Name | Lifetime | Comments | Reference |
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Evelyn Ankers | 1918 – 1985 | American film actress | [7] |
Kathy Bates | 1948 – | Oscar-winning American actress (later treated for breast cancer and lymphedema), surviving | [8] |
Laurie Beechman | 1953 – 1998 | American actress/singer | [9] |
Marcheline Bertrand | 1950 – 2007 | American film actress; mother of Angelina Jolie and James Haven | |
Diem Brown | 1980 – 2014 | American reality TV star (The Real World and Road Rules; died at age 34, nine years after diagnosis) | [10] |
Márcia Cabrita | 1964 – 2017 | Brazilian actress | [11] |
Ann Carter | 1936 – 2014 | American child actress (The Curse of the Cat People) | [12] |
Veronica Castang | 1938—1988 | British film, stage and television actress | [13] |
Carol Channing | 1921 – 2019 | American stage and musical comedy actress | [14] |
Cayle Chernin | 1947 – 2011 | Canadian actress, writer, and producer | [15] |
Caitlin Clarke | 1952 – 2004 | American actress | [16] |
Sandy Dennis | 1937 – 1992 | Tony Award and Oscar-winning American theater and film actress | [17] |
Diana Dors | 1931 – 1984 | British actress, also known as Diana d'Ors | [18] |
Susan Fleetwood | 1944 – 1995 | British film actress | [19] |
Lovette George | 1961 – 2006 | American actress and singer | [20] |
Lynda Gibson | 1956 – 2004 | Australian comedian and actress | [21] |
Marjorie Gross | 1956 – 1996 | Canadian comedian and television writer/producer (Seinfeld) | [22] |
Dolly Haas | 1910 – 1994 | German-American actress and singer | [23] |
Joan Hackett | 1934 – 1983 | American actress | [24] |
Cassandra Harris | 1948 – 1991 | Australian actress; first wife of Pierce Brosnan (died at age 43; Cassandra Harris's mother, Mrs. Roma Waites, and Harris' daughter, Charlotte Brosnan (aged 41), also both died of the disease) | [25] |
Cecilia Hart | 1948 – 2016 | American television and stage actress | [26] |
Dianne Heatherington | 1948 – 1966 | Canadian film and television actress | [27] |
Madeline Kahn | 1942 – 1999 | American actress, singer and comedian | [28] |
Tomoko Kawakami | 1970 – 2011 | Japanese voice actress | [29] |
Grace Keagy | 1921 – 2009 | American musical theatre, soap opera and television actress | [30] |
Manisha Koirala | 1970 – | Bollywood actress and political activist, surviving | [31] |
Joyce Kulhawik | 1952 – | American film critic and Boston television personality; former TV co-host of movie critic Leonard Maltin; surviving | [32] |
Marjie Lawrence | 1932 – 2010 | British actress | [33] |
Sinnamon Love | 1973 – | African American former pornographic film actress and director, surviving | [34] |
Janet Margolin | 1943 – 1993 | American film, stage, and television actress | [35] |
Mariann Mayberry | 1965 – 2017 | American actress | [36] |
Marin Mazzie | 1960 – 2018 | American actress and singer | [37] |
Heather Menzies | 1949 – 2017 | Canadian-American actress and model; widow of actor Robert Urich. Menzies-Urich died on December 24, 2017, aged 68, from brain cancer | [38] |
Mary Millar | 1936 – 1998 | British actress, most famous as "Rose" from Keeping Up Appearances | [39] |
Helen Simpson Morosini | 1933 – 2005 | mother of the late American singer/actress/activist Dana Reeve | [40] |
Anita Morris | 1943 – 1994 | American actress, singer and dancer | [41] [42] |
Akemi Negishi | 1934 – 2008 | Japanese film actress | [43] |
Kate O'Mara | 1939 – 2014 | English actress | [44] [45] |
Beverley Owen | 1937 – 2019 | American actress | [46] |
Julie Parrish | 1940 – 2003 | American film, stage and television actress | [47] |
Alice Pearce | 1917 – 1966 | American comedic stage, film and television actress | [48] |
Gilda Radner | 1946 – 1989 | American actress/comedian (Saturday Night Live) | [49] [50] |
Rachel Rockwell | 1969 – 2018 | American actress, theater director and choreographer | [51] |
Candida Royalle | 1950 – 2015 | American pornographic actress, producer and director | [52] |
Janet Seidel | 1955 – 2017 | Australian cabaret singer, jazz vocalist, pianist and music teacher; Bell Awards (2006) winner | [53] |
Linda Smith | 1958 – 2006 | British actress/comedian; head of the British Humanists' Association | |
Cobie Smulders | 1982 – | Canadian actress and model; surviving | [54] |
Smita Talwalkar | 1954 – 2014 | Indian Bollywood actress, director and producer | [55] [56] |
Jessica Tandy | 1909 – 1994 | Oscar-winning (Driving Miss Daisy) British-born American stage, film and television actress | [57] |
Tera Wray | 1982 – 2016 | American pornographic actress, died of an apparent suicide | [58] |
Celeste Yarnall | 1944 – 2018 | American actress | [59] |
Loretta Young | 1913 – 2000 | Oscar-winning (The Farmer's Daughter, 1947), American film and television actress | [60] | |
Name | Lifetime | Comments | Reference |
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Rita Angus | 1908 – 1970 | New Zealand artist and painter | [61] |
Nancy Graves | 1939 – 1995 | American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and filmmaker | [62] |
Sally Gross | 1933 – 2015 | American dancer, choreographer and teacher of dance | [63] |
Barbara Hammer | 1939 – 2019 | American filmmaker | [64] |
Denise Jefferson | 1944 – 2010 | American dancer/director of the Ailey School | [65] |
Tamara Natalie Madden | 1975 – 2017 | Jamaican artist | [66] |
Stephenie McMillan | 1942 – 2013 | British set decorator | [67] [68] |
Suzanne Mizzi | 1967 – 2011 | British-Maltese glamour model, singer, interior designer and abstract artist | [69] |
| 1965 – 2007 | County Armagh-born Irish fashion designer | [70] [71] |
Meryl O'Loughlin | 1933 – 2007 | American casting director and talent executive | [72] [73] |
| 1908 – 1990 | American activist, artist, photographer, poet and writer | [74] |
Melinda Camber Porter | 1953 – 2008 | British artist, author, poet, journalist and filmmaker | [75] |
Beau St. Clair | c. 1952 – 2016 | American film producer | [76] |
Margi Scharff | 1955 – 2007 | American artist | [77] | |
Name | Lifetime | Comments | Reference |
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Marcia Barrett | 1948 – | Jamaican-born British singer, surviving | [82] |
Eileen Barton | 1924 – 2006 | American singer | [83] |
Alma Cogan | 1932 – 1966 | English singer/entertainer | |
Kartina Dahari | 1941 – 2014 | Malaysian singer | [84] |
Holly Dunn | 1957 – 2016 | American country music performer | [85] |
Lorraine Ellison | 1931 – 1983 | American soul singer | [86] [87] |
Susan Fernandez (aka Susan Fernandez Magno) | 1956 – 2009 | Filipino singer, activist and academic | [88] |
Frances Ginsberg | 1955 – 2010 | American operatic soprano (died at age 55 from ovarian cancer; had previously been treated for breast cancer) | [89] [90] |
Joyce Hatto | 1928 – 2006 | British pianist | |
Olga Jackowska | 1951 – 2018 | Polish rock singer | [91] |
Shizuko Kasagi | 1914 –1985 | Japanese jazz singer and actress | [92] |
Dixie Lee | 1911 – 1952 | American singer; first wife of Bing Crosby (died three days before her 41st birthday) | |
Valisia LeKae | 1979 – | American singer and musical theatre actress, surviving | [93] |
Vange Leonel | 1963 – 2014 | Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, journalist, blogger, novelist, playwright, feminist/LGBT activist | [94] |
Connie Needham | 1959 – | American dancer and former actress, surviving | [95] |
Laura Nyro | 1947 – 1997 | American singer-songwriter (died at age 49; her mother, Gilda Nigro, also died of ovarian cancer at age 49) | [96] [97] |
Dinah Shore | 1916 – 1994 | American singer and actress | [98] |
Hikaru Utada | 1983 – | Japanese-American singer-songwriter, surviving | |
Angela Winbush | 1955 – | American rhythm and blues vocalist; surviving | [99] | |
Name | Lifetime | Comments | Reference |
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Professor Dora Nkem Akunyili | 1954 – 2014 | Nigerian politician and academic | [100] |
Maryam Babangida | 1948 – 2009 | Nigerian first lady | [101] |
Pam Brown | 1952 – 2011 | American politician (died at age 58) | [102] |
Tina Brozman | 1952 – 2007 | American lawyer and judge | [103] [104] |
Anita Connick | 1967– | American lawyer, judge and Louisiana Supreme Court justice | [105] |
Rosa DeLauro | 1943 – | US congresswoman (D-CT), surviving | [106] [107] |
Jeannie Ferris | 1941 – 2007 | Australian politician | [108] |
Ella Grasso | 1919 – 1981 | American politician; first woman ever to be elected a state governor in the United States in her own right | [109] [110] |
Judy Kennedy | 1944 – 2018 | American politician, Mayor of Newburgh, New York from 2012-2018 | [111] |
Laura Knaperek | 1955 – 2016 | | [112] |
Lim Bee Kau | | Malaysian politician, MP for Padang Serai from 1999 to 2009 | [113] |
Mary I of England, née Mary Tudor | 1516 – 1558 | (died from either uterine cancer or ovarian cancer, aged 42) | [114] |
Nancy McDonald | 1934 – 2007 | American politician | [115] |
Helen W. Milliken | 1922 – 2012 | wife of former Michigan governor William Milliken and one-time Michigan First Lady | [116] |
Natalie "Nan" Cornell Rehnquist | 1924 – 2005 | | [117] |
Ruth Samuelson | 1959 – 2017 | | [118] |
Linda Scheid | 1942 – 2011 | American activist, lawyer and politician (died at age 68, the day before what would have been her 69th birthday) | [119] |
Joanna Strathdee | 1954 – 2015 | Scottish politician (died at age 60) | [120] |
Susan Tolchin | 1941 – 2016 | American political scientist | [121] |
Haydee Yorac | 1941 — 2005 | Filipino public servant, law professor and politician | [122] | |
Name | Lifetime | Comments | Reference |
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Marina Baiul | 1977- | mother of Ukrainian Olympic figure skater Oksana Baiul | [131] |
Raelene Boyle | 1951 – | Australian athlete, surviving | [132] |
Maureen Connolly | 1934 – 2011 | tennis great; first woman to win four grand slam titles in one year | [133] |
Chris Evert | 1954 - | American former world No. 1 tennis player. 7-time year-end world no. 1 singles player. Evert won 157 singles titles and 32 doubles titles. Stage 1c ovarian cancer; surviving | [134] |
| 1934 – 1969 | wife of businessman and owner of the New England Patriots football team, Robert "Bob" Kraft | [135] [136] |
Sarabeth Kusick | 1948 – 2006 | wife of American baseball player Craig Kusick (died at age 56); her husband died from leukemia (aged 57), nine months following her death | [137] [138] |
| 1977 – | American Olympic gold-medalist gymnast; surviving | [139] [140] |
| 1936 – 2001 | wife of retired Hall of Fame baseball coach Lute Olson | [141] |
Bernardine Portenski | 1949 – 2017 | New Zealand long distance runner | [142] | |
Name | Lifetime | Comments | Reference |
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Andrea Adams | 1946 – 1995 | English BBC broadcaster, journalist and anti-bullying activist | [143] |
Glenda Adams | 1939 – 2007 | Australian novelist and writer | [144] |
Judith Appelbaum | 1939 – 2018 | American editor, consultant and author | [145] [146] |
Carol Bly | 1930 – 2007 | American essayist and short-story writer | [147] |
Clare Boylan | 1948 – 2006 | Irish writer | [148] |
Zenobia Camprubí Aymar | 1887 – 1956 | Spanish-born (of Catalan and Puerto Rican descent) writer, poet and translator | [149] |
Bonnie Christensen | 1951 – 2015 | American children's book author and illustrator | [150] |
Claudia Cohen | 1950 – 2007 | American socialite and journalist | [151] |
Helen Cresswell | 1934 – 2005 | British writer and author | [152] [153] |
Sara Douglass | 1957 – 2011 | Australian fantasy writer | [154] |
Catherine Gaskin | 1929 – 2009 | Irish-Australian novelist | [155] |
Martha Gellhorn | 1908 – 1998 | American war correspondent, novelist, journalist (committed suicide, aged 89, after ovarian cancer metastasized to her liver) | [156] |
Debbie Goad | 1954 – 2000 | American journalist and magazine publisher | [157] |
Josephine Hart, Lady Saatchi | 1942 – 2011 | Irish-born British-based novelist | [158] |
Pagan Kennedy | 1963 – | American author, surviving | [159] |
Francess Lantz | 1952 – 2004 | American librarian, novelist and writer | [160] [161] |
Clarice Lispector | 1920 – 1977 | Brazilian prose writer | [162] [163] |
Norah McClintock | 1952 – 2017 | Canadian author | [164] |
| 1910 – 1988 | American book editor | [165] |
Barbara Park | 1947 – 2013 | American author of children's books | [166] [167] |
Doris Pilkington Garimara | 1937 – 2014 | Australian author | [168] [169] |
Mary Raftery | 1957 – 2012 | Irish investigative journalist, filmmaker and writer | [170] [171] |
Amy Krouse Rosenthal | 1965 – 2017 | American author, filmmaker, and radio show host | [172] |
Liz Tilberis | 1947 – 1999 | British-born American-based fashionista; editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar | |
Joyce Wadler | 1948 – | New York journalist and New York Times columnist; surviving | [173] |
Mari Yonehara | 1950 – 2006 | Japanese translator, essayist, non-fiction writer and novelist | [174] |
Yvonne Zanos | 1950–2010 | American television journalist (at KDKA-TV) | [175] | |
Name | Lifetime | Comments | Reference |
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Christiane Amanpour | 1958 - | Journalist | [176] |
Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara | 1940 – 2009 | World's oldest mother | [177] |
Jill Chaifetz | 1964 – 2006 | American lawyer and children's right advocate | [178] |
Doris Dungey | 1961 – 2008 | American blogger and analyst on economic and finance issues | [179] [180] |
Ann Dunham | Uterine Cancer 1942 – 1995 | American anthropologist; mother of U.S. President Barack Obama | [181] |
Robert Eads | 1945 – 1999 | American female to male transsexual who was denied medical treatment for the cancer in the US state of Georgia | [182] |
Johanna Silver Gordon | 1942 – 2000 | American schoolteacher (died at age 58 in 2000), for whom "Johanna's Law" was named | [183] [184] |
Linda Grover | 1934 – 2010 | American peace activist, founder of Global Family Day | [185] |
Sharon Tyler Herbst | 1942 – 2007 | American chef and cookbook author | [186] [187] |
Margaret Juntwait | 1957 – 2015 | American radio host, host of Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts from 2004–2014 | [188] |
Amy Kass | 1940 – 2015 | American academic and educator at the University of Chicago | [189] |
Coretta Scott King | 1927 – 2006 | | [190] [191] |
Fay Honey Knopp | 1918 – 1995 | Quaker minister, peace and civil rights advocate, and prison abolitionist. | [192] |
Wangari Muta Maathai | 1940 – 2011 | Kenyan environmental and political activist | [193] [194] |
Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner | 1953 – 2019 | American military aviator; one of the first six women to earn their wings as a United States Naval Aviator in 1974 | [195] [196] |
Monique Leroy Martinot | d. 1984 | French cause célèbre for cryostasis | [197] |
Elly Mayday | 1988 – 2019 | Canadian model, advocate, and writer | [198] |
Bess Myerson | 1924 – 2014 | American model (crowned Miss American 1945), television personality and political appointee; survived → died of natural causes at age 90 in 2014 | [199] [200] |
Dawn O'Donnell | 1927/1928 – 2007 | Australian LGBT rights activist, campaigner, and entrepreneur | [201] |
Patsy Ramsey | 1956 – 2006 | | [202] [203] |
Susan, Lady Renouf | 1942 – 2016 | Australian socialite | [204] |
Jolie Christine Rickman | 1970 – 2005 | American feminist, social activist and musician | [205] |
Judith Merkle Riley | 1942 – 2010 | American academic, educator and novelist | [206] |
Lou Halsell Rodenberger | 1926 – 2009 | American educator, professor, and journalist | [207] |
Jemera Rone | 1944 – 2015 | American human rights activist, who served as Human Rights Watch of East Africa Coordinator | [208] |
Gillian Rose | 1947 – 1995 | British academic | [209] |
Urairat Soimee | 1968, 1970, or 1971 – 2006 | Thai human trafficking victim who sued her traffickers and sought justice for victims | [210] |
Sheila Varian | 1937 – 2016 | American horse breeder | [211] |
Margaret Mary Vojtko | 1930 – 2013 | American academic and educator (died of a heart attack; had been receiving treatment for ovarian cancer) | [212] [213] |
Nina Wang | 1936 – 2007 | Chair of Chinachem Group, Asia's richest woman at the time of her death | [214] [215] | |