March 4

  • Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France, born in 1188.
  • Anne d’Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman, born in 1729.
  • Frances Slocum, a Quaker who was taken from her family home in Pennsylvania at the age of five and adopted member of the Miami tribe, born in 1773.
  • Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist, born in 1781.
  • Myrtilla Miner, an American educator and abolitionist, born in 1815.
  • Anna Elizabeth Broomall, obstetrician and medical educator, born in 1847.
  • Ellen Gertrude Emmet Rand, an American portrait painter, born in 1875.
  • Mabel Gillespie, active in progressive politics and the Women’s Trade Union League, born in 1877.
  • Maude Fealy, an American stage and film actress, born in 1883.
  • Violet MacMillan, American actress, born in 1887.
  • Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress, born in 1888.
  • Pearl White, an American film actress, the so-called “Stunt Queen” of silent films, most notably in The Perils of Pauline, born in 1889.
  • Lois WIlson, the co-founder of Al-Anon, a support group for the friends and family of alcoholics. She was the wife of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W., born in 1891.
  • Liana Del Balzo, an Italian film actress, born in 1899.
  • Rachel Messerer, Russian silent film and theater actress, born in 1902.
  • Carrie Best, a Black Canadian journalist, born in 1903.
  • Dorothy Mackaill, an English-born American actress, most notably of the silent film era and into the early 1930s, born in 1903.
  • Judith Furse, British character actress, born in 1912.
  • Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche, an Algerian writer and singer, born in 1913.
  • Barbara Newhall Follett, an American child prodigy novelist who published her first novel at age 13, born in 1914.
  • Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives in 1917.
  • Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player, born in 1918.
  • Joan Greenwood, English actress, born in 1921.
  • Dina Pathak, Gujarati theatre and film actress, born in 1922.
  • Ameli, Duchess of Oldenburg, born in 1923.
  • Bertha Wilson, a Canadian jurist and the first woman Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, born in 1923.
  • Alice Rivlin, an economist, a former U.S. Cabinet official, and an expert on the budget who was previously the Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and the first Director of the Congressional Budget Office, born in 1931.
  • Ann Burton, Dutch jazz singer, born in 1933.
  • Anne Haney, an American actress, perhaps best known for her roles as social worker Mrs. Sellner in Mrs. Doubtfire, Greta the secretary in Liar Liar, and for her unique, low-octave voice, born in 1934.
  • Barbara McNair, an African-American singer and actress, born in 1934.
  • Sandra Reynolds, South African tennis player, born in 1934.
  • Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer, born in 1935.
  • Tamara Wilcox, a costume designer, actress, and theatrical producer and director, born in 1940.
  • Linda Obermoeller, an American painter known for her watercolor portraits, born in 1941.
  • Gloria Gaither, American gospel songwriter, born in 1942.
  • Lynn Sherr, an American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine 20/20, born in 1942.
  • Femi Benussi, Italian film actress, born in 1945.
  • Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, an American author and journalist of rock criticism and a series of science fiction/fantasy and murder mystery novels, born in 1946.
  • Nora Radcliffe, a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician and former Member of the Scottish Parliament for Gordon, first elected in 1999, born in 1946.
  • Aura Lewis, a singer who worked with Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff and recorded an album with Lee “Scratch” Perry in the late 1970s, born in 1947.
  • Gwen Welles, American actress, born in 1947.
  • Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, an Australian author who was also at the center of one of Australia’s most publicized murder trials, born in 1948.
  • Carroll Baker, Canadian country singer and songwriter, born in 1949.
  • Cookie Mueller, an underground American actress, writer and Dreamlander, who starred in many of filmmaker John Waters’ early films, including Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Desperate Living, born in 1949.
  • Ofelia Medina, a Mexican actress , singer and screenwriter of Mexican films, born in 1950.
  • Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, American novelist, born in 1951.
  • Cecilia Todd, Venezuelan singer and performer, born in 1951.
  • Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer, born in 1951.
  • Rose Laurens, a French singer-songwriter, particularly famous for her 1982 smash single “Africa”, number three hit in many European countries, born in 1953.
  • Peggy Rathmann, award-winning American author and illustrator, born in 1953.
  • Catherine O’Hara, Canadian actress, born in 1954.
  • Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer and dissident, born in 1954.
  • Leading childhood obesity and anorexia researcher Hilde Bruch published “The Importance of Overweight” in 1957.
  • Patricia Heaton, American actress best known for playing Ray Barone’s wife Debra Barone on the CBS television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, born in 1958.
  • Christina Sussiek, former German athlete, born in 1960.
  • Sabine Everts, a former West German heptathlete, born in 1961.
  • Barbara Bubula, a Polish politician, born in 1963.
  • Fiona Ma, the Speaker pro Tempore California State Assembly and a San Francisco politician, and a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, born in 1967.
  • Cathryn Fitzpatrick, an Australian cricketer known as the world’s fastest women pace bowler, born in 1968.
  • Dionna Harris, an American softball player and Olympic champion, born in 1968.
  • Annie Shizuka Inoh, Taiwanese actress, born in 1969.
  • Stina Nordenstam, a Swedish pop singer and musician, born in 1969.
  • Lacy Rose, American pornographic actress, born in 1969.
  • Annie Yi, Chinese singer, writer and actress, born in 1969.
  • Andrea R. Bendewald, an American actress best known for her role as Maddy Piper on Suddenly Susan, born in 1970.
  • Caroline Vis, Dutch professional tennis player, born in 1970.
  • Claire Baker, a Scottish Labour Party politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Scotland and Fife since 2007, born in 1971.
  • Katherine Center, a contemporary American fiction author, born in 1972.
  • Brittney Powell, German-American actress, born in 1972.
  • Ivy Queen, a Puerto Rican-American Latin Grammy nominated reggaeton composer and singer most commonly known as “La Reina del Reggaeton”, born in 1972.
  • Alison Wheeler, a British singer best known as the female vocalist for The Beautiful South, born in 1972.
  • Peggy Clydesdale, an American artist and painter, born in 1974.
  • Jacqueline Anderson, an American actress and entrepreneur, born in 1975.
  • Kirsten Bolm, a German hurdler, born in 1975.
  • Julie Dibens, British triathlete, born in 1975.
  • Myrna Veenstra, a Dutch field hockey player, born in 1975.
  • Kim Jung-eun, a South Korean actress, born in 1976.
  • Sabrina Sabrok, a Argentine television host, singer, and producer, born in 1976.
  • Ana Guevara, a now-retired Mexican track and field athlete, born in 1977.
  • Laura Jansen, a Dutch singer-songwriter, born in 1977.
  • Karima Delli, a French politician, born in 1979.
  • Sarah Stock, a Canadian professional wrestler, born in 1979.
  • Kamalinee Mukherjee, (Kamalini Mukherjee) Indian film actress, born in 1980.
  • Carol Banawa, Filipino singer, born in 1981.
  • Marie Delattre, French sprint canoer, born in 1981.
  • Helen Wyman, a British cyclist for the KONA/FSA Factory Team, born in 1981.
  • Uma Blasini, a Puerto Rican beauty queen who has represented her country at the Miss Universe 2007 beauty pageant, born in 1982.
  • Cate Edwards, an American attorney and author, born in 1982.
  • Ludmila Ezhova, Russian Olympic gymnast, born in 1982.
  • Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada in 1983.
  • Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress, born in 1984.
  • Whitney Port, American reality television personality of The Hills and The City fame, born in 1985.
  • Shraddha Das, Indian actress, born in 1986.
  • Margo Harshman, an American actress who played Tawny Dean on the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, born in 1986.
  • Erin Heatherton, American fashion model, born in 1989.
  • Andrea Bowen, an American actress who is best known for playing Julie Mayer on Desperate Housewives, born in 1990.

 

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