ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

American, born on November 11, 1884.

Wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

She was a diplomat, a politician and a feminist activist next to her husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She played a decisive role in the creation of the Organisation of the United Nations and contributed to the writing of the Universal Declaration of human rights (1948).

She said: ' The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now'.