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- Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
12: ...ist) the Kern and Mrcer songbooks also scored by Riddle, and [[Duke Ellington]], a later collection de...
14: ...ether with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
18: ...'s Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]'', and ''[...
123: ...f Art]] awarded by President [[Ronald Reagan]] ([[1987]])
129: *"I didn't realise our songs were so good until Ella sang... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...ed in [[Detroit, Michigan]]. On [[January 3]], [[1987]] she became the first woman to be inducted into ...
8: ...or the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic,...
10: ...rfunkel]] ("[[Bridge Over Troubled Water (song)|Bridge Over Troubled Water]]"), [[Sam Cooke]] and [[Th...
16: ... far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
37: *[[1963]] ''[[Laughing on the Outside]]'' - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...e:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</sma...
3: ... '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of a...
7: ...or [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they ...
9: ...y threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: Settling in [[Harlem]], Holiday began singing informally in numerous clubs. Aro... - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
1: ...ed because of her appearance in the anti-[[apartheid]] movie ''Come Back Africa'', and spent 31 years ...
3: ...shared the [[Polar Music Prize]] with [[Sofia Gubaidulina]]. - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...lic for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her sole single to reach number one on the ...
10: ...arted working with other artists (including Stan Ridgway of [[Wall of Voodoo]], [[Sandra Bernhard]] an...
13: ... desolation of "Me and a Gun", which received considerable critical attention. When the album was rele...
16: ...he album included "More Pink", a collection of B-Sides including a cover of the [[Joni Mitchell]] song...
20: ...t Plant]], contributed the song "Down by the Seaside" to the [[Led Zeppelin]] tribute album ''[[Encom... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
6: ...a (sister of Count Meinhard of Sponheim) just outside the Disibodenberg monastery in Germany. Jutta wa...
8: ...sitant about writing her visions, holding them inside. She was finally convinced to write by members o...
11: During all these years Hildegard confided of her visions only to Jutta and another monk, ...
17: ...e Eugenius]] (1145-53), a rather enlightened individual who exhorted Hildegard to finish her writings....
22: ...which she created many invented, conflated and abridged words, while the music itself is monophonic, d... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...or]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
11: ...ation to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She ...
13: ...isters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education for girls. After a few months training...
15: ..., becoming its principal in [[1944]]. She later said that the poverty all around left a deep impressio...
24: .... Soon after she opened another hospice, Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for [[leprosy|lepers]] cal... - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
19: * ''[[A Handful of Dust]]'' ([[1987]])
27: * ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]'' ([[2004]])
38: ...o game|video games]], ''[[Everything or Nothing (video game)|Everything or Nothing]]'' and ''[[GoldenE... - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
5: .... The [[divorce]] came as a surprise to Mia, who did not even know Frank was thinking of leaving her. ...
9: ...by him had one biological son, Satchel (born in [[1987]], and is now called [[Seamus Farrow]]). They al...
20: ...en to or seen his father since he was 7, and is said to have a [[phobia]] of him. He reportedly does n...
24: *''[[Unusual Occupations: Film Tot Holiday]]'' ([[1947]]) (short subject)
41: *''[[A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy]]'' ([[1982]]) - Jodie Foster (4460 bytes)
11: ...sexual orientation]]. Her brother's [[biography]] identifies her as such, but since the book is unauth...
13: ...resident of the United States of America|U.S. President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] to impress Foster.
37: *''[[Siesta]]'' (1987)
38: *''[[Five Corners]]'' (1987)
49: *''[[Freaky Friday]]'' (1976) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ... [[film]], [[television]] and [[theatre|stage]], widely recognized for her sharp wit, [[New England]] ...
5: ...but we grew quite to enjoy that," Hepburn later said of her unabashedly liberal family, who she credit...
7: ...e athletic, and encouraged [[swimming]], [[horse|riding]], [[golf]] and [[tennis]]. Hepburn, eager to...
8: ...pand information about her brother's apparent suicide and its great impact on Hepburn -->
12: ...they were married, the couple separated. They decided to carry on their marriage in a platonic fashio... - Helen Hunt (3298 bytes)
25: *''[[Twister: Ride it Out]]'' (1998)
40: *''[[Incident at Dark River]]'' (Made for TV) (1989)
45: *''[[Project X]]'' (1987)
60: *''[[Child Bride of Short Creek]]'' (Made for TV) (1981) - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
1: '''Nicole (Mary) Kidman''' (born [[June 20]], [[1967]]) is an [[Academ...
2: ... born in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]] to Dr Antony David Kidman and Janelle Ann (nee MacNeille). At the time,...
3: ...tralia when Nicole was four years old, when Tony Kidman took on a lectureship at the [[University of T...
8: ... her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, as Kidman concentrated on her family responsibilities un...
10: ...old, she appeared in the [[Pat Wilson]] [[music video]] for the song "Bop Girl". By the end of the y... - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
9: ...he House of the Spirits]]'', [[1995]]'s ''[[The Bridges of Madison County]]'' (largely regarded as her...
11: However, that is not to say that Streep did not maintain her reputation as an acting great&md...
13: ...Events]]''. That same year, Manhattan Borough President [[C. Virginia Fields]] proclaimed [[May 27]] "...
48: *[[1987]] - [[BAFTA]] Best Actress, in ''[[Out of Africa]...
58: *[[1996]] - [[SAG]] Best Actress, in ''[[The Bridges of Madison County]]'' - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
9: ... "sweet revenge". In her acceptance speech, she said "I would like to thank Jack Warner for his faith ...
17: Dame Julie's career is said to have suffered from [[typecasting (acting)|type...
65: *''[[Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas]]'' ([[1987]]) - Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
2: ...[[tennis]] player from Germany. She is widely considered to be one of the greatest tennis players in h...
8: ...Graf's abilities saying there were "hundreds" of kids like her in the [[United States]].
10: ...ar-old Graf was ranked World No. 124. Though she did not win any titles in the next three years, she p...
18: ...he World No. 1 ranking from Navratilova in August 1987. She also helped West Germany win the [[Fed Cup]]...
22: 1988 is widely considered to be the pinnacle of Graf's career. She star... - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2098 bytes)
1: ...age:jackie_joyner.jpg|frame|At World Championship 1987]]
2: ...''' (born [[March 3]], [[1962]]) is generally considered as the best all-around female [[athlete]] in ...
4: ...75 television movie about [[Babe Zaharias|"Babe" Didrikson]].
8: ...o Jackie and Al to authorize removal, which they did. - Billie Jean King (2811 bytes)
1: ...each, California]], [[United States]], she is considered to be one of the greatest tennis players and ...
7: ... Hall of Fame]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island]] in [[1987]]. In [[1990]], [[Life magazine]] named her one o...
9: ... of several [[AIDS]] charities. King currently resides in New York and Seattle. Her brother, [[Randy M... - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
9: ...irst professional singles title in [[Orlando, Florida]] in [[1974]].
11: ...t one point unflatteringly labelled the “Great Wide Hope” by the [[journalist]] [[Bud Collins]]), ...
19: The mid-[[1980s]] were the most dominant period of Navrá...
21: Navrátilová did succeed in winning all four of the Grand Slam wom...
23: In the three years from 1985 to [[1987]], Navrátilová reached the women’s singles fi... - Katarina Witt (1117 bytes)
1: ... won the world championships in 1984, [[1985]], [[1987]], and [[1988]]. She has also won six European ch...
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