cancer in the us state of georgia johanna silver gordon 1942 – 2000 american schoolteacher (died at age 58 in 2000), for whom "johanna's law" was named linda grover 1934 – 2010 american peace activist, founder of global family day sharon tyler herbst 1942 – 2007 american chef and cookbook author margaret juntwait 1957 – 2015 american radio host, host of metropolitan opera radio broadcasts from 2004–2014 amy kass 1940 – 2015 american academic and educator at the university of chicago coretta scott king 1927 – 2006 american civil rights activist; widow of martin luther king jr. fay honey knopp 1918 – 1995 quaker minister, peace and civil rights advocate, and prison abolitionist. wangari muta maathai 1940 – 2011 kenyan environmental and political activist captain rosemary bryant mariner 1953 – 2019 american military aviator; one of the first six women to earn their wings as a united states naval aviator in 1974 monique leroy martinot d. 1984 french cause célèbre for cryostasis elly mayday 1988 – 2019 canadian model, advocate, and writer bess myerson 1924 – 2014 american model (crowned miss american 1945), television personality and political appointee; survived → died of natural causes at age 90 in 2014 dawn o'donnell 1927/1928 – 2007 australian lgbt rights activist, campaigner, and entrepreneur patsy ramsey 1956 – 2006 garnered notoriety (with her husband) following the 1996 murder of their daughter, jonbenét susan, lady renouf 1942 – 2016 australian socialite jolie christine rickman 1970 – 2005 american feminist, social activist and musician judith merkle riley 1942 – 2010 american academic, educator and novelist lou halsell rodenberger 1926 – 2009 american educator, professor, and journalist jemera rone 1944 – 2015 american human rights activist, who served as human rights watch of east africa coordinator gillian rose 1947 – 1995 british academic urairat soimee 1968, 1970, or 1971 – 2006 thai human trafficking victim who sued her traffickers and sought justice for victims sheila varian 1937 – 2016 american horse breeder margaret mary vojtko 1930 – 2013 american academic and educator (died of a heart attack; had been receiving treatment for ovarian cancer) nina wang 1936 – 2007 chair of chinachem group, asia's richest woman at the time of her death