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Doris Day

1922 - 2019

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Doris Day (born Doris Mary Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress and singer. She began her career as a big band singer in 1937, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown and His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Doris Day is the 405th most popular actor, the 732nd most popular biography from United States and the 201st most popular American Actor.

Doris Day is most famous for her singing career, which spanned from the 1940s to the 1980s. She is also known for her roles in films and on television.

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Among actors, Doris Day ranks 405 out of 13,578. Before her are Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Danny Glover, John Lithgow, Richard Griffiths, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. After her are Christopher Lambert, Walter Matthau, Alan Arkin, Gerard Butler, Ron Perlman, and Robert Mitchum.

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Among people born in 1922, Doris Day ranks 40. Before her are Otto Carius, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Iannis Xenakis, Nándor Hidegkuti, Ahmed Sékou Touré, and Nikolay Basov. After her are Jacques Piccard, Agostinho Neto, Nils Liedholm, Julius Nyerere, Arthur Ashkin, and Jason Robards. Among people deceased in 2019, Doris Day ranks 32. Before her are Bert Hellinger, Michel Legrand, Marie Fredriksson, Mariss Jansons, Marie Laforêt, and Bibi Andersson. After her are Albert Finney, Andrea Camilleri, B. J. Habibie, Manfred Eigen, David J. Thouless, and Claudine Auger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Doris Day ranks 735 out of 20,380. Before her are James Caan (1940), Donna Summer (1948), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), Sidney Sheldon (1917), Eddie Murphy (1961), Reese Witherspoon (1976), Hugh David Politzer (1949), Napoleon Hill (1883), and Maya Angelou (1928). After her are Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Washington Irving (1783), and Lou Reed (1942).

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