Catherine Stratton Ladd (28 Oct 1809 – 30 Jan 1899 | Richmond VA – Buckhead SC) poet, educator, essayist, playwright, Civil War nurse, early Confederate flag designer.

Henrietta Hall Shuck (28 Oct 1817 – 27 Nov 1844 | Kilmarnock VA – Hong Kong CN) memoirist, letter correspondent, founded co-ed boarding school, Chinese girls’ education advocate, first female Baptist missionary to China, first Western female to live in Hong Kong.

Mary Frame Myers Thomas (28 Oct 1816 – 19 Aug 1888 | Sandy Spring MD – Richmond IN) Quaker, abolitionist, suffragist, women’s rights leader, first female physician west of the Alleghenies.

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (28 Oct 1842 – 22 Oct 1932 | Philadelphia PA – Goshen NY) Quaker, orator, author, actress, novelist, lecturer, suffragist, abolitionist, mountaineer, Civil War spy, first female worker at US Mint, first woman to address US Congress.

Mary Katharine [Kate] Layne Curran Brandegee (28 Oct 1844 – 03 Apr 1920 | Tennessee US – Berkeley CA) botanist, autobiographical author, journal editor / publisher, created first botanical garden in San Diego CA.