She is a Finnish singer and musician. She is granddaughter of Italian musician Michele Orlando. Maarit's daughter Janna Hurmerinta is also a singer known by her mononym Janna.

    

Poljska veslačica je na OI 2016 skupaj z Magdalena Fularczyk (je tudi na znamki PL-4888) osvojila zlato medaljo v dvojnem dvojcu.

Polish rower won  gold medal in women's double sculls competing in partnership with Magdalena Fularczyk (also on stamp PL-4888) at 2016 Summer Olympics.

  

    

  
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Maga Magazinović, was one of the most educated women in Serbia at the start of 20th century, a pioneer of artistic dance, but also on the battlefield of women’s equality. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy as the first female candidate in her group. She also enrolled at the Faculty of Law so as to open the door to female students into the up-till-then exclusively male domain of law studies. As the first female clerk in the National Library, in 1905 she worked as a trainee and the first journalist who published articles for Politika daily (1905/1906). Artistic, dancing and theatrical knowledge she acquired with the most prominent theatre names of her time in Germany: Max Reinhardt, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Rudolf von Laban, Isadora Duncan. As the first educated dancer, she opened a school of modern dancing (1910), at the time when in Serbia the classical ballet had not yet existed. In 1936, she founded the Student Folklore Group; she greatly contributed to spreading of dancing skills, the new understanding of female body and gradual reducing of aloofness towards women in various domains of professional creation. She is the author of the first professional literature and texts on dancing in Serbia.

  
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Alice Maher is one of Ireland’s most respected and influential artists. Her works including painting, sculpture, photography and animation. On stamp: Petterned Behaviour.

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French film actress.

    

     
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depicts her from a photograph from 1930 and a part of her work Unknown.
 
      

  
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She was the progenitor of modern dancing in Serbia and the region. She acquired her dancing expertise in Vienna where she made first successes on stage as a solo dancer. She learned from famous Viennese artists: Gertrud Bodenwieser and Grete Wiesenthal. In the interwar period, she performed in Belgrade, where in 1931 she founded a modern dance school. She even held her dancing classes on the Radio Belgrade waves from 1931 till 1940. She established the first professional troupe for modern dance. She was an instructor of Rhythmic and Stage Movement from 1941 till 1946 at the Academy of Music, and also a professor teaching Stage Movement at the Higher School of Film from 1947 till 1950. She took part in the founding of the City Ballet School in Belgrade and was its main teacher. She engaged in choreographic and educational work at the Cultural and Artistic Association “Abrašević” and in the professional dancing troupe “The Belgrade Modern Ballet of Smiljana Mandukić”, which she founded in the seventies. The Ballet Artists Association of Serbia established in 2012 an award named after Smiljana Mandukić, a pioneer of modern dance in Serbia.

  
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She was the only female doctor assigned to the front during the First World War. Mobilized by mistake August 2, 1914, she hides her feminine and volunteered requirement to practice in Verdun.

    

  
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She was an internationally recognized expert on maritime law and policy and the protection of the environment. She was one of the founding members – and for a long time the only female member – of the Club of Rome and worked as a university professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She was the initiator and organizer of the first conference on the law of the sea on Malta in 1970, with the title of "Pacem in Maribus" ("Peace in the Oceans").

  

 
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She was a composer, conductor, writer, professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The most powerful and outstanding creator in the history of Serbian music. Her opus, in which she wonderfully connected voices from the far past with harmonies and disharmonies of her own time, could be compared with the works of the greatest authors in that century. Ljubica Marić is for the Serbian music what was Olivier Messiaen for the French or Igor Stravinski for the Russian. Her Byzantium Concert for piano and orchestra, the Music of Octoih for orchestra, cantata the Threshold of Dream and the Song of Space, the melodical recitation the Wizard for soprano and piano, the Fabulous Milligram for voice and flute, could enter into every antology of world music. The 100th anniversary of her birth entered the UNESCO calendar as an important date for the world cultural heritage.

  
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3. 5. 1925 - 2. 7. 2011
Srbska igralka se je poleg gledališča in filma ukvarjala tudi s petjem, posebno  še z ruskimi romancami. Igrala je v vseh zvrsteh. Po anketi »Večernje novosti« je peta največja srbska igralka 20. stoletja. Od leta 1951 je bila članica beograjskega dramskega gledališča. V svoji karieri je v gledališču ustvarila več kot 150 vlog in posnela več kot 50 filmov.

In addition to the theater and film, the Serbian actress also engaged in singing, especially with Russian romances. She played in all genres. According to the newspaper "Vecernje novosti", she was the fifth largest Serbian actress of the 20th century. Since 1951 she has been a member of the Belgrade Drama Theater. In her career she has created more than 150 roles in the theater and has recorded more than 50 films.

  

Hungary’s foremost classical actress.
On sheet H-3841 are also Roza Deryne Szeppataki, Lujza Blaha and Gizi Bajor.

       
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She was an Italian singer and on some occasions also a singer-songwriter. Her debut album, Oltre la collina, is judged among the best Italian works ever made of all time. Successes like Padre davvero  (1971), Piccolo uomo, Donna sola (1972), Minuetto, Il guerriero (1973), Inno (1974), Donna con te (1975), Che vuoi che sia ... (1976) andLibera, Per amarti  (1977) they consecrated her among the absolute protagonists of Italian music in the seventies.

  
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Zinaida Lunina.

     
              

  
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www.earlyaviators.com/emarving.htm

 
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Mary Duchess of Burgundy, also known as Mary the Rich was first sovereign lady of the Netherlands. In 1477, Mary inherited all Burgundian possessions, but this was disputed for the fact that she was a woman. With her Great Privilege she established peace and quiet in the Dutch provinces. Mary’s marriage to Maximilian of Habsburg would determine the international position of the Netherlands for several centuries. Her choice of partner rendered a union with France as well as an autonomous status impossible for the time being. Her provinces became the focus of European politics. Due to her personality and the obligingness of her reign, however, the unity of the major provinces of the Burgundian Netherlands was maintained.

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Masina began acting as a student with a group of university players in Rome. She performed in a radio play written by Frederico Fellini, a fellow student in 1942. The two were married the following year. She debuted on screen in a bit role in Rossellini`s Paisa 1946. For her work in Lattuada`s Without Pity 1948., her second film, she won the italian critics award for best supporting actress. After returnig briefly to the stage, she appeared in Fellini`s debut directorial effort, Variety Lights 1951, after which she gave up theater permanently and stuck to making films. Her role in Fellini`s La strada 1954, established her as a star. For her  portrayal of a prostitute in his The nights of Cabria 1956, she won Cannes Film festival Best Actress award. Fellini has said that she was his muse and that many of his film were inspired by her. Her career, however, was hampered after the late `50s by her nearly-exclusive association with Fellini, who went on to include her in Juliet of the Spirits 1965 among others.

   
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MATHES Eva - Bengtsson

 
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On stamp FI-1236 is also Kirvesniemi Hämäläinen Liisa.

 

    

 
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MAYER Ursula

    
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SI-861/862 is also Majdič Petra.

   

  
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Gregory Isabela Augusta.

 

  
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On stamp IE-306 is her painting: Kitchen Table.

  
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      many thanks to Deirdre
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McPHAIL STEWART Catherine 30.10.1887 - 1974
Britanska zdravnica je študirala v univerzi v Glasgowu. Leta 1915 je v okviru škotske ženske bolnice prišla v Srbijo. Po koncu prve svetovne vojne je ostala v Srbiji. V Sremski Kamenici je leta 1934 ustanovila otroško bolnico za zdravljenje tuberkuloze kosti in sklepov. Nagrajena je bila z ordenom  sv. Save 5. in 4. stopnje, za zasluge po vojni pa še orden sv. Save 3. stopnje. Odlikovana je bila tudi z redom britanskega imperija.

She studied medicine at Glasgow University and came to Serbia in 1915 with Scottish Women`s Hospital. After the war she remained in Serbia, where she founded the first children`s hospital in Serbia. In 1934 in Sremska Kamenica she founded the English-Yugoslav Children`s Hospital for treatment of tuberculosis of bones and joints. She was awarded the Order of St. Sava of V and IV degree and for her merits in postwar Belgrade she received the Order of St. Sava III. She received one of Britain`s greatest honors - the Order of the Britsh Empire.
  
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Soviet heroine, partisan and the hero of the Soviet Union. She was born in Zarasai. She entered the Red Army (the 16th division) in 1942. She was sent to the back of Germans where she took part in partisan activities. Germans captured her and shut. In 1944 she was given the name of the hero of Soviet Union.

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Grška igralka in političarka je najprej nastopala v gledališču v Atenah, od konca šestdesetih let 20. stol. pa tudi na Brodwayu. Prvo filmsko vlogo je odigrala 1955 v filmu Stella. Svetovni uspeh pa je dosegla s filmom Nikoli v nedeljo (1960). Ker je bila levičarsko usmerjena in politično aktivna jo je vojaška oblast izgnala 1967 iz Grčije. Po padcu hunte 1974 se je vrnila. V letih 1981-89 in 1993 je bila grška ministrica za kulturo.

Outstanding Greek woman. She fought for democracy against the junta of 1967-74. She was theatre and film actress with much success in theatre where she played in ancient Greek tragedies and medern playes. She was Greek Minister of Culture from 1981-89.  

                        
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MERIAN Maria-Sibylia 2.4.1647 - 13.1.1717
Nemška slikarka, bakrorezka in raziskovalka žuželk. Najprej se je posvečala slikanju cvetja in rastlin, nato pa biološkega okolja rastlin. Proučevala je žuželke na Surinamu in o  svojih raziskavah objavila knjigo Metamorfoza surinamskih žuželk.(1705), opremljeno z lastnimi bakrorezi.  

She was a naturalist and scientific illustrator who studied plants and insects and made detailed paintings about them. Her detailed observations and documentation of the metamorphosis of the butterfly make her a significant, albeit not well known, contributor to entomology. In 1699 she traveled to Surinam whre she worked for two years, travelling around the colony and sketching local animals and plants. Back in the Netherlands she sold specimens she had collected and published a collection of engravings about the life in Surinam. In 1705 she published a book Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium about the insects of Surinam.
 
       
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MERICI Angela sv. (st.) 21.3.1474 - 27.1.1540
Italjijanska nuna ustanoviteljica uršulinskega reda, ki je najstarejši ženski red v Rimskokatoliški cerkvi. Svojo mladost je preživljala pri svojem stricu ob Gardskem jezeru. Pridružila se je laičnemu "tretjemu redu" sv. Frančiška. Ko se je pri dvajsetih vrnila v rojstni kraj, je zbrala skupino deklet, ki so vaške otroke učile katekizem. Leta 1506 je imela videnje, v katerem ji je bilo naročeno naj v Brescii ustanovi družbo devic. Leta 1535 se je skupaj s 28 spremljevalkami posvetila bogu s prisego deviškost. S tem je nastal red svete Uršule, legendarne mučenice iz četrtega stoletja. Naloga reda je bila poučevanje verske vzgoje mladih deklet. Leta 1537 je bila soglasno izvoljena za predstojnico reda.

She was born in Italy and lived at her uncle. In 1524, while making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, she became suddenly blind, but continued her journey to the Holy Places and was cured on her return while praying before a crucifix at the same place where she was struck with blindness a few weeks before. When, in 1525, she had come to Rome to gain the indulgences, Pope Clement VII, who had heard of her great holiness and her extraordinary success as a religious teacher of young girls, invited her to remain in Rome; but Angela, who shunned publicity, returned to Brescia. There in 535, Angela chose twelve virgins and laid the foundation of the order of the Ursulines in a small house near the Church of St. Afra in Brescia. Having been five years superior of the newly-founded order, she died. She was beatified in 1768, by Clement XIII, and canonized in 1807, by Pius VII.

  
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MERZ Marisa 1931 -

She is an Italian sculptor, widow of artist Mario Merz. She now lives in Milan. In 1967, for her first solo exhibition, Marisa made a folded aluminium foil installation. She was also one of the people involved in the Arte Povera + Azione Povera exhibition the following year in Amalfi.
Marisa Merz: Testa

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MESSAGER Annete 30.11.1943 -
Francoska vizualna umetnica, ki trenutno  živi in dela v Franciji je leta 2005 prejela za svoje delo v francoskem paviljonu Zlatega beneškega leva. Leta 2016 je prejela nagrado Praemium Imperiale, ki jo podeljuje japonska ob podpori njihove cesarkse družine.

A French visual artist won in 2005 the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale for her artwork at the French Pavilion. In 2016, she won the prestigious Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award. She currently lives and works in Malakoff, France.

 
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MIANKOVA Aksana 28.3.1982 -
Beloruska metalka kladiva je na olimpijskih igrah 2008 v Pekingu osvojila zlato medaljo z olimpijskim  rekordom 76,34 m (na znamki BY-819).
Na priveskih BY-blok-77 so ostale beloruske dobitnice medalj na OI 2008 v Pekingu: Jekaterina Karsten, Inna Zhukova, Julija Bičik, Natalija Helakh, Natallia Mikhnevich, Nadzeya Ostapchuk , Nastassia Novikava, Alina Tumilovich, Anastasia Ivankova, Glafira Martinovich, Ksenia Sankovich, Olesya Babushkina, Zinaida Lunina.

She is a Belarusian hammer thrower. She won the Olympic gold medal in 2008 with a throw of 76.34 metres, an Olympic record (on stamp BY-819).
On labels of sheet BY-blok-77 are also other Belrus women winners of medals in OG Bejing: Jekaterina Karsten, Inna Zhukova, Julija Bičik, Natalija Helakh, Natallia Mikhnevich, Nadzeya Ostapchuk, Nastassia Novikava, Alina Tumilovich, Anastasia Ivankova, Glafira Martinovich, Ksenia Sankovich, Olesya Babushkina, Zinaida Lunina.

    
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MICHAELIS Caroline Wilhelma de  Vasconcelos 15.03.1851 - 16.11.1925
Portugalska pisateljica

Portuguese novelist, distinguished herself in teaching. She was the first woman to be admitted as a professor at the Coimbra Faculty of Arts.

      
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MICHEL Louise 29.5.1830 - 9.1.1905
Ustanoviteljica Društva za zaščito pravic žena v času pariške komune. Borila se je na barikadah. Ena najbolj znanih žena članic Nacionalne garde.

She was French anarchist who fervently preached revolutionary socialist themes. Rejecting parliamentary reform, she believed in sensational acts of violence and advocated class war.

 
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MICHEL-LEVY Simone 19.1.1906 - 10.4.1945

Simone Michel-Lévy is one of the great heroes of the French resistance. After elementary education she moved with her parents to Chauny in the region of l'Aisne where she in 1922, at the age of sixteen and a half, started to work in the administration of the French Post. From the very beginning of the German invasion and occupation of France she was opposed to the French capitulation and from December 1940 she became a member of the French resistance movement. In 1943 she was arrested by gestapo and tortured. She was kept in women concentration camp Ravensbrück and in camp Holleischen (Holysov) where she was executed. She received several medals and distinctions posthumously. 

 
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MICLE Veronica  22.4.1850 - 3.8.1889
romunska pesnica.

Romunian poetess, whose work was influenced by Romanticism. She is best known for her love affair with the poet Mihai Eminescu, one of the most important Romanian writers. Micle made her publishing debut in Noul Curier Român (1872), with two romantic sketches published under the pen-name Corina. She published her poems, influenced by Eminescu, in Columna Lui Traian (1874). She also contributed to Familia (1879), Revista Nouă and Revista Literară.

  
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MIEGEL Agnes 9.3.1879 - 26.10.1964
nemška pisateljica.

German author, journalist and poet.

  
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MIFSUD Elena 1906 - 1989
slikarka: Parson`s lodge.

    
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MIHELIČ Mira 14.7.1912 - 4.9.1985
Slovenska pisateljica in prevajalka Mira Mihelič je bila dvakrat dobitnica Prešernove nagrade (1950, 1983), predsednica Društva slovenskih pisateljev (1963–1966) in slovenskega centra PEN (1966–1975) in je kot dobra opazovalka življenjskega okolja v svojem literarnem ustvarjanju oblikovala podobo slovenskega meščanskega salona že v svojih prvih pripovedih (Obraz v zrcalu, 1941). To okolje in čas je sprva doživljala z radoživim pogledom, kar se je kmalu spremenilo v dozorelo kritičnost: njena pripoved tedaj spoštljivost zamenja z ironijo, navdušenje z odvračanjem, pripadnost k meščanstvu z begom iz njegovega sveta. O moralnem razkroju meščanskega sveta govorijo tudi njena dramska besedila s tematiko druge svetovne vojne in okupacije (Svet brez sovraštva, 1945, Ogenj in pepel, 1949), ki se jim pridružijo še  dramska besedila s karakterno in dialoško komiko. Romane s tematiko slovenskega meščanstva je kasneje deloma preurejene ponovno izdala v izboru z naslovom Plamen ali dim. Zgodbam o družbeni in psihološki podobi meščanstva v zgodovinskih prelomnih krizah sta nato sledili še dve knjigi mladinske proze in dva zgodovinska romana, prvi o intrigantskem življenju v stari rimski Emoni (Tujec v Emoni, 1978) in drugi o času ljubljanskega kongresa (Cesta dveh cesarjev, 1981). Mira Mihelič je v svojih romanih pripovedovalka vznesenih, dinamičnih zgodb, živahne fantazije, odlična poznavalka človeških nravi, ki se odkrivajo v izjemno spretno oblikovanih literarnih portretih in pomenljivih dialogih. Kot prevajalka iz angleške, francoske in nemške književnosti je prevedla več kot osemdeset pripovednih in dramskih besedil izstopajočih avtorjev. Svojemu pripovednemu delu je pisateljica dodala tudi spominski zapis Ure mojih dni (1985).

The writer and translator Mira Mihelič a double Prešeren Award winner (1950, 1983), was president of the Slovene Writers' Association (1963–1966) and of the Slovene PEN centre (1966–1975); a good observer of the life around her, in her earliest works she painted a picture of life among the Slovene bourgeoisie (Obraz v zrcalu [Face in the Mirror], 1941).

    
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MIKHNEVICH Natalia 25.5.1982 -
Beloruska suvalka krogle je bila na mladinskem svetovnem mladinskem prvenstvu tretja, na OI 2004  in na svetovnem atletskem finalu pa peta. Leta 2006 ja na svetovnem dvoranskem prvenstvu zmagala z osebnim rekordom 19,84 m. Na OI 2008 v Pekingu pa je osvojila srebrno medaljo.
Na znamki BY-819 je Aksana Miankova.
Na priveskih BY-blok-77 so še druge beloruske dobitnice medalj na OI 2008 v Pekingu: Jekaterina Karsten, Inna Zhukova, Julija Bičik, Natalija Helakh, Nadzeya Ostapchuk, Nastassia Novikava, Alina Tumilovich, Anastasia Ivankova, Glafira Martinovich, Ksenia Sankovich, Olesya Babushkina, Zinaida Lunina. 

She is a Belarusian shot putter. She finished third at the 2000 World Junior Championships, but first appeared on the international athletics scene at the 2004 Olympics, where she finished 5th. She repeated this position at the World Athletics Final later that year, and in 2005 she was able to win the bronze medal in this meet. In 2006 she won the World Indoor Championships in Russia with a new personal best throw (indoor) of 19.84 metres. She won a silver medal in Women's shot put at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
On stamp BY-819 is Aksana Miankova.
On labels of sheet BY-blok-77 are also other Belarus women winners of medals in OG Bejing: Jekaterina Karsten, Inna Zhukova, Julija Bičik, Natalija Helakh, Nadzeya Ostapchuk , Nastassia Novikava, Alina Tumilovich, Anastasia Ivankova, Glafira Martinovich, Ksenia Sankovich, Olesya Babushkina, Zinaida Lunina.

     
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MILEVA Leda 5.2.1920 -

She ia a Bulgarian author of poetry and plays for children and translations from English, Russian and French.
Author of more than 30 poetry volumes. Permanent representative of Bulgaria to UNESCO.

   
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MILIĆEVIĆ Ognjenka

    
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MILLARD Michelle

  
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MINELLI Liza 13.3.1946 -
Ameriška pevka in filmska igralka, hči Judy Garland, je v filmu nastopila že s tremi leti. Leta 1963 je debitirala na Brodwayu v predstavi Best Foot Forward. Nastopala je predvsem v musicalih. Pomembnejši filmi: Cabaret (1972), New York, New York (1976), Arthur (1981). Za vlogo v Kabareju je dobila oskarja.
Na znamki BG-4187 je tudi Sofia Loren.

She is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of legendary actress and singer Judy Garland and her second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli. In 1972, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Cabaret and two of her records have been certified gold.
On stamp BG-4187 is also Sofia Loren.

 
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MIORIN Nataly

  
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MIRČEVA MINČEVA Detelina

Na znamki BG-2410 je tudi  Paškilova Todorova Ivanka.

On stamp BG-2410 is also Paškilova Todorova Ivanka.

 
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MISTRAL Gabriela 7.4.1889 - 10.1.1957
Čilenska pesnica s pravim imenom Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga je poučevala na srednjih šolah in sodelovala pri reformi šolskega sistema v Mehiki. Od 1933 je bila čilska konzulka v Madridu, Lizboni, Genovi, Nici in OZN. Psevdonim je sestavila iz imen svojih dveh najljubših pesnikov Gabriela d`Annunzia in Frederica Mistrala. Osrednja tema njene tople čustvene lirike je ljubezen. Njene pesniške zbirke: Pesmi (1904), Soneti smrti (1904), Obup (1922), Sporočila (1957). Leta 1945 je kot prva ženska umetnica Južne Amerike prejela Nobelovo nagrado za literaturo.

Gabriela Mistral was the pen name of the Chilean poet Lucila Godoy Alcayaga,  the first Spanish-American writer to win the Nobel Prize (1945). She enjoyed a continental reputation as a humanitarian and educator, and, together with several other writers, contributed greatly to postmodernist verse. Mistral won a poetry contest in 1914 with Sonetos de la muerte (Sonnets of Death), which were inspired by a tragic love affair and grew into a larger and her best collection, aptly entitled Desolacion (Desolation, 1922). Her only other books of poetry are Ternura (Tenderness, 1924), Tala (Destruction, 1938), and Lagar (Winepress, 1954). Mistral's poems deal with nature, biblical motifs, death, platonic love, and especially love of children and of the dispossessed; they are permeated by feelings of sadness, compassion, asceticism, unsatisfied maternal longing, and communion with the land.

  
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MIŠANOVIĆ Vesna 27.11.1964  -
Bosanska šahovska velemojstrica, državna prvakinja Jugoslavije 1988.

She is a Bosnian chess player who holds FIDE Woman Grandmaster title. She was winner of the first medal ever for the Bosnia and Herzegovina at the European Team Championship in Debrecin 1992. It was individual silver medal for best rating performance and result at first board. Before that, she won two bronze medals by playing for Yugoslav national selection at Chess Olympiad Thessalonica 1988. It was one team medal and one for the result on fourth board. In total, she participated at six Chess Olympiads, two times for Yugoslavia (4th board in Thessalonica 1988 and 2nd board in Novi Sad 1990) and four times for Bosnia and Herzegovina (1st board in Manila 1992, Moscow 1994, Elista 1998 and Istanbul 2000). IN 1988 she was Yugoslav Chess Champion.   

                          
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MITCHELL Joan 12.2.1925 - 30.9.1992

An American expressionist painter and printmaker was a member of the American Abstract expressionist movement. She spent most of her life in France, where she died.

  
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MODERSOHN-BECKER Paula 8.2.1876 - 20.11.1907

Paula Modersohn-Becker, developed an antiromantic, consciously primitive style that anticipated 20th-century German expressionism. While her friends painted vast landscapes at the artists' colony of Worpswede, outside Bremen, Modersohn-Becker singled out individual forms, such as a burly peasant or a massive barn. These compositions, inspired by the works of Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin, were not well received during the artist's short life. Many of her paintings are preserved in the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen.

              
          D - 1854                  D - 1359         Berlin - 806

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MODZEJEWSKA Helena 12.10.1840 - 9.4.1909
Poljsko-ameriška gledališka igralka je v svojem repertoarju imela več kot 260 shakespearjanskih in sodobnih vlog. Rodila se je na Poljskem. Poročila se je z igralcem Gustavom Modrzejewskim in z njim ustanovila potujočo gledališko skupino. Leta 1868 se je drugič poročila s politikom in literarnim kritikom Karlom Božento Chlapowskim. Preselila v Varšavo, kjer je ostala vrsto let. Njene glavne tragične vloge so bile Shakespearjeve Ofelija, Julija, Desdemona in kraljica Ana iz Richarda III, Schillerjeva princesa Eboli in druge. Njene najboljša vloga iz komedij je bila Beatrice iz Shakespearjeve komedije Mnogo hrupa za nič. Leta 1876 je z možem in skupino prijateljev odšla v Kalifornijo. Tu je leta 1877 doživela zmagoslavni sprejem v San Franciscu. Z uspehi v mestih vzhodnih ZDA si je zagotovila ugled velike igralke. Kljub svojemu poljskemu naglasu je bila ena najuspešnejših ameriških shakesperjanskih igralk v letih 1880-1890. Kljub slovesu v novi  domovini se je redno vračala na Poljsko.

Polish-American actress whose repertory includes 260 Shakespeares and contemporary some roles, some in both Polish and English. The daughter of a musician, she married an actor, Gustav Modrzejewski, and they joined a company of strolling players. In 1868 she married Count Bozenta Chlapowski, a politician and critic, and began to act at Wassaw, where she remained for number of years. Her chief tragic roles were Shakespeare`s Ophelia, Juliet, Desdemona and Queen Anne in Richard III,  Schiller`s Pricess Eboli…. In comedy her favourite roles  included Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. She also Played in modern pieces by Dumas, Gabriel Legouve, Ostave Feuillt….In 1876 she went with his husband to California, where they settled on a rach. This enterprise was failure, and She returned to the stage,. She appeared in San Francisco in 1877 in an English version of Adrienne Lecouvreur, in which she was very successful despite her poor English. She continued to act principally in the USA but also was seen from time to time in London, where in 1881 she fulfilled her ambition to play Shakespeare on an English stage and elsewhere in the Unirted States.

                                
                           PL - 2777                               PL - 2402                            PL - 458 

   PL - 466

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MOLINER Maria 30.3.1900 - 22.1.1981

Was a Spanish librarian and lexicographer. She is known for her prestigious Diccionario de uso del español, first published in 1966-1967, when she completed the work started in 1952.

  
         E - 2975

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MONROE Marilyn 1.6.1926 - 5.8.1962
Ameriška filmska igralka s pravim imenom Norma Jean Mortenson je odraščala v reji. Delala je v tovarni streliva, kasneje je bila fotomodel. 1946 je začela igrati stranske vloge, od leta 1952 pa glavne vloge lepe plavolase naivke. Sredi petdesetih let 20. stol. je bila seksualni simbol ameriškega filma. Poročena je bila s pisateljem Arturjem Millerjem. Umrla je domnevno zaradi prevelike količine zaužitih tablet. Pomembnejši filmi: Moški imajo raje plavolaske (1953), Kako se poročiti z milijonarjem (1953), Sedem let skomin (1955), Nekateri so za vroče (1959).
Na znamki BG-4185 je tudi Marlene Dietrich.(njeno ime je napisano na levi strani znamke), toda v resnici je prikazana Greta Garbo.
Na znamki N-1216 je tudi Foss Wenche.

Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson (or Baker), Los Angeles, after rising from bit parts, became one of the most celebrated film personalities of her time. Hers was the classic show-business tragedy. Stardom seemed a burden; being an international sex goddess, even more so. Her second husband was baseball star Joe DiMaggio. Following her third marriage, to playwright Arthur Miller, she struggled to understand theories of acting and wanted to star in the classics. When this effort proved fruitless, she became so difficult to work with that she was virtually unemployable. Yet in the handful of comedies in which she starred her personal ebullience and freshness transcend her limitations: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), The Seven Year Itch (1955), The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), and Some Like It Hot (1959). She also performed competently in two dramatic roles, Bus Stop (1956) and The Misfits (1961). She died from an overdose of sleeping pills, possibly a suicide.
On stamp BG-4185 is also Marlene Dietrich (name is written on left side of stamp), but on stamp is depicted Greta Garbo.  
On stamp N-1216 is also Foss Wenche.

                                  
           BG - 4185                      BA - 94                         F - 3770                             H - 4298

                      
                         GI - 744                                    N - 1216                                D -2219

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MONTESSORI Maria 31.8.1870 - 6.5.1952
Leta 1894 je kot prva ženska v Italiji diplomirala na medicinski fakulteti. Že kot asistentka na kliniki se je začela zanimati za psihologijo vzgoje majhnih in duševno prizadetih otrok. Leta 1907 je v revni četrti San Lorenzo v Rimu ustanovila svojo prvo šolo za normalno razvite otroke. V praksi je dokazala učinkovitost novih metod učenja: odpovedala se je avtoritativnosti, začela je uporabljati igrala in delovne pripomočke. Njene metode še sedaj uporabljajo po vsem svetu.

Maria Montessori, an Italian physician-educator, devised the educational method that bears her name. She was the first woman in Italy to receive a medical degree and began her career working at the University of Rome's psychiatric clinic. Her experience there with retarded children led her to found the State Orthophrenic School of Rome. She extended her methods to normal children in 1907 by opening her first Casa dei Bambini (Children's House) in a Rome slum. This house also proved successful, and many other Montessori schools were established. After she fled the Italian Fascist government in 1934, she worked in Spain and South Asia before settling in the Netherlands,

      
             I - 1314                                I-3148

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MONTIEL SARA 10.3. - 8.4.2013
Španska pevka in igralka, mednarodno znana v špansko govoreči glasbeni in filmski industriji.

Sara Montiel was a Spanish singer and actress a much-loved and internationally known name in the Spanish-speaking movie and music industries.

    
              E - 4904

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MOONEY Ria 1903 - 1973

Ria Mooney (on label of sheet IE - 940) was an actor, director and writer. She joined the Abbey Theatre in 1924 and played lead in the first production of The Plough and the Stars. She went on to produce and direct in New York and, back in Dublin from the 1940s, in the Gate, the Abbey and the Gaiety.
On label of sheet are also: Eva Gore-Booth and  Siobhan McKenna. On stamp IE-940 is Bennett Louie.


                       IE - 940

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MORAITI Antonia 2.5.1977 -
Članica grške olimpijske water polo ekipe, ki je na OI 2004 v Atenah osvojila srebrno medaljo.

She won silver medal OG 2004 Athene: greek water polo team.

  
             GR -2255

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MORAITIDOU Evangelia

  
           GR -2255

Slovak sportwoman - swimmer. Her incredible collection of 67 medals including 2 Olympic (2000 Sydney: silver medal 100 m butterfly, silver medal 200 m freestyle), 22-World and 43-European, along with 3-World, 16-European and 203-Slovakian records prove Martina is a force in any meet. She is destined to go down in FINA World Cup history for winning an amazing 104-gold medals and becoming the overall winner of the World Cup Series three times. 

SK - 462

She was an Irish furniture designer was an Irish furniture designer and architect and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. She was, undeniably, a designer of genius, and her work traversed the Art Deco period and the Modernist Movement, leaving a mark on the 20th century and, along with Le Corbusier and Mies Van Der Rohe, she defined modernity.

 

She was a Danish artist, novelist, and socialist.

    
            DK - 1606

    

 
        

  
                                        UN-Vienna - 151

                    
                 F - 4031                       F - 3114                          MC -1032                   F - 5286
    
        F - 5297            F - 6417

  
         S - 1801

 
       SU - 3215

    
             GB - 3212

    
             A - 3030

MOURA Alexandra 1973 -
Portugalska modna oblikovalka je študirala modno oblikovanje na univerzi IADE v Lizboni. Sodelovala je na številnih modnih revijah na Portugalskem in Španiji. Od leta 2001 prodaja svoje kolekcije v eni najbolj znanih lizbonskih trgovin Moda Lisabon Dizajn.

  
                                      P - 2868

            
        SU - 5962                     SU - 3688                    SU - 2031

    
                       FI - 1905

     

    
                     RO - 6704

    

    
                     UA - 1511

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MUZIČUK Marija 21.09.1992 -
Ukrajinska šahistka.

Ukrainian chess player.

    
                    UA - 1511

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MYHRE Wenche 1947 -

She had her first big hit in 1962 with  Katta vår. She took part in the Norwegian heats for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1964 with La meg være ung. Though only third in the heats, this song was clearly the real winner and became a huge hit. Wenche Myhre soon won international acclaim. She had the honour of representing Germany in the ESC in London in 1968 and started singing with well-known Swedish entertainer Povel Ramel the same year. She has always been very popular in Norway.

    
                 N -1761

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MYLONAKI Anthoula 6.10.1984 -
Članica grške olimpijske water polo ekipe, ki je na OI 2004 v Atenah osvojila srebrno medaljo.

She won silver medal OG 2004 Athene: greek water polo team.

  
           GR -2255

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MYRDAL Alva 31.1.1902 - 1.2.1986

Alva Reimer Myrdal,  a sociologist, former diplomat, and former Swedish cabinet member. One of the Myrdals' major works was The Crisis in the Population Question (1934). Alva Myrdal served as Sweden's disarmament negotiator to the United Nations (1962-73) and as a cabinet minister in charge of disarmament and church affairs (1966-73). From 1973 on, she wrote and lectured on disarmament; for these efforts she was awarded the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize, with Alfonso Garcia Robles of Mexico. Her books include The Game of Disarmament (1977).

  
                  S - 1698

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MYSTAKIDOU Elisavet 14.8.1977 -
Grška športnica, dobitnica srebrne medalje na OI 2004 v Atenah v tekwandoju v kategoriji 57-67 kg.

Greek sportwoman won silver medal OG 2004 Athene: in taekwondo 57-67 kg women.

  
          GR - 2257

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