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Margaret Brown
Margaret Brown, posthumously known as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown", was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a survivor of the RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912, and she unsuccessfully urged the crew in Lifeboat No. 6 to return to the debris field to look for survivors.
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entertainment · American Titanic survivor (1867–1932) · philanthropist · actor · socialite · suffragist · also Margaret Brown, Molly Brown, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Margaret Tobin, Molly Tobin, Margaret Tobin Brown
Born 18 July 1867 · Died 26 October 1932 · Q229631
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2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Margaret Brown Gallery records
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2024· 1 entry
The Molly Brown Birthplace was moved to Main Street in Hannibal, across the street from the Mark Twain boyhood home
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded Colorado Women's Hall of Fame (1985).
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Brown was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
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1965· 1 entry
Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young named their Gemini spacecraft Molly Brown in her honor
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1960· 1 entry
The Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown opened at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City with music by Meredith Willson and book by Richard Morris
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1932· 4 entries
Died 1932-10-26.
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At age 65, in New York City's Barbizon Hotel
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1932).
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Brown was called "Molly Brown" and "The Unsinkable Mrs
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1914· 2 entries
Six years before the Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote, Brown ran for Colorado's U
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Contributed to miners and their families after the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and she helped organize the International Women's Rights conference that year, which was held in Newport, Rhode Island
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1912· 1 entry
And she unsuccessfully urged the crew in Lifeboat No
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1897· 1 entry
Built a summer house, Avoca Lodge, in Southwest Denver near Bear Creek, which gave the family more social opportunities
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1894· 1 entry
The Browns bought a Victorian mansion, now known as the Molly Brown House, in Denver for US$30,000 (equivalent to $1,116,000 in 2025)
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1893· 1 entry
The Brown family acquired great wealth when J
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1867· 2 entries
Near the Mississippi River in Hannibal, Missouri, on Denkler's Alley
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Born 1867-07-18.
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