Born on August 6

A Venetian singer and composer of the 17th century, Barbara Strozzi was one of the first women to publish music under her own name. She composed more secular vocal works than any other composer of her era.

French lawyer and politician (1904–1944), Minister of National Education and Fine Arts under the Popular Front from 1936 to 1939. A Resistance member arrested by Vichy, he was assassinated by the Milice in 1944. Inducted into the Panthéon in 2015.

An American comedic actress, producer, and businesswoman, she became a television icon thanks to the sitcom “I Love Lucy” (1951-1957). A pioneer, she was the first woman to head a major Hollywood production studio, Desilu.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was the leading figure of the American Pop Art movement. He transformed images from mass culture into works of art, blurring the boundary between art and commerce.

Dorothy Ashby was an American jazz harpist and composer, considered one of the pioneers who established the harp as a fully-fledged solo instrument in jazz. Active from the 1950s to the 1980s, she blended jazz, world music, and soul.