Death Dates
June 1, 1968
Connecticut
Helen Keller
First Jewish Woman to serve on the Supreme Court
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Founder of the Girl Scouts
Juliette Gordon Low
1965: Peabody Award for The French Chef
Julia Child
"Woman works undercover in Asylum to expose flaws in the system"
Nellie Bly
December 30, 2022
Manhattan, New York
Barbara Walters
First African American Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice
Italian Renaissance Painter
Sofonisba Anguissola
Presidential Medal of Freedom
1964
Helen Keller
"Woman on the loose in New York causing death and illness in her wake: Avoid at all costs"
Mary Mallon- Typhoid Mary
October 28, 1818
Massachusetts
Abigail Adams
Only woman to marry a current U.S. President (and a very helpful figure after her husband's stroke)
Mary Queen of Scots was also a crowned queen of which mainland European nation
France
11 Grammy Awards- including her 2011 Lifetime Achievement Grammy
Dolly Parton
"Woman sues husband for unfairly institutionalizing her"
Elizabeth Packard
September 8, 2022
Scotland
Queen Elizabeth II
Sister to a U.S president and mother in law to a CA governor
Eunice Kennedy
With this hero's gender in question for years, we still loved learning about him despite him being a him
Cher Ami
The NASA Space Flight Medal- twice!!
Sally Ride
"First lady escapes dinner with friend for a late night flight around the Capital"
Eleanor Roosevelt
May 13, 1948
A plane crash in France
Kathleen Kennedy
The longest running first lady of the United States
Eleanor Roosevelt
For 1000 points, pronunciation needs to be correct
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
The Disney Legends award
2008
Barbara Walters
"Woman becomes first to leave Earth's orbit in first space flight to the moon in decades"
Christina Koch
Artemis II