1843: Caroline Herschel dies (astronomer)
1854: Jennie Jerome Churchill born (socialite, writer)
1856: Lizette Woodworth Reese born (poet)
1857: Anna Kuliscioff born
1858: Elizabeth Britton born (botanist)
1859: Carrie Chapman Catt born (suffragist)
1908: Simone de Beauvoir born (philosopher, feminist, novelist)
1914: Gypsy Rose Lee born (entertainer)
1941: Joan Baez born (folk singer)
1942: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney born (sculptor)
1961: Emily Greene Balch died (Nobel Peace Prize, 1946)
Quote for Today
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and put them in their best light.
— Jennie Jerome Churchill, "Friendship" 1916
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