and engineer. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. #WomanToday

1/ Hohi Ngapera Te Moana Keri Kaa CNZM QSO (1942–2020) was a New Zealand writer, educator, and advocate for the Māori language. She was of Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Kahungunu descent. #WomanToday

1/ Mary Arizona "Zonia" Baber (August 24, 1862 – January 10, 1956) was an American geographer and geologist best known for developing methods for teaching geography. Her teachings emphasized experiential learning through field work and experimentation. #WomanToday

1/ Gemma Collis (born 10 October 1992) is a British Paralympic wheelchair fencer who competed in the Paralympics in 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024. Gemma is an 18 time World Cup medalist, and European silver medalist. #WomanToday

1/ Sonam Kapoor Ahuja (born 9 June 1985) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. She has received several awards, including a National Film Award and a Filmfare Award. Kapoor appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list from 2012 to 2016. #WomanToday

1/ Archduchess Gisela Louise Marie of Austria (12 July 1856 – 27 July 1932) was the 2nd daughter and eldest surviving child of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. She became a Princess of Bavaria through her marriage to her second cousin, Leopold. #WomanToday

1/ Muriel Médard (born February 1, 1968) is an information theorist and electrical engineer. She is the Cecil H. Green Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is known for her research in network coding. #WomanToday

1/ Ellenor Andrea Andreen (1888–1972) was a Swedish physician, pacifist and feminist. As a physician, she specialized in the treatment of diabetes, combining dietary restrictions with insulin. #WomanToday

1/ Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. #WomanToday 💙📚 Her father's attention became fully focused on her in 1781 (age 13) when she nearly lost her sight to an eye infection.

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.