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- Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
22: Already blinded because she suffered from [[diabetes]], she lost her [[leg]]s in [[1993]]...
24: ...1980' s hit "Ella , elle l' a" by French singer [[France Gall]].
33: *1955 ''[[Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues]]''
54: *1960 ''[[Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph]]''
103: ...79 ''[[A Perfect Match]]'' This Live Performance from the 1979 [[Montreux Jazz Festival]] is also ava... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
1: [[Image:aretha_franklin.jpg|thumb|200px|Aretha Franklin]]
2: ...itive [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the g...
6: ... jazz singer, the results never gave full rein to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovativ...
8: ... of pride for the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went t...
12: Among her most successful hit singles from this era were ''"Chain of Fools"'', ''"You Make... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
9: ...own for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
20: ...k entrance and forced to wait in a dark room away from the audience before appearing on stage. Once be...
24: ...duced Holiday to the drug, but there is consensus from historians and contemporaneous sources that she...
26: ...tobiography]], ''[[Lady Sings the Blues]]''. In [[1987]] [[U2 (band)|U2]] released "[[Angel of Harlem]]"...
30: ...d [[Lester Young]]; both were less than two years from death. - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
1: ...on Mandela]] finally made her come back to South Africa in [[1990]].
3: ...] she had a world wide hit with "Pata Pata"; in [[1987]] she achieved another peak in popularity by appe...
5: ...op 100 Great South Africans (see [[List of South Africans]]).
8: *[[Culture of South Africa]] - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...os’s voice and mostly piano-based music has frequently been compared to that of [[Kate Bush]], [...
7: ... she adopted the name "Tori," after a friend of a friend told her that she looked more like a Tori tha...
10: ...by ear at Peabody and her difficulty with playing from sheet music – with Caton, [[Matt Sorum]] ...
16: ...onsidered it a step sideways rather than forwards from ''Little Earthquakes''. In February, she began ...
20: ...buse and Incest National Network. RAINN is a toll-free help line in the US which connects callers with... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hildegard.jpg|right|framed|A medieval illumination showing Hildegard von...
6: .... Because she was a tenth child, and a sickly one from birth, at the age of eight Hildegard's parents ...
8: ...members of her order after falling physically ill from carrying the unspoken burden.
20: ...manuscript.jpg|thumb|"Universal Man" illumination from Hildegard's ''Liber divinorum operum''.]]
24: ...unded another convent, Eibingen, across the river from Bingen. Her remaining years were very productiv... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
9: ...axhiu, were [[Albanian]] Catholics that emigrated from south Kosovar city of [[Prizren]], even though ...
11: ...counted that she felt a vocation to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for mission...
15: ...946]], by her own account, she received a calling from [[God]] "to serve Him among the poorest of the ...
17: ...ntary helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the municipal authorit...
24: ...emple into the [[Kalighat Home for the Dying]], a free [[hospice]] for the poor. Soon after she opened... - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
19: * ''[[A Handful of Dust]]'' ([[1987]]) - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
5: ... came as a surprise to Mia, who did not even know Frank was thinking of leaving her. They divorced in ...
9: ...by him had one biological son, Satchel (born in [[1987]], and is now called [[Seamus Farrow]]). They al...
11: ... her marriage with Andr預revin (3 adopted) and 3 from her time with Woody Allen (2 adopted).
18: * Farrow became friends with [[Roman Polanski]] and his wife [[Sharo...
20: ...o had an affair with his sister. Seamus graduated from [[Bard College]] in [[2004]]. - Jodie Foster (4460 bytes)
5: ...he attended an exclusive prep school, the [[Lyc饠Fran硩s de Los Angeles]], before going on to [[Yale...
9: ...the [[French language]] that she has performed in French films. Foster won the first of her two [[Gold...
37: *''[[Siesta]]'' (1987)
38: *''[[Five Corners]]'' (1987)
49: *''[[Freaky Friday]]'' (1976) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
1: [[Image:KH_40s-10.jpg|frame|right|Katharine Hepburn]]
5: ... encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various topics, including sex. "We w...
7: ... teens, winning a bronze medal for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, sho...
10: ... check... Katharine Hepburn's mother got a degree from BM in history and philosophy; can this be a mis...
12: ...atonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn wa... - Helen Hunt (3298 bytes)
41: *''[[The Frog Prince]]'' (1988)
43: *''[[Miles from Home]]'' (1988)
45: *''[[Project X]]'' (1987) - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
21: ...arred in ''[[To Die For]]'', earning high praise from critics. Although media speculation thought tha...
23: ...wing year Kidman came back to win the same praise from critics for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in ...
43: ...ccolades, Kidman has received Best Actress awards from the folowing critics' groups or award giving or...
50: ...th [[Ewan McGregor]] on the song "Come What May", from the film's soundtrack debuted and peaked at #27...
54: ''[[The Lady from Shanghai]]'', ''[[Emma's War]]'', ''[[Fur]]'', ... - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
2: ...er work in [[movies]] and [[television]] and who, from the [[1980s]] to the present day, has been rega...
5: ...Vassar College]] and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the [[Yale]] School of Drama. She appeared in ...
7: ...tiated in court) that a [[dingo]] took the child. From [[1984]] to [[1990]], Streep won six [[People's...
18: ...e]] (link below). Summarized below are her awards from the best recognized institutions.
24: ... Actress, Drama|best actress, drama]], in ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
5: ... Archie]]'') and to the production of ''[[The Boy Friend]]'' in [[1953]] (which transferred to [[Broad...
7: In [[1956]], composers [[Frederick Loewe]] and [[Alan Jay Lerner]] cast Andre...
9: ...]]'', co-starring with [[Max von Sydow]], and [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Torn Curtain]]'' with [[Paul ...
11: ....jpg|left|frame|With [[Dick van Dyke]] in a scene from the film ''Mary Poppins'']]''[[Star!]]'', a [[1...
15: ...reed to direct a [[Toronto]] revival of ''The Boy Friend'', the Broadway musical in which she made her... - Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
2: ...) is a former World No. 1 woman [[tennis]] player from Germany. She is widely considered to be one of ...
10: ...ourts. This narrow focus meant that Graf made few friends on the tour in her early years, but led to a...
14: ...powerful forehand, which earned her the nickname "Fraulein Forehand"'. Over time, Graf also developed ...
18: ...he World No. 1 ranking from Navratilova in August 1987. She also helped West Germany win the [[Fed Cup]]...
22: ... Evert in straight sets in the final. Then at the French Open, she successfully defended her title by ... - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2098 bytes)
1: ...age:jackie_joyner.jpg|frame|At World Championship 1987]]
8: ...ld not bring himself to have life support removed from his wife, it fell to Jackie and Al to authorize...
10: ...est challenge, however, was physical. She suffers from exercise-induced [[asthma]], and on more than o... - Billie Jean King (2811 bytes)
7: ... Hall of Fame]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island]] in [[1987]]. In [[1990]], [[Life magazine]] named her one o...
9: ...r, [[Randy Moffitt]], was a pitcher for the [[San Francisco Giants]].
11: The [[Elton John]] song "Philadelphia Freedom" is a tribute to her.
15: *[[French Open]] - 1 singles title - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
3: ...r World No. 1 woman [[tennis]] player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, she defected to the [[United St...
13: ...stralian Open]] to [[Evonne Goolagong]] and the [[French Open]] to [[Chris Evert]]. After losing to Ev...
17: ... [[Tracy Austin]]. She won both Wimbledon and the French Open in [[1982]].
19: ... in December at that time). She then won the 1984 French Open to hold all four Grand Slam singles titl...
23: In the three years from 1985 to [[1987]], Navrátilová reached the women’s singles fi... - Katarina Witt (1117 bytes)
1: ...r Olympic successes, she became the first athlete from East Germany to turn pro. In 1990, she received...
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