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This is a list of notable women, either famous themselves or closely associated with someone well known, who suffered maternal death as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO):

"the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes."

Note that this wording includes abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth, and ectopic pregnancy. Generally, there is a distinction between a direct maternal death that is the result of a complication of the pregnancy, delivery, or management of the two, and an indirect maternal death that is a pregnancy-related death in a woman with a pre-existing or newly developed health problem unrelated to pregnancy. Fatalities during but unrelated to a pregnancy are termed accidental, incidental, or non-obstetrical maternal deaths.

However, the WHO definition is only one of many; other definitions may include accidental and incidental causes. Cases with "incidental causes" include deaths secondary to violence against women that may be related to the pregnancy and be affected by the socioeconomic and cultural environment. Also, it has been reported [by whom?]that about 10% of maternal deaths may occur late, that is after 42 days after a termination or delivery; thus, some definitions extend the period of observation to one year after the end of gestation.

Women by country

Angola

Australia

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bohemia

Brazil

  • Ana Guilhermina Borges (1891), wife of Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
  • Francisca Chagas Pessoa (1895), first wife of Epitácio Pessoa
  • Maria de Lurdes da Silva (1971), first wife of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  • the biological mother of Maria Eliane Jesus Mascarenhas (1976)
  • Rony Kuhn de Souza (1979), first wife of Pedro Carlos of Orléans-Braganza and mother of Prince Pedro Thiago of Orléans-Braganza

Bulgaria

Burma

Byzantine Empire

Cambodia

Canada

China

Croatia

Czech

Denmark

East Timor

Egypt

Ethiopia

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

India

Indonesia

Ireland

Israel

  • Maria of Montferrat (1212), Queen of Jerusalem, died after giving birth to Isabella, also died in childbirth.
  • Isabella II of Jerusalem (1228), Holy Roman Empress, daughter of Maria of Montferrat, who died in childbirth.

Italy

Japan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

  • the mother of Sondre Mulongo Nystrøm (1994)
  • Maureen Wanza (2017), actress

Korea

Liberia

Madagascar

Mexico

Montenegro

Mozambique

  • Hermelinda Simela (2021), actress, producer and director

The Netherlands

Nepal

Nigeria

Norway

Ottoman Empire

Papua New Guinea

Persia

Peru

The Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Serbia

Singapore

Slovenia

South Africa

Spain

Sudan

Sweden

Switzerland

Thailand

Tunisia

United Kingdom

United States

Venezuela

Vietnam

Zambia

  • Mofya Chisenga (2011), Miss Zambia 2006

See also

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-11-12. Retrieved 2014-05-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Kumar, A (2014). "Monument of Love or Symbol of Maternal Death: The Story Behind the Taj Mahal". Case Reports in Women's Health. 1–2: 4–7. doi:10.1016/j.crwh.2014.07.001.
  3. ^ "TUGA DO NEBA: Umrla višestruka evropska šampionka u streljaštvu". mondo.rs (in Serbian). 21 June 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
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