Henrietta Edwards
Henrietta Muir Edwards was a Canadian women's rights activist, author and reformer. She was the eldest of "The Famous Five", along with Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby, who fought to have women recognized as "persons" under the law, and for the woman's right to vote in elections.
18 December 1849
Born on the same birth day (18 December): Akira Iida • Bogusław Mamiński • Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange • Derrick Tribbett • Heinrich Roth • Imad Wasim • Joel Hirschhorn • Natália Kelly • Rosemary Leach • Saki • Sophie of Mecklenburg (1481–1503) • Willy Brandt
Born in the same month (December 1849): August von Mackensen • Eduard Seler • Henry Clay Frick • John Milne • Mary Hartwell Catherwood