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September 8
This Day in Women's History
1560 Amy Robsart, English wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (b. 1532)
1774 Anne Catherine Emmerich, German nun, stigmatic, and mystic (d. 1824)
1784: Ann Lee died (Shaker founder)
1815 Giuseppina Strepponi, Italian soprano (d. 1897)
1828: Margaret Slocum Sage born (philanthropist)
1857: Ida Henrietta Hyde born (physiologist)
1859: Mary Morton Kimball Kehew born (reformer)
1863: Jessie Willcox Smith born (painter, illustrator)
1886 Ninon Vallin, French soprano (d. 1961)
1888 In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found
1895 Sara García, Mexican actress (d. 1980)
1898 - Queenie Smith, NYC, actress/dancer (Funny Side)
1903 Jane Arbor, English author (d. 1994)
1905 Ivy Bean, English centenarian (d. 2010)
1921 16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
1924 Grace Metalious, American novelist (peyton place) (d. 1964)
1924 Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005)
1925 Jacqueline Ceballos, American activist
1932: Patsy Cline born (singer)
1942 - Nancy Ann Dibble, Netherlands, sci-fi author (Summerfair)
1943 Adelaide C. Eckardt, American politician
1947 Ann Beattie, American author
1947 Marianne Wiggins, American author
1948 - Lynn/Marilyn [Lorraine] Abbey, US, sci-fi author (Black Flame)
1954 Anne Diamond, English journalist
1955 Terry Tempest Williams, American author and environmentalist
1957 Heather Thomas, American actress
1960 Aimee Mann, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress ('Til Tuesday)
1965 Darlene Zschech, Australian singer-songwriter, and pastor
1965 Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922)
1966- Carola Häggkvist, Swedish singer-songwriter
1966 - "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV
1967 Kimberly Peirce, American director, screenwriter, and producer
1968 - "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand premieres
1969 Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and writer (b. 1868)
1971 Brooke Burke Charvet, American model and actress
1972 Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, American radio and television host
1976 Sarah Kucserka, American screenwriter
1978 Angela Rawlings, Canadian-American author
1979 Pink, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1994 - Deborah Bear, Engl still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44
1994 - Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies at 70 of cancer
1996 - Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, designer artist/writer, dies at 102
2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
2006 - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_8
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