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European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy) paid tribute to Nichols while being the Commander of the ISS.

1/ Grace Berg Schaible (November 28, 1925 – June 9, 2017) was an American lawyer and politician. In 1987, she became Alaska's first female state attorney general, serving from 1987 to 1989. She also served as the chair of the Alaska Permanent Fund. #WomanToday

1/ Masih Alinejad (b 1976) is an Iranian journalist, author, political activist, and women's rights activist. #WomanToday Contracted by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Alinejad worked as a presenter/producer at VOA Persian Service, a correspondent for Radio Farda, ...

1/ Angela Dorothea Merkel (née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German stateswoman and retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office and the only former East German. #WomanToday

1/ Grace Dell "Nichelle" Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) was an American actress, singer and dancer whose portrayal of Uhura in Star Trek and its film sequels was groundbreaking for African American actresses on American television. #WomanToday

1/ Katherine Wilson Sheppard (born Catherine Wilson Malcolm; 10 March 1848 – 13 July 1934) was a New Zealand suffragist known for organising the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition which resulted in New Zealand becoming the first country to establish universal suffrage. #WomanToday

1/ Florence Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film director, screenwriter, producer and actress. She is identified in some historical references as among "the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films". #WomanToday

Conny Clara Aerts, born 26 January 1966, is a Belgian (Flemish) professor in astrophysics. She specialises in asteroseismology. She is associated with KU Leuven and Radboud University, where she leads the Chair in the Astroseismology group. #WomanToday

1/ Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright DBE FRS FRSE (17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998) was a British mathematician. She was one of the pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory. #WomanToday

1/ Erna W. Mohr (1894–1968) was a German zoologist who made contributions to ichthyology and mammalogy. #WomanToday Between 1914 and 1934 she taught high school while volunteering at the Zoological Museum Hamburg and also published scholarly and popular scientific articles.

1/ Marcia Judith Freedman (May 17, 1938 – September 21, 2021) was an American-Israeli activist and politician. She advocated for a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, as well as for women's and gay rights. #WomanToday

1/ Johanne Wilhelmine Siegmundine Reichard (née Schmidt; 2 April 1788 – 23 February 1848) was a German aeronaut who was the first German female balloonist. #WomanToday

1/ Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress. Known for both her comedic and dramatic roles, she has been featured three times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actresses. #WomanToday

1/ Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541) was one of just two women in 16th-century England to be a peeress in her own right (suo jure) without a husband in the House of Lords. #WomanToday

1/ Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey (born February 13, 1943), is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion Emeritus at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism. #WomanToday

1/ Katie Grays Dorsett (July 8, 1932 – July 6, 2020) was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's twenty-eighth Senate district from 2003 to 2010. Her district included constituents in Guilford County, North Carolina. #WomanToday

1/ Lucy Stone (1818–1893) was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. #WomanToday

1/ Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was an English feminist and socialist activist and writer. Following encounters with women-led labour activism in the United States, she worked to organise working-class women in London's East End. #WomanToday

1/ Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. #WomanToday

1/ Lori Kathryn Gramlich is an American politician and social worker. She is serving in the Maine House of Representatives from the 131st district, as well as a faculty position at the University of Southern Maine. #WomanToday

1/ Kathy Kozachenko (born 1953) is an American lesbian politician who was the first openly LGBT candidate to successfully run for political office in the United States. #WomanToday

1/ Elma Ina Lewis (September 15, 1921 – January 1, 2004) was an American arts educator and the founder of The Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts and the National Center of Afro-American Artists. #WomanToday

In Coleridge Ward, Cambridge (UK) we named a road after her - Radegund Road. JesusCollege Cambridge was the landowner selling off the land so got road naming rights and Ward-naming rights too.

I run a huge Samuel Johnson quote site, and one of my all-time favorite moments comes from her Anecdotes, where he chastises the other blue stockings on questioning giving the poor spare change: they might spend it on gin! or tobacco! www.samueljohnson.com/charity.html...

Boswell saw her as a competitor, and there are many passages in his Life of Samuel Johnson where he disses her, "subtweets," if you will, to improve his own standing. I think it was Donald Green who counted up the days Boswell had actually spent with Johnson and pointed out how few they were.

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1/ Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. #WomanToday

1/ Helen Maxine Reddy (1941–2020) was an Australian-American singer, songwriter, author, actress, and activist. #WomanToday Born in Melbourne, Victoria, to a show-business family, Reddy started her career as an entertainer at age four. She sang on radio and television.

1/ Monika Salzer (born 11 February 1948) is an Austrian psychotherapist, Protestant theologian and pastor, columnist, and author. She worked in hospitals handling clinical pastoral care for the seriously ill, including the education of voluntary caretakers. #WomanToday

1/ Etta Baker (March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina. #WomanToday

1/ Edith Abbott (September 26, 1876 – July 28, 1957) was an American economist, statistician, social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was a pioneer in the profession of social work with an educational background in economics. #WomanToday

1/ Radegund (Latin: Radegundis; also spelled Rhadegund, Radegonde, or Radigund; c. 520 – 13 August 587) was a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, who founded the Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers. #WomanToday

1/ Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi (née Salusbury; 27 January 1741 or 16 January 1740 – 2 May 1821) was a Welsh writer and socialite whose diaries, letters and other works made her an important source of information on Samuel Johnson and 18th-century British life. #WomanToday

1/ Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway (February 1, 1878 – December 21, 1950) was an American politician who was United States Senator from Arkansas from 1931 to 1945. #WomanToday

1/ Jan Morris CBE FRSL (born James Humphry Morris; 1926–020) was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. #WomanToday In the closing day of WWII Morris served in the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and in 1945 was posted to the Free Territory of Trieste, during the joint British–American occupation.

1/ Marian Breland Bailey (born Marian Ruth Kruse; December 2, 1920 – September 25, 2001) was an American psychologist, an applied behavior analyst. #WomanToday

1/ Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 O.S. – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, who was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States. #WomanToday

1/ Elizabeth David CBE (née Gwynne, 26 December 1913 – 22 May 1992) was a British cookery writer. #WomanToday

1/ Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (Franziska Josepha Louise Augusta Marie Christina Helena; 12 August 1872 – 8 December 1956) was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. #WomanToday

1/ Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951) is an American filmmaker. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. #WomanToday

1/ Anna Ford (born 2 October 1943) is a British retired journalist, television presenter and newsreader. She first worked as a researcher, news reporter and later newsreader for Granada Television, ITN, and the BBC. #WomanToday

1/ Lydia Mendoza (1916–2007) was an American guitarist and Spanish-language singer of Tejano, conjunto, and traditional Mexican-American music. #WomanToday She was born in Houston, Texas, into a Mexican-American musical family originally from San Luis Potosí.

1/ Anna Apostolaki (Greek: Άννα Αποστολάκη, 1880–1958) was a Greek archaeologist and museum curator. She was the first Greek woman to work as a professional archaeologist and served as curator and later the director of the National Museum of Decorative Arts. #WomanToday

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

1/ Imogen Clare Holst CBE (née von Holst;[1] 12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist and festival administrator. #WomanToday

1/ Charlotte Amalie was a daughter of Landgrave Charles I of Hesse-Philippsthal and his wife, Princess Christine of Saxe-Eisenach. In 1750, she married the 63-year-old Duke Anton Ulrich of Saxe-Meiningen to whom she gave eight children. #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.

1/ Carol Hoffecker is the Richards Professor Emerita of History at the University of Delaware. She has worked on the history of Delaware. #WomanToday

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