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  1. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is pu...
    24: ...implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939]], allowing cash-and-carry purchases of [[weapon]...
    29: ... to be retrievable and she dies a few hours later from stress and overheating.
    48: *[[1765]] - [[Pierre Girard]], [[France|French]] mathematician (d. [[1836]])
    58: *[[1923]] - [[Freddy Heineken]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] businessman...
  2. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    6: ...ale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
    7: ...d'Abancourt|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
    10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
    14: ...ari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
    15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
  3. List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
    16: *[[Evald Aav|Aav, Evald]], (1900-1939), Estonian composer and choir conductor
  4. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    7: ...ngland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Somet...
    9: ...th impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her fa...
    11: ...the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
    16: ...as addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her father as he married his succession of wive...
    18: ...th Elizabeth and remained her confidante and good friend for life. She had been appointed to Elizabeth...
  5. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    7: ...] from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more...
    12: ... Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an ...
    14: ...anguage|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Da...
    20: ... own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported t...
    23: [[Image:queen_victoria.jpg|framed|left|A young Victoria is depicted at her coro...
  6. Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
    9: ...the House of W?berg, Mary was distantly descended from the [[Habsburgs]], the once powerful ruling fam...
    11: ...ment]]ary [[Annuity]] of [[UKP|?]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge. Despite t...
    13: ...ld War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany]].
    32: ...[[1919]]<td> suffered from epilepsy, raised apart from his royal siblings, and died young.
    44: ...b|left|'''''The Royal Family in 1913'''<br><small>From left to right, King George V, Princess Mary, <b...
  7. Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
    3: '''Gro Harlem Brundtland''' (born [[April 20]], [[1939]]) is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] politician and [[phy...
    9: ...om May 9, [[1986]] until October 16, [[1989]] and from November 3, [[1990]] until October 25, [[1996]]...
    11: ...n on Macroeconomics and Health] - chaired by [[Jeffrey Sachs]] - and addressing [[violence]] as a majo...
  8. Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
    3: ...moting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[Firs...
    5: ...tes of America|United Nations Association]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that draf...
    9: ...exual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information...
    11: ...rom the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
    13: ...f the Democratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President....
  9. Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
    5: ...efore dying of [[tuberculosis]]. After graduating from [[Claverack College]] in [[Hudson, New York|Hud...
    9: ...aper advocating birth control. She also separated from William Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family...
    15: ...egate of the Birth Control Federation of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the In...
    17: ...lable [[birth control pill]]. She toured Europe, Africa, and Asia, lecturing and helping to establish ...
    24: ...gh Sanger was greatly influenced by her father, a freethinker, her mother's death left her with a deep...
  10. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    1: [[image:Margaret_Atwood.jpg|right|framed|Margaret Atwood]]
    2: ...leanor "Peggy" Atwood''' (born [[November 18]], [[1939]]) is a [[novelist]], [[poetry|poet]], [[literary...
    10: ...'', ''La servante 飡rlate'', was included in the French version of the competition, ''Le combat des l...
    35: :''[[Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein]]'' ([[1966]])
    58: :''[[The Canlit Foodbook: From Pen to palate - A Collection of Tasty Literary ...
  11. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    3: ...r her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Africa]]''.
    5: ... Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[...
    9: ... was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
    11: ...fered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
    20: * ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA)
  12. Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
    2: ...[1891]]&ndash;[[January 28]], [[1960]]) was an [[African-American]] [[folkloristics|folklorist]] and a...
    5: ...d [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] under [[Franz Boas]] at [[Columbia University]].
    9: ...ica of the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston/Jonah's G...
    22: ...dvocate [[William Bradford Huie]]. Her detachment from the wider [[American Civil Rights Movement (189...
    32: *''[[Moses, Man of the Mountain]]'' ([[1939]])
  13. Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
    1: [[Image:MaryPicford.jpg|right|frame|Mary Pickford]]
    9: ...Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disap...
    11: ...antic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film st...
    15: ...f his death, Pickford reportedly began to weep in front of her new husband, Rogers, saying "My darling...
    27: ...,000 and complete control over her films, ranging from script to the final cut.
  14. Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
    2: ...1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] writer of [[Russia]]n origin.
    4: ...her first book called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max...
    10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]]
    13: * ''The Golden Fruit'', [[1963]]
  15. Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
    5: ...ally began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ecce...
    8: ...ghly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Poli...
    10: ... but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love wi...
    12: ...g the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
    14: ...oloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor.
  16. Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
    4: ...nt) and Ira Pittman, a poor mill worker who moved from town to town in search of work. As a child, Bes...
    8: After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled...
    10: ..., and association with the wealthy elite, she was frequently interviewed by the press and she made up ...
    12: In 1939, she set a new altitude and international speed r...
    16: ... is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[Federation Aeronautique Internationale]]....
  17. Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
    8: ...]], which is named for [[Pierre Victor Auger]], a French scientist who discovered the effect two years...
    10: ...in]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led ...
    12: ...er were awarded the [[Enrico Fermi Award]] with [[Fritz Stra߭ann]]. On a visit to the USA in 1946 she...
    17: *Otto Robert Frisch, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics: Essa...
    25: .../13/3/1 A critical review of Patricia Rife's book from PhysicsWeb]
  18. Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
    3: .... [[Joseph Edward Mayer]], the assistant of James Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], M...
    5: ...[[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]] from [[1931]]-[[1939|39]], but since she was a woman she was not allow...
  19. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    8: When Chick Webb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under the new name,...
    22: Already blinded because she suffered from [[diabetes]], she lost her [[leg]]s in [[1993]]...
    24: ...1980' s hit "Ella , elle l' a" by French singer [[France Gall]].
    33: *1955 ''[[Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues]]''
    54: *1960 ''[[Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph]]''
  20. Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
    11: Szenes graduated 1939 and decided to move to study in the Girls' Agricu...
    59: ...nna's death cell after her execution, (translated from the Hebrew version by Avigdor Hamieri), in anot...

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