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The 2013 Italian Open (also known as the 2013 Rome Masters and sponsored title 2013 Internazionali BNL d'Italia) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor...

Mariana Victoria of Portugal (or of Braganza; Portuguese: Mariana Vitória; pronounced [mɐɾiˈɐnɐ]; full name: Mariana Vitória Josefa Francisca Xavier de...

Evgeniya Rodina and Arina Rodionova won the title by defeating Julia Cohen and Urszula Radwańska 2–6, 6–3, 6–1 in the final. Julia Cohen / Urszula Radwańska...

Marion Downs (January 26, 1914 – November 13, 2014) was an American audiologist and Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center...

Swedish women's football champions (Swedish: Svenska mästare i fotboll) is a title held by the winners of the highest Swedish football league played each...

Clara Calamai (7 September 1915 – 21 September 1998) was an Italian actress. Calamai was born in Prato, Tuscany, on 7 September 1915. Calamai's first acting...

Frances "Cissie" Beckett (1880-1951) was an Irish artist. She was a contemporary of Estella Solomons and Beatrice Elvery, with whom she studied at Académie...

Nydia Eileen Westman (February 19, 1902 – May 23, 1970) was an American actress and singer of stage, screen, and television. Westman's parents, Theodore...

Dame Daphne Marjorie Sheldrick, DBE (née Jenkins; 4 June 1934 – 12 April 2018) was a Kenyan of British descent, author, conservationistand expert in animal...

Emma Smith (21 August 1923 – 24 April 2018) was an English novelist, who also wrote for children and published two volumes of autobiography. She gave encouragement...

Deborah Coleman (October 3, 1956 – April 12, 2018) was an American blues musician. Coleman won the Orville Gibson Award for "Best Blues Guitarist, Female"...

Dorothy Burr Thompson (August 19, 1900 – May 10, 2001) was an American classical archaeologist and art historian at Bryn Mawr College and a leading authority...

Anne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen, OBE (née Tasker; 10 December 1940 – 20 April 2018) was a British trade unionist, Labour peer and author of...

Petronilla of Lorraine (c. 1082 – 23 May 1144) was Countess of Holland by marriage to Floris II, Count of Holland, and regent of the County of Holland...

Marie Jonas de la Motte (14 November 1627, Delft – after 1683) was a Dutch art model, prostitute and procurer. She is known as the model of the artist...

Jean Marzollo (June 24, 1942 – April 10, 2018) was an American children's author and illustrator. She wrote more than 100 books, including the best-selling...

Marie I de Coucy (April 1366 – after 3 March 1405) was Dame de Coucy and d'Oisy, and Countess of Soissons from 1397. She succeeded suo jure to the title...

Daurene Elaine Lewis, CM (September 9, 1943 – January 26, 2013), was a Canadian politician and educator. She was the first Black female mayor in Canada...

Dora E. Thompson (1876 – June 23, 1954) was the fourth Army Nurse Corps Superintendent, and the first selected from within the Corps, having served as...

Sylvia Stahlman (March 5, 1929 – August 19, 1998) was an American soprano, particularly associated with light, coloratura roles. Stahlman was born in Nashville...