Dorothea Dix

Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as a Superintendent of Army Nurses.

4 April 1802

Born on the same birth day (4 April): Anna Pyatykh • Ben Gordon • Bettina von Arnim • Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin • Mary Kenny • Tom Herr • Zdzisław Żygulski (literary historian)

Born in the same month (April 1802): Elias Lönnrot • Leopold Fitzinger