A number of notable women passed this January. Here are just a few:
- Helen Suzman - anti-apatheid activist
- Maria de Jesus - world's oldest person
- Inger Christiansen - poet
- Betty Freeman - philanthropist
- Cheryl Holdridge - actress
- Maria Dimitriadi - Greek songstress
- Vivian Della Chiesa - soprano
- Analia de Victoria Pereira - Angolan politician
- Deborah Riedel - Australian soprano
- Cornelia Wallace - First Lady of Alabama
- Elzbieta Zawacka - WWII resistance fighter
- Nancy Bird Walton - Australian pioneering aviator
- Angela Morley - British conductor and composer
- Lillian Willoughby - Quaker - founder of "Take Back The Night"
- Dorothy Brant - British Suffragette
- Anastasia Baburova - journalist
- Constance E Cook - politician
- Susan Hibbert - typed German surrender document in WWII
- Veronica Dudarova - Russian composer
- Daphne Rook - South African author
- Anna Radziwill - Solidarity leader
- Helen Maksagak - Inuit politician
- Astrid Folstad - Norwegian actress
- Mariana Bridi da Costa - Brazilian model
- Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter - aristocrat
- Lucille Mair - Jamaican diplomat
- Shirley Rickert - actress
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