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Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the breast, usually in the inner lining of the milk ducts or lobules. There are different types of breast cancer, with different stages (spread), aggressiveness, and genetic makeup. Survival varies greatly depending on those factors; with best treatment, 10...
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Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (French pronunciation: [bʁi.ʒit baʁ.do]; born 28 September 1934) is a French animal rights activist and a former actress, fashion model and singer.
In her early life Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer. She started her...
Date of birth:
- Sep 28, 1934 (age 75 years)
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours...
Date of birth:
- May 28, 1968 (age 41 years)
Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE (born 26 September 1948 in Cambridge, United Kingdom) is a British-born, Australian-raised singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100...
Date of birth:
- Sep 26, 1948 (age 61 years)
Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.
Etheridge was born in Leavenworth, Kansas. She attended Berklee College of Music in Boston for three semesters in 1979 and 1980 and was friends with fellow...
Date of birth:
- May 29, 1961 (age 48 years)
Marianne Faithfull
Marian Evelyn Faithfull, (born 29 December 1946) is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 29, 1946 (age 63 years)
Carly Simon
Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a...
Date of birth:
- Jun 25, 1945 (age 64 years)
Julie Harris
Julie Harris (born December 2, 1925) is an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards and three Emmy Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. She also...
Date of birth:
- Dec 2, 1925 (age 84 years)
Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Bundy on the Fox Broadcasting Company sitcom Married... with Children. She has since established a film and television career, with major roles...
Date of birth:
- Nov 25, 1971 (age 38 years)
Janet Napolitano
Janet Ann Napolitano (born November 29, 1957) is the third United States Secretary of Homeland Security. She assumed the job on January 21, 2009, and is the first woman to serve in that office. An American politician from the Democratic Party,...
Date of birth:
- Nov 29, 1957 (age 52 years)
Kate Jackson
Kate Jackson (born October 29, 1948) is an American actress, director, and producer. She is a three-time Emmy Award nominee, twice in the Best Actress category and once in the Best Supporting Actress category. She has also been nominated for several...
Date of birth:
- Oct 29, 1948 (age 61 years)
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist.
Rising to national prominence as a feminist leader in 1969, Steinem was a columnist at New York magazine in the 1960s and broke ground...
Date of birth:
- Mar 25, 1934 (age 75 years)
Peggy Fleming
Peggy Gail Fleming (born July 27, 1948) is an American figure skater who won an Olympic gold medal in 1968 and has been a television commentator on figure skating for over 20 years, including several Winter Olympic Games.
Fleming was born in San...
Date of birth:
- Jul 27, 1948 (age 61 years)
Dorothy Hamill
Dorothy Stuart Hamill (born July 26, 1956) is an American figure skater. She is the 1976 Olympic champion.
Hamill was born in Chicago to Chalmers and Carol Hamill. Shortly after her birth, her family moved to the Riverside neighborhood of Greenwich,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 26, 1956 (age 53 years)
Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Anania Edwards (born Mary Elizabeth Anania on July 3, 1949, in Jacksonville, Florida) is an attorney and the wife of John Edwards, a former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who was the 2004 United States Democratic vice-presidential...
Date of birth:
- Jul 3, 1949 (age 60 years)
Claire Rayner
Claire Berenice Rayner OBE (née Berk; born 22 January 1931) is an English journalist best known for her role for many years as an agony aunt.
She remains a Vice-President of the British Humanist Association, a Distinguished Supporter of the Humanist...
Date of birth:
- Jan 22, 1931 (age 78 years)
Linda Tripp
Linda Tripp (born Linda Rose Carotenuto on November 24, 1949 in Jersey City, New Jersey) was a central figure in the Lewinsky scandal of 1998 and 1999 that led to the impeachment and subsequent acquittal of U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Tripp...
Date of birth:
- Nov 24, 1949 (age 60 years)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (May 2, 1950 – April 12, 2009) was an American theorist in the fields of gender studies, queer theory (queer studies), and critical theory. Her works reflect a serious and abiding interest in a wide range of issues and topics,...
Date of birth:
- May 2, 1950
Date of death:
- Apr 12, 2009 (age 58 years)
Shelley Morrison
Shelley Morrison (born October 26, 1936) is an American actress. Early in her career, she was sometimes credited as Rachel Domínguez. Morrison has been a theater and television actress since the early 1960s, predominantly as a character actress in...
Date of birth:
- Oct 26, 1936 (age 73 years)
Sheila Hancock
Sheila Cameron Hancock OBE (born 22 February 1933) is an English actress, known primarily for her comic performances.
Hancock was born in Blackgang on the Isle of Wight, the daughter of Ivy Louise (née Woodward) and Enrico Cameron Hancock, who was a...
Date of birth:
- Feb 22, 1933 (age 76 years)
Trisha Goddard
Patricia "Trisha" Goddard (born 23 December 1957) is an English television presenter well known for her morning talk show Trisha Goddard, which was broadcast on a mid morning slot on Channel Five in the UK. In Australia she is known as a long time...
Date of birth:
- Dec 23, 1957 (age 52 years)
Jerri Nielsen
Dr. Jerri Lin Nielsen (nee Cahill; March 1, 1952 – June 23, 2009) was an American physician with extensive ER experience, who in 1998 was hired to spend a year at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, as the station's only doctor.
During the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 1, 1952
Date of death:
- Jun 23, 2009 (age 57 years)
Raelene Boyle
Raelene Ann Boyle, AM, MBE, (born 24 June 1951), Australian athlete, represented Australia at three Olympic Games as a sprinter, winning three silver medals. In 1998, Boyle was named one of 100 National Living Treasures by the National Trust of...
Date of birth:
- Jun 24, 1951 (age 58 years)
Kitten Natividad
Kitten Natividad (born Francesca Isabel Natividad on February 14, 1948) is a Mexican American film actress and exotic dancer, noted for her 44-inch chest and appearances in cult films by her ex-partner, director Russ Meyer.
Natividad was born in...
Date of birth:
- Feb 14, 1948 (age 61 years)
Jane Hamsher
Jane Hamsher (born July 25, 1959) is an American film producer, author, and blogger best known as the author of Killer Instinct, a memoir about co-producing the 1994 movie Natural Born Killers with Don Murphy and others, and as the founder and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 25, 1959 (age 50 years)
Amanda Mealing
Amanda Jane Mealing (born 22 April 1967) is an English actress best known for playing Connie Beauchamp in the BBC One medical drama series Holby City.
The only adopted member of her family, Mealing was the youngest of four children, with two sisters...
Date of birth:
- Apr 22, 1967 (age 42 years)
Nancy Priddy
Nancy Lee Priddy is an American actress and singer-songwriter. As an actress, she appeared on many notable television series, including Bewitched, The Waltons, and Matlock.
Priddy was born in South Bend, Indiana, to Carl Priddy and Katherine Iona...
Anastacia
Anastacia (born Anastacia Lyn Newkirk on September 17, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. Anastacia has been highly successful in Europe, Asia, Oceania, South Africa, and South America, but has not had as much success in her native United...
Date of birth:
- Sep 17, 1968 (age 41 years)
Gerry Rogers
Gerry Rogers (born 1964) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. She began her career with the National Film Board, and left in 1992 to form her own production company, Augusta Productions. Her best-known film, My Left Breast, documented her battle...
Date of birth:
- 1964 (age 46 years)
Masumi Miyazaki
Masumi Miyazaki (宮崎 萬純 or 宮崎ますみ, Miyazaki Masumi) is an actress and model born on 1968-01-26 in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. She graduated from the private Horikoshi High School, and made her film debut in the 1983 release Aiko 16-sai, and was...
Date of birth:
- 1955 (age 55 years)
Rita Reys
Rita Reys (born Maria Everdina Reijs 21 December 1924 in Rotterdam) is a jazz singer from the Netherlands.
Rita Reys, since 1960 officially 'Europe’s first lady of jazz', has been a professional performer for more than six decades.
Maria Everdina...
Date of birth:
- Dec 21, 1924 (age 85 years)
Carol Bartz
Carol Ann Bartz (born August 29, 1948) is the President and CEO of Yahoo!, the internet services company which operates the second most visited website in the world. She was previously Chairman, President, and CEO at Autodesk, the world's largest...
Date of birth:
- Aug 29, 1948 (age 61 years)
Sandy McCain Morgan
Jean Alexandra "Sandy" McCain Morgan (born 1934) is the older sister of John McCain. She attended the St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Virginia. She graduated from Pembroke College in 1956, with an A.B. in American Civilization.
She married Charles...
Date of birth:
- 1934 (age 76 years)
Margaret Foster
Margaret Mary Anne Foster, MNZM is a New Zealand netball coach and former Silver Ferns player. Foster played seven international matches from 1994–2001. She played domestic netball in the National Bank Cup for the Canterbury Flames, playing in 1998,...
