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Once again in December and January we are focusing on notable women who died in 2025, from all fields and nationalities. Many of them will have been covered in detail in the obituaries published in newspapers and journals around the world.

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Women who died: 2025
December 2025 – January 2026
Recently completed: Alphabet run: Countries starting with D, E and F Works by women: Written works Cascading women
New this month: Alphabet run: Countries starting with G and H Works by women: Scientific works Religion and Spirituality
Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman: 2026 Sports
Upcoming events: Ideas
Welcome!

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women who have recently died, including their writings or other works.

This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to add articles on any other women who deserve to be covered, for example under our #1day1woman priority.

The main goals of the event are:

  • to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women
  • to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
  • to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media and via nominations to Main Page features Did You Know…? and In The News.

What else?

  • Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you created this month and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
  • If you share any of the articles or images on social media, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.
Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

We have red-link lists on women from all relevant fields, which can be found in our redlist index. A selection of those which might be most useful for this priority is listed below.

Crowd-sourced (CS) and Wikidata (WD) red-link lists: women's biographies in other language versions of Wikipedia:

Other sources where women who died in 2025 may be found:

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

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New or upgraded articles

  • Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new and biographical dictionary, if used:
  1. United States Michele Singer Reiner
  2. South Africa Maxi Schoeman
  3. United States Alana Cruise
  4. Poland Barbara Rybałtowska
  5. Netherlands Coby Timp
  6. United States Grace Bakst Wapner
  7. Netherlands Geeske Krol-Benedictus
  8. Greece Sylva Akrita
  9. Malawi Chikondi Chijozi
  10. Ecuador Ledy Zuñiga
  11. Ecuador Nuria Butiña
  12. France Andorra Jacqueline Pradère (also added in Deaths in November 2025)
  13. United Kingdom Naomi Stadlen
  14. United States Suzanne Loker
  15. United Kingdom Diana McVeagh upgrade and pic
  16. United Kingdom Annie Stainer upgrade and pic
  17. United States Priscilla Frisch
  18. United KingdomKenyaJen Bartlett upgrade
  19. United States Jean Frantz Blackall
  20. Germany Gabriele Iwersen
  21. United Kingdom Anne Scargill pic
  22. Botswana Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo (also 358)
  23. Denmark Sine Larsen (also 358)
  24. Austria Angelica Bäumer (also 358, 360)
  25. Afghanistan Zohra Rasekh (also 358, 360)
  26. United States Dorothy Bosch Keller
  27. Uzbek Soviet Socialist RepublicRussia Galina Matvievskaya
  28. United States Susan Brynteson
  29. United States Anne Rankin Mahoney
  30. Norway Jorunn Aanderaa
  31. United States Judy Jean Chapman
  32. United States Kee Malesky add pic by Sarah Stierch
  33. Sri Lanka Susantha Chandramali add pic
  34. Canada Doreen Hall (also 326)
  35. Jamaica Velma Pollard add pic
  36. Jamaica Gerlin Bean add pic
  37. United Kingdom Susie Figgis
  38. Denmark Birthe Wesselhøft
  39. United States Barbara G. Walker - upgraded
  40. Nigeria Allwell Ademola
  41. Italy Anna Rusticano (also 326)
  42. Germany Angela Tillmann
  43. Poland Alicja Bobrowska (also 327)
  44. Poland Danuta Ptaszycka-Jackowska (also 327)
  45. Bolivia Daisy Wende (also 327)
  46. Portugal Alda Rosa
  47. Poland Agata Kowalska-Szubert
  48. Canada Rosalie Tennison
  49. Hungary Mária J. Nagy
  50. Panama Ivonne Young
  51. United StatesH. Catherine W. Skinner (promoted on Mastodon)
  52. Portugal Fernanda Maria
  53. United Kingdom Valerie Pearlman
  54. United Kingdom Andria Hall
  55. Poland Elżbieta Penderecka (also 326)
  56. Italy Ada Becchi
  57. Mexico Teresa Ulloa Ziáurriz
  58. Portugal Elizette Bayan
  59. United States Cora Weiss
  60. Portugal Teresa Cupertino de Miranda
  61. Portugal Maria José Palla
  62. Spain Anna Díaz Morello
  63. Argentina Ana Lía Kornblit
  64. Spain Inmaculada García Rioja (also added in Deaths in February 2025)
  65. Ecuador Paulina Tamayo (also 326)
  66. Portugal Maria da Nazaré
  67. Portugal Ângela Ribeiro (actress)
  68. Portugal Olga Cardoso
  69. Portugal Constança Cunha e Sá
  70. Italy Fiorenza de Bernardi (upgraded)
  71. South Africa Pamela Mabini
  72. Croatia Vesna Bučić
  73. Norway Eli Årdal Berland
  74. United Kingdom Jane Reed
  75. Poland Agnieszka Maciąg
  76. Moldova Valentina Basiul
  77. United States Mildred Barnes Griggs
  78. Armenia Irina Zolotova (also 355)
  79. United Kingdom Margaret Miles-Bramwell (also 327 and 356)
  80. Marika Sherwood pic
  81. Susan Iversen pic
  82. Gwen Watkins ibox and pic
  83. Charlotte Raven add fair use pic
  84. Hazel Walford Davies (already present on cywiki) Deb (talk) 09:01, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
  85. Barbara Maxwell (producer) add fair use pic
  86. Germany Sabine Wienker-Piepho translated from German
  87. Sweden Lea Gleitman translated from Swedish

Outcomes (media)


Did You Know features


  • ... that Annie Stainer "would appear to fly, by delicately and continuously undulating her arms as if they were remarkable wings" during her solo shows? (2026-03-15)
  • ... that Paulina Tamayo, despite releasing fifteen albums, preferred direct contact with the public to a prolific discography? (2026-01-20)
  • ... that activist Gerlin Bean co-founded the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent in 1978, an event described as "a watershed in the history of Black women's rights activism"? (2022-07-19)



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