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): Angelo Falcón • Brandon Stokley • Charles II, Duke of Savoy • Elroy Schwartz • Georges Rouquier • Giambattista Vico • Gordon B. Hinckley • J. H. Elliott • John Garang • Kjell Albin Abrahamson • Lilliana Ketchman • Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny • Milt Hinton • Richard Arnold (judge) • Takeshi Matsuda

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