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Timeline by Year of Death

Twenty-first Century

Nikki Giovanni 1943-2024
Rosalynn Carter 1927-2023
Olivia Newton-John 1948-2022
Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933-2020
Harper Lee 1926-2016
Lauren Bacall 1924-2014
Margaret Thatcher 1925-2013
Sally Ride 1951-2012
Geraldine Ferraro 1935-2011
Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011
Madame Nhu 1924-2011
Benazir Bhutto 1953-2007
Rosa Parks 1913-2005
Soong Mei-ling 1898-2003
Gertrude Ederle 1905-2003
Leni Riefenstahl 1902-2003
Myra Hindley 1942-2002
Eudora Welty 1909-2001
Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1906-2001
Sirimavo Bandaranaike 1916-2000
Hedy Lamarr 1914-2000

Twentieth Century

Betty Robinson 1911-1999
Florence Griffith Joyner 1959-1998
Martha Gellhorn 1908-1998
Diana, Princess of Wales 1961-1997
Mother Teresa 1910–1997
Margaret Chase Smith 1897-1995
Margaret Gorman 1905-1995
Jacqueline Kennedy 1929-1994
Audrey Hepburn 1929-1993
Lillian Gish 1893-1993
Grace Hopper 1906-1992
Marlene Dietrich 1901-1992
Barbara Stanwyck 1907-1990
Greta Garbo 1905-1990
Lucille Ball 1911-1989
Bette Davis 1908-1989
Daphne du Maurier 1907-1989
Simone de Beauvoir 1908-1986
Wallis Simpson 1896-1986
Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-1986
Louise Brooks 1906-1985
Lillian Hellman 1905-1984
Indira Gandhi 1917-1984
Gloria Swanson 1899-1983
Grace Kelly 1929-1982
Mary Pickford 1892-1979
Golda Meir 1898-1978
Alice Paul 1885-1977
Agatha Christie 1890-1976
Jeannette Rankin 1880-1973
Pearl Buck 1892-1973
Betty Grable 1916-1973
Maude Fealy 1883-1971
Janis Joplin 1943-1970
Esther Brown 1917-1970
Helen Keller 1880-1968
Lise Meitner 1878-1968
Vivien Leigh 1913-1967
Dorothy Parker 1893-1967
Evelyn Nesbit 1884-1967
Margaret Sanger 1879-1966
Charlotte Cooper 1870-1966
Frances Perkins 1880-1965
Helen Wainwright 1906-1965
Clara Bow 1905-1965
Rachel Carson 1907-1964
Sylvia Plath 1932-1963
Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962
Edith Bolling Wilson 1872-1961
Dorothy Thompson 1893-1961
Ethel Barrymore 1879-1959
Rosalind Franklin 1920-1958
Marie Stopes 1880-1958
Grace Coolidge 1879-1957
Babe Didrikson 1911-1956
Theda Bara 1885-1955
Frida Kahlo 1907-1954
Edna St Vincent Millay 1892-1950
Lucy Mercer 1891-1948
Edith Roosevelt 1861-1948
Frances Cleveland 1864-1947
Carrie Chapman Catt 1859-1947
Aimee Semple McPherson 1890-1944
Noor Inayat Khan 1914-1944
Beatrix Potter 1866-1943
Carole Lombard 1908-1942
Anne Sutherland 1867-1942
Virginia Woolf 1882-1941
Zitkala-Sa 1876-1938
Amelia Earhart 1897-1937
Billie Barlow 1865-1937
Edith Wharton 1862-1937
Anne Sullivan 1866-1936
Thelma Todd 1906-1935
Bonnie Parker 1910-1934
Marie Curie 1867-1934
Annie Besant 1847-1933
Ida B. Wells 1862-1931
Lillie Langtry 1853-1929
Millicent Fawcett 1847-1929
Emmeline Pankhurst 1858-1928
Isadora Duncan 1877-1927
Lizzie Borden 1860-1927
Empress Carlota of Mexico 1840-1927
Victoria Woodhull 1838-1927
Bessie Coleman 1892-1926
Annie Oakley 1860-1926
Nellie Bly 1864-1922
Lillian Russell 1861-1922
Empress Eugenie de Montijo 1826-1920
Raymonde de Laroche 1882-1919
Mary E. Walker 1832-1919
Mata Hari 1876-1917
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii 1838-1917
Inez Milholland 1886-1916
Harriet Tubman 1822-1913
Harriet Quimby 1875-1912
Voltairine de Cleyre 1866-1912
Clara Barton 1821-1912
Mary Baker Eddy 1821-1910
Florence Nightingale 1820-1910
Josephine Butler 1828-1906
Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906
Angela Burdett-Coutts 1814-1904
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902
Queen Victoria of England 1819-1901
Mary Kingsley 1862-1900

Nineteenth Century

Elisabeth of Austria 1837-1898
Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896
Cathay Williams 1844-1893
Pauline Cushman 1833-1893
Fanny Kemble 1809-1893
Lucy Stone 1818-1893
Fox Sisters 1813-1893
Helena Blavatsky 1831-1891
Sarah Polk 1803-1891
Priscilla Cooper Tyler 1816-1889
Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888
Dorothea Dix 1802-1887
Emily Dickinson 1830-1886
Sojourner Truth 1797-1883
Mary Todd Lincoln 1818-1882
George Eliot 1819-1880
Sarah Josepha Hale 1788-1879
Angelica Van Buren 1818-1877
George Sand 1804-1876
Mary Somerville 1780-1872
Henriette D'Angeville 1791-1871
Rose O'Neal Greenhow 1814-1864
Lola Montez 1821-1861
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861
Ranavalona I 1778-1861
Bronte Sisters 1816-1855
Ada Lovelace 1815-1852
Mary Shelley 1797-1851
Dolley Madison 1768-1849
Mary Anning 1799-1847
Marie Louise of Austria 1791-1847
Maria Reynolds 1768-1847
Grace Darling 1815-1842
Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun 1755-1842
Marie Paradis 1778-1839
Emily Donelson 1807-1836
Martha Jefferson Randolph 1772-1836
Betsy Ross 1752-1836
Sally Hemings 1773-1834
Elizabeth Monroe 1768-1830
Deborah Sampson 1760-1827
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton 1774-1821
Judith Sargent Murray 1751-1820
Abigail Adams 1744-1818
Policarpa Salavarrieta 1795-1817
Jane Austen 1775-1817
Josephine Bonaparte 1763-1814
Sacagawea 1788?-1812?
Peggy Shippen 1760-1804
Martha Washington 1731-1802

Eighteenth Century and Earlier

Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797
Catherine II of Russia 1729-1796
Marie Antoinette 1755-1793
Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784
Empress Maria Theresa of Austria 1717-1780
Mary of Modena 1658-1718
Queen Anne of Great Britain 1665-1714
Sophia of Hanover 1630-1714
Barbara Villiers, Lady Castlemaine 1640-1709
Queen Mary II of Great Britain 1662-1694
Nell Gwyn 1650-1687
Margaret Cavendish 1623-1673
Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba c. 1583-1663
Nur Jahan 1577-1645
Mumtaz Mahal 1593-1631
Pocahontas c.1596-1617
Elizabeth Bathory 1560-1614
Elizabeth I of England 1533-1603
Catherine de Medici 1519-1589
Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587
Queen Mary I of England 1516-1558
Catherine Parr 1512-1548
Anne of Cleves 1515-1547
Catherine Howard 1523-1542
Jane Seymour 1509-1537
Anne Boleyn 1507-1536
Catherine of Aragon 1485-1536
La Malinche ca. 1500-ca. 1529
Anacaona 1474-1504
Queen Isabella I of Castile 1451-1504
Elizabeth Woodville 1437-1492








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