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Ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer is a cancerous growth arising from different parts of the ovary.
The most common form of ovarian cancer (≥80%) arises from the outer lining (epithelium) of the ovary.. However, recent evidence shows cells that line the Fallopian tube (epithelium) also to be prone to develop into the...
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Caitlin Clarke
Caitlin Clarke (May 3, 1952 - September 9, 2004) was an American theater and film actress best known for her role as "Valerian" in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998-1999 Broadway musical Titanic....
- x Date of death:
- Sep 9, 2004
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Jessica Tandy
Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was an English stage and film actress.
She first appeared on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, playing, among others, Katherine opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V, and Cordelia...
- x Date of death:
- Sep 11, 1994
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was an English biophysicist, physicist, chemist, biologist and X-ray crystallographer who made contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and...
- x Date of death:
- Apr 16, 1958
- x Place of death:
- Chelsea, London
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer,
- Cancer
Gilda Radner
Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedienne and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award. Radner's death...
- x Date of death:
- May 20, 1989
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer,
- Cancer
Loretta Young
Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress.
She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah as Gretchen Young, of Luxembourgian descent.At confirmation, she took the name Michaela. She and her family moved to Hollywood when she...
- x Date of death:
- Aug 12, 2000
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Marcheline Bertrand
Marcia Lynne "Marcheline" Bertrand (May 9, 1950 – January 27, 2007) was an American actress.
Bertrand was born in Riverdale, Illinois, the daughter of Lois June (née Gouwens) and Rolland F. Bertrand. She had a brother, Raleigh Bertrand, and a sister...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 27, 2007
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Linda Smith
Linda Helen Smith (29 January 1958 – 27 February 2006) was an English stand-up comic and comedy writer. She was born in Erith in Kent and was a regular Radio 4 panellist, being voted "Wittiest Living Person" by listeners in 2002. She met her partner...
- x Date of death:
- Feb 27, 2006
- x Place of death:
- London Borough of Redbridge
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
Mrs. King...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 30, 2006
- x Place of death:
- Playas de Rosarito
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality. She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s.
After failing singing auditions for the...
- x Date of death:
- Feb 24, 1994
- x Place of death:
- Beverly Hills
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Madeline Kahn
Madeline Kahn (September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress, known primarily for her comedic roles. Director Mel Brooks — who directed her in four films — said of her: "She is one of the most talented people that ever lived. I mean...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 3, 1999
- x Place of death:
- New York City
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Helen Cresswell
Helen Cresswell (11 July 1934, Kirkby in Ashfield - 26 September 2005, Eakring, Nottinghamshire) was an English author of over 120 books for children including A Gift from Winklesea, the Lizzie Dripping series, and The Bagthorpe Saga. She also...
- x Date of death:
- Sep 26, 2005
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Claudia Cohen
Claudia Lynn Cohen (December 16, 1950 – June 15, 2007) was an American gossip columnist, socialite and television reporter.
The daughter of businessman Robert Cohen, the president of the Hudson County News Company, a magazine wholesaler, and his...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 15, 2007
- x Place of death:
- New York City
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Ella T. Grasso
Ella Grasso (May 10, 1919 – February 5, 1981), born Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, was an American politician, and first woman elected governor of Connecticut.
Grasso was born in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, to Italian immigrant parents. Contrary to...
- x Date of death:
- Feb 5, 1981
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Alice Pearce
Alicia “Alice” Pearce (October 16, 1917 – March 3, 1966) was an American actress. Brought to Hollywood by Gene Kelly to reprise her Broadway performance in the film version of On the Town (1949), Pearce played comedic supporting roles in several...
- x Date of death:
- Mar 3, 1966
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Diana Dors
Diana Dors (23 October 1931 – 4 May 1984) was an English actress and sex symbol. She was born Diana Mary Fluck in Swindon, England and was educated at Colville House in Swindon. She was considered the English equivalent of the blonde bombshells of...
- x Date of death:
- May 4, 1984
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Loret Miller Ruppe
Loret Miller Ruppe (1936–1996) was a Director of the Peace Corps and US Ambassador to Norway. She was the wife of U. S. Congressman Philip Ruppe of Michigan.
Ruppe was born January 3, 1936 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her great-grandfather, Frederick...
- x Date of death:
- 1996
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Sandy Dennis
Sandra Dale “Sandy” Dennis (April 27, 1937 – March 2, 1992) was an American theater and film actress.
Dennis was born in Hastings, Nebraska, the daughter of Yvonne, a secretary, and Jack Dennis, a postal clerk. She had a brother, Frank. A high...
- x Date of death:
- Mar 2, 1992
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Joan Hackett
Joan Hackett (March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983) was an American actress who appeared on stage, in films, and on television.
Born in New York City of Irish and Italian extraction, her immigrant parents raised her Roman Catholic and sent her to...
- x Date of death:
- Oct 8, 1983
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Cassandra Harris
Cassandra Harris (15 December 1948 – 28 December 1991) was an Australian actress.
Born Sandra Colleen Waites in Sydney, Australia, Cassandra Harris was a student at the NIDA. She enrolled in 1961, aged 12, under the name Sandra Gleeson. She went on...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 28, 1991
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Debbie Goad
Debra "Debbie" Goad (b. February 13, 1954 - d. July 20, 2000 ) was assistant editor of the magazine ANSWER Me!.
She was born as Debra Susan Rosalie in Brooklyn, New York. Her husband, Jim Goad, was the magazine's primary writer and editor. She also...
- x Date of death:
- Jul 20, 2000
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Mary Millar
Mary Millar (26 July 1936 – 10 November 1998) was a British actress best remembered for her role as Rose in BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. She was born Mary Wetton in Doncaster, Yorkshire
Millar began her career in 1962 in Lock Up Your Daughters...
- x Date of death:
- Nov 10, 1998
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Robert Eads
Robert Eads (18 December 1945 - 17 January 1999 in Toccoa, Georgia) was an American transsexual man, whose life and death was the subject of the award-winning documentary Southern Comfort.
Eads began his transition past his forties, after a marriage...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 17, 1999
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Jeannie Ferris
Jeannie Margaret Ferris (14 March 1941 – 2 April 2007) was an Australian politician, lobbyist, journalist, and Liberal Senator for South Australia. She was educated at Monash University, where she graduated in agricultural economics.
Ferris was born...
- x Date of death:
- Apr 2, 2007
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Patsy Ramsey
Patricia Ann "Patsy" Ramsey (née Paugh) (December 29, 1956 — June 24, 2006), was the mother of JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old American beauty pageant contestant who was murdered on December 26, 1996.
Ramsey was born in Gilbert, West Virginia to...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 24, 2006
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer,
- Cancer
Susan Fleetwood
Susan Maureen Fleetwood (21 September 1944 in St. Andrews, Scotland – 29 September 1995 in Salisbury, England) was a leading British classical actress and star of the BBC television series Chandler & Co.
Fleetwood was born in St. Andrews, Scotland,...
- x Date of death:
- Sep 29, 1995
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Laurie Beechman
Laurie Hope Beechman (April 14, 1953 – March 8, 1998) was an American singer. As a performer, she was known for her Broadway performances in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cats, and Les Misérables. In addition to her Broadway work,...
- x Date of death:
- Mar 8, 1998
- x Place of death:
- White Plains
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Elizabeth Tilberis
Elizabeth Tilberis, (b 1947 – d 1999) born Elizabeth Jane Kelly, known professionally throughout her career as Liz Tilberis, was a British fashion magazine editor of Manx and English ancestry.
She was the editor of the British version of Vogue...
- x Date of death:
- 1999
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Dixie Lee
Dixie Lee (November 4, 1911 – November 1, 1952) was an American actress, dancer, and singer.
Reviews and publicity for Dixie's budding film work were favorable but, according to her son Gary, she couldn't sufficiently overcome her shyness and...
- x Date of death:
- Nov 1, 1952
- x Place of death:
- Holmby Hills
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Janet Margolin
Janet Margolin (July 25, 1943 – December 17, 1993) was an American theater, television and film actress.
Margolin was born in New York City, the daughter of Benjamin Margolin, an accountant who was born in Russia and was founder and president of the...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 17, 1993
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Eileen Barton
Eileen Barton (November 24, 1924 – June 27, 2006) was an American singer best known for her apostrophic 1950 hit song, "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake."
She was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her birthdate is often given as 1929, but a...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 27, 2006
- x Place of death:
- West Hollywood
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Evelyn Ankers
Evelyn Ankers (17 August 1918 – 29 August 1985) was a British actress born in Chile. She often played variations on the role of the cultured young leading lady in many American horror films during the 1940s, most notably The Wolf Man (1941) at age...
- x Date of death:
- Aug 29, 1985
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Jill Chaifetz
Jill Chaifetz (July 24, 1964 — February 2, 2006) was an American lawyer and children's rights advocate.
Chaifetz grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1986. She earned a law degree from the New York...
- x Date of death:
- Feb 2, 2006
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Joyce Hatto
Joyce Hatto (5 September 1928, London, England – 29 June 2006, Cambridge, England) was a British pianist and piano teacher. She became famous late in life, when unauthorized copies of commercial recordings made by other pianists were released under...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 29, 2006
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Clare Boylan
Clare Boylan (21 April 1948 – 16 May 2006) was an Irish author, journalist and critic for newspapers, magazines and many international broadcast media.
She was born in Dublin, and began her career as a journalist at the (now defunct) Irish Press. In...
- x Date of death:
- May 16, 2006
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Jolie Christine Rickman
Jolie Christine Rickman (July 09, 1970 – January 19, 2005) was an American feminist, humanitarian, and social activist born in Chicago, Illinois. As a musician, she released three full-length recordings independently and was renowned for performing...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 19, 2005
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Marjorie Gross
Marjorie Gross (April 18, 1956–June 7, 1996) was a television writer and producer. She wrote for such shows as Newhart, The Larry Sanders Show, Square Pegs and Seinfeld.
She may be best-known for writing many episodes of Seinfeld, including "The...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 7, 1996
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro (born Laura Nigro) (October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American composer, lyricist, singer, and pianist. Her style was a hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, show tunes and rock.
She was best...
- x Date of death:
- Apr 8, 1997
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Alma Cogan
Alma Cogan (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966) was an English singer of traditional pop music in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed "The Girl With the Laugh In Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. Throughout the mid...
- x Date of death:
- Oct 26, 1966
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Cancer,
- Ovarian cancer
Barbara Ansell
Barbara Mary Ansell CBE, FRCP, FRCS (30 August 1923, Warwick, Warwickshire, England – 14 September 2001) was the world-renowned UK founder of paediatric rheumatology.
Educated at King's High School for Girls in Warwick, Barbara Mary Ansell qualified...
- x Date of death:
- Sep 14, 2001
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Lovette George
Lovette George (b. circa 1962 - d. September 6, 2006) was an actress and singer in Broadway, off-Broadway and regional productions.
Shows included Uptown... It's Hot! (1986), Carousel (revival) (1994), Marie Christine (1999) and The Musical of...
- x Date of death:
- Sep 6, 2006
- x Place of death:
- New York City
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Julie Parrish
Julie Parrish (October 21, 1940, Middlesboro, Kentucky – October 1, 2003, Los Angeles, California) was an American film, stage and television actress.
Born as Ruby Joyce Wilbar in Middlesboro, Kentucky, as the oldest of six children of William...
- x Date of death:
- Oct 1, 2003
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Anita Morris
Anita Rose Morris (March 14, 1943 – March 2, 1994) was an American actress.
Among many roles, Morris's most prominent film role was as Carol Dodsworth, the mistress to Danny DeVito, in Ruthless People and for her sensual performance as Carla in the...
- x Date of death:
- Mar 2, 1994
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Carol Bly
Carol Bly (April 16 1930 – December 21 2007) was a teacher and an award-winning American author of short stories, essays, and nonfiction works on writing. Her work often featured Minnesota women who must identify the moral crisis that is facing...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 21, 2007
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Sharon Tyler Herbst
Sharon K. Herbst (b. November 26, 1942 – d. January 26, 2007) was an American cookbook and culinary books author.
Born as Sharon Tyler in Chicago, she was raised in Denver, Colorado. She may have been best-known for her fourth book, the culinary...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 26, 2007
- x Place of death:
- Bodega Bay
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Miriam Mone
Miriam Mone (February 20, 1965 – February 22, 2007) was an Irish fashion designer.
Mone was from County Armagh in Northern Ireland. At an early age, she became determined to pursue a career in fashion. She was accepted into Foundation Art at Preston...
- x Date of death:
- Feb 22, 2007
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Mari Yonehara
Mari Yonehara (米原万里, Yonehara Mari, 29 April 1950 – 25 May 2006) was a Japanese translator, essayist, non-fiction writer, novelist and simultaneous interpreter between Russian and Japanese, best-known in Japan for simultaneous interpretation in...
- x Date of death:
- 2006
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Dawn O'Donnell
Dawn O'Donnell (died 10 June 2007), was a prominent Sydney lesbian, lesbian and gay rights campaigner, and entrepreneur. She is often credited with starting the gay and lesbian club scene in Sydney's Oxford Street and Newtown.
Born circa 1928 in the...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 10, 2007
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Tina Brozman
Tina L. Brozman (October 7, 1952 - June 26, 2007) was a former chief judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and co-leader of Bingham McCutchen’s financial restructuring group. Brozman retired from the bench...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 26, 2007
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Veronica Castang
Veronica Castang (April 22, 1938—November 5, 1988) was a British film, stage and television actress.
A native of London, she studied at the Sorbonne and at Questor's Theater in London. In the United States, she appeared onstage on Broadway and Off...
- x Date of death:
- Nov 5, 1988
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Fakhriya Abdel Karim
Fakhriya Abdel Karim (born 1934/1935, Al Kut - died 1998, Sweden) was a prominent Iraqi actress and activist.
Known professionally as Zainab, she became an actress in the early 1950s when the Iraqi film industry was just emerging. She later starred...
- x Date of death:
- 1998
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Shizuko Kasagi
Shizuko Kasagi (August 25, 1914, Ōkawa District, Kagawa, Japan - March 30, 1985) was a popular Japanese jazz singer and actress.
Before World War II, Shizuko was one of the stars of the Japan Girls Opera Company. Following the war and during the...
- x Date of death:
- Mar 30, 1985
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Dianne Heatherington
Dianne Mae Heatherington (b. May 14, 1948, Fort Rouge, Winnipeg - died October 22, 1996, Toronto) was a Canadian singer of several genres, particularly rock, whose musical career spanned nearly two decades. In the latter part of her career, she...
- x Date of death:
- Oct 22, 1996
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Ann Dunham
Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995), the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was an American anthropologist who specialized in economic anthropology and rural development. Dunham was nicknamed Anna,...
- x Date of death:
- Nov 7, 1995
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer,
- Uterine cancer,
- Cancer
- Uterine cancer,
Ursula Nordstrom
Ursula Nordstrom (1910 - 1988) was publisher and editor in chief of juvenile books at Harper & Row from 1940 to 1973. She also authored the 1972 children's book The Secret Language. A collection of her correspondence was published in 1998, as Dear...
- x Date of death:
- 1988
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Meryl O'Loughlin
Meryl Abeles O'Loughlin (b. June 8, 1933, Chicago, Illinois – d. February 27, 2007, Santa Monica, California) was an American television and film casting agent and casting director.
She held positions as casting supervisor, executive-in-charge of...
- x Date of death:
- Feb 27, 2007
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Lou Halsell Rodenberger
Molcie Lou Halsell Rodenberger (September 21, 1926 – April 9, 2009) was a Texas author, educator, professor, and journalist.
Rodenberger was born in the rural Eastland County, Texas, community of Okra (named for the vegetable, the okra) to educators...
- x Date of death:
- Apr 9, 2009
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Doris Dungey
Doris J. Dungey (c. 1961 – November 30, 2008) was an American blogger who wrote extensively about the United States housing bubble for the blog Calculated Risk under the pseudonym Tanta.
Born in Oxnard, California and raised in Bloomington-Normal,...
- x Date of death:
- Nov 30, 2008
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Grace Keagy
Grace Keagy (died October 4, 2009) Was an American actress who is chiefly known for her work on the stage in character roles. She is best known for her Drama Desk Award nominated performance as "Rosa" in the original 1979 production of Joseph Stein...
- x Date of death:
- Oct 4, 2009
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
Glenda Adams
Glenda Emilie Adams (née Felton) (30 December 1939 – 11 July 2007) was an Australian novelist and short story writer, probably best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral. She was also a teacher of creative writing...
- x Date of death:
- Jul 11, 2007
- x Cause of death:
- Ovarian cancer
