Different Women – Different Lives – Different Experiences
These women were born on different days, and different years and have lived different lives. Just like them, we were born into this world on different days and in different years, and have had different experiences. Click on their names for detailed information and links to more information.
Adele Adkins
Born: May 5, 1988
London, England
Madeleine Albright (Marie Jana Korbelova)
Born: May 15, 1937
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died: March 23, 2022
Julie Andrews (Julia Elizabeth Wells)
Born: October 1, 1935
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
Lauren Bacall (Betty Joan Perske)
Born: September 16, 1924
The Bronx, New York City, U.S.
Died: August 12, 2014
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Joan Ruth Bader)
Born: March 15, 1933
Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Died: September 18, 2020
Martha Beck (Martha Nibley)
Born: November 29, 1962
Provo, Utah, U.S.
Sara Blakely
Born: February 27, 1971
Clearwater, Florida, U.S.
Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochran)
Born: May 5, 1864
Cochran’s Mills, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died: January 27, 1922
Brené Brown (Casandra Brené Brown)
Born: November 18, 1965
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Carol Burnett
Born: April 26, 1933
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Rosanne Cash
Born: May 24, 1955
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita St. Hill)
Born: November 30, 1924
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died: January 1, 2005
Marie Curie (Maria Salomea Skłodowska)
Born: November 7, 1867
Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (now Poland)
Died: July 4, 1934
Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis)
Born: April 5, 1908
Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died: October 6, 1989
Viola Davis
Born: August 11, 1965
St. Matthews, South Carolina, U.S.
Glennon Doyle
Born: March 20, 1976
Burke, Virginia, U.S.
Amelia Earhart
Born: July 24, 1897
Atchison, Kansas, U.S.
Disappeared July 2, 1937
Pacific Ocean, en route to Howland Island from Lae, New Guinea
Presumed Dead: January 5, 1939
Alex Elle
Born: July 25, 1989
United States
Jane Goodall (Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall)
Born: April 3, 1934
London, England, UK
Louise Hay (Helen Vera Lunney)
Born: October 8, 1926
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died: August 30, 2017
Audrey Hepburn (Audrey Kathleen Ruston)
Born: May 4, 1929
Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Died: January 20, 1993
Ayanna Howard
Born: January 24, 1972
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Arianna Huffington (Ariadnē-Anna Stassinopoúlou)
Born: July 15, 1950
Athens, Greece
Frida Kahlo (Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón)
Born: July 6, 1907
Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
Died: July 13, 1954
Jamie Kern Lima
Born: July 16, 1977
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Hedy Lemarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler)
Born: November 9, 1914
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died: January 19, 2000
Estée Lauder (Josephine Esther Mentzer)
Born: July 1, 1908
Corona, Queens, New York City, U.S.
Died: April 24, 2004
Maya Lin
Born: October 5, 1959
Athens, Ohio, U.S.
Nellie McClung (Nellie Letitia Mooney)
Born: October 20, 1873
Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada
Died: September 1, 1951
Reba McEntire
Born: March 28, 1955
McAlester, Oklahoma, U.S.
Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch)
Born: May 3, 1898
Kiev, Russian Empire (now Kyiv, Ukraine)
Died: December 8, 1978
Lisa Nicols
Born: May 18, 1966
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Michelle Obama (Michelle LaVaughn Robinson)
Born: January 17, 1964
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Rosa Parks (Rosa Louise McCauley)
Born: February 4, 1913
Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.
Died: October 24, 2005
Dolly Parton
Born: January 1946
Pittman Center, Tennessee, U.S.
Nicole Reed
Born: May 17, 1988
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nora Roberts (Eleanor Marie Robertson)
Born: October 10, 1950
Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.
Eleanor Roosevelt (Anna Eleanor Roosevelt)
Born: October 11, 1884
New York City, U.S.
Died: November 7, 1962
Gretchen Rubin (Gretchen Anne Craft)
Born: December 14, 1965
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Carly Simon
Born: June 25, 1943
New York City, U.S.
Gloria Steinem
Born: March 25, 1934
Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
Amy Tan
Born: February 19, 1952
Oakland, California, U.S.
Harriet Tubman (Araminta Ross)
Born: c. March 1822
Dorchester County, Maryland, U.S.
Died: March 10, 1913
Marianne Williamson
Born: July 8, 1952
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Oprah Winfrey
Born: January 29, 1954
Kosciusko, Mississippi, U.S.
Shelley Winters (Shirley Schrift)
Born: August 18, 1920
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died: January 14, 2006
Malala Yousafzai
Born: July 12, 1997
Mingora, Swat, Pakistan
