Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Summer McIntosh
Summer McIntosh (2006 - )
Canadian swimmer,
Multi-gold-and-silver medallist for Canada
in Women's Swimming at the Paris Olympics, 2024,
Winner of the 2024 Canadian Press Award for
Canadian Female Athlete of the Year
Monday, December 30, 2024
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912 - 1997)
Chinese-American nuclear physicist;
Part of the Manhattan Project;
Discoveries made from her "Wu Experiment" won
her two male colleagues the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics,
while she was overlooked;
She did receive several physics awards in the 1960s and 1970s,
including the inaugural Wolf Prize in Physics in 1978.
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Samara Joy
Samara Joy (1999 - )
American jazz singer
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche (1964 - )
French actor
Friday, December 27, 2024
Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox (1954 - )
Scottish singer-songwriter and activist
for political, social and charitable causes
Thursday, December 26, 2024
bell hooks
bell hooks (1952 - 2021)
American author, theorist and social critic
exploring the intersectionality of
race, feminism, and class
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (1969 - )
American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor
"The Queen of Christmas"
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Dame Evelyn Glennie
Dame Evelyn Glennie (1965 - )
Scottish full-time solo concert percussionist.
Profoundly deaf since childhood, she hears with
parts of her body other than her ears
Monday, December 23, 2024
Gisèle Pelicot
Gisèle Pelicot (1952 - )
By waiving her right to anonymity under French law,
having her husband's and mass rapists' trial open to the public,
insisting that all blame and shame be placed on those rapists,
she has become a feminist icon raising awareness and
promoting the dignity of all women against whom
sexual violence is perpetrated.
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Pretty Yende
Pretty Yende (1985 - )
South African operatic coloratura soprano
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz (1949 - )
American portrait photographer
and visual artist
Friday, December 20, 2024
Domee Shi
Domee Shi (1989 - )
Canadian animator, film director and screenwriter,
Winner of the 2019 Academy Award for
Best Animated Short Film for
Bao
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson (1984 - )
American actor and singer
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye
Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye
African-Canadian interdisciplinary poet, playwright and actor,
current Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan (2024-2026)
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Debbie Wiseman
Debbie Wiseman (1963 - )
British composer for film, television,
concert hall, and official state/royal occasions
Monday, December 16, 2024
Mary McGee
Mary McGee (1936 - 2024)
American motorsport (cars and motorcycles) racing pioneer,
first woman to race motorcycles in the USA,
first person to finish the grueling
Baja 1000
race solo (1968).
Youtube has a half-hour ESPN documentary
on Mary's remarkable life and career --
it is well worth the time to watch!
Click here!
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith (1894 - 1937)
American blues singer and
recording artist with Columbia Records
Saturday, December 14, 2024
Maryam Mirzakhani
Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 - 2017)
Iranian mathematician and
professor of mathematics,
winner of Fields Medal, 2014,
the most prestigious award in mathematics.
Friday, December 13, 2024
Nancy Fuller
Nancy Fuller (1949 - )
American chef and television personality
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Gayle King
Gayle King (1954 - )
American broadcast journalist
and magazine editor
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Dr. Anne Anderson
Dr. Anne Anderson (1906 - 1997)
Canadian indigenous author, teacher,
pre-eminent preserver of
Cree language and Métis heritage,
honoured namesake of a high school,
community centre and park in Edmonton, Alberta
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Ilona Maher
Ilona Maher (1996 - )
American rugby player,
Olympic Bronze Medallist
for USA in Rugby Sevens
at Paris Olympics 2024,
social media influencer,
advocate for body positivity
Monday, December 9, 2024
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (1955 - )
American actor, comedian,
producer and media personality,
EGOT winner (Emmy, Grammy,
Oscar, and Tony Awards)
completed in 2002.
[portrait by Annie Leibovitz, 1984]
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Deva Premal
Deva Premal (1970 - )
German singer of Sanskrit mantras
Saturday, December 7, 2024
General Jennie Carignan
General Jennie Carignan (1968 - )
Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff,
Head of the Canadian Armed Forces
Friday, December 6, 2024
Princess Kaʻiulani
Victoria Kawēkiu Kaʻiulani Lunalilo
Kalaninuiahilapalapa Cleghorn (1875 - 1899)
Hawaiian royal princess and last heir apparent
to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Lynn Conway
Lynn Conway (1938 - 2024)
American computer scientist,
electrical engineer, and
transgender activist
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson (1981 - )
American singer and actor
EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony)
milestone achieved (2022)
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Sandi Toksvig
Sandi Toksvig (1958 - )
Danish-British broadcaster, comedian,
writer, media personality;
activist in progressive politics,
women's equality and LGBTQ rights
Monday, December 2, 2024
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke (2002 - )
New Zealand M.P. representing Te Pāti Māori (Maori Party);
leader of her party's November 2024
Haka Ka Mate
protest chant
against the
Treaty Principles Bill
affecting the indigenous treaty
relationship between Māori and The Crown.
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
Mexican surrealist/magical realist painter
Saturday, November 30, 2024
Michelle Douglas
Michelle Douglas (1963 - )
Canadian military officer discharged in 1989 pursuant to
the Canadian Armed Forces official LGBT Purge policy;
successful litigant in court settlement ending this policy.
Friday, November 29, 2024
Alfre Woodard
Alfre Woodard (1952 - )
American actor and activist for
many civil and human rights causes
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Ashley Callingbull-Rabbit
Ashley Callingbull-Rabbit (1989 - )
Canadian model, actor, beauty pageant competitor,
Titleholder of Mrs Universe 2015
and Miss Universe Canada 2024,
advocate for indigenous representation
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Paula Abdul
Paula Abdul (1962 - )
American singer, dancer,
choreographer, actor and
media personality
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin (1920 - 1958)
British chemist and x-ray crystallographer,
overlooked and unrecognized contributor
to the Nobel Prize winning discovery
of the molecular structure of DNA and RNA
Monday, November 25, 2024
Danielle Campo McLeod
Danielle Campo McLeod (1985 - )
Canadian athlete, motivational speaker,
and disability rights activist,
Paralympic multi-medallist for Canada
in Women's Swimming
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah (1970 - )
American rapper, singer, actor
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Hiro Arikawa
Hiro Arikawa (1972 - )
Japanese author
Friday, November 22, 2024
Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore (1975 - )
American actor and media personality
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Ann Pornel
Ann Pornel
Canadian comedian, actor, TV host
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Zoë Saldaña
Zoë Saldaña (1978 - )
American actor
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Melinda French Gates
Melinda French Gates (1964 - )
American philanthropist
Monday, November 18, 2024
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez (1992 - )
American singer, actor and business person
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Tu Youyou
Tu Youyou (1930 - )
Chinese malariologist and pharmaceutical chemist
2015 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology/Medicine
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde (1934 - 1992)
American writer, philosopher, poet,
intersectional feminist, civil rights activist
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