Abigail Mejia

Ana Emilia Abigaíl Mejia Soliere was a feminist activist, nationalist, literary critic and educator from the Dominican Republic. She completed her primary education at the Salome Ureña de Henríquez School for Girls and Liceo Dominicano. In 1912, she became a teacher in Barcelona where she resided with her family. She returned to the Dominican Republic in 1925 and became a professor of Literature, Pedagogy and History at the Superior Normal School of Santo Domingo. She is one of the leading figures of feminism in the Dominican Republic, founding the Club Nosotras in 1927 and Acción Feminista.

15 April 1895

Born on the same birth date (15 April 1895): Clark McConachy

Born on the same birth day (15 April): Alfred S. Bloomingdale • Bessie Smith • Brian Pothier • Brodie Grundy • Carol W. Greider • Cristina Husmark Pehrsson • Desiré Ecaré • Elizabeth Montgomery • Georges Descrières • Henry James • Ida Freund • Kenneth Lay • Kym Gyngell • Kęstutis Šeštokas • Luke Evans • Mike Quinn • Phil Mogg • Richard von Weizsäcker • Samantha Fox • Stuart Prebble • Sylvain Marveaux • Tim Lankester

Born in the same month (April 1895): Alberta Hunter • Clark McConachy • Henry de Montherlant • John Bernard Flannagan • Malcolm Sargent • Mance Lipscomb • Margarete Schön • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco • Michel Simon • Mike O'Dowd • Philippe Panneton • Robert Dean Frisbie • Vladimir Propp