2. I was born in Hollywood, California 3/12/1946. I am an Academy and Tony Award-winning actress known for my powerful voice and stage presence and for being the daughter of director Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland.

4. When I was 21, I won a national competition to design and build the now famous Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. My most recent monument was erected in Alabama in honor of the Civil Rights Movement.

6. I am a chef who came to fame when I opened my California restaurant Chez Panisse in 1971. My latest cookbook was inspired by my 9-year-old daughter. It's called Fanny at Chez Panisse (1992) and is written in the voice of a young girl.

8. I was born in Argentina (1891- 1979) was the founder and publisher of Sur, a literary magazine. I was known in my country as the Queen of Letters.

10. I was an American reformer and leader of the woman- suffrage movement, b. Adams, Mass.; daughter of Daniel Anthony, Quaker abolitionist. I was born in 1820 and died in 1906.

12. I am an American humanitarian, organizer of the American Red Cross, b. North Oxford (now Oxford), Mass. I taught school (1839– 54) and clerked in the U.S. Patent Office before the outbreak of the Civil War.

14. I am an American abolitionist, b. Dorchester co., Md. Born into slavery, I escaped to Philadelphia in 1849, and subsequently became one of the most successful “conductors” on the Underground Railroad.

16. I was an American abolitionist, a freed slave, originally called Isabella, b. Ulster co., N.Y. Convinced that she heard heavenly voices.

18. My parents were slaves when I was born and died from yellow fever when I was 14. By 1891 I was an outspoken, young free woman. That year I helped found the newspaper Memphis Free Speech.