Margaret Sanger Profession: Nurse Nationality: American Why Famous: 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 Clara Barton Dorothea Dix Edith Cavell Jeanne Mance Lillian Wald Walt Whitman