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July 7 – Bunk Johnson, African American jazz trumpeter (born 1879) July 18 – Alice Corbin Henderson, poet (born 1881) July 24 – Virginia M. Alexander, African American physician and community activist (born 1899) July 26 – Linda Arvidson, silent film actress (born 1884) July 27 – Ellery Harding Clark, field athlete (born 1874) August 9
10 1949. 11 References. Toggle the table of contents ... These are the most popular given names in the United States for all years of the 1940s. 1940. Males ...
This is a list of notable women writers. ... (b. 1949, Ivory Coast ... United States), poet & wr.; first named American-born woman to publish; Yvonne Brewster (b ...
Annie Leibovitz (born 1949), portrait photographer, worked for Rolling Stone magazine and later Vanity Fair; Joanne Leonard (born 1940), photography of Oakland, Ca, autobiographical and family, and collage beinginpictures.com; Zoe Leonard (born 1961), photography of New York City, photos of the fictional Fae Richards for the film The Watermelon ...
Dorothy Misener Jurney (1909–2002) – influential journalist covering women's issues on women's pages; Pauline Kael (1919–2001) – film critic for The New Yorker; K. Connie Kang (1942–2019) – first female Korean American journalist, wrote for Los Angeles Times; James J. Kilpatrick (1920–2010) – syndicated political columnist
Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949) – Frankish and Carolingian history; Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker (born 1940) – specialist in the position of women during the Middle Ages; Mayke de Jong (born 1950) – political and religious history of the early Middle Ages; Eileen Power (1889–1940) – Middle Ages
Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905
Briefly on the Board of Directors for the Miss America Organization in 2018 [78] 2013: Jan. 12, 2013 Mallory Hagan [97] New York: Brooklyn: 24 Tap dance, "Get Up Offa That Thing" by James Brown: Served the second shortest term by any Miss America, lasting only nine months: 2014: Sept. 15, 2013 Nina Davuluri [98] [99] Fayetteville: 24 Bollywood ...