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

1/ Jane Hinton (1919–2003) was a pioneer in the study of bacterial antibiotic resistance and one of the first two African-American women to gain the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (1949). #WomanToday

1/ Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (née Eastman; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author, and activist. She was the first woman to have a photograph on the cover of the influential music magazine Rolling Stone. #WomanToday

1/ Rachel Foster Avery (December 30, 1858 – October 26, 1919) was active in the American women's suffrage movement during the late 19th century, working closely with Susan B. Anthony and other movement leaders. #WomanToday

1/ Louise Bryant (December 5, 1885 – January 6, 1936) was an American feminist, political activist, and journalist best known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution of November 1917. #WomanToday

1/ Alberta Hunter (April 1, 1895 – October 17, 1984) was an American jazz and blues singer and songwriter from the early 1920s to the late 1950s.

1/ Julia Lovell FBA (born 1975) is a British scholar, author, and translator whose non-fiction books focus on China. Lovell is professor of Modern Chinese History and Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. #WomanToday

1/ Ruzena Bajcsy (born 28 May 1933) is an American engineer and computer scientist who specializes in robotics. #WomanToday

1/ Ann Rosamund Oakley (born 17 January 1944) is a British sociologist, feminist, and writer. #WomanToday She was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls and Somerville College, Oxford University taking her Bachelor of Arts in 1965.

1/ Aline Abboud (born 23 January 1988) is a German journalist and television presenter. Since September 2021, Abboud presents Tagesthemen, a daily news magazine broadcast by ARD. She is the first woman born in the German Democratic Republic to hold this position. #WomanToday

1/ Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer and entrepreneur. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer with her portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film Three Little Words. #WomanToday

1/ Æthelflæd (c. 870 – 12 June 918) ruled as Lady of the Mercians in the English Midlands from 911 until her death in 918. #WomanToday

1/ Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, born Princess Maximiliane Wilhelmine Auguste Sophie Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (8 August 1824 – 3 June 1880), was Empress of Russia as the first wife of Emperor Alexander II. #WomanToday

1/ Carme Pigem Barceló (born Olot, 8 April 1962) is a Catalan architect, member of the Pritzker Prize-winning architectural firm RCR Arquitectes. #WomanToday

1/ Nicole Mary Kidman (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian and American actress and producer. Known for her work in blockbusters and independent films across many genres, she has consistently ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses since the late 1990s. #WomanToday

1/ Ching Shih (born Shih Yang a.k.a. Cheng I Sao) was a Chinese pirate leader who terrorized the China Seas during the Jiaqing Emperor period of the Qing dynasty in the early 19th century. #WomanToday

1/ Jacquelyn Reingold is an American playwright, TV writer, and teacher. She has written multiple plays and worked for television. Her television career started with writing for HBO. #WomanToday

1/ Marie-Denise Villers (née Lemoine; 1774 – 19 August 1821) was a French painter who specialized in portrait painting. #WomanToday

1/ Lilias Eveline Armstrong (29 September 1882 – 9 December 1937) was an English phonetician. She worked at University College London, where she attained the rank of reader. #WomanToday

1/ Lillian Ascough (May 14, 1880 – December 1974) was an American suffragist. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, she served as the Connecticut chair of the National Woman's Party (NWP) and as the vice president of the Michigan branch of the NWP. #WomanToday

1/ Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is an American academic specializing in race, class, and gender. She is a distinguished university professor of sociology emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park. #WomanToday

1/ Caroline Stuart Littlejohn Herzenberg (March 25, 1932 - March 30, 2025) was an American physicist. #WomanToday

1/ Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704) was an Italian composer most renowned for the numerous compositions that she created during her time at the convent, making her one of the most productive woman composers of her time. #WomanToday

1/ Rachel Anne Maddow (born April 1, 1973) is an American television news program host and liberal political commentator. #WomanToday

1/ Sabina Zimering (née Szwarc; February 24, 1923 – September 6, 2021) was a Polish-American ophthalmologist and memoirist known for sharing her experiences during the Holocaust.

1/ Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer, teacher and choreographer responsible for creating the Graham technique. #WomanToday

1/ Ida Yakovlevna Nudel (27 April 1931 – 14 September 2021) was a Soviet-born Israeli refusenik and activist. She was known as the "Guardian Angel" for her efforts to help the "Prisoners of Zion" in the Soviet Union. #WomanToday

1/ Bernice Rubens (26 July 1923 – 13 October 2004) was a Welsh novelist. From 1950 to 1955, Rubens taught at a grammar school in Birmingham, before moving onto the film industry where she made documentaries. #WomanToday

1/ Agnes Mathilda Samuelson (April 14, 1887 – May 12, 1963) was an American educator and a state superintendent in public schools. She worked to provide equal education for all students in Iowa. #WomanToday

1/ Louisa Ann Swain (1801–1880) was the first woman in the United States to vote in a general election. She cast her ballot on September 6, 1870, in Laramie, Wyoming. #WomanToday

1/ Faith Ringgold (born Faith Willi Jones; October 8, 1930 – April 13, 2024) was an American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts. #WomanToday

1/ Mabel Vernon (September 19, 1883 – September 2, 1975) was an American suffragist, pacifist, and a national leader in the United States suffrage movement. She was a Quaker and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. #WomanToday

1/ Josephine Elizabeth Butler (née Grey; 13 April 1828 – 30 December 1906) was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era. #WomanToday2

1/ Elizabeth Black Kander (1858–1940) was an American progressive reformer, philanthropist and author, founder of a settlement house in Milwaukee, where she originated her best-known work, The Settlement Cookbook. #WomanToday

1/ Zap Mama is a Belgian singer-songwriter, performer, composer, lyricist, activist, video artist and ethno-vocal therapist born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and raised in Belgium. #WomanToday

1/ The Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the nurses and women of the United States who served in the Vietnam War. #WomanToday

1/ Chang Kyehyang (1598-1680) was a Korean noblewoman who wrote poetry, was a painter and philanthropist of the Joseon (Chosŏn) era. She wrote one of the first cookbooks in Korea penned by a woman.

1/ Vera Yevstafievna Popova (née Bogdanovskaya; 17 September 1867 – 8 May 1896) was a Russian chemist. She was one of the first female chemists in Russia, and the first Russian female author of a chemistry textbook. #WomanToday

1/ Lotte Franziska Bailyn (née Lazarsfeld; born July 17, 1930) is an American social psychologist. She is the T Wilson Professor of Management, Emerita at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She was the first woman faculty member at MIT Sloan. #WomanToday

1/ Cornelia Lucretia Brant (née Chase; December 16, 1863 – March 9, 1959) was an American medical doctor. After starting a family, she started a medical career as a mature student, graduating from the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women in 1903. #WomanToday

1/ Carola of Vasa (Caroline Friederike Franziska Stephanie Amalie Cäcilie; 5 August 1833 – 15 December 1907), was by birth a titular princess of Sweden and styled Princess of Vasa as member of the House of Holstein-Gottorp, and by marriage the last Queen of Saxony. #WomanToday

1/ Rachel Kushner (born October 7, 1968) is an American writer, known for her novels Telex from Cuba (2008), The Flamethrowers (2013), The Mars Room (2018), and Creation Lake (2024). #WomanToday

1/ Doris Howell was an American physician who specialized in pediatric oncology. She became known as the "mother of hospice," for her pioneering work in palliative care. #WomanToday

1/ Mary Haʻaheo Atcherley (1874–1933) was a Hawaiian activist. She was one of the first native Hawaiian women to run for public office in the Territory of Hawaii. #WomanToday

1/ Anna Sewell (30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) was an English novelist who is known for her only book, Black Beauty, a novel about a horse. Sewell never married and always lived with her parents, in Sussex, Gloucestershire and Norfolk. #WomanToday

1/ Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues. #WomanToday

1/ Catherine Zeta-Jones (born 25 September 1969) is a Welsh actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Tony Award. #WomanToday

1/ Maria Sophia Elisabeth of Neuburg (6 August 1666 – 4 August 1699) was Queen of Portugal as the wife of King Peter II from 1687 until her death in 1699. #WomanToday

1/ Mary Frances Lyon FRS (15 May 1925 – 25 December 2014) was an English geneticist best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important biological phenomenon. #WomanToday #WomenInSTEM