Judith Sargent Murray

Judith Sargent Stevens Murray was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essay writer, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the equality of the sexes so that women, like men, had the capability of intellectual accomplishment and should be able to achieve economic independence.

1 May 1751

Born on the same birth day (1 May): Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington • Caitlin Stasey • Curtis Martin • Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd Earl of Arundel • Franciscus Junius (the elder) • Giovannino Guareschi • Jules Breton • Leonardo Bonucci • Marilyn Milian • Raya Dunayevskaya

Born in the same month (May 1751): Stephen Badlam