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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. With an entertainment career which spanned nearly 50 years, Day was one of the most popular and acclaimed female singers of the 1940s and 1950s, with a parallel career as a leading actress in Hollywood films, where she became one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1960s. She was known for her on-screen girl next door image and her distinctive singing voice. Day began her career as a big band singer in 1937, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Doris Day is the 338th most popular actor (up from 405th in 2019), the 735th most popular biography from United States (down from 732nd in 2019) and the 181st 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

Among actors, Doris Day ranks 338 out of 13,578. Before her are Martin Landau, James Caan, Rudolph Valentino, Colin Firth, Olivia Hussey, and Reese Witherspoon. After her are Robert Hossein, Sylvia Kristel, O Yeong-su, Alec Baldwin, Kenny Baker, and Ian Holm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Doris Day ranks 27. Before her are Hans Georg Dehmelt, Philip Larkin, Charles M. Schulz, Christiaan Barnard, Imre Lakatos, and Alain Resnais. After her are Agostinho Neto, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert W. Holley, Joan Fuster, Iannis Xenakis, and Telly Savalas. Among people deceased in 2019, Doris Day ranks 25. Before her are Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Peter Fonda, Karel Gott, Agnès Varda, Beji Caid Essebsi, and Franco Zeffirelli. After her are Marie Fredriksson, Bert Hellinger, Murray Gell-Mann, João Gilberto, Mariss Jansons, and Immanuel Wallerstein.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Doris Day ranks 735 out of 20,380. Before her are 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), Lou Reed (1942), Jerome Bruner (1915), Jerome Karle (1918), and Ice-T (1958).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Doris Day ranks 181. Before her are Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981), William Holden (1918), Tony Lip (1930), Martin Landau (1928), James Caan (1940), and Reese Witherspoon (1976). After her are Alec Baldwin (1958), Kim Novak (1933), James Earl Jones (1931), John Cazale (1935), Jeff Goldblum (1952), and Natalie Wood (1938).

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