Born on September 6

An American social reformer, Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago in 1889, a settlement house serving immigrants and disadvantaged communities. A sociologist and committed pacifist, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

Donna Haraway is an American academic, feminist theorist, and historian of science. Known for her “Cyborg Manifesto” (1985), she questions the boundaries between human, animal, and machine, and rethinks the relationships between nature, technology, and feminism.

Gala is an Italian pop and dance singer born in 1975 in Turin. She achieved international success in the late 1990s with hits such as “Freed from Desire” (1997), which have become classics of dance music.