Margaret Sanger Profession: Nurse Nationality: American Biography: Popularized the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in US, founded American Birth Control League (now Planned Parenthood Federation of America) Born: September 14, 1879 Birthplace: Corning, New York, USA Star Sign: Virgo Died: September 6, 1966 (aged 86) Cause of Death: Congestive heart failure Married Life 1922-09-18 Nurse Margaret Sanger (43) weds James Noah Henry Slee in Bloomsbury, London Historical Events 1916-10-16 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic in the US at 46 Amboy St, Brooklyn 1916-10-26 American sex educator Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control) Famous Nurses Cicely Saunders Clara Barton Dorothea Dix Edith Cavell Jeanne Mance Walt Whitman
Cicely Saunders
Clara Barton
Dorothea Dix
Edith Cavell
Jeanne Mance
Walt Whitman