SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Nelly Diener

1912 - 1934

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Nelly Hedwig Diener (5 February 1912 – 27 July 1934) was a Swiss flight attendant. She was the first female flight attendant in Europe. Diener started flying for Swissair on 1 May 1934 and became known as the Engel der Lüfte ("Angel of the Skies"). She died in the 1934 Swissair Tuttlingen accident, along with the other two crew members and nine passengers. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nelly Diener is the 478th most popular social activist (up from 488th in 2019). (up from 3,888th in 2019)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Nelly Diener ranks 478 out of 840. Before her are Rajendra K. Pachauri, Donald Watson, Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Sugathakumari, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Dewi Sartika. After her are Tarana Burke, Entisar Elsaeed, Lev Chernyi, Helene Stöcker, Gabrielle Petit, and Osvaldo Hurtado.

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Among people born in 1912, Nelly Diener ranks 270. Before her are Francisco Cabañas, Tadashi Imai, Maguba Syrtlanova, Mary McCarthy, Miklós Szabados, and Willibald Schmaus. After her are Ellen Preis, George Devol, Anton Buttigieg, Maksim Tank, Wálter Guevara, and Martha Mödl. Among people deceased in 1934, Nelly Diener ranks 123. Before her are Jafar Jabbarly, Heinz Prüfer, Surya Sen, Hulda Garborg, Aristarkh Belopolsky, and Pretty Boy Floyd. After her are Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso, Sergey Oldenburg, Oskar von Miller, E. A. Wallis Budge, Toros Toramanian, and Blind Blake.

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