March 15 in women’s history — births/deaths
1190: Isabella of Hainault, Queen of France, dies following a complicated childbirth, aged 19
1275: Margaret Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1318)
1838: Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist/anthropologist; studied Native American music (d. 1923)
1852: Augusta, Lady Gregory, Irish playwright, poet, folklorist, theater founder/manager and patron of William Butler Yates (Ireland; d. 1922)
1868: Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (d. 1944)
1887: Marjorie Merriweather Post, American philanthropist, art-collector and businesswoman – founder of General Foods (d. 1973)
1918: Janet Leach, potter, born in Grand Saline, Texas (d. 1997)
1921: Madelyn Pugh, American television writer (I Love Lucy), Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 2011)
1933: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, lawyer, jurist, member of the Supreme Court (1992-2020) (d. 2020) Brooklyn, NY
1940: Margo Coleman, American advice columnist (Dear Prudence; Dear Margo) daughter of “Anne Landers,” niece of “Abigail Van Buren”
1947: Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya, Russian cosmonaut
1953: Judi Spiers, British TV presenter
1955: Etterlene “Bunny” DeBarge, American rock and soul singer-songwriter, Detroit, Mich.
1957: Park Overall, American actress, Nashville, Tenn.
1958: Lisa Holton, American writer
1967: Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese mange artist; creator of Sailor Moon
1969: Kim Raver, American actress and producer
1971: Penny Lancaster, Lady Stewart, English model, photographer, television personality
1975: Eva Logorrhea, American actress and producer, Corpus Christi, Texas
1975: Jennifer 8. Lee, American journalist
1976: Katherine Brooks, American film writer and director
1976: Cara Pifko, Canadian actress, Toronto, Ontario
1983: Rebecca West, English writer, age 90
1985: Eva Amurri, American actress, New York City
1989: Caitlin Wachs, American actress, Eugene, Ore.
1991: Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress, age 93
1992: Helen Deutsch, screenwriter
1993: Vanessa Lee, actress, age 71
1995: Florence Chadwicke, American swimmer, age 86
1996: Helen Chadwick, artist, age 42
1996: Olga Rudge, American concert violinist, age 100
1997: Gail Davis, American actress, age 71
2001: Ann Sothern, American actress, age 90
2003: Dame Thora Hird, British actress, comedian, presenter and writer, age 91
2008: Sarla Thakral, first Indian woman to fly an aircraft (1936), circa age 94
2014: Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef, age 66
2020: Suzy Delair, French actress and singer, age 102
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