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<html> <head> <title>Cause of Death: Breast Cancer</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Cause of Death: Breast Cancer LISTS See also <a href="/lists/445/000066247/">Risk Factor: Breast Cancer</a>.<table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_c"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/804/000048660/">Kathy Acker</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Apr-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1997</tt></td> <td>Blood and Guts in High School</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/089/000118732/">Luana Anders</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1996</tt></td> <td>The Pit and the Pendulum</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/228/000044096/">V. C. Andrews</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1986</tt></td> <td>Flowers in the Attic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/690/000207069/">Mary Anning</a></td> <td><center>Paleontologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1799</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1847</tt></td> <td>Self-taught paleontologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/836/000024764/">Ingrid Bergman</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1982</tt></td> <td>Murder on the Orient Express</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/428/000043299/">Bibi Besch</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Feb-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1996</tt></td> <td>Who's That Girl?</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/843/000167342/">Rose Bird</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-1999</tt></td> <td>California Chief Justice, 1977-87</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/770/000137359/">Coral Browne</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1991</tt></td> <td>The Killing of Sister George</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/343/000030253/">Mary-Ellis Bunim</a></td> <td><center>Film/TV Producer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-2004</tt></td> <td>Co-creator of The Real World, etc.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/843/000031750/">Rachel Carson</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1964</tt></td> <td>Mother of the environmental movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/862/000163373/">Norma Crane</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Nov-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1973</tt></td> <td>Fiddler on the Roof</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/457/000026379/">Bette Davis</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Apr-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1989</tt></td> <td>All About Eve</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/362/000036254/">Jo Ann Davis</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jun-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-2007</tt></td> <td>Congresswoman from Virginia, 2001-07</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/963/000026885/">Skeeter Davis</a></td> <td><center>Country Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Sep-2004</tt></td> <td>Country vocalist at Grand Ole Opry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/583/000140163/">Grazia Deledda</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1936</tt></td> <td>Novels of Sardinia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/192/000118835/">Patricia Dunn</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-2011</tt></td> <td>Hewlett Packard chair, 2005-06</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/996/000161513/">Elizabeth Edwards</a></td> <td><center>Relative</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jul-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Dec-2010</tt></td> <td>Wife of ex-Senator John Edwards</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/353/000162864/">Oriana Fallaci</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jun-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-2006</tt></td> <td>The Rage and the Pride</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/575/000031482/">Kate Greenaway</a></td> <td><center>Artist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1846</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Nov-1901</tt></td> <td>British illustrator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/826/000211193/">Alaina Reed Hall</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Nov-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-2009</tt></td> <td>Sesame Street</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/901/000177370/">Fannie Lou Hamer</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Mar-1977</tt></td> <td>Organizer, Mississippi Freedom Summer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/184/000129794/">Patricia Roberts Harris</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Mar-1985</tt></td> <td>Cabinet Secretary under Jimmy Carter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/808/000063619/">Judy Holliday</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jun-1965</tt></td> <td>Born Yesterday</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/107/000109777/">Diana Hyland</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1977</tt></td> <td>Susan Winter on Peyton Place</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/532/000040412/">Trina Schart Hyman</a></td> <td><center>Artist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-2004</tt></td> <td>Children's book illustrator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/719/000080479/">Jill Ireland</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Apr-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1990</tt></td> <td>Love and Bullets</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/975/000027894/">Molly Ivins</a></td> <td><center>Columnist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-2007</tt></td> <td>Loudmouthed Texas dame</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/060/000134655/">Pauline Johnson</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1913</tt></td> <td>Mohawk Canadian poet and actress</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/395/000048251/">June Jordan</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-2002</tt></td> <td>Who Look At Me</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/422/000044290/">Caron Keating</a></td> <td><center>TV Personality</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-1962</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-2004</tt></td> <td>Host of Blue Peter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/811/000346770/">Dorothea Kent</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1990</tt></td> <td>It Happened on Fifth Avenue</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/445/000131052/">Joi Lansing</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-1972</tt></td> <td>Gladys Flatt on The Beverly Hillbillies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/103/000047959/">Audre Lorde</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Nov-1992</tt></td> <td>A Burst of Light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/924/000160444/">Juliette Gordon Low</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1927</tt></td> <td>Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/311/000045176/">Linda McCartney</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Sep-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Apr-1998</tt></td> <td>Beatle wife and photographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/077/000063885/">Hattie McDaniel</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jun-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-1952</tt></td> <td>Mammy in Gone with the Wind</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/205/000048061/">Grace Paley</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Dec-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Aug-2007</tt></td> <td>The Little Disturbances of Man</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/237/000113895/">Barbara Pym</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jun-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1980</tt></td> <td>Some Tame Gazelle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/454/000024382/">Lynn Redgrave</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Mar-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-May-2010</tt></td> <td>The Happy Hooker</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/715/000160235/">Wendy Richard</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jul-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Feb-2009</tt></td> <td>Are You Being Served?</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/845/000163356/">Minnie Riperton</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Nov-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jul-1979</tt></td> <td>Lovin' You</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/136/000109806/">Roxie Roker</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Aug-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Dec-1995</tt></td> <td>Helen Willis on The Jeffersons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/708/000101405/">Patsy Rowlands</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jan-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-2005</tt></td> <td>Carry on...</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/324/000089057/">Rosalind Russell</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jun-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-1976</tt></td> <td>Auntie Mame</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/343/000278506/">Anabel Shaw</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jun-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Apr-2010</tt></td> <td>Gun Crazy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/105/000047961/">Carol Shields</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jun-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jul-2003</tt></td> <td>The Stone Diaries</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/407/000129020/">Ricky Silberman</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-2007</tt></td> <td>Cofounder, Independent Women's Forum</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/137/000206516/">Naomi Sims</a></td> <td><center>Model</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Mar-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-2009</tt></td> <td>Pioneering black supermodel</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/263/000030173/">Wendie Jo Sperber</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1958</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-2005</tt></td> <td>Amy on Bosom Buddies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/084/000023015/">Dusty Springfield</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Apr-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Mar-1999</tt></td> <td>Son of a Preacher Man</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/378/000348331/">Kaye Stevens</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-2011</tt></td> <td>Ruckus at the Riviera</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a 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