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2000 Florynce Rae Kennedy, lawyer/lecturer, dies at 84

1952 Marianne Williamson, born in Houston, Texas, spiritual activist, author, speaker, lecturer, wrote, 'A Course in Miracles', a program about choosing love over fear, 'A Return to Love', breakthrough success attributed to appearance on Oprah Winfrey

1944 Betsy Finley Ashton, broadcast journalist/author/lecturer

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

1937 Paul Bailey, born in England, novelist, George Orewell prize-winner, lecturer at North Dakota State University, writer in residence, Kingston University, wrote At The Jerusalem, radio and television plays, and non-fiction books

1929 Alun Hoddinott, born in Wales, composer, lecturer, co-founded and directed the Cardiff Festival

1920 Liesbeth Tonckens, Wilhelmina, actress/lecturer, Free People

1905 Jef Maes, born in Antwerp, Belgium, composer, lecturer, worked for the Knokke orchestra, studied with Albert van de Vijver, Karel Candaeil, and Napoleon Distelmans

1880 Helen Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many

1860 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist

1860 Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies

1843 Belle Boyd, spy, Confederate, actress/lecturer

1819 Julia Ward Howe, U.S., author/lecturer, Battle Hymn of the Republic

1817 Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor


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