Julia Clark
Julia Clark (1880-June 17 1912) was the third woman to receive a pilot's license (on May 19, 1912) from the Aero Club of America, and the first American female and the first female pilot to die in an air crash.
Julia was born in London, and emigrated to the U.S., became a citizen, married a westerner, and settled in Denver. Clark enrolled at the Curtiss Flying School at North Island in San Diego, and, like Scott, soloed in a Curtiss plane and then joined an exhibition team.
On June 17, 1912, she decided to make a test flight around dusk. Visibility was poor, and, on takeoff, one wing struck a tree limb, and the plane, a Curtiss pusher, tumbled to the ground, pinning her beneath the wreckage. She was the first American woman to die in an air accident, her death preceding that of Harriet Quimby by two weeks.