Marie-Anne Gaboury Lagimodière (02 Aug 1780 – 14 Dec 1875 | Maskinongé QC – Saint-Boniface MB) pioneer / settler, Canadian folk figure, aka Grandmother of the Red River.

Hannah Jones Armstrong Wilcox (02 Aug 1810 – 19 Aug 1890 | Illinois US – Winterset IA) folk figure, Lincoln neighbor, Lincoln defended her son Duff in Almanac Trial.

Carrie Estelle Betzold Doheny (02 Aug 1875 – 30 Oct 1958 | Philadelphia PA – Los Angeles CA) philanthropist, library foundress, rare book collector, founded Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation, donated book collection to St John’s Seminary (Camarillo CA), funded construction of St Vincent’s Church (LA) and buildings at Loyola Marymount University (LA), former Doheny home Chester Place became Mount St Mary’s College campus, awarded title of Papal Countess (1939) by Pope Pius XII for her services to Catholic Church.

Mittie Maude Lena Gordon Nelson (02 Aug 1889 – 1961 | Webster Parish LA – Ethiopia) African-American, black nationalist, civil rights activist, established Peace Movement of Ethiopia.

Kate [Kathe] Steinitz (02 August 1889 – 07 April 1975 | Upper Silesia [now Poland] – Los Angeles CA) artist, art historian, focus on Bauhaus / Dadaist movement.