Josefa [Chipita] Rodriguez (30 Dec 1799 – 13 Nov 1863 | Mexico, New Spain – San Patricio TX) Mexican-American innkeeper, convicted / hanged for murder, first and only woman hanged in Texas, subject of books / operas / newspaper and magazine articles, Texas Legislature resolved [100+ yrs later in 1985] “Josefa did not receive a fair trial and should not have been hanged”.

Agnes Irwin (30 Dec 1841 – 05 Dec 1914 | Washington DC – Philadelphia PA) author, editor, educator, girls’ school founder, political family member, first dean at Radcliffe College, principal at West Penn Square Seminary for Young Ladies [later renamed Agnes Irwin School].

Katharine Jeannette Bush (30 Dec 1855 – 19 Jan 1937 | Scranton PA – New Haven CT) author, essayist, zoologist, dictionary editor, first to earn PhD in Sciences at Yale.

Rachel Foster Avery (30 Dec 1858 – 26 Oct 1919 | Pittsburgh PA – Philadelphia PA) suffragist, journalist, political activist, adoptive and natural mother, organized International Council of Women, secretary for National American Woman Suffrage Association.