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Apr 4, 2016 · 9 Elizabeth Barton. 1534. Photo credit: Thomas Holloway. Born in 1506, Elizabeth Barton suffered from epilepsy as a young girl. While living as a teenage servant in the house of Thomas Cobb (overseer of the archbishop of Canterbury’s estate), an illness came upon Elizabeth that caused hysteria.
This is a list of notable women, either famous themselves or closely associated with someone well known, who suffered maternal death as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO):
Dec 26, 2019 · Their breakthroughs were in law, science, music and business, and, like the more famous who died this year, they left indelible legacies.
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- Madonna. Madonna: Which one? The singer and sometimes-actress—and very successful self-promoter and businesswoman? The mother of Jesus? The image of Mary and other saintly mothers in medieval paintings?
- Marilyn Monroe. Actress and icon Marilyn Monroe was discovered while working in a World War II defense plant. She was considered an icon and epitomized a certain image for women in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Cleopatra. Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Egypt, had infamous liaisons with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony while trying to keep Egypt out of Rome's clutches.
- Anne Frank. Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl in the Netherlands, kept a diary during the time she and her family were hiding from the Nazis. She did not survive her time in a concentration camp, but her diary still speaks of hope in the midst of war and persecution.
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in May 2024) and then linked here.
70 Famous Women who Changed the World. A list of famous and influential women, including women’s rights activists, poets, musicians, politicians, humanitarians and scientists.
May 16, 2023 · From influencing major Supreme Court decisions or making history at the Oscars to being the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean or becoming the world’s youngest Nobel Peace Prize...
