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1998 Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine, dies

1978 English prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz

1962 Karen Blixen-Finecke, baroness/writer (Out of Africa), dies at 77

1958 Francesca Thyssen, born in Lugano, Switzerland, baroness

1949 Helene Hayman, born in England, Baroness Helene Hayman, Helene Valerie Hayman, Member of Parliament, Life Peer, Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom

1947 Baroness Orczy, British Novelist

1943 Carmen von Thyssen, born in Barcelona, Spain, Baroness

1943 Julia Cumberlege, born in England, Julia Frances Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege, politician, businesswoman, British Conservative Party, member of Dames of the Order of St. Gregory the Great

1942 Tessa Blackstone, born in England, Baroness Blackstone, politician, university administrator, Labor Party, life peer, House of Lords, Baroness Blackstone of Stoke Newington in Greater London

1941 Baroness Hollis of Heigham, history lecturer, University of East Anglia

1937 Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education

1931 Joan Lestor, born in England, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine

1930 Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes

1929 Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British, Lab, spokesperson on Home Affairs

1923 Baroness Ryder, of Warsaw and Cavendish, worked for sick and disabled

1923 Baroness Platt of Writtle, British CEO, Equal Opportunities Comm

1923 Pamela Sharples, born in England, Baroness Sharples, BConservative Party, made a Life Peer of Chawton in the County of Hampshire, after husband, Sir Richard Sharples, was assassinated

1918 Mervyn Pike, born in England, Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike, Baroness Pike, Conservative, Life Peerk, knighted, Member of Parliament for Melton, in the county of Leicestershire

1918 Katherine Grant, born in Scotland, Countess of Dysart, Lady Katherine Grant of Rothiemurchus, now 12th Countess of Dysart, a Scottish peeress, referenced as Baroness Huntingtower

1916 Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn

1915 Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, deputy speaker, House of Lords

1910 Baroness Phillips, president and general secretary, National Association of Women

1910 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot

1898 Charlotte D baroness of Pallandt, Dutch sculptress

1897 Barbara baroness Wootton of Abinger, English Lower house leader

1865 Baroness Orczy, British Novelist

1810 Eliza Von Bretton di Zerega, Danish West Indies, baroness

1799 Baroness van Dorth, orangist, executed


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