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Maud Slye (08 feb 1869 – 17 sep 1954 | Minneapolis MN – Chicago IL) poet, musician, pathologist, cancer researcher
Bella Finkel Muni (08 feb 1898 – 01 oct 1971 | Philadelphia PA – Los Angeles CA) screenwriter
Elizabeth Bishop (08 feb 1911 – 06 oct 1979 | Worcester MA – Boston MA) poet, short story writer
Lisel Mueller (08 feb 1924 – Hamburg, Germany) American poet, Pulitzer Prize laureate
Rachel Naomi Remen (08 feb 1938 – New York NY) author, professor, integrative medicine pioneer, Commonweal Cancer Help Program founder, Institute for the Study of Health & Illness founder, The Healer’s Art medical curriculum founder / innovator
Carol Plantamura (08 feb 1941 – Los Angeles CA) author, soprano singer, 17th / 20th c. music specialist
Peggy Elaine Hussey Webb (08 feb 1942 – Mooreville MS) romance novelist
Valerie L. Thomas (08 feb 1943 – US) inventor, NASA scientist, African-American, invented and patented the Illusion Transmitter
Harmony Hammond (08 feb 1944 – Chicago IL) artist, author, feminist activist
Virginia Hinckley Pearce (08 feb 1945 – Denver CO) Latter-Day Saints leader, adult / children’s author
Lois Walden (08 feb 1946 – New York NY) actress, author, singer, record producer, performer, teaching artist
Suzanne Bennett Johnson (08 feb 1948 – Johnson City NY) author, psychologist
Cristina Ferrare (08 feb 1950 – St Louis MO) actress, author, talk show host
Peggy Pettitt (08 feb 1950 – St Louis MO) actor, dancer, teacher, playwright, storyteller
Marie House Kohler (08 feb 1951 – Sheboygan WI) playwright
Phyllis Curott (08 feb 1954 – Lynbrook NY) aka Aradia, Wiccan author, attorney, priestess, memoirist
Nancy Oliver (08 feb 1955 – Framingham MA) playwright, screenwriter
Karen Bausman (08 feb 1958 – Allentown PA) architect
Karen Sheriff (08 feb 1958 – Chicago IL) American-born Canadian businesswoman
Maggie Topkis (08 feb 1960 – New York NY) mystery fiction publisher