1738) Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (born Margaret Macdonald, 1864 – 1933). British artist who worked in Scotland, and whose design work became one of the defining features of the Glasgow Style during the 1890s to 1900s.

In 1890, along with her sister Frances, she enrolled as day students at the Glasgow School of Art studying courses in design. There, she worked with a variety of media, including metalwork, embroidery, and textiles. 

Margaret began collaborating with her sister and in 1896 the pair worked from their studio in Glasgow, where they produced book illustrations, embroidery, gesso panels, leaded glass and repoussé metalwork. Their innovative work was inspired by Celtic imagery, literature, symbolism, and folklore. Margaret later collaborated with her husband, the architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, whom she married on 22 August 1900. Her most well-known works are the gesso panels made for interiors designed with Charles, such as tearooms and private residences.

 

- "The artist Margaret Macdonald, the architect’s wife, is in the drawing room, putting the finishing touches to the gesso panel above the fireplace; her red hair is pinned up beneath a hat..." https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/we-must-save-this-house

 

- "Margaret Macdonald, tall and freckled, with copper red hair, would have an enormous influence on Mackintosh's work." https://www.stanleymeisler.com/article/ahead-of-the-curve-the-art-of-charles-rennie-mackintosh 

 

1737) Ruth Judd

Ruth Judd (1905 – 1998, born Winifred Ruth McKinnell).  American medical secretary in Phoenix, Arizona, who was accused of murdering her friends, Anne LeRoi and Hedvig “Sammy” Samuelson, in October 1931. The murders were discovered when Judd transported the victims' bodies, one of which had been dismembered, from Phoenix to Los Angeles, California, by train in trunks and other luggage, causing the press to name the case the "Trunk Murders". Judd allegedly committed the murders after a jealousy-based argument about Jack Halloran, a prominent Phoenix businessman.

Judd was tried for LeRoi's murder, found guilty, and sentenced to death. However, the sentence was later repealed after she was found mentally incompetent, and she was committed to the Arizona State Asylum for the Insane. Over the next three decades, Judd escaped from the asylum six times; after her final escape during the 1960s, she remained at large for over six years and worked under an assumed name for a wealthy family. She was ultimately paroled in 1971 and discharged from parole in 1983.

Judd's murder investigation and trial were marked by sensationalized newspaper coverage and suspicious circumstances suggesting that at least one other person might have been involved in the crimes. 

- "Even among the scandalous crimes of 1930s Los Angeles, the saga of Judd--a tiny, sweet-faced young woman with red hair and enigmatic blue eyes..."   https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-13-me-12329-story.html 

- "She had copper-colored hair and large, curiously pale blue eyes.” https://www.major-smolinski.com/ONEKIND/RUTHJUDDX.html