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Ivory Winston (August 11, 1911 – August 6, 1996) was an African-American singer. She sang for President Harry S. Truman, Governor William S. Beardsley, and others. She was named "Iowa's First Lady of Song." #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hema Malini Dharmendra Deol (born 16 October 1948) is an Indian actress, director, producer, and politician who is currently serving as a member of the Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), representing Mathura constituency since 2014. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kim Westwood is an Australian author born in Sydney and currently living in Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

1/ Hannah Diggs Atkins (November 1, 1923 – June 17, 2010) was the member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives for the 97th district from 1968 to 1980, and the first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1/ Betty Binns Fletcher (1923–2012) was an American lawyer and judge. #WomanToday Binns wanted to be a lawyer from a young age. Her father sometimes allowed her to skip classes in order to watch him try cases.

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Laura Jean McKay (born 1978) is an Australian author and creative writing lecturer. In 2021, she won the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for her novel The Animals in That Country. In 2025, she was the Frank O'Connor International Fellow. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Philippa Garrett Fawcett (4 April 1868 – 10 June 1948) was an English mathematician and educator. She was the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dr. Bridie Kean (b. 27 February 1987) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player and canoeist. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, and a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. In 2016, she became a va'a world champion. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Julia Mary Yeomans OBE FRS is a British theoretical physicist active in the fields of soft condensed matter and biological physics. She has served as Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford since 2002. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Catherine Elizabeth Deeley (born 23 October 1976) is an English television presenter. Since 2024, she has co-presented ITV's This Morning, alongside Ben Shephard. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Avon Wilson was the first African-American to undergo SRS (sexual reassignment surgery) at the now closed Johns Hopkins Gender Clinic. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1/ Sarah Collins Rudolph is the “fifth little girl” and survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963. Rudolph was just 12 when her older sister Addie Mae died in the blast. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1/ Myriam Paula Sarachik (August 8, 1933 – October 7, 2021) was a Belgian-born American experimental physicist who specialized in low-temperature solid state physics. She is known for the first experimental confirmation of the Kondo effect in the 1960s. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1/ Marie Desma Wilcox (November 24, 1933 – September 25, 2021) was a Native American who was the last native speaker of Wukchumni, a dialect of Tule-Kaweah, which is a Yokutsan indigenous language spoken by the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts of California. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1/ Evelyn Richter (31 January 1930 – 10 October 2021) was a German art photographer known primarily for social documentary photography work in East Germany. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/ Tin Hinan was a 4th-century Tuareg queen. What may be her monumental tomb is located in the Sahara, at Abalessa in the Hoggar region of Algeria. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1/ Mary Jane Patterson (September 12, 1840 – September 24, 1894) was an American educator born to a previously enslaved mother and a freeborn father. She is notable because she is claimed to be the first African-American woman to receive a B.A degree. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

1/ Dorothy Maguire (November 21, 1918 – August 2, 1981) was a catcher and outfielder who played from 1943 through 1949 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

1/ Juliette Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1/ Juliana of Liège (also called Juliana of Mount-Cornillon), (c. 1192 or 1193 – 5 April 1258) was a medieval Norbertine canoness regular and mystic in what is now Belgium. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1/ Vivian Juanita Malone Jones (July 15, 1942 – October 13, 2005) was the first Black American student to graduate from the University of Alabama, in 1965. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1/ Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (70/69 BC – 10 or 12 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1/ Ruth Irene Tompson (July 22, 1910 – October 10, 2021) was an American camera technician, animation checker and supercentenarian. She was known for her work on animated features at The Walt Disney Company and was declared a Disney Legend in 2000. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1/ Saiyuud "Poo" Diwong is a Thai chef and author from Khlong Toei. Her unusual nickname is a shortened version of Chompoo, the Thai word for rose apple, though it is also the Thai word for crab. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

1/ Emily Joyce Howell Warner (née Hanrahan; October 30, 1939 – July 3, 2020) was an American airline pilot and the first woman captain of a scheduled U.S. airline. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

1/ K. Tsianina Lomawaima is an interdisciplinary researcher of Indigenous Studies, anthropology, history, and political science. #WomanToday From 1972 to 1974, Lomawaima studied art and pre-medical studies at DePauw University.

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin (née Labrosse; 7 March 1775 – 14 June 1847) was a French balloonist and parachutist. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

1/ Anne Louise Wyllie is a New Zealand microbiologist who was the lead author of a 2020 research article which led to the development of the SalivaDirect PCR method of testing saliva for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress. Her films as a leading actress have grossed over $15.4 billion worldwide, making her the second-highest-grossing actor in history. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

1/ María Gutiérrez-Cueto y Blanchard (6 March 1881 – 5 April 1932) was a Spanish painter. She was known for developing a unique style of Cubism. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

1/ Sara Seager OC (born July 21, 1971) is a Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

1/ Wilma J. Webb (born 1944) is an American politician who was a member of the Colorado General Assembly from 1980 to 1993. A Democrat, she represented Denver County in the Colorado House of Representatives. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

1/ Natalie Diaz (born September 4, 1978) is a queer, Latina and Mojave American poet, language activist, former professional basketball player, and educator. #WomanToday She is enrolled in the Gila River Indian Community and identifies as Akimel O'odham.

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1/ Ni Yulan (born 24 March 1960) is a civil rights lawyer in the People's Republic of China. She has established herself in defending human rights in China by providing legal aid to persecuted groups such as Falun Gong practitioners and victims of forced eviction. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

1/ Martha Jane Coston (December 12, 1826 – July 9, 1904) was an American inventor and businesswoman who invented the Coston flare, a device for signaling at sea, and the owner of the Coston Manufacturing Company. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

1/ Eliza Acton (17 April 1799 – 13 February 1859) was an English food writer and poet who produced one of Britain's first cookery books aimed at the domestic reader, Modern Cookery for Private Families. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1/ Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (20 August 1613 – 12 July 1676) was a German poet, composer and impresario. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

1/ Emi Nakamura (born October 1980) is a Canadian-American economist. She is the E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

1/ The Smiths of Glastonbury were two generations of women—a mother and her five daughters—residing in Glastonbury, Connecticut, in the late 18th and 19th centuries who were early champions of education, abolition, and women's rights. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

1/ Kathleen Mae Bruyere (1944–2020) was a captain in the United States Navy. She was one of the twelve women named by Time magazine as Time Person of the Year in 1975, representing American women. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

1/ Myōrin or Yoshioka Myorin-ni was a late-Sengoku period female warlord onna-musha. She was the wife of Yoshioka Akioki a samurai warlord, and served Otomo clan in Bungo. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

1/ Ntozake Shange (October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018) was an American playwright and poet. As a Black feminist, she addressed issues relating to race and Black power in much of her work. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

1/ Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers (born October 1, 1989), known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress, singer and filmmaker. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1/ Vivian Mildred Bailey (née Corbett; February 3, 1918 – May 1, 2022) was an American World War II veteran, civil servant, and volunteer. She was a fundraiser for education, health, and military service personnel. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

1/ Etel Adnan (February 1925 – 14 November 2021) was a Lebanese poet, essayist, novelist, and visual artist, and the author of Sitt Marie Rose. In 2003, the academic journal MELUS called her "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab author writing today". #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

1/ Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary (October 9, 1823 – June 5, 1893) was an American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

1/ Jessye Norman (1945–2019) was an American opera singer and recitalist. She was a commanding presence on operatic, concert and recital stages. She was one of five children in a family of amateur musicians. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Lissy Jarvik (née Feingold; March 17, 1924 – October 1, 2021) was a Dutch-born American geriatric psychiatrist. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Joan E. Biren or JEB (born July 13, 1944) is an American feminist photographer and film-maker, who dramatizes the lives of LGBTQ people in contexts that range from healthcare and hurricane relief to women's music and anti-racism. #WomanToday

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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress and businesswoman. She rose to prominence at age 19 for portraying Max Guevara, the lead character in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. #WomanToday

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