Deaths from ovarian cancer

Julie Parrish (October 21, 1940, Middlesboro, Kentucky – October 1, 2003, Los Angeles, California) was an American film, stage, and television actress.

Barbara Mary Ansell CBE, FRCP, FRCS (30 August 1923 – 14 September 2001) was the founder of paediatric rheumatology.

Laura Knaperek (July 12, 1955 – March 3, 2016) was an American Republican politician and public official from Arizona.

Ramona Davies (March 11, 1909 − December 14, 1972), usually billed as Ramona and her Grand Piano, was a cabaret singer and pianist, most popular in the 1930s.

Elizabeth Tilberis (7 September 1947 – 21 April 1999), born Elizabeth Jane Kelly, known professionally throughout her career as Liz Tilberis, was a British fashion magazine editor of Manx and English ancestry.

Meryl Abeles O'Loughlin (born June 8, 1933, Chicago, Illinois – d. February 27, 2007, Santa Monica, California) was an American television and film casting agent and casting director.

Doris Pilkington Garimara AM (born Nugi Garimara; c. 1 July 1937 – 10 April 2014), also known as Doris Pilkington, was an Australian author.

Marjie Lawrence (21 January 1932 – 16 June 2010) was an English theatre, film and television actress.

Evelyn Lauder (née Hausner; August 12, 1936 – November 12, 2011) was an Austrian American businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist who has been credited as one of the creators and popularizers of the pink ribbon as a symbol for awareness of breast cancer.

Amy Apfel Kass (September 17, 1940 – August 19, 2015) was an American academic and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.

Jolie Christine Rickman (July 9, 1970 – January 19, 2005) was an American feminist, humanitarian, social activist, and musician.

Patricia Ann "Patsy" Ramsey (née Paugh; December 29, 1956 – June 24, 2006) was an American beauty pageant winner, who, at the age of 20 in 1977, was selected as Miss West Virginia.

Carrie Pringle (Caroline Mary Isabelle Pringle) (19 March 1859 – 12 November 1930) was an Austrian-born British soprano singer.

Maria Evangelina "Vange" Leonel Gandolfo (May 4, 1963 – July 14, 2014) was a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, journalist, chronicler, novelist, playwright, beer sommelier, and feminist and LGBT activist.

Eileen Barton (November 24, 1924 – June 27, 2006) was an American singer best known for her 1950 hit song, "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake.

Evelyn Felisa Ankers (August 17, 1918 – August 29, 1985) was a British-American actress born in Valparaiso, Chile.

Helen Cresswell (11 July 1934 – 26 September 2005) was an English television scriptwriter and author of more than 100 children's books, best known for comedy and supernatural fiction.

Candida Royalle (October 15, 1950 – September 7, 2015) was an American producer and director of couples-oriented pornography, a sex educator, sex-positive feminist, and pornographic actress.

Sara Warneke (2 June 1957 – 27 September 2011), better known by her pen name Sara Douglass, was an Australian fantasy writer who lived in Hobart, Tasmania.

Nancy Graves (December 23, 1939 – October 21, 1995) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon.

Judith Raskin (June 21, 1928 – December 21, 1984) was an American lyric soprano, renowned for her fine voice as well as her acting.

Linda Grover (January 28, 1934 – February 20, 2010) was an American peace activist, and the founder of the Global Family Day, previously known as OneDay.

Linda J. Scheid (June 16, 1942 – June 15, 2011) was a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 46, which includes portions of the northwestern suburbs of Hennepin County in the Twin Cities metro area.

Susan Maureen Fleetwood (21 September 1944 – 29 September 1995) was a British stage, film and television actress, best known as a performer in classical theatre.

Janet Margolin (July 25, 1943 – December 17, 1993) was an American theater, television, and film actress.

Janet Davison Rowley (April 5, 1925 – December 17, 2013) was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers.

(The native form of this personal name is Házy Erzsébet. This article uses the Western name order.) Erzsébet Házy (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɛrʒeːbɛt ˈhaːzi]; October 1, 1929 – November 24, 1982) was a Hungarian operatic soprano.

Josephine Hart, Baroness Saatchi (1 March 1942 – 2 June 2011), was an Irish writer, theatrical producer and television presenter who lived in London.

Gillian Rosemary Rose (née Stone; 20 September 1947 – 9 December 1995) was a British scholar who worked in the fields of philosophy and sociology.

Ella T. Grasso (May 10, 1919 – February 5, 1981) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 83rd Governor of Connecticut from 1975 to 1980.

Sister Choo Nam Thomas was a Korean American and an author of the best selling book called Heaven Is So Real! In 1992, she became a Protestant Christian and two years later she claimed to have seen Jesus Christ at her church Neighborhood Assembly of God in Tacoma, Washington.

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.

Irene Mary Wetton (26 July 1936 – 10 November 1998), better known by her stage name Mary Millar, was a British actress and singer best remembered for her role as Rose in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.

Andrea Adams (died 7 November 1995) was a BBC broadcaster and journalist known for insightful programs that she wrote and produced for Radio 4's Does He Take Sugar and Woman's Hour.

Ann Carter (June 16, 1936 – January 27, 2014) was an American child actress, who worked with dozens of film stars, compiling an "unimaginably distinguished résumé" despite an acting career which lasted only slightly more than a decade.

Francess Lin Lantz (August 27, 1952 – November 22, 2004) was an American children's librarian turned fiction writer, whose fans are mostly preteen and teen-aged girls.

Loret Miller Ruppe (1936–1996) was a Director of the Peace Corps and US Ambassador to Norway.

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.

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.

Susan Jane Tolchin (January 14, 1941 – May 18, 2016) was an American political scientist.

Lorraine Ellison (March 17, 1931 – January 31, 1983) was an American soul singer known for her recording of the song "Stay with Me" (sometimes known as "Stay With Me Baby") in 1966.

Sarah "Sally" Gross (née Freiberg; August 3, 1933 – July 20, 2015) was an American postmodernist dancer.

Grace Keagy (December 16, 1921 – October 4, 2009) was an American actress, best known for her work on the stage in character roles.

Susan Fernandez Magno (August 3, 1956 – July 2, 2009) was a Filipino singer, activist and academic.

Haydee Bofill Yorac (March 4, 1941 — September 13, 2005) was a Filipino public servant, law professor and politician.

Helen Wallbank Milliken (December 4, 1922 – November 16, 2012) was an American women's rights activist, environmentalist, and former First Lady of Michigan.

Nancy Jane Dolman (September 26, 1951 – August 21, 2010) was a Canadian comic actress and singer.

Rita Angus (12 March 1908 – 25 January 1970) was a New Zealand painter.

Mary Oppen (November 28, 1908 – May 14, 1990) was an American activist, artist, photographer, poet and writer.

Shizuko Kasagi (笠置 シヅ子 Kasagi Shizuko, 25 August 1914 – 30 March 1985) was a popular Japanese jazz singer and actress.

Patricia "Pat" Dunn (March 27, 1953 – December 4, 2011), also known as Patricia Cecile Dunn-Jahnke, was the non-executive chairman of the board of Hewlett-Packard (HP) from February 2005 until September 22, 2006, when she resigned her position.

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 1980s and 1990s and writing in 2000s.

Cayle Vivian Chernin (December 4, 1947 — February 18, 2011) was a Canadian actress, writer, and producer born in Glace Bay, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

Claudia Lynn Cohen (December 16, 1950 – June 15, 2007) was an American gossip columnist, socialite, and television reporter.

Catherine Gaskin (2 April 1929 – 6 September 2009) was an Irish–Australian romance novelist.

Dixie Lee (November 4, 1911 – November 1, 1952) was an American actress, dancer, and singer.

Molcie Lou Halsell Rodenberger (September 21, 1926 – April 9, 2009) was a Texas author, educator, professor, and journalist.

Lovette George (December 9, 1961 - September 6, 2006) was an actress and singer in Broadway, off-Broadway and regional productions.

Margaret Juntwait (March 18, 1957 – June 3, 2015) was an American radio broadcaster, and the voice of the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts.

Marjorie Gross (April 18, 1956 – June 7, 1996) was a television writer and producer.

Mary Frances Thérèse Raftery (21 December 1957 – 10 January 2012) was an Irish investigative journalist, filmmaker and writer.

Maryam Babangida (1 November 1948 – 27 December 2009) was the wife of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, who was Nigeria's head of state from 1985 to 1993.

Akemi Negishi (根岸明美 Negishi Akemi, b. 26 March 1934, Tokyo, Japan - died 11 March 2008, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan) was a Japanese actress.

Smita Talwalkar (5 September 1954 – 6 August 2014) was a Marathi film actress, producer and director.

Judith Merkle Riley (January 14, 1942 – September 12, 2010) was an American writer, teacher and academic who wrote six historical romance novels.

Debra "Debbie" Goad (February 13, 1954 – July 20, 2000) was an American journalist and assistant editor of the magazine Answer Me! In 1995, Goad and her husband Jim were charged with one felony count of promoting pornography because of offensive content in Answer Me! magazine, they faced a maximum sentence of five years in jail and a $10,000 fine.

Dora Nkem Akunyili (14 July 1954 – 7 June 2014) was the Director General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) of Nigeria and Nigerian Minister of Information and Communications from 2008 to 2010.

Maureen Catherine Connolly-Brinker (née Connolly; September 17, 1934 – June 21, 1969) known as "Little Mo", was an American tennis player, the winner of nine Grand Slam singles titles in the early 1950s.

Jeannie Margaret Ferris (14 March 1941 – 2 April 2007) was an Australian politician, lobbyist, journalist, and Liberal Senator for South Australia.

Sharon K. Herbst (November 26, 1942 – January 26, 2007) was an American cookbook and culinary books author.

Sheila Varian (August 8, 1937 – March 6, 2016) was a breeder of Arabian horses who lived and worked at the Varian Arabians Ranch near Arroyo Grande, California.