Glenda Adams, Australian novelist and writer (died at age 68)
Evelyn Ankers, American film actress (died at age 67)
Eileen Barton, Brooklyn-born American singer (died at age 81, according to her family)
Raelene Boyle, Australian athlete; surviving
Laurie Beechman, actress/singer (died at age 43)
Marcheline Bertrand, actress and mother of Angelina Jolie (died at age 56)
Clare Boylan, Irish writer (died at age 58)
Diem Brown, Reality TV star (MTV's Real World and Road Rules, as well as MTV's documentary of her experience with the disease) (surviving)
Veronica Castang, British film, stage and television actress (died at age 50)
Jill Chaifetz, American lawyer and children's right advocate (died at age 41)
Carol Channing, actress/entertainer; surviving
Caitlin Clarke, actress (died at age 52)
Sister Sarah Clarke, County Galway, Ireland-born Roman Catholic nun and London-based political activist during The Troubles (1980s-1990s); survived; died of natural causes.
Claudia Cohen, American socialite and journalist (died at age 56)
Dianna Cooley in whose memory the ovarian cancer advocacy group Dianna's Hope in Allen, Texas was founded (see )
Helen Cresswell, British writer and author (died at age 71)
U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, surviving (see )
Mildred Dean, mother of American actor James Dean; she died when Dean was 9 years old (see ).
Sandy Dennis, Oscar-winning actress (died at age 54)
Diana Dors, actress, also known as Diana d'Ors (died at age 52)
Patricia C. Dunn, embattled former chair of Hewlett-Packard, currently battling ovarian cancer.
Robert Eads, American female to male transsexual who was denied medical treatment for the cancer in the state of Georgia (died at age 53)
Jeannie Ferris, Senator for South Australia (died at age 66)
Susan Fleetwood, British actress (died at age 51)
Rosalind Franklin, British physical chemist and crystallographer, linked with the discovery of the shape of the double helix of DNA (died at age 37)
Lynda Gibson, Australian comedian and actress (died at age 47)
Ella Grasso, former Connecticut governor, and the first<unk>  ever to be elected governor in her own right (died at age 61)
Marjorie Gross, comedian and television writer/producer (died at age 40)
Cassandra Harris, Australian actress/wife of Pierce Brosnan (died at age 43)
Dolly Haas, actress/singer; wife of Al Hirschfeld (died at age 84)
Joan Hackett, actress (died at age 49)
Joyce Hatto, English pianist (died at age 77)
Madeline Kahn, actress, singer and comedienne (died at age 57)
Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist; widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (died at age 78)
Joyce Kulhawik, film critic and Boston television personality; former TV co-host of movie critic Leonard Maltin; surviving.
Sarabeth Kusick, wife of baseball player Craig Kusick (who died from leukemia nine months following his wife's death)
Dixie Lee, singer and the 1st Mrs. Bing Crosby (died three days before her 41st birthday)
Shari Lewis, puppeteer and children's television show host (died at age 65)
Mary I of England, née Mary Tudor; British Queen Mary I (died either of uterine cancer or ovarian cancer at the age of 42)
Janet Margolin, American film, stage, and television actress (died at age 50)
Nancy McDonald, former Texas politician (died at age 72)
Heather Menzies, Canadian-born actress, most famous for portraying Louisa in The Sound of Music and widow of Robert Urich; surviving
Mary Millar, British actress, most famous as "Rose" from Keeping Up Appearances (died at age 62)
Miriam Mone, County Armagh-born Irish fashion designer (died at age 42)
Helen Simpson Morosini, mother of the late singer/actress/activist Dana Reeve (died at age 71)
Bess Myerson, former Miss America, surviving
Laura Nyro, singer (died at age 49; her own mother, Gilda Nigro, also died of ovarian cancer and at the same age as Nyro)
Alice Pearce, actress (died at age 48)
Gilda Radner, actress/comedienne/Saturday Night Live alumna (died at age 42)
Patsy Ramsey, mother of the late JonBenét Ramsey (died at age 49)
Marsha Rivkin for whom the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research in Seattle was founded (died in 1993; see )
Dinah Shore, actress/singer (died at age 77)
Linda Smith, comedienne, actress; head of the British Humanists' Association (died at age 48)
Jessica Tandy, actress (died at age 85)
Liz Tilberis, Harper's Bazaar Editor-in-Chief (died at age 51)
Joyce Wadler, New York journalist and New York Times columnist; surviving
Angela Winbush, American rhythm and blues vocalist; surviving
Loretta Young, Oscar-winning actress (died at age 87)
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