Marjorie Gestring (1922 – 1992) was an American athlete who won numerous diving titles. In 1936, at the Olympic Games in Berlin, she became the youngest gold medalist at the age of 13. The youngest athlete to win a gold medal Marjorie was born on November 18, 1922 in the United States and it was
Heroine of the fight against colonization, Ndaté Yalla Mbodj (1810 – 1860) was a great sovereign of Waalo, the historic region of present-day Senegal. Linguists Daughter of Fatim Yamar Khouriaye Mbodj and Amar Fatim Borso, Ndaté Yalla Mbodj was born in 1810 in the kingdom of Waalo, resulting from
Russian-Swiss painter Marianne von Werefkin (1860 – 1938) strives to innovate and express sincere emotions through her art. In an expressionist style, she paints landscapes, human figures and scenes of everyday life. A young painter Daughter of the commander of the regiment of Yekaterinburg (a Ru
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) was a French feminist, philosopher and woman of letters. An important figure in feminism, she participated in the womens liberation movement in the 1970s. Childhood and studies Born January 9, 1908 in Paris, Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir is the da