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Textile workers

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Valentina Tereshkova

Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space (born 1937)

Elena Ceaușescu

Romanian politician (1916–1989)

American inventor (1765-1825)

Joseph Marie Jacquard

French inventor

Samuel Crompton

British inventor, pioneer of the spinning industry (1753-1827)

William Henry Perkin

British chemist known for his accidental discovery of the first synthetic dye (1838–1907)

Yekaterina Furtseva

Soviet politician (1910-1974)

British inventor

South African anti-apartheid activist (1911–1980)

Sophia Williams-De Bruyn

South African anti-Apartheid activist

British linguist (1855–1930)

Olin D. Johnston

American politician (1896-1965)

American teacher, poet, author (1824-1893)

American labor leader

Philippe de Girard

French engineer and inventor (1775–1845)

English clergyman and inventor (1563-1614)

French inventor

Bernhard Letterhaus

German trade unionist (1894-1944)

Jedediah Strutt

English hosier and cotton spinner (1726-1797)

Harriet Hanson Robinson

American suffragist

Aleksandra Artyukhina

Russian revolutionary (1889–1969)

American politician

American country musician, songwriter and producer (1921-2014)

engineer, entrepreneur, industrial spy (1769-1822)

Aleksandra Biryukova

Russian politician (1929–2008)

South African trade unionist, Land commissioner

Abdujabbor Abdurahmonov

Uzbek politician (1907–1975)

Japanese writer

French resistance member (1923-1944)

Michele di Lando

Italian politician (1343-1401)

Argentine writer (1928–2016)

Israeli accused of spying by Egypt

Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri

Syrian Sufi (1912–2004)

Savino Pezzotta

Italian politician

Valentina Gaganova

Russian politician

English cricketer (1849-1931)

Crystal Lee Sutton

American activist

Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Baronet

British politician (1807–1897)

Jeannette Vermeersch

French politician (1910-2001)

English inventor

Chinese politician

Teresa Torrelles i Espina

catalan trade unionist and feminist (1908-1991)