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Ovarian Cancer Survivors
- Raelene Boyle, Australian athlete
- Carol Channing, actress/entertainer
- Rosa DeLauro, U.S. Congresswoman
- Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945
- Maggie Kleinhenn, former Indianapolis 500 Festival Princess, diagnosed at age 20
- Dennie Hughes, USA WEEKEND Magazine's contributing editor and Relation Tips writer; award-winning
columnist
Ovarian Cancer Deaths
- Evelyn Ankers, actress (died at age 67)
- Laurie Beechman, actress/singer (died at age 43)
- Marcheline Bertrand, actress and mother of Angelina Jolie (died on January 27, 2007 at age 56)
- Clare Boylan, Irish writer (died at age 58)
- Jill Chaifetz, American lawyer and children's right advocate (died at age 41)
- Caitlin Clarke, actress (died at age 52)
- Helen Cresswell, British writer and author (died at age 71)
- Dixie Lee Crosby - singer and actress; Bing Crosby's 1st wife; died at age 40
- Mildred Dean, mother of American actor James Dean; she died when Dean was 9 years old
- Sandy Dennis, Oscar-winning actress (died at age 54) Died 3/2/92. Born 4/27/37
- Diana Dors, actress, also known as Diana d'Ors (died at age 52)
- Gay Delanghe, modern-dance choreographer and performer
- Robert Eads, American female to male transsexual who was refused medical treatment for the cancer in the
state of Georgia (died at age 53)
- Susan Fleetwood, British actress (died at age 51)
- Rosalind Franklin, British physical chemist and crystallographer (died at age 37)
- Margot Fonteyn (1919 - 1991) was one of the greatest ballerinas
- Ella Grasso, former Connecticut governor, and the first woman ever to be elected governor in her own right
(died at age 61)
- Lynda Gibson (comedian)
- Cassandra Harris, Australian actress/wife of Pierce Brosnan (died at age 43)
- Dolly Haas, actress/singer; wife of Al Hirschfeld (died at age 84)
- Joan Hackett, actress (died at age 49) Died 10/8/83. Born 3/1/33
- Madeline Kahn, actress, singer and comedienne (died at age 57) Died 12/3/99. Born 9/29/42
- Coretta Scott King, wife of civil rights activist Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (died 1/30/06 at age 78)
- Shari Lewis, puppeteer / Lamb Chops; Died 8/2/98. Born 1/17/33
- Janet Margolin, actress (died at age 50)
- Mary I of England, Mary Tudor; British Queen Mary I (died either of uterine cancer or ovarian cancer at
the age of 42)
- Camille Monet - Model
- Mary Millar, British actress, most famous as "Rose" from Keeping Up Appearances (died at age 62)
- Helen Simpson Morosini, Mother of Dana Reeve, who was wife of Christopher Reeve (died at age 71)
- Anais Nin (author) Died 1/14/77. Born 2/21/03
- Laura Nyro, singer (died at age 49; her own mother, Gilda Nigro, also died of ovarian cancer and at
the same age as Nyro) Died 4/8/97. Born 10/18/47
- Alice Pearce, actress (died at age 48)
- Gilda Radner, actress/comedienne/Saturday Night Live alumna (died at age 42) Died 5/20/89. Born
6/28/46.
- Patsy Ramsey, mother of the late JonBenet Ramsey (died at age 49)
- Katharine Clark Reilly (Actress)
- Janet Sandell, South African social activist (died at age 70)
- Dinah Shore, actress/singer (died at age 77)
- Linda Smith, comedienne, actress; head of the British Humanists' Association (died at age 48)
- Jessica Tandy, actress; died at age 85; Died 9/11/94. Born 6/7/09
- Elizabeth Tilberis, Harper's Bazaar Editor-in-Chief (died at age 51) Died 4/20/99. Born 10/27/47
- Jackie Walters, sister of Barbara Walters
- Loretta Young, Oscar-winning actress (died at age 87) Died 8/12/90. Born 1/6/13
- The grandmother and great-grandmother of Eva Larue, star of the hit television series CSI Miami and
formerly of All My Children
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