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Linda McCartney

1941 - 1998

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Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (née Eastman; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author, and activist. She was the keyboardist and harmony vocalist in the band Wings that also featured her husband, Paul McCartney of the Beatles. Beginning in the mid-1960s, Linda began a career as a photographer, landing with Town & Country, where she soon gained assignments to photograph various musicians and entertainers. By the late 1960s, she was a regular fixture at the Fillmore East, a New York concert venue, where she became the unofficial house photographer capturing numerous performances at the legendary club, and was the first woman to have a photograph on the cover of the influential music magazine Rolling Stone. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Linda McCartney is the 301st most popular companion (down from 264th in 2019), the 1,565th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,100th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Companion.

Linda McCartney was a photographer and animal rights activist. She was married to Paul McCartney and they had four children together. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995 and died from the disease in 1998.

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Among companions, Linda McCartney ranks 301 out of 784. Before her are Hannah Pick-Goslar, Marie of Brabant, Queen of France, Milena Vukotić, Flavia Maximiana Theodora, Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France, and Adelaide del Vasto. After her are Euphrosyne of Kiev, Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Countess Georgina von Wilczek, Charles Lightoller, Mamie Eisenhower, and Queen Cheorin.

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Among people born in 1941, Linda McCartney ranks 89. Before her are Navi Pillay, Paul Bremer, Stokely Carmichael, Ed Bradley, Cass Elliot, and Mohamed Ghannouchi. After her are Alfred G. Gilman, Franco Columbu, Lella Lombardi, Grace Zabriskie, Toyo Ito, and Stephen Frears. Among people deceased in 1998, Linda McCartney ranks 39. Before her are Kunitaka Sueoka, Alfred Schnittke, Stokely Carmichael, Otto Kretschmer, Agostino Casaroli, and Alan J. Pakula. After her are Lúcio Costa, André Weil, Martin Rodbell, Maria Reiche, Antonio Quarracino, and Bob Kane.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Linda McCartney ranks 1,565 out of 20,380. Before her are Linda Harrison (1945), Tess Gerritsen (1953), Richard Smalley (1943), Claudia Goldin (1946), Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966), and David Duchovny (1960). After her are Edmund Kemper (1948), Mitt Romney (1947), Don Shirley (1927), Daniel Dennett (1942), Raymond Leo Burke (1948), and Alan Ladd (1913).

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Among companions born in United States, Linda McCartney ranks 7. Before her are Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929), Priscilla Presley (1945), Olympias (-375), Neilia Hunter Biden (1942), Rosalynn Carter (1927), and Martha Washington (1731). After her are Mamie Eisenhower (1896), Pat Nixon (1912), Abigail Adams (1744), Mary Todd Lincoln (1818), Ellen Axson Wilson (1860), and Rachel Jackson (1767).

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