Anne-Sophie Mutter made her professional debut playing this stringed instrument in 1977 at age 13

Lynne Thigpen won a Tony in 1997 for acting in An American Daughter by this author of The Heidi Chronicles

She wrote the purr-fectly titled memoir I'm Still Here: Confessions of a Sex Kitten

This future U.S. first lady distributed food & helped tend the wounded during the Boxer Rebellion

Coretta Scott met this future husband while at the New England Conservatory of Music

Training by the Suzuki method your child can become a famous one of these like Midori

In 1956 she made $3 million as the last of the original United Artists partners to sell their stock

1 of the 2 Harriets in the Women's Hall of Fame they both are associated with slavery

Upset over the Senate's treatment of Anita Hill this Illinoian ran for the U.S. Senate in 1992 & won

Yasuko Namba one of Japan's leading women mountain climbers died in a blizzard on this Nepalese peak in 1996

In her 1950s autobiography This Life I've Led she wrote My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

1996 marked the 100th anniversary of her Boston Cooking-School Cookbook now published under her own name

This Nicaraguan president studied for 4 years at a Roman Catholic high school for girls in San Antonio Texas

Sartre & this philosopher began their lifelong friendship while students at the Sorbonne

This aviator liked to be called A.E.

In 1995 this Nobel peace laureate visited the U.S. & helped open an AIDS hospice for women & children

This beloved jazz singer The First Lady of Song passed away in 1996

Many believe her 1985 murder was in retaliation for her trying to stop the poaching of gorillas in Africa

In 1904 this American impressionist painter was awarded the French Legion of Honor

This first lady & her husband were distant cousins; her father was Teddy Roosevelt's younger brother

Ding Ling who wrote about independent brave women was one of this country's most popular authors

Eva Crane became interested in apiculture when she received a swarm of these as a wedding present

Grace Darling & her father the keeper of one of these saved 9 people from drowning in an 1838 shipwreck

It was the profession of Mrs. Siddons the subject of one of Sir Joshua Reynolds' finest portraits

In 34 B.C. she and her son Caesarion were declared joint rulers of Cyprus Libya Coelesyria & Egypt