3. Mary Shelley was born on August 30,
1797, in London, England. She married
poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. Two
years later, she published her most
famous novel, Frankenstein, considered
the first modern novel. Shelley died of
brain cancer on February 1, 1851, in
London, England.
4. The daughter of famed poet Lord Byron,
Augusta Ada Byron, was born in London on
December 10, 1815. Ada showed her gift for
mathematics at an early age. She translated an
article on an invention by Charles Babbage, and
added her own comments. Because she
introduced many computer concepts, Ada is
considered the first computer programmer.
Ada died on November 27, 1852.
5. Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy,
on May 12, 1820. She was a nurse. During the
Crimean War, she and a team of nurses
the unsanitary conditions at a British base
hospital, greatly reducing the death count. Her
writings sparked worldwide health care reform,
and in 1860 she established St. Thomas' Hospital
and the Nightingale Training School for Nurses.
A revered hero of her time, she died on August
13, 1910, in London.
6. Queen Victoria was a British Queen in the UK. She was born in London in 1837.
She inherited the throne when she was 18 years old. Her kingdom lasted 63
years. It was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military
change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of
the British Empire. She died on 22nd January 1901.
Queen Victoria
7. Elizabeth Jane Cochran known as Nellie Bly was the
first investigative journalist. She was born in 1864 in
Pennsylvania, United States. In 1888, Nellie Bly was
chosen to make the trip “Around the world in 80 days”
as written by Julio Verne. It took her only 72 days to
travel around the world. She died on 27th January
1922 in New York.
NELLIE BLY
8. Born Maria Sklodowska on November 7,
1867, in Warsaw, Poland, Marie Curie
became the first woman to win a Nobel
Prize and the only woman to win the
in two different fields (physics and
chemistry). Curie's efforts, with her husband
Pierre Curie, led to the discovery of
polonium and radium and, after Pierre's
death, the further development of X-rays.
She died on July 4, 1934.
9. Born on July 1, 1873, in Paris, France, Alice Guy-Blaché was a pioneer in early
filmmaking and one of the first to make a narrative fiction film. She made more
than 1,000 films by 1907 and ran her own film studio in New Jersey. She died on
March 24, 1968.
10. English author Virginia Woolf wrote modernist
classics including Mrs. Dalloway and To the
Lighthouse, as well as pioneering feminist texts, A
Room of One's Own and Three Guineas. She was
born on 25th January, 1882, in London. In her
personal life, she suffered deep depression. She
committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59.
11. Fashion designer Coco Chanel, born August 19, 1883, in Saumur, France, is
famous for her timeless designs, trademark suits and little black dresses with
an emphasis on making clothes that were more comfortable for women. She
died on January 10, 1971.
12. She was a Spanish suffragist. She was born on 12th of
February in 1888 in Madrid. She was the first woman
who fought and got the vote for women in Spain.
She died the 30th of April in 1972 in Lausana,
Switzerland.
13. Born on September 15, 1890, in Torquay, England, Agatha Christie published her
first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, and went on to become one of
the most famous writers in history. She sold billions of copies of her work, and
was also a noted playwright and romance author. She died on January 12, 1976.
14. Aviator Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. She had
several notable flights, becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in
1928, as well as the first person to fly over both the Atlantic and Pacific. In 1937, she
mysteriously disappeared while trying to circumnavigate the globe from the
equator. Earhart was legally declared dead in 1939.
15. Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter, photographer and
poetess. She was born 6 July 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico.
Frida Kahlo was a great feminist. She also defended
traditions. She had health problems, many of which caused
by a terrible accident when she was eighteen. She suffered
up to 32 operations. She painted many self-portraits. Frida
Kahlo died on 13 July in 1954.
16. Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris, France, in
1908. When she was 21, she met Jean-Paul Sartre,
forming a partnership and romance that would
shape both of their lives and philosophical beliefs.
De Beauvoir published countless works of fiction
and nonfiction including 1949’s The Second Sex,
which is considered a pioneering work of the
modern feminism movement. She died in Paris in
1986 and was buried with Sartre.
17. She was born in 1910 in Macedonia. She was the founder of the Order of the
Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to
helping the poor. Considered one of the greatest humanitarians of the 20th
century, she was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016. She died in 1997.
Mother Teresa
of Calcutta
18. Irena Sendler was born in
Otwock, Poland, in 1910. When
the Nazis invaded in 1939, Irena
was a social worker and so had
access to the Warsaw Ghetto,
where hundreds of thousands of
Jews were imprisoned. She
helped rescue 2,500 Jewish
children from the ghetto. Sendler
died in Warsaw in 2008.
19. Civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born on
February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Her refusal to surrender her seat to a
passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama
caused a city-wide boycott. The city of
Montgomery had no choice but to lift the
law requiring segregation on public
Rosa Parks received many awards during
her lifetime. She died in 2005.
20. Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian actress during
MGM's "Golden Age." She was born in Viena
in 1914. Lamarr was also a scientist, co-
inventing an early technique for spread
spectrum communications—key to many
wireless communications of our present day.
Lamarr died in her Florida home in 2000.
21. Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15,
1996) was an American jazz singer often
to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz and
Lady Ella. She was noted for her purity of tone,
impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation.
won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40
albums. On June 15, 1996, Ella Fitzgerald died in
her Beverly Hills home.
22. Jane Goodall is a chimpanzee researcher. She was
born on 3 April 1934 in London. She is considered
the greatest expert in chimpanzees. She is still
23. Valentina Tereshkova was born on March 6, 1937 in
western Russia. She was chosen to be trained as a
cosmonaut in the USSR’s space program. On June 13,
1963, she became the first woman to travel into
space. After her space flight, she served in the
Communist Party and represented the USSR at
numerous international events.
24. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Pakistan. As a child, she became an advocate
for girls' education. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home
from school. She survived, and has continued to speak out on the importance of education.
was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2013. In 2014, she was nominated again and won,
becoming the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
25. THANKS TO ALL THE WOMEN
WHO HAVE WORKED HARD
TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER WORLD!!