Caballe Moserrat 12.4.1933 -
Španska sopranistka je solo petje študirala v Barceloni. Prvi angažma je dobila 1956 v Baslu. Igrala je Mimi v La Boheme. Njen repertoar glavnih vlog je obsežen: Pamina v Čarobni piščali, Aida, Tosca, Violetta v La Traviati, Tatjana v Evgenij Onjegin. Zaslovela je 1964 z nastopom v Mehiki v vlogo Manon v istoimenski operi. Razpon njenega glasu ji je dovoljeval interpretacijo najrazličnejših vlog, od dramskih do liričnih in koloraturnih. Preizkusila se je tudi v pop glasbi: skupaj z Freddyjem Mercuryjem je leta 1988 posnela uspešnico Barcelona.

Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballe is noted for her appearances in the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini, and Rossini. She studied voice in Barcelona and made her opera debut in Basel in 1956 as Mimi in La Boheme. Her repertoire includes the title roles in Aida, Der Rosenkavalier, Norma, Manon Lescaut, Adriana Lecouvreur, and Lucrezia Borgia. She made her New York debut in the last-named opera in 1965, and in 1989 she created the role of Queen Isabella in Leonardo Balada's Cristobal Colon. Caballe frequently has sung at the Metropolitan Opera and occasionally performs with her husband, tenor Bernabe Marti.

Caballero Fernan 24.12.1796 - 7.4.1877
je španska pisateljica, rojena v Švici. Izobraževala se je v Nemčiji in se v Španijo preselila leta 1813. Tu je v Andaluziji živela vse do svoje smrti. V romanu The Sea Gull (1849), ki ga štejejo me prvi moderen španski roman, je opisala costumbrismo. To je literarno gibanje 19. stoletja v Španiji in Latinski Ameriki, ki poudarja značilnosti regije. Napisala je tudi več romanov z narodnimi povestmi.

Caballero, Fernán, pseudonym of CECILIA FRANCISCA JOSEFA DE ARROM, Spanish novelist, born in Morges, Switzerland, and educated in Germany. She moved to Spain about 1813 and spent the rest of her life in the Andalusia region, which was the setting for her works. In The Sea Gull (1849), a sentimental book that is often regarded as the first modern Spanish novel, she introduced costumbrismo, the 19th-century Spanish and Latin American literary movement that emphasized regional color. She also compiled several volumes of folktales.

  
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Callas Maria 2.12.1923 - 16.9.1977
Petje se je začela učiti pri sopranistki Elviri de Hidalog na Atenskem konzervatoriju. Debitirala je 1944 v Atenah z vlogo Santuzze v operi Cavalleria rusticana. Na mednarodnem prizorišču se je uveljavila 1947 z nastopom v Veroni v operi La Gioconda. Poslej je pela v vseh velikih opernih hišah. Njen temperament in velika občutljivost sta ji povzročila mnogo težav in poskus njene vrnitve na oder v 70. letih 20.st. ni uspel. 
 
For well over a decade, soprano Maria Callas, b. Maria Kalogeropoulos, dominated the opera stage, setting new standards with the dramatic power of her voice, the force of her acting, and the intelligence and knowledge that fortified her musicianship. At age 14, Callas became a pupil of soprano Elvira de Hidalgo at the Athens Conservatory, and she made her Athens debut at age 18, as Tosca. Her triumphant performance (1947) in Ponchielli's La Gioconda at the Verona Arena led to appearances throughout Italy, where she sang an astounding range of roles--from Wagner's Isolde and Brunnhilde to Gluck and Haydn operas and more standard works by Verdi and Rossini. Callas won her greatest acclaim, however, for her revival of the extraordinarily difficult bel canto operas by Donizetti (Lucia di Lammermoor, Anna Bolena) and Bellini (Norma, I Puritani). Norma was her most impressive bel canto role; she sang it at her debuts at London's Covent Garden (1952), the Chicago Lyric Opera (1954), and the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City (1956). Her private life attracted constant attention--and this, as well as her voice's increasing deficiencies, may have persuaded her to retire early, in 1965.

               
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CALLOTT Maria 1785 - 1842
angleška pisateljica

She was a British writer of travel books and children's books and illustrator. She traveld with her father and later with her hausband to India, South Africa and South America. She published works of these travels like Letters on India and Journal of a Residence in India, Memoirs of Poussin, The History of France, The History of Spain, Little Arthur's History of England.
Her portrait on stamp Man-1317 was painted by Lawrence Thomas (1769—1830).

  
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CAMPANINI Barbarina 1721 - 1799
italijanska plesalka z izredno tehniko, plesala v Parizu in Berlinu, kamor jo je povabil Friderik II.

Italian balet dancer. She danced in Paris at Academie Royal. She was famous for her pirouettes. 

CAMPBELL Naomi 22.5.1970 -
angleška manekenka

She was born in London. She studied at the London Academy for Performing Arts, and at the age of 14 begin training at the highly reputed "Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts" in London. Her first public performance was in February in 1978 in a music video with famous reggae singer Bob Marley. Finally, in 1985 she was discovered by the agency of the women's magazine "Elle" in the London district of Covent Garden. Naomi Campbell was then contracted by the "Synchro Models" agency – beginning one of the most breathtaking careers in the international model business. She has also tried her hand as an actress, singer, author and, most recently, as the creator of her own cosmetic line, and has achieved considerable international acclaim. Like many other celebrities Naomi Campbell supports UNESCO, being particular committed to her home country Jamaica and having kindergartens and houses built in her name.

  
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Campoamor Clara 12.2.1888 - 30.4.1972
španska sufražetka, ki je ustanovila večino feminističnih organizacij tistega časa v Španiji: Univerzitetno društvo mladih žensk, Mednarodno združenje žensk... Napisala je The Feminine Vote and I (1931).

Spanish suffragette. She founded most of the feminist organisations of the time: University Female Youth, National Association of Spanish Women, International Federation of Women... She wrote The Feminine Vote and I (1931).

  
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CAMPRUBI Zenobia 1887 - 1956

She was a cultivated and intelligent woman who at an early age showed her literary talent publishing children’s books. With a perfect command of English, she translated many English texts into Spanish, including the works of Rabindranath Tagore. She married poet Juan Ramón Jiménez whom she supported throughout his career, giving up her own literary aspirations. During her exile, she taught in the United States and at the University of Puerto Rico.

E - 4327

Cangare Mama
slikarka.
Na znamki YU-2133 je njena slika: Vrnitev z lova iz Galerije neuvrščenih v Titogradu.

Painter.
Paint on stamp YU-2133: Return from Hunting from Art Gallery of Nonaligned in Titograd.

 
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Canth Minna 19.3.1844 - 12.5.1897

Minna Canth (nee Johnsson), was a Finnish playwright, fiction writer, and essayist. Her taste for polemics led her to fight for women's rights and idealistic socialism in plays such as A Workingman's Wife (1885), Sylvi (1893), and Children of Misfortune (1888) and in short stories such as According to the Law (1889). Her later works are more subdued; the play Anna-Liisa (1895) concerns individual sin and atonement.

 
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Cardinale Claudia 15.4.1939 -

The doors of cinema opened for Claudia Cardinale like for most Italian divas due to a beauty contest: She was beautiful and studied interpretation at the Centro Sperimentale of Rome. With only 17 years she debuted in small roles but she was widely notified with her characterization of Sicilian women. Her marks were her face, her brunette hair, her body and her typical voice. After Senilita (1961) she was always in the first row. Among her important films is to be mentioned 8 1/2 (1963) of Frederico Felilini with her partner Marcello Mastroiani. She also worked a couple of times with her husband P. Squitieri.

Carlsen Lalla 17.8.1889 - 23.3.1967
norveška filmska igralka

Norvegian film actress.

  
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Carol Martine 16.5.1920 - 6.2.1967

Carol was born Maryse Mourer, the name she used early in her stage career. After some experience on the French stage she debuted onscreen in 1943, working her way up to starring roles by 1948. A voluptuous blonde, she was Frances`s biggest box-office attraction in the early fifties, occasionally appearing semi-nude on screen. With the rise of Brigitte Bardor she was overshadowed as a sex symbol and her career declined in late 50`s. Carol attemped without success to revive her popularity in international films, but died of a heart attack at 45. She was mariied to direstor Christian Jacques, who directed some of her most memorable films.

 
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Carriera Rosalba 7.10.1675 - 15.4.1757
je beneška slikarka znana po pretanjenih portretnih miniaturah in zlasti v pastelni tehniki. Ta je z njo postala ena najbolj priljubljenih slikarskih tehnik v 18. stoletju. Bila je zelo znana že za časa življenja, saj je portretirala tudi francoskega kralja Ludvika XV. in cesarja Karla VI.

Rosalba Carriera was a Venetian painter known for her portraits and miniatures. Trained initially as a lacemaker, she turned to the study of painting sometime before 1700, working first as a miniaturist but from 1703 developing the genre of pastel portraiture, through which she would leave her mark. The immediacy and delicacy of the images she produced influenced an entire generation of portraitists. Immensely popular in her day among the aristocracy of Europe, Carriera painted many royal and ducal figures. Her most eminent subjects were Louis XV of France, whom she painted during a triumphal trip to Paris in 1720-21, and Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, who sat for her in Vienna in 1730. Her most avid admirer was Augustus III, elector of Saxony, whose Dresden collection contained more than 150 of her pastels and miniatures. Her portraits display a technical virtuosity and masterly handling of color.  Carriera's career ended tragically with the loss of her sight after 1746.

                  
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Casanova Danielle 9.1.1909 - 9.5.1943
članica francoskih komunistov, članica francoskega odporniškega gibanja, umrla je v nacističnem taborišču Auschwitz za tifusom.

Victim of the Nazis.
          
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Cassatt Mary 22.5.1847 - 14.6.1926
Mary Cassatt  je začetnica impresionizma v Ameriki in edini ameriški umetnik, ki je razstavljal z njimi. Bila je prva, ki je promovirala impresionizem v ZDA,. Njena je zasluga, da je mnogo impresionističnih del v ameriških zbirkah. Bila je figuralna slikarka, od leta 1880 je bila njena glavna tema mater in otrok v različnih slikarskih tehnikah. Leta 1893 je dobila naročilo za izdelavo freske za Žensko stavbo na Svetovni razstavi v Chicagu.
Na znamki YU-2508: Deklica z mačko.
Na znamkah F-4032 in MC-1266: Materinstvo.

Mary Cassatt  was the first American artist to associate with the impressionists and the only American ever to exhibit with them. She also was the first to promote the impressionists in the United States and she is responsible for the appearance of many impressionist paintings in American collections. Cassatt primarily was a figure painter.  From the late 1880's, she increasingly was devoted to the theme of mother and child in oil, pastel, etchings, and engravings. In 1893, she was commissioned to paint a mural for the Woman's Building of Chicago's World Columbian Exposition.

               
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Castellbo Ermessenda de 1185 - 1230

Inherited Andorra from her mother Arnalda de Carboet (1164-1201) and Castellbò by father Arnaud de Castellbò-Cerdagne (1155-1226). She and married to Roger Bernard II of Foix (1195-1241) in 1208, and trough their descendants Andorra was inherited by the houses of Foix, Bearn and Navarra and France. She was a powerful woman, she made deals with Moors and the Pope, retaining peace in her region.

CASTLE Barbara  6.10.1910 - 3.5.2002

She was a British left-wing politician, born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire (and brought up in Pontefract and Bradford, Yorkshire), who adopted her family's politics, joining the Labour Party. Elected to Parliament in 1945, she rose to become one of the most important Labour party politicians of the twentieth century.

Castro Rosalia de 21.2.1837 - 15.6.1885
Španska pesnica je bila ena prvih književnic, ki je pisala v kastiljskem in galicijskem jeziku. Z deli v drugem jeziku je postala pomembna osebnost galicijskega romantičnega gibanja, ki ga danes poznamo kot rexurdimento (renesansa). Za njeno poezijo je značilna saudade, skoraj neopisljiva kombinacija nostalgije, hrepenenja in otožnosti ter strahu pred smrtjo. 17.maj 1863, ko je izdala svojo zbirko pesmi v galicijskem jeziku z naslovom Cantares gallegos (Galicijske pesmi), vsako leto počastijo s praznikom Dia das Letras Gallegas (dan galacijske književnosti).
 
Spanish poet and novelist. Castro's book of verse Cantares gallegos (1863) was the first important poetry in Galician since the 13th cent.; it reflected the lyrical appeal of Galician folk songs. The melancholy Follas novas (1880) was followed by the despairing verse, in Castilian, of En las orillas del Sar (1884 Beside the River Sar), written while Castro was suffering with terminal cancer. Her sensitive and compassionate poetry with its metrical innovations has exerted considerable influence on modern poets. The date she published her first poetry book in Galician, Cantares gallegos, may 17, 1863, is remembered every year. It is the Dia das Letras Galegas (Galician Literature Day) and dedicated to an important writer in Galician language since 1963.

  
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CATHERINE of Siena st.
glej KATARINA Sienska sv.

see KATARINA Sienska sv.

Catt Chapman 9.1.1859 - 9.3.1947

Carrie Clinton Lane Chapman Catt a U.S. women's suffrage and peace advocate, played a major role in the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the vote. She joined the Iowa women's suffrage movement in 1887. As president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1900-04, 1915-47), she shifted the movement's emphasis from propaganda to political action and displayed outstanding organizational ability. Catt was also president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (1904-23). She founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 and in 1925 established the National Conference on the Cause and Cure of War.

CAUCHI Carolina 25.12.1824 - 17.7.1907
redovnica, dominikanka

Nun from Malta, founder of The Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Maltain the year 1889. 

MT - 1554

CEaucescu Elena 7.1.1916 - 25.12.1989
Žena romunskega predsednika, članica Centralnega komiteja komunistične partije Romunije. V uporu leta 1989 je bila skupaj z možem usmrčena.  

She was born Elena Petrescu into a peasant family. Elena's education ended at the fourth grade and she moved along with her brother to Bucharest, where she worked as a laboratory assistant before getting a job at a textile factory. She joined the Communist Party of Romania in 1937 and met Nicolae Ceauşescu in 1939. They married  in 1947. Under her husband's regime, she became a major Romanian political figure. After uprising of 1989 she was executed with her husband.

  
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Ceban Tamara 1914 - 1990
moldavska pevka narodnih pesmi.

Moldavian singer of folk songs. She graduated from Academy of Music in 1946 and was a solist with famous folklore orcestra "Flueras". From 1973 was a assistant professor at Institute of Arts "G  Muzicescu".

  
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CHACEL Rosa 3.6.1898 - 27.7.1994
španska kiparka in pisateljica

She was the daughter of a schoolteacher who instilled into her the values of culture and academic training. From 1915 to 1918 she studied sculpture in the San Fernando Art School in Madrid, giving up soon in order to study literature. Linked to the ideas of Ortega y Gasset, she published novels, short stories, biographies, essays and poetry although she really staood out as a novel writer. After getting married to painter Timoteo Pérez Rubio, she moved to Italy where she collaborates in various literary magazines. In 1927 she returns to Madrid and went into exile to Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires during the Civil War. In the 70’s she lived between Rio and Madrid where she finished her novel Barrio de Maravillas, for which she won the Premio de la Crítica (critic’s award) in 1976. She definitely moved to Madrid when he husband died. In 1987 she won the Premio Nacional de las Letras and in 1990 the Premio Castilla y León de la Letras. Her novel Memorias de Leticia Valle was turned into a film.

E - 4233

Champmesle Marie 18.2.1642 - 15.5.1698
francoska igralka.

French tragedienne who created the heroines in many of  Jean Racine`s plays. She made her first appearance on the stage at Rouen with Charles Chevillet (1645-1701), who called himself sieur de Champmeslé, and they were married in 1666. Her intimacy with Racine dates from then. Some of his finest tragedies were written for her. She played the great tragic love parts for more than thirty years. When she died, La Fontaine dedicated to her his novel Belphégor, and Boileau immortalized her in verse.

 
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Chawla Kaplana 7.1.1961 - 2.1.2003

Kalpana Chawla's love of flying led to her career as a NASA astronaut. She started her higher education in India, earning a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Punjab Engineering College in 1982. Moving to the U.S., she turned to aerospace engineering and received her M.S. from the University of Texas and her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. Chawla joined NASA in 1995 and was assigned as mission specialist on the space shuttle STS-87 in 1997, becoming the first Indian-American woman to go into space. She was a crew member on the Shuttle Columbia when it broke up upon reentry to the Earth's atmosphere in February 2003.

      
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Chemnitz Kathrine 28.6.1894 - 1.12.1978
grenlandska borka za ženske pravice.

Greenlandic advocate of women`s rights. With her husband they worked together to establish an atmosphere where all Greendlanders and Danes were welcome. From 1960 was a General Secretary of Woman`s Society of Greenland.

  
 Greenland - 322

Chiburdanidse Grigorievna Maja 1961 -
je ruska šahistka. Leta 1977 je bila prvakinja Sovjetske zveze, 1978 pa svetovna prvakinja.

Soviet chess player. She was Women Champion of Soviet Union in 1977 and World Champion in 1978.

 
        YU - 3022

CHRISTIAN-TYLER Letitia 1790 - 1842
žena ameriškega predsednika Johna Tylerja.
 

CHÖNZ Selina 1910 - 2000
švicarska pisateljica: "Schellen-Ursli"

CH - 2025
 

CHristie Agatha 15.9.1890 - 12.1.1976
je britanska pisateljica kriminalnih romanov. Študirala je glasbo v Parizu, med 1. svetovno vojno je bila sodelavka Rdečega križa. kasneje je s soprogom arheologom pogosto potovala na Bližnji vzhod. Detektivske in kriminalne zgodbe je začela pisati med 1. svetovno vojno. Uveljavila se je z zgodbo The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926). Napisal je skoraj sto krajših in daljših kriminalk, ki jih odlikujejo premišljen zaplet, napeta zgodba in dobra psihologija. Ustvarila je dva znana junaka, duhovitega belgijskega detektiva Hercula Poirota in bistro miss Jane Marple. Pisala je tudi gledališke igre. Med njimi je najbolj znana The Mousetrap (1952). Igra je dosegla svojevrsten rekord, saj so jo v Londonu uprizarjali vsak večer od 1952 do maja 2002. 

       
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CIbotari Maria 10.2.1910  - 9.6.1949
Romunska sopranistka in filmska igralka je debitirala leta 1931 v Dresdenski Državni operi  v Bohemii. Bila je primadona v Dresdnu, Berlinu in na Dunaju.

Romunian opera singer. She studied at private conservatorium in Chisinau in 1924. She made her debut at Dresden State Opera in Bohemia (1931). She was prima donna at Dresden, Berlin and Vienna State Opera.

  
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cIlinskaja (Tsylinskaya) Natalija 30.8.1975 -
beloruska športnica, na OI 2004 v Atenah je v kolesarjenju na 500 m osvojila bronasto medaljo.
Na bloku so še ostale beloruske dobitnice olimpijskih medalj na OI v Atenah: Julija Nesterenko,  Natalija Helah in Julija Bičik, ter Jekaterina Karsten.

She is Belarus track cyclist. She won bronze medal in the 500m track on Olympics in Athens in 2004. In the World Championships from 2000 to 2006 she won 8 gold medals in 500 m track and sprint.

         
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Cini Adelaide 25.10.1838 - 28.3.1885
Malteška filantropinja je deklicam in ženam nudila pomoč in skrb v svojem domu v St. Veneri.
Papež Pij X jo je 15.2.1910 proglasil za "prečastito".

Maltese philantropist, she helped girls and women by giving them shelter and care in her own home at St Venera. She was declared "venerable" by Pope Pius X on februara 15, 1910.

  
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CIRIVIRI Vera Trena - 1944 

She was a yung macedonian fighter from Prilep who fought during the  World War II for liberation of Macedonia from fascist occupiers and was killed by the occupiers in June 1944 in Stip.

  
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Clague Margaret 1810 - 1884
 

Clairbert Clara 1899 - 1970
Clara Clairbert  je študirala petje na glasbeni akademiji v Anderlechtu, Le Havru in Parizu. Debitirala je leta 1992 v Bruslju. Bila je mednarodno priznana sopranistka.

Clara Clairbert studied singing at Academy of Music at Anderlecht, Le Havre and Paris. Made her debut in 1922 in Brussels. She had an international reputation as an exceptional soprano. 

 

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Claudel Camille 8.12.1864 - 19.10.1943
francoska kiparka, ućenka in prijateljica Augusta Rodina.

French sculptor. Camille Claudel was influenced by her teacher, mentor, and lover, nineteenth-century sculptor Auguste Rodin. Henrik Ibsen`s play When We Dead Awaken (1899) focussed on this relationship. Claudel moved to Italy in 1883 where she first met Rodin. Claudel and Rodin ended their relationship in 1898. In 1906 Claudel destroyed much of her own work. In 1913 she was committed to a mental institution where she remained until her death in 1943.

 
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Clausen Franciska 7.1.1899 - 5.3.1986
Danska umetnica je pionirka modernega slikarsta. Študirala je na umetniških šolah v Münchenu in Berlinu. V Parizu je študirala pri Fermandu Legerju. Proti koncu 20. let je poskusila z novim korakom v umetnosti, ki ga je imenovala "konkretizem". Na znamki je primer njenega dela iz tega obdobja: Composition. Ko se je vrnila leta 1931 na Dansko, tam ni bila dobro sprejeta. Ukvarjala se je s portretiranjem in oblikovanjem plakatov.

Danish artist, studied at art school in Munich and Berlin. In Paris she studied under Fermand Leger. Towards the end of 1920s she tried new approaches to what she called "concretism". The motif on stamp Composition (1929) is an example of this period. From 1931 she returned to Denmark, but until 1960s she was not well received. She was active as portrait painter and desgner of posters. She is pioneer of modern painting.

    
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CLAVELOUX Nicole 23.6.1940 -
francoska grafičarka: Alice v čudežni deželi.

Nicole Claveloux studied fine arts at Saint-Etienne. After her studies, she moved to Paris, where she started making comics and illustrations for Bayard-Presse. Her first comics were published in Okapi. In 1976, she contributed to the feminist magazine 'Ah! Nana'. Later, she worked for Métal Hurlant. With Elisabeth Salomon (Zha), she made La Main Verte and Morte-Saison for Charlie Mensuel. Nicole is also an illustrator of children's books.

  
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CLEMMER-AMES Mary 1839 - 1884
novinarka in pisateljica

  
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Clijsters Kim 8.6.1983 -
belgijska teniška igralka.

Belgian tennis player.

 
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COCEA Dina 1912 -
romunska igralka

RU - 6143

Cohen Leontina 1913 - 1992
je ruska vohunka, delala je skupaj s svojim možem. Leta 1961 so ju ujeli in zaprli v Angliji. 1969 pa so ju zamenjali z angleškimi vohuni in vrnili v Rusijo.

She was Russian spy and worked with her husband. They operated at the start of the 1940s in the USA and made enormous contributions to the Soviet efforts to obtain atomic secrets. In 1961 they were arested in Angland and imprisoned. In 1969 they were exchanged for British spies and sent back to Russia.

  
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Colette Sidonie-Gabrielle 28.1.1873 - 3.8.1954
Skupaj s prvim od treh soprogov je pod njegovim psevdonimom Willy, napisala 4 avtobiografske romane (1900-03) - t.i. serija Claudine. Kasneje je objavljala pod imenom Colette. Kot radoživa in čutna ženska je v romanih opisovala spomine na otroštvo, predvsem pa ljubezen in razpetost ženske med neodvisnim svobodnim življenjem in potrebo po varnem zavetju in čustveni nevezanosti.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, one of the most famous French writers of her day, is known for her insight into human psychology and her ability to convey vivid sensory images. Noted for their style, Colette's novels are characterized by a representation of erotic instinct and sensuous experience and a sympathy with nature, especially flowers and animals. Her insight into character was enhanced by three marriages, numerous love affairs, and experience as a music-hall mime. Her first works, the Claudine novels, were written in collaboration with her first husband and published under his pen name, Willy. Colette established her reputation as a novelist with Cheri (1920), which traces the disintegration of an adolescent's affair with an aging courtesan. In its sequel, The Last of Cheri (1926), the youth commits suicide. Other works, such as Sido (1929), depart from this theme and recall Colette's childhood. Her later works include The Cat (1933); Gigi (1944-45), on which Vincente Minnelli based a musical film of the same name in 1958; and L'Etoile vesper (The Evening Star, 1947), a reminiscence.

         
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Collett Camilla 23.1.1813 - 1895
Norveška pisateljica in strastna zagovornica pravic žensk. Napisala je prvi norveški roman, ki je kritično obravnaval položaj žensk v družbi. Z njim je vplivala na poznejše norveške pisatelje, med katerimi so bili posebno pomembni Henrik Ibsen, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Jonas Lie in Alexander Kielland. Bila je sestra priljubljenega narodnega pesnika Henrika Wergelanda. Še kot mlado dekle se je zaljubila v največjega bratovega tekmeca J. S. Welhavna, vendar se je njuno razmerje končalo nesrečno. Pozneje se je poročila s Petrom Jonasom Colletom, ki jo je močno podpiral pri literarnem ustvarjanju. Šele po njegovi smrti ter smrti svojih staršev in brata je napisala delo, s katerim je najbolj zaslovela. V romanu Amtmandens dottre (Guvernerjeva hči, 1854-55) je ostro obsodila neenakost spolov ter konvencionalni dom, ki je temeljil na patriarhalni nadvladi. V drugem romanu I de lange netter (V dolgih nočeh, 1862) je bila manj napadalna; v njem je opisala svoje otroštvo in mladost. preostala dela je posvetila socialni in čustveni emancipaciji žensk.

                     
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Comaneci Nadia 12.11.1961 - 
je romunska gimnastičarka. Bila je junakinja 1976 v Montrealu, saj je dobila 3 zlate medalje (na gredi, dvovišinski bradlji in mnogoboju), srebrno medaljo v ekipnem tekmovanju in bronasto medaljo v parterju.  Staro komaj 14 let so novinarji izbrali za športnico leta. Na OI 1980 v Moskvi je zmagala na gredi in parterju ter bila druga v mnogoboju. Leta 1989 je pobegnila iz Romunije na Madžarsko in od tam v ZDA.

Nadia Comaneci, is a Romanian gymnast who was the heroine of the 1976 Olympic Games at Montreal. She won gold medals for performances in the balance beam, uneven parallel bars, and the all-around event, plus a silver medal in the team event and a bronze medal in the floor exercises. Although she was only 14 years of age and a mere 39 kg (86 lb), her popularity was such that she was elected Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press. Comaneci also competed at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, where she won 2 more gold medals (balance beam, floor exercises) and a silver (all-around). In 1989 she made a daring escape from Romania into Hungary and defected to the United States.

CONDE Carmen 15.8.1907 - 8.1.1996
španska pesnica

Spanish poet was very fond of literature from her early days and although she studied to become a teacher, she soon began to write. In 1927 she met poet Antonio Oliver Belmás who guided her towards poetry and with whom she got married in 1931. Together they started the first Popular University of Cartagena and the magazine Presencia, the university’s publication. For forty years, their lives run parallel devoted to study, writing and teaching. The 40’s was the most fruitful decade for Carmen Conde with the publication of a number of short stories, essays and poems. In 1953 she won the Elisenda de Montcada award; in 1961 she was awarded with the Doncel price for Young Theatre; in 1967 she won the National Poetry Award for Obra Poética and in 1980 she obtained the Ateneo de Sevilla award. In 1978 she was elected member of the Spanish Royal Academy, being the first woman to become a member. From the eighties onwards, she began to suffer from Alzheimer though she continued to work and take part in talks and radio programmes.

E - 3232

Coppi Hilde 1909 - 20.1.1943
in njen mož sta bila člana nemškega proti nacističnega odporniškega gibanja, nacisti so jo ujeli in obesili.

German resistance anti-nazi fighter. She and her housband were member of anti-nazi group Schulze-Boysen/Harnack. She was arested by the Nazis and hanged in Berlin Plotzensee.

 
                GDR - 853

Corbas Aloise 1886 - 1964
slika: Grande Cantatrice Lilas Goergens

Swiss artist of religious, pacifistic and humanitarian motives. She was commited to Psyhiatric Hospital.

Coronado Carolina 12.12.1823 - 15.1.1911
španska pesnica

Spanish poet.

  
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CORAZON de Jesus sv. Maria Josefa del (st.)

  
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Correia Natalia 13.9.1923 - 16.3.1993
Portugalska pesnica, pisateljica in dramatičarka je svojo kariero začela s pesniško zbirko Rio de Nuvens (Reka oblakov, 1947). Njeno dramo O Encoberto (Zamolčan) so oblasti prepovedale. Bila je članica portugalskega surealističnega gibanja in odkrita nasprotnica Salazarjeve diktature.

Portugal poet, novelist and dramatist. She began her career with book of poems Rio de Nuvens (River of Clouds, 1947). She was a member of surrealistic movement in Portugal. Her play O Encoberto (The Concealed One) was benned by the goverment in 1969. She was an outspoken opponent of Salazar dictatorship.

CORTI Nina 1954 -

Nina Corti, the world-famous flamenco dancer, was born in Zurich in 1954. Culture and the arts were decisive influences on her life from an early age. Her father – a musician with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra – took his daughter to the opera at the tender age of four, and Nina was having dancing and piano lessons even before she went to school. She discovered Spanish dance when she was sixteen.Flamenco”.  After studying dance in Madrid and Seville, she made a name for herself as a Spanish dance interpreter who delights in experimenting. Nina Corti has two grown-up sons and is a keen amateur gardener alongside her dancing.

    
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Courths-Mahler Hedwig 18.2.1867 - 26.11.1950
Nemška pisateljica, ki je napisala preko 200 knjig, ki pa nimajo visoke estetske vrednosti. Prvi uspeh je dosegla z delom Die wilde Usrsula (1912).

German writer wrote over 200 books. Her first big success was Die wilde Usrsula (1912). Her works are not recognised as literature of aesthetic value but are relevant to study of trivial literature.

    
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COUSING Lucy 1964 -

English illustrator of children books did a BA Honours in Graphic Design, followed by a postgraduate degree at the Royal College of Art. Her first Maisy book was published soon after she left college. She won the Bologna Ragazzi Non-fiction Prize 1997 for Maisy's House and the Smarties Book Prize in 2002 for  Jazzy in the Jungle.  
GB-2373:Maysy’s ABC


GB - 2373

Crocker Amanda 1968 -
Umetnica batika iz Jerseya.
Na znamki Jersey-583 je njen batik: Three men in a Boat.

Jersey artist of batik.
On  stamp Jersey-583 is her batik: Three men in a Boat.

  
       Jersey - 583

Crookall Jane

  
       Man - 417

Cunningham Joseph, Willie

They were Guide Commissioner from the Isle of Man.

  
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Cure Zoja 1920 - 1944
Albanska partizanska komandirka. Januarja 1944 se je pridružila enoti ostrostrelcev. Nemci so enoto obkolili in Zojo ustrelili.
Na znamki AL-2090 je tudi Peza Mine.

Albanian partisan leader. On january 20, 1944 joined the Brigade of Sharpshooters. The brigade was trapped by Germans and Zoja was shot.
On stamp AL-2090 is also  Peza Mine.

      
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Curie SKLODOWSKA Marie 7.11.1867 - 4.7.1934

Na znamki MD-212 sta tudi Iulia Hasdeu in Elena Alistar.

Marie Curie, b. Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland, spent many impoverished years as a teacher and governess before she joined her sister Bronia in Paris in order to study mathematics and physics at the Sorbonne, earning degrees in both subjects in 1893 and 1894. In the spring of the latter year she met the physicist Pierre Curie. They married a year later, and Marie subsequently gave birth to two daughters, Irene (1897) and Eve (1904). Pierre and Marie Curie are best known for their pioneering work in the study of radioactivity, which led to their discovery in 1898 of the elements radium and polonium. Together with her husband, she was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 for their study into the spontaneous radiation discovered by Becquerel, who was awarded the other half of the Prize. In 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, in recognition of her work in radioactivity. She also received, jointly with her husband, the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 1903 and, in 1921, President Harding of the United States, on behalf of the women of America, presented her with one gram of radium in recognition of her service to science. The Curie's elder daughter Iréne Joliot - Curie and her housband Frédéric Joliot they were joint recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1953.
On stamp MD-212 are also Iulia Hasdeu and Elena Alistar.

                         
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CUTARIDA Maria 1857 - 1919
prva romunska zdravnica

RO - 6168

CUZA Eufrosinia - Valentina 1856 - 1910
romunska operna pevka

  
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gor - up