Verena Holmes
Verena Winifred Holmes was an English mechanical engineer and multi-field inventor, the first woman member elected to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1924) and the Institution of Locomotive Engineers (1931), and was a strong supporter of women in engineering. She was one of the early members of the Women's Engineering Society, and its president in 1931. She was the first practising engineer to serve as president of the society.
23 June 1889
Born on the same birth date (23 June 1889): Anna Akhmatova
Born on the same birth day (23 June): Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar • Art Modell • Clévid Dikamona • Donald Harrison • Frances McDormand • Francis Newall, 2nd Baron Newall • Gordon Bray • LaDainian Tomlinson • Magda Herzberger • Martin Rees • Mohamed Boudiaf • Morris R. Jeppson • Sheila Noakes, Baroness Noakes • Sándor Bródy (writer) • Tatsuya Uemura • Virbhadra Singh
Born in the same month (June 1889): Anna Akhmatova • Archibald Frazer-Nash • Beno Gutenberg • Charles Kay Ogden • Hugo Wieslander • John S. Paraskevopoulos • Joseph Cohen (solicitor) • Ralph Craig • Willie Macfarlane