Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, American author, professor, feminist, and social activist was born.
Category: September
September 19, 1992
Erin Jackson American speed skater, inline skater and roller derby player is born.
September 20, 1934
Sophia Loren Italian actress is born
September 8, 1954
Ruby Nell Bridges American civil rights activist is born.
September 30, 1920
Eileen Chang 張愛玲 Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter was born.
September 1, 2017
Priscillah Mabelane becomes the first woman in the history of South Africa’s oil industry to head a multi-national company.
September 12, 1840
Mary Jane Patterson the first African-American woman to receive a B.A degree in 1862 is born.
September 10, 1935
On September 10, 1935 Mary Jane Oliver American poet is born.
September 29, 1931
Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg Italian-Swedish is born.
September 23, 1942
Sila María Calderón the first female governor of Puerto Rico is born,