Happy 138th birthday Eugénie Cotton,
and, here's a first, an actual still-living-as-we-go-to-press
Happy 75th birthday: Charlotte Bunch
So:
Eugénie Cotton was a French scientist and Women's rights activist. She was a founding member and the first president of the Women's International Democratic Federation. She was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951 and the Gold medal from the World Peace Council in 1961.
And:
Charlotte Bunch is an American feminist author and organizer in women's rights and human rights movements. Bunch is currently the founding director and senior scholar at the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is also a distinguished professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers.
