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Annie Londonderry

Bicycler
Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, known as Annie Londonderry, was a Jewish Latvian immigrant to the United States who in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world. Wikipedia
Born: 1870, Riga, Latvia
Died: November 11, 1947 (age 77 years), New York, NY
Notable work: Circumnavigated the globe on a bicycle
Other names: Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, Nelly Bly Jr