Nov. 21 - Henrietta Howland Hetty Green (née Robinson; November 21, 1834 – July 3, 1916), nicknamed The Witch of Wall Street, was an American businesswoman and financier known as the richest woman in America during the Gilded Age. Known for both her wealth and her miserliness, she was the lone woman to amass a fortune when other major financiers were men. As a kid she kept the family’s books. She challenged her Aunt to how her inheritance was being spent. The case was one of the first to use the forensics of mathematics. Hetty Greens stinginess was legendary. She was said never to turn on the heat or use hot water. She wore one old black dress and undergarments that she changed only after they had been worn out, did not wash her hands and rode in an old carriage. She ate mostly pies that cost fifteen cents. One tale claims that Green spent half a night searching her carriage for a lost stamp worth two cents. Another asserts that she instructed her laundress to wash only the dirtiest parts of her dresses (the hems) to save money on soap. According to her longstanding Worlds Greatest Miser entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, she died of apoplexy (internal bleeding) after arguing with a maid over the virtues of skimmed milk. The New York Times reported she suffered a series of strokes leading up to her death. Estimates of her net worth ranged from $100 million to $200 million ($2.17 billion to $4.33 billion today), making her arguably the richest woman in the world at the time; -Voltaire: writer whose subversive French work helped spur the American Revolution; - Stan Musial; Ken Griffey, Jr.; Jim Brown; Troy Aikman; Michael Strahan; Earl The Pearl Monroe; Nicollett Sheridan; Goldie Hawn; Harold Ramas (directed Caddieshack, Groundhog Day, National Lampoons Vacation, acted in Stripes and Ghostbusters); -Isaac Bashevis Singer was a leading figure of the 20th Century Yiddish literary movement. He was the 1978 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. -Björk Guðmundsdóttir known mononymously as Björk is an Icelandic alternative rock singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and occasional actress. She initially became known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band the Sugarcubes but is now in her third decade of her solo career. youtu.be/BFQPNApwJGU
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