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Events on Monday 8 May 1944 1
1858 – 1944Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)Died 8 May 1944, aged 86English composer and suffragette whose works include the opera The Wreckers. Her March of the Women became the anthem of the suffrage movement. She was the first female composer to be made a dame.