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Katharine McCormick

Katharine McCormick
Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist (d. 1967)

Katharine Dexter McCormick was a U.S. suffragist, philanthropist and, after her husband's death, heir to a substantial part of the McCormick family fortune. She funded most of the research necessary to develop the first birth control pill.

27 August 1875

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Born in the same month (August 1875): Agnes MowinckelAlbert KetèlbeyArthur BernardesEugene LancerayJohn BuchanLeonardo De LorenzoMstislav DobuzhinskyRosa LembergSamuel Coleridge-TaylorWilliam Eccles (physicist)