Olympe de Gouges

Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism.

7 May 1748

Born on the same birth day (7 May): Ajla Tomljanović • Alex Smith • Anne Baxter • Anne Dudley • Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery • Carl Heinrich Graun • Earl Thomas • Edwin H. Land • Jan Peter Balkenende • Jean Lapierre • Matt Helders • Rendra Karno • Thomas Piketty