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Cilla Black

1943 - 2015

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Priscilla Maria Veronica White (27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), better known as Cilla Black, was an English singer, actress and television presenter. Championed by her friends the Beatles, Black began her career as a singer in 1963. Her singles "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "You're My World" both reached number one in the UK in 1964. She had 11 top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart between then and 1971 and an additional eight hits that made the top 40. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cilla Black is the 1,415th most popular singer (down from 1,154th in 2019), the 4,012th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,150th in 2019) and the 148th most popular British Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Cilla Black ranks 1,415 out of 4,381Before her are David Johansen, Gregg Rolie, Bobby Hebb, Inger Berggren, María Grever, and Angie Stone. After her are Anna von Mildenburg, Bobby Womack, Zack de la Rocha, Elissa, Danièle Dupré, and Richard Bona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Cilla Black ranks 499Before her are Daniel Robin, Zvonimir Vujin, Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi, Viktor Sidyak, Shinobu Sekine, and Burt Rutan. After her are Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, Wilfried Puis, Lena Valaitis, Bert Jansch, Christiane Nord, and Sam Hinds. Among people deceased in 2015, Cilla Black ranks 335Before her are Eric Arturo Delvalle, Zhanna Yorkina, Lia van Leer, Adelina Gutiérrez, Jean Vautrin, and Lev Durov. After her are Nina Companeez, Howard Davis Jr., Robert Chartoff, Amparo Baró, Valmir Louruz, and Eevi Huttunen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Cilla Black ranks 4,013 out of 8,785Before her are Margery Allingham (1904), Angus Macfadyen (1963), Frank Morley (1860), Mary Stewart (1916), Sarah Kane (1971), and Dorothy Shepherd-Barron (1897). After her are Linda Grant (1951), Michael Rennie (1909), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), Alan Woods (1944), Charlie Whiting (1952), and Tony Benn (1925).

Among SINGERS In United Kingdom

Among singers born in United Kingdom, Cilla Black ranks 148Before her are Gary Numan (1958), Ian Hunter (1939), Emma Kirkby (1949), Mary Garden (1874), Leo Sayer (1948), and Marc Almond (1957). After her are John Farnham (1949), Linda Martin (1952), Helen Shapiro (1946), Shirley Manson (1966), Lisa Stansfield (1966), and Gwyneth Jones (1936).