Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin was a publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, abolitionist, and editor of the Woman's Era, the first national newspaper published by and for African American women.
31 August 1842
Born on the same birth day (31 August): Alan Jay Lerner • Alma Mahler • Andrei Medvedev (tennis) • Anthony Thistlethwaite • Cédric Soares • Hermann von Helmholtz • Isabella de' Medici • Jaylen Barron • Jean-Étienne Despréaux • Matti Breschel • Maurice Pialat • Roger Dean (artist)
Born in the same month (August 1842): Alfred Shaw • Charles Wells (brewer) • Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia • Jakob Rosanes