Bertha Isaacs

Dame Albertha Magdelina Isaacs DBE was a Bahamian teacher, tennis player, women's rights activist and politician. After a career as an elementary school teacher, she played on the international tennis circuit, winning both singles and doubles titles in the 1930s.

18 April 1900

Born on the same birth day (18 April): Carlos Manuel de Céspedes • Claire Martin (writer) • Clarence Darrow • Dhondo Keshav Karve • Edgar Wright • Isaac Babalola Akinyele • James McCune Smith • Jean-Féry Rebel • Joy Davidman • Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg • Keiko Abe • Korneli Kekelidze • Michael D. Higgins • Patrick Hennessy (industrialist) • Philip Jackson (sculptor) • Pigmeat Markham • Rick Moranis • Régis Wargnier • Susan Faludi • Thomas J. Moyer • Virginia O'Brien

Born in the same month (April 1900): Adolf Dymsza • Albert Walsh • Allen Jenkins • Charles Richter • Erni Krusten • Eva Aschoff • Roberto Arlt • Shivrampant Damle