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Obenchain, Eliza Caroline Calvert Hall
American author, novelist and suffrage leader, Sally Ann’s Experience
(1907) : The Land of Long Ago (1909).
(b. 1856, Bowling Green, Kentucky – d. after 1910)
Oberholtzer, Sara Louisa Vickers
American poet and novelist, Violet Lee, and Other Poems (1873) :
Souvenirs of Occasions (1892).
(b. May 20, 1841, Uwchlan, Pennsylvania – d. Feb 2, 1930)
Ocampo, Silvina
Argentinian writer
(b. 1906 – d. 1993)
Oda of Ammergau (Uota)
Carolingian empress 896 – 899, m. Emperor Arnulf (850 – 899). Mother of Louis
the Child (893 – 911)
the last Carolingian ruler.
(b. c875 – d. 903)
Oda of Saxony
Queen of Lorraine, sister of emperor Henry I, wife of Zwentibold.
(b. c879 – d. after July 2, 952)
Oda of Thuringia
German centenarian, founded the Abbey of Gandersheim, m. Luidolf, Duke
of Saxony (d. 866). Mother of Duke Otto I ‘the Illustrious’ (836 – 912). Died
aged 107 years.
(b. 806 – d. May, 913, Gandersheim, near Goslar)
Oda of Walbeck
German founder of the Abbey of Heinsberg (c1140), m. Goswin I, Count of
Heinsberg.
(b. c1070 – d. 1152)
O’Donnell, Helen
American big-band vocalist
(b. May 23, 1920, Lima, Ohio – d. Sept 10, 1993, San Diego, California)
O’Donnell, Mary King
American novlist, Quincie Bolliver (1941) : Those Other People
(1946).
(b. March 2, 1909, Angleton, Texas)
Oemler, Marie Conway
American novelist, Slippy McGee (1917) : Johnny Reb (1929)
: Flower of Thorn (1931).
(b. May 29, 1879,
Savannah, Georgia – d. June 6, 1932)
O’Ferrall, Elizabeth Cecilia Hare, Lady
British patrician, formerly Lady Elveden, dau. of Richard Hare, 4th
Earl of Listowel.
(b. 1914 – d. 1990)
O’Hara Alsop, Mary
American composer, author, and novelist, My Friend Flicka (1941):
Green Grass of Wyoming (1946).
(b. July 10, 1885, Cape May Point, New Jersey)
O’Kelley, Mattie Lou
American folk artist, writer, and painter of rural nostalgia, From the
Hills of Georgia.
(b. 1907, Maysville, Georgia – d. July 26, 1997, Decatur, Georgia)
Oku, Mumeo
Japanese pioneer of women’s rights
(b. 1895, Fukui Prefecture, western Japan – d. July 7, 1997, Tokyo)
Olga Alexandrovna
Russian grand duchess, daughter of Tsar Alexander III, sister of Nicholas
II.
(b. June 13, 1882 – d. Nov 24, 1960, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Olga Nikolaievna
Russian grand duchess, eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra
Feodorovna.
(b. Nov 3, 1895, Peterhof Palace, Moscow – murd. July 17, 1918, Ekaterinburg,
Siberia)
Olga of Greece
Princess of Greece, m. Prince Paul (1893 – 1976), the regent.
(b. 1903 – d. 1997)
Olheim, Helen
American soprano
(b. 1905, Buffalo – d. June 26, 1992, Sarasota, Florida)
Oliver, Grace Atkinson
American biopgrapher, Life and Works of Anna L. Barbauld (1873)
: A Study of Maria Edgeworth (1882) : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1885).
(b. Sept 24, 1844, Boston, Massachusetts – d. 1899)
Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson
Scottish novelist and writer, Francis of Assisi (1871) : Diana
Trelawney (1892).
(b. April 4, 1828, near Musselburgh, Midlothian – d. June 25, 1897).
Oliver, Grace Atkinson
American author, Life and Works of Anna L. Barbauld (1873) : A
Study of Maria Edgeworth (1882).
(b. Sept 24, 1844, Boston, Massachusetts – d. 1899)
Olmstead, Florence
American author, A Cloistered Romance (1915) : Stafford’s Island
(1920).
(fl. 1912 – 1920, b. Beaulieu, Georgia)
Olmsted, Millicent
American author, The Land That Never Was (1908) : Harmony Wins
(1913).
(b. c1865, Cleveland, Ohio – d. June 3, 1939)
O’Morphy, Marie Louise
French courtesan, mistress of Louis XV.
(b. 1737 – d. 1815)
Ondieki, Lisa
Marathon runner
(b. May 12, 1960)
O’Neale, Margaret Eaton (Peggy)
American political figure and writer, The Autobiography of Peggy Eaton
(1932).
(b. 1796, Washington, D.C. – d. Nov 8, 1879)
O’Neill, Barbara
American actress
(b. July 17, 1910, St Louis, Missouri – d. Sept 3, 1980, Cos Cob, Connecticut)
O’Neill, Rose Cecil
American illustrator, poet, and inventor of the ‘kewpie’ doll, The Lady
in the White Veil (1909).
(b. 1874, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – d. April 7, 1944)
Onema Henriette, Mama
Kongolese priestess and sorceress.
(b. c1900 – d. Aug 27, 1967)
Openhym, Evelyn Tennyson
American bibliophile and university patron.
(b. 1902 – d. Jan 13, 1992, Wellsville, New York)
Orchard, Mary
British courtier, governess to the Russian Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
(b. 1830 – d. 1906)
Orkney, Mary O’Brien, Countess
Scottish peeress 1791 – 1831, fourth holder of the earldom of Orkney.
(b. 1755 – d. 1831)
Orleans, Augusta of Baden, Duchesse d’
German-French princess, wife (1724) Duke Louis I (1703 – 1752).
((b. Nov 10, 1704, Aschaffenburg, Baden – d. Aug 8, 1726, Palais Royale, Paris)
Orleans, Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatine, Duchesse d’ (Liselotte)
German-French letter writer, mother of Regent Philippe II, Duc d’Orleans (1674
– 1723).
(b. May 27, 1652, Heidelberg – d. Dec 8, 1722, Palace of Saint-Cloud, near Paris)
Orleans, Louise Adelaide de Bourbon-Penthievre, Duchesse d’
French émigré, m. Philippe II Egalite. Mother of King
Louis Philippe (1778 – 1850).
(b. March 13, 1753, Paris – d. June 23, 1821, Ivry-sur-Seine)
Orleans, Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Duchesse d’
French princess, wife of Duke Louis Philippe I (1725 – 1785).
(b. June 20, 1726, Paris – d. Feb 9, 1759, Paris)
O’Reilly, Christine
American triplet
(b. Jan 18, 1968 – d. Oct, 1993)
Orme, Denise (Jessie Smither)
British musical comedy performer, m. (1946) 7th Duke of Leinster.
(b. 1887 – d. Oct 20, 1960)
Orr, Jean Fergus Henderson
British civil servant
(b. April 3, 1920 – d. April 17, 1997)
Orsay, Harriet Anne Frances Gardiner, Comtesse d’
Anglo-French society figure, wife of Comte Alfred d’Orsay, the lover of
her stepmother.
(b. 1812 – d. Dec 17, 1869)
Orton, Helen Fuller
American author, The Cloverfield Farm series (1921 – 1926) : The
Winding River (1944).
(b. Nov 1, 1872, Pekin, New York – d. Feb 16, 1955)
Ortrud of Holstein-Glucksburg
Princess of Hanover, first wife of Ernst Augustus IV, Duke of Brunswick.
(b. Dec 19, 1925, Flensburg, Holstein – d. Feb 6, 1980, Calenburg, near Schulenburg)
Osborne, Letitia Preston
American lecturer and novelist, They Change Their Skies (1945) :
The Little Voyage (1949).
(b. Aug 9, 1894, Union, West Virginia)
Osborne, Mary
American electric jazz guitarist
(b. 1921, Bismarck, North Dakota – d. March 4, 1992, Bakersfield, California)
Osburh (Osburga)
Anglo-Saxon queen, wife of Ethelwulf of Wessex. Mother of King Alfred (849 –
899).
(b. c808 – d. 855, Wantage Palace, Berkshire)
Osgood, Frances Sargent Locke
American poet, friend of Edgar Allan Poe, Puss in Boots (1844) :
The Cries of New York (1846).
(b. June 18, 1811, Boston, Massachusetts – d. May 12, 1850)
Osgood, Kate Putnam
American poet, Driving Home the Cows (1865).
(b. May 25, 1841, Fryeburg, Me. – d. after 1865)
O’Shaughnessy, Edith Coues
American diplomatic wife and author, A Diplomat’s Wife in Mexico
(1916) : Intimate Pages of Mexican History (1920).
(b. c1865, Columbia, South Carolina – d. Feb 18, 1939)
Osmanoglu, Hadice Sukriye
Ottoman princess, m. (1) Serefeddin Osmanoglu (2) Shaikh Ahmad of Kuwait.
(b. Feb 24, 1906, Tchamlidcha-Scutari, Turkey – d. March, 1972)
Osmanoglu, Mediha
Ottoman princess, dau. of Sultan Abdulmecid I, m. (1886) the Grand Vizier
Farid Pasha (1854 – 1923).
(b. July 30, 1856, Bechiktache, Turkey – d. Jan 7, 1928, Mentone, France)
Ostenso, Martha
Norwegian-American novelist and poet, A Far Land (1924) : The
Mandrake Root (1938).
(b. Sept 17, 1900, Bergen, Norway – d. Nov 24, 1963, USA)
Osternburg, Marie Bulazel, Countess von
German morganatic wife (1863) Duke Nicholas of Oldenburg (1840 – 1886).
(b. July 8, 1845, Kharkoff – d. Jan 29, 1909, Paris, France)
Ostheim, Paola Vanda Lottero, Countess von
German-Italian morganatic wife (1909 – 1911) Prince Herman Karl von Saxe-Weimar.
(b. July 14, 1881, Sportono, Italy – d. July 8, 1963, Genoa)
Ostrander, Isabel
American novelist, The Single Track (1919) as ‘Douglas Grant’ :
The Doom Dealer (1923) as ‘David Fox’.
(b. Sept 14, 1885, New York – d. April 23, 1924)
Osuna, Leonor Ana Perez de Guzman y Aragon, Duchess de
Spanish grandee, m. (1552) Pedro Giron, 1st Duque (1537 – 1590).
(b. c1539, Sanlucar – d. Nov 23, 1573)
Otis, Eliza Henderson Bordman
American author, The Barclays of Boston (1854). Responsible for George
Washington’s birthday becoming an official public holiday.
(b. July 27, 1796, Boston, Massachusetts – d. Jan 21, 1873)
Otway, Phoebe Georgina Frances
British society figure, first wife of George Armstrong (1883 - 1971), and
daughter-in-law of Dame Nellie Melba.
(b. 1888 – d. 1939)
Oultremont, Henriette d’, Comtesse de Wegimont
Dutch courtier, mistress and morganatic second wife of King William I (1818
– 1890).
(b. 1792 – d. 1864)
Oursler, Grace Perkins
American novelist, Ex-Mistress (1930) : Boy Crazy (1931)
: No More Orchids (1932).
(b. c1878, Boston, Massachusetts – d. Dec 16, 1955)
Ouvry, Matilda
Anglo-Indian diarist, A Lady’s Diary before and during the Indian Mutiny
(1892).
(fl. 1856 – 1892)
Ovington, Mary White
American author, Half a Man (1911) : Hazel (1913) : Portraits
in Color (1927).
(b. April 11, 1865, Brooklyn, New York – d. July, 1951)
Owen, Grace
British educator
(b. 1873 – d. Nov 20, 1965)
Owen, Marie Bankhead
American archivist, historian and writer, Alabama : A Social and Economic
History of the State (1937).
(b. 1869, Noxubee County, Mississippi – d. March 2, 1958)
Owen, Mary Alicia
American author, Voodoo Tales (1893) : Folk-Lore of the Mississippi
Indians (1904).
(b. Jan 29, 1858, St Joseph, Mo. – d. after 1910)
Owen, Ruth Bryan
American diplomat, Minister to Denmark 1933 – 1936, and author, Leaves
from a Greenland Diary (1935)
: Caribbean Caravel (1949).
(b. Oct 2, 1885, Jacksonville, Illinois – d. 1954)
Oxford, Jane Elizabeth Scott, Countess of
British society figure, the mistress of Lord Byron (1810).
(b. 1773 – d. Nov 20, 1824, Craven Hill, Bayswater)