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Ovarian cancer is a cancerous growth arising from different parts of the ovary.
The most common form of ovarian cancer (≥80%) arises from the outer lining (epithelium) of the ovary.. However, recent evidence shows cells that line the Fallopian tube (epithelium) also to be prone to develop into the...
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Caitlin Clarke
Caitlin Clarke (May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004) was an American theater and film actress best known for her role as "Valerian" in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998-1999 Broadway musical Titanic....
Date of birth:
- May 3, 1952
Date of death:
- Sep 9, 2004 (age 52 years)
Jessica Tandy
Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was an English stage and film actress.
She first appeared on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, playing, among others, Katherine opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V, and Cordelia...
Date of birth:
- Jun 7, 1909
Date of death:
- Sep 11, 1994 (age 85 years)
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British biophysicist, physicist, chemist, biologist and X-ray crystallographer who made contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 25, 1920
Date of death:
- Apr 16, 1958 (age 37 years)
Gilda Radner
Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedienne and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award. Radner's death...
Date of birth:
- Jun 28, 1946
Date of death:
- May 20, 1989 (age 42 years)
Loretta Young
Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress.
She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah as Gretchen Young, of Luxembourgian descent. At confirmation, she took the name Michaela. She and her family moved to Hollywood when she...
Date of birth:
- Jan 6, 1913
Date of death:
- Aug 12, 2000 (age 87 years)
Marcheline Bertrand
Marcia Lynne "Marcheline" Bertrand (May 9, 1950 – January 27, 2007) was an American actress.
Bertrand was born in Riverdale, Illinois, the daughter of Lois June (née Gouwens) and Rolland F. Bertrand. She had a brother, Raleigh Bertrand, and a sister...
Date of birth:
- May 9, 1950
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 2007 (age 56 years)
Linda Smith
Linda Helen Smith (29 January 1958 – 27 February 2006) was an English stand-up comic and comedy writer. She was a regular Radio 4 panellist, being voted "Wittiest Living Person" by listeners in 2002. She met her partner, Warren Lakin, at university,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 29, 1958
Date of death:
- Feb 27, 2006 (age 48 years)
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
Mrs. King...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1927
Date of death:
- Jan 30, 2006 (age 78 years)
Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality. She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s.
After failing singing auditions for the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 29, 1916
Date of death:
- Feb 24, 1994 (age 78 years)
Madeline Kahn
Madeline Kahn (September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress, known primarily for her comedic roles. Director Mel Brooks — who directed her in four films — said of her: "She is one of the most talented people that ever lived. I mean...
Date of birth:
- Sep 29, 1942
Date of death:
- Dec 3, 1999 (age 57 years)
Helen Cresswell
Helen Cresswell (11 July 1934, Kirkby in Ashfield - 26 September 2005, Eakring, Nottinghamshire) was an English author of over 120 books for children including A Gift from Winklesea, the Lizzie Dripping series, and The Bagthorpe Saga. She also...
Date of birth:
- Jul 11, 1934
Date of death:
- Sep 26, 2005 (age 71 years)
Claudia Cohen
Claudia Lynn Cohen (December 16, 1950 – June 15, 2007) was an American gossip columnist, socialite and television reporter.
The daughter of businessman Robert Cohen, the president of the Hudson County News Company, a magazine wholesaler, and his...
Date of birth:
- Dec 16, 1950
Date of death:
- Jun 15, 2007 (age 56 years)
Ella T. Grasso
Ella Grasso (May 10, 1919 – February 5, 1981), born Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, was an American politician, and first woman elected governor of Connecticut.
Grasso was born in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, to Italian immigrant parents. Contrary to...
Date of birth:
- May 10, 1919
Date of death:
- Feb 5, 1981 (age 61 years)
Alice Pearce
Alicia “Alice” Pearce (October 16, 1917 – March 3, 1966) was an American actress. Brought to Hollywood by Gene Kelly to reprise her Broadway performance in the film version of On the Town (1949), Pearce played comedic supporting roles in several...
Date of birth:
- Oct 16, 1917
Date of death:
- Mar 3, 1966 (age 48 years)
Diana Dors
Diana Dors (23 October 1931 – 4 May 1984) was an English actress and sex symbol. She was born Diana Mary Fluck in Swindon, England and was educated at Colville House in Swindon. She was considered the English equivalent of the blonde bombshells of...
Date of birth:
- Oct 23, 1931
Date of death:
- May 4, 1984 (age 52 years)
Loret Miller Ruppe
Loret Miller Ruppe (1936–1996) was a Director of the Peace Corps and US Ambassador to Norway. She was the wife of U. S. Congressman Philip Ruppe of Michigan.
Ruppe was born January 3, 1936 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her great-grandfather, Frederick...
Date of birth:
- 1936
Date of death:
- 1996 (age 60 years)
Sandy Dennis
Sandra Dale “Sandy” Dennis (April 27, 1937 – March 2, 1992) was an American theater and film actress.
Dennis was born in Hastings, Nebraska, the daughter of Yvonne, a secretary, and Jack Dennis, a postal clerk. She had a brother, Frank. A high...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1937
Date of death:
- Mar 2, 1992 (age 54 years)
Joan Hackett
Joan Hackett (March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983) was an American actress who appeared on stage, in films, and on television.
Born in New York City of Irish and Italian extraction, her immigrant parents raised her Roman Catholic and sent her to...
Date of birth:
- Mar 1, 1934
Date of death:
- Oct 8, 1983 (age 49 years)
Cassandra Harris
Cassandra Harris (15 December 1948 – 28 December 1991) was an Australian actress.
Born Sandra Colleen Waites in Sydney, Australia, Cassandra Harris was a student at the NIDA. She enrolled in 1961, aged 12, under the name Sandra Gleeson. She went on...
Date of birth:
- Dec 15, 1948
Date of death:
- Dec 28, 1991 (age 43 years)
Debbie Goad
Debra "Debbie" Goad (b. February 13, 1954 - d. July 20, 2000 ) was assistant editor of the magazine ANSWER Me!.
She was born as Debra Susan Rosalie in Brooklyn, New York. Her husband, Jim Goad, was the magazine's primary writer and editor. She also...
Date of birth:
- Feb 13, 1954
Date of death:
- Jul 20, 2000 (age 46 years)
Mary Millar
Mary Millar (26 July 1936 – 10 November 1998) was a British actress best remembered for her role as Rose in BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. She was born Mary Wetton in Doncaster, Yorkshire
Millar began her career in 1962 in Lock Up Your Daughters...
Date of birth:
- Jul 26, 1936
Date of death:
- Nov 10, 1998 (age 62 years)
Robert Eads
Robert Eads (18 December 1945 - 17 January 1999 in Toccoa, Georgia) was an American transsexual man, whose life and death was the subject of the award-winning documentary Southern Comfort.
Eads began his transition past his forties, after a marriage...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1945
Date of death:
- Jan 17, 1999 (age 53 years)
Jeannie Ferris
Jeannie Margaret Ferris (14 March 1941 – 2 April 2007) was an Australian politician, lobbyist, journalist, and Liberal Senator for South Australia. She was educated at Monash University, where she graduated in agricultural economics.
Ferris was born...
Date of birth:
- Mar 14, 1941
Date of death:
- Apr 2, 2007 (age 66 years)
Patsy Ramsey
Patricia Ann "Patsy" Ramsey (née Paugh) (December 29, 1956 — June 24, 2006), was the mother of JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old American beauty pageant contestant who was murdered on December 25, 1996.
Ramsey was born in Gilbert, West Virginia to...
Date of birth:
- Dec 29, 1956
Date of death:
- Jun 24, 2006 (age 49 years)
Susan Fleetwood
Susan Maureen Fleetwood (21 September 1944 in St. Andrews, Scotland – 29 September 1995 in Salisbury, England) was a leading British classical actress and star of the BBC television series Chandler & Co.
Fleetwood was born in St. Andrews, Scotland,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1944
Date of death:
- Sep 29, 1995 (age 51 years)
Laurie Beechman
Laurie Hope Beechman (April 14, 1953 – March 8, 1998) was an American singer. As a performer, she was known for her Broadway performances in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cats, and Les Misérables. In addition to her Broadway work,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 14, 1953
Date of death:
- Mar 8, 1998 (age 44 years)
Elizabeth Tilberis
Elizabeth Tilberis, (b 1947 – d 1999) born Elizabeth Jane Kelly, known professionally throughout her career as Liz Tilberis, was a British fashion magazine editor of Manx and English ancestry.
She was the editor of the British version of Vogue...
Date of birth:
- 1947
Date of death:
- 1999 (age 52 years)
Dixie Lee
Dixie Lee (November 4, 1911 – November 1, 1952) was an American actress, dancer, and singer.
Reviews and publicity for Dixie's budding film work were favorable but, according to her son Gary, she couldn't sufficiently overcome her shyness and...
Date of birth:
- Nov 4, 1911
Date of death:
- Nov 1, 1952 (age 41 years)
Janet Margolin
Janet Margolin (July 25, 1943 – December 17, 1993) was an American theater, television and film actress.
Margolin was born in New York City, the daughter of Benjamin Margolin, an accountant who was born in Russia and was founder and president of the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 25, 1943
Date of death:
- Dec 17, 1993 (age 50 years)
Eileen Barton
Eileen Barton (November 24, 1924 – June 27, 2006) was an American singer best known for her apostrophic 1950 hit song, "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake."
She was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her birthdate is often given as 1929, but a...
Date of birth:
- Nov 24, 1924
Date of death:
- Jun 27, 2006 (age 81 years)
Evelyn Ankers
Evelyn Ankers (17 August 1918 – 29 August 1985) was a British actress born in Chile. She often played variations on the role of the cultured young leading lady in many American horror films during the 1940s, most notably The Wolf Man (1941) at age...
Date of birth:
- Aug 17, 1918
Date of death:
- Aug 29, 1985 (age 67 years)
Jill Chaifetz
Jill Chaifetz (July 24, 1964 — February 2, 2006) was an American lawyer and children's rights advocate.
Chaifetz grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1986. She earned a law degree from the New York...
Date of birth:
- Jul 24, 1964
Date of death:
- Feb 2, 2006 (age 41 years)
Joyce Hatto
Joyce Hatto (5 September 1928, London, England – 29 June 2006, Cambridge, England) was a British pianist and piano teacher. She became famous late in life, when unauthorized copies of commercial recordings made by other pianists were released under...
Date of birth:
- Sep 5, 1928
Date of death:
- Jun 29, 2006 (age 77 years)
Clare Boylan
Clare Boylan (21 April 1948 – 16 May 2006) was an Irish author, journalist and critic for newspapers, magazines and many international broadcast media.
She was born in Dublin, and began her career as a journalist at the (now defunct) Irish Press. In...
Date of birth:
- Apr 21, 1948
Date of death:
- May 16, 2006 (age 58 years)
Jolie Christine Rickman
Jolie Christine Rickman (July 09, 1970 – January 19, 2005) was an American feminist, humanitarian, and social activist born in Chicago, Illinois. As a musician, she released three full-length recordings independently and was renowned for performing...
Date of birth:
- Jul 9, 1970
Date of death:
- Jan 19, 2005 (age 34 years)
Marjorie Gross
Marjorie Gross (April 18, 1956–June 7, 1996) was a television writer and producer. She wrote for such shows as Newhart, The Larry Sanders Show, Square Pegs and Seinfeld.
She may be best-known for writing many episodes of Seinfeld, including "The...
Date of birth:
- Apr 18, 1956
Date of death:
- Jun 7, 1996 (age 40 years)
Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro (born Laura Nigro) (October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American composer, lyricist, singer, and pianist. Her style was a hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, show tunes and rock.
She was best...
Date of birth:
- Oct 18, 1947
Date of death:
- Apr 8, 1997 (age 49 years)
Alma Cogan
Alma Cogan (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966) was an English singer of traditional pop music in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed "The Girl With the chuckle In Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. Throughout the...
Date of birth:
- May 19, 1932
Date of death:
- Oct 26, 1966 (age 34 years)
Barbara Ansell
Barbara Mary Ansell CBE, FRCP, FRCS (30 August 1923, Warwick, Warwickshire, England – 14 September 2001) was the world-renowned UK founder of paediatric rheumatology.
Educated at King's High School for Girls in Warwick, Barbara Mary Ansell qualified...
Date of birth:
- Aug 30, 1923
Date of death:
- Sep 14, 2001 (age 78 years)
Lovette George
Lovette George (b. circa 1962 - d. September 6, 2006) was an actress and singer in Broadway, off-Broadway and regional productions.
Shows included Uptown... It's Hot! (1986), Carousel (revival) (1994), Marie Christine (1999) and The Musical of...
Date of birth:
- 1962
Date of death:
- Sep 6, 2006 (age 44 years)
Julie Parrish
Julie Parrish (October 21, 1940, Middlesboro, Kentucky – October 1, 2003, Los Angeles, California) was an American film, stage and television actress.
Born as Ruby Joyce Wilbar in Middlesboro, Kentucky, as the oldest of six children of William...
Date of birth:
- Oct 21, 1940
Date of death:
- Oct 1, 2003 (age 62 years)
Anita Morris
Anita Rose Morris (March 14, 1943 – March 2, 1994) was an American actress.
Among many roles, Morris's most prominent film role was as Carol Dodsworth, the mistress to Danny DeVito, in Ruthless People and for her sensual performance as Carla in the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 14, 1943
Date of death:
- Mar 2, 1994 (age 51 years)
Carol Bly
Carol Bly (April 16 1930 – December 21 2007) was a teacher and an award-winning American author of short stories, essays, and nonfiction works on writing. Her work often featured Minnesota women who must identify the moral crisis that is facing...
Date of birth:
- Apr 16, 1930
Date of death:
- Dec 21, 2007 (age 77 years)
Sharon Tyler Herbst
Sharon K. Herbst (b. November 26, 1942 – d. January 26, 2007) was an American cookbook and culinary books author.
Born as Sharon Tyler in Chicago, she was raised in Denver, Colorado. She may have been best-known for her fourth book, the culinary...
Date of birth:
- Nov 26, 1942
Date of death:
- Jan 26, 2007 (age 64 years)
Miriam Mone
Miriam Mone (February 20, 1965 – February 22, 2007) was an Irish fashion designer.
Mone was from County Armagh in Northern Ireland. At an early age, she became determined to pursue a career in fashion. She was accepted into Foundation Art at Preston...
Date of birth:
- Feb 20, 1965
Date of death:
- Feb 22, 2007 (age 42 years)
Mari Yonehara
Mari Yonehara (米原万里, Yonehara Mari, 29 April 1950 – 25 May 2006) was a Japanese translator, essayist, non-fiction writer, novelist and simultaneous interpreter between Russian and Japanese, best-known in Japan for simultaneous interpretation in...
Date of birth:
- 1950
Date of death:
- 2006 (age 56 years)
Dawn O'Donnell
Dawn O'Donnell (died 10 June 2007), was a prominent Sydney lesbian, lesbian and gay rights campaigner, and entrepreneur. She is often credited with starting the gay and lesbian club scene in Sydney's Oxford Street and Newtown.
Born circa 1928 in the...
Date of birth:
- 1928
Date of death:
- Jun 10, 2007 (age 79 years)
Tina Brozman
Tina L. Brozman (October 7, 1952 - June 26, 2007) was a former chief judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and co-leader of Bingham McCutchen’s financial restructuring group. Brozman retired from the bench...
Date of birth:
- Oct 7, 1952
Date of death:
- Jun 26, 2007 (age 54 years)
Veronica Castang
Veronica Castang (April 22, 1938—November 5, 1988) was a British film, stage and television actress.
A native of London, she studied at the Sorbonne and at Questor's Theater in London. In the United States, she appeared onstage on Broadway and Off...
Date of birth:
- Apr 22, 1938
Date of death:
- Nov 5, 1988 (age 50 years)
Fakhriya Abdel Karim
Fakhriya Abdel Karim (born 1934/1935, Al Kut - died 1998, Sweden) was a prominent Iraqi actress and activist.
Known professionally as Zainab, she became an actress in the early 1950s when the Iraqi film industry was just emerging. She later starred...
Date of death:
- 1998
Shizuko Kasagi
Shizuko Kasagi (August 25, 1914, Ōkawa District, Kagawa, Japan - March 30, 1985) was a popular Japanese jazz singer and actress.
Before World War II, Shizuko was one of the stars of the Japan Girls Opera Company. Following the war and during the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 25, 1914
Date of death:
- Mar 30, 1985 (age 70 years)
Dianne Heatherington
Dianne Mae Heatherington (b. May 14, 1948, Fort Rouge, Winnipeg - died October 22, 1996, Toronto) was a Canadian singer of several genres, particularly rock, whose musical career spanned nearly two decades. In the latter part of her career, she...
Date of birth:
- May 14, 1948
Date of death:
- Oct 22, 1996 (age 48 years)
Ann Dunham
Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995), the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was an American anthropologist who specialized in economic anthropology and rural development. Dunham was nicknamed Anna,...
Date of birth:
- Nov 29, 1942
Date of death:
- Nov 7, 1995 (age 52 years)
Ursula Nordstrom
Ursula Nordstrom (1910 - 1988) was publisher and editor in chief of juvenile books at Harper & Row from 1940 to 1973. She also authored the 1972 children's book The Secret Language. A collection of her correspondence was published in 1998, as Dear...
Date of birth:
- 1910
Date of death:
- 1988 (age 78 years)
Meryl O'Loughlin
Meryl Abeles O'Loughlin (b. June 8, 1933, Chicago, Illinois – d. February 27, 2007, Santa Monica, California) was an American television and film casting agent and casting director.
She held positions as casting supervisor, executive-in-charge of...
Date of birth:
- Jun 8, 1933
Date of death:
- Feb 27, 2007 (age 73 years)
Lou Halsell Rodenberger
Molcie Lou Halsell Rodenberger (September 21, 1926 – April 9, 2009) was a Texas author, educator, professor, and journalist.
Rodenberger was born in the rural Eastland County, Texas, community of Okra (named for the vegetable, the okra) to educators...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1926
Date of death:
- Apr 9, 2009 (age 82 years)
Doris Dungey
Doris J. Dungey (c. 1961 – November 30, 2008) was an American blogger who wrote extensively about the United States housing bubble for the blog Calculated Risk under the pseudonym Tanta.
Born in Oxnard, California and raised in Bloomington-Normal,...
Date of birth:
- 1961
Date of death:
- Nov 30, 2008 (age 47 years)
Grace Keagy
Grace Keagy (December 16, 1921 - October 4, 2009) Was an American actress who is chiefly known for her work on the stage in character roles. She is best known for her Drama Desk Award nominated performance as "Rosa" in the original 1979 production...
Date of death:
- Oct 4, 2009
Glenda Adams
Glenda Emilie Adams (née Felton) (30 December 1939 – 11 July 2007) was an Australian novelist and short story writer, probably best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral. She was also a teacher of creative writing...
Date of birth:
- Dec 30, 1939
Date of death:
- Jul 11, 2007 (age 67 years)
