Mary Wollstonecraft, early feminist writer (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman) died on this day in 1797 of fever ten days after giving birth to her daughter, Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) | |
Carl Van Doren, American biographer (The Secret History of the American Revolution) was born on this day in 1885 | |
Science writer and biologist Stephen Jay Gould (Ever Since Darwin, The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox and many others) was born on this day in 1941 | |
Social worker and author Virginia Satir (Self Esteem, Peoplemaking) died on this day in 1988 | |
Swiss typeface designer Adrian Frutiger, whose most famous typeface Univers graces millions of books today, died on this day in 2015 |
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