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Golda Meir
Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
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Emma Goldman
Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)
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Ingrid Bergman
Swedish actress (1915–1982)
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Tina Turner
American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)
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Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
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Rigoberta Menchú
Guatemalan human rights activist
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Agnetha Fältskog
Swedish singer (born 1950)
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Liv Ullmann
Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1938)
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Liliʻuokalani
Liliʻuokalani (; Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha; September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917) was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893, in a coup that was led by the Committee of Safety, composed of seven foreign residents (five Americans, one Scotsman, and one German) and six Hawaiian Kingdom subjects of American descent in Honolulu. The composer of "Aloha ʻOe" and numerous other works, she wrote her autobiography ''Hawaiʻi's Story by Hawaiʻi's Queen'' (189
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Ivana Trump
Ivana Marie Trump was a Czech and American businesswoman, socialite, and model. She lived in Canada in the 1970s, before relocating to the United States and marrying Donald Trump in 1977. She held key managerial positions in the Trump Organization, as vice president of interior design, CEO and president of Trump's Castle casino resort, and manager of the Plaza Hotel.
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Li Na
Chinese tennis player
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Sylvia Kristel
Dutch actress, model, recording artist (1952-2012)
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Claude Jade
French actress (1948-2006)
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Amrita Pritam
Punjabi poet (1919–2005)
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Victoria Silvstedt
Swedish model, actress, singer, and television personality
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Leslie Caron
French and American actress and dancer (born 1931)
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Britt Ekland
Swedish actress (born 1942)
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Queen Noor of Jordan
Queen and Queen Dowager of Jordan; philanthropist and activist
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Violeta Parra
Chilean musician and folklorist
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Niki de Saint Phalle
plastician, painter and sculptor (1930–2002)
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Buchi Emecheta
Nigerian writer (1944–2017)
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Zarah Leander
Swedish actress and singer (1907–1981)
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Savitri Devi
Greek-French writer (1905-1982)
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Mary Seacole
British-Jamaican businesswoman and nurse
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Ayşe Kulin
Turkish novelist (born 1941)
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María de Villota
Spanish motor racing driver
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Ngaio Marsh
New Zealand writer (1895-1982)
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Corrie ten Boom
Dutch resistance hero and writer
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Puma Swede
Swedish pornographic actress
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Maria von Trapp
matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers (1905–1987)
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Louise de La Vallière
mistress of Louis XIV
Wilma Mankiller
Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1945–2010)
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Sada Abe
20th-century Japanese murderer
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Lill-Babs
Barbro Margareta Svensson (9 March 1938 – 3 April 2018), known by her stage name Lill-Babs, was a Swedish singer, actress and television host. From the early 1950s until her death in 2018, she was one of Sweden's best-known and most popular singers. She represented Sweden in the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest in Cannes with the song "April, april". She was also well known for the song "Är du kär i mej ännu Klas-Göran?" ("Are You Still in Love with Me, Klas-Göran?").
Sarah Kofman
philosopher from France
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Katherine Jackson
Katherine Esther Jackson is the matriarch of the Jackson family of entertainers that includes her children Michael and Janet Jackson. Michael dedicated his sixth studio album Thriller (1982) to her. Janet did the same with her fourth studio album Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989). In 1985, acknowledging the positive impact on her children's successful music careers, national urban magazine Essence honored her as "Mother of the Year".
Madeleine Pelletier
French physician, psychiatrist, feminist, socialist, editor (1874-1939)
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Kalpana
Indian actress
Cléo de Mérode
French dancer (1875-1966)
Padma Sachdev
Indian poet and novelist (1940–2021)
Edith Bruck
Hungarian Italian writer and film director
Sanmao
Taiwanese novelist, translator and writer (1943-1991)
Margery Kempe
British Christian mystic and author
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Durga Khote
Indian actress (1905–1991)
Norma McCorvey
plaintiff in Roe v. Wade (1947–2017)
Muthulakshmi Reddy
Indian physician and legislator
Nalini Bala Devi
Assamese-language Indian poet
Ratchanok Intanon
Thai badminton player
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Amelia Bence
Argentine film actress (1914–2016)
Krishna Hutheesing
Indian writer
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Charlotte Valandrey
French actress (1968–2022)
Amina Tyler
Tunisian feminist and activist
Malika Oufkir
Moroccan Amazigh (Berber) writer and former "disappeared"
Lea Pericoli
Italian tennis player (1935–2024)
Cordelia Edvardson
German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor
Gisella Perl
gynecologist and author (1907–1988)
Aoua Kéita
Malian politician (1912-1980)
Binodini Dasi
Indian actress
Carolina Gynning
Swedish model, writer and television personality
Ivy Dumont
Governor-General of the Bahamas