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Anne of Foix-Candale (1506), Bohemian princess, Queen of Hungary, mother of Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, who later died in childbirth. Anna of Bohemia and Hungary (1547), Bohemian Princess died while giving birth to Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, who later died in childbirth; Juliane Reichardt (1783), pianist
Women who died during, ... Pages in category "Deaths in childbirth" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 479 total.
In the science fiction film Contact (1997), a woman died giving birth to the film's protagonist Eleanor Ann "Ellie" Arroway, portrayed by actress Jodie Foster. Arroway's father died when she was nine years old. In Mi Familia/My Familia (1995), the wife of the character played by Jimmy Smits dies while giving birth to their son.
Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986) was an American electrical engineer, software engineer, biomedical engineer, pilot and NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. She was the fourth woman, the second American woman and the first Jewish woman of any nationality to fly in space, logging 145 hours in ...
Adjacent is a tribute to the STS-107 crew who perished 19 months after Robertson. Caldwell holds a photo of fellow astronauts Clay Anderson and Sunita Williams. Robertson died May 24, 2001, in Houston from burn injuries sustained in the crash of a private plane at Wolfe Air Park, Manvel, Texas, on May 22, 2001; she
Orson Welles read the poem on an episode of The Radio Reader's Digest (11 October 1942), [9] [10] Command Performance (21 December 1943), [11] and The Orson Welles Almanac (31 May 1944). [12] High Flight has been a favourite poem amongst both aviators and astronauts. It is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force.
Millie Elizabeth Hughes was born in Mineral Wells, Texas on December 21, 1945. [3] [1] [2] She graduated from Mineral Wells High School in 1962, [4] then entered college at the age of 16 and earned her Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and biology from Tarleton State University in 1968. [5]
The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts , who were the first women in outer space. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963, very early in crewed space exploration , and it would be almost twenty years before another flew ...