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Ruth Brown

1928 - 2006

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Ruth Alston Brown (née Weston; January 12, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes referred to as the "Queen of R&B". She was noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean". For these contributions, Atlantic became known as "the house that Ruth built" (alluding to the popular nickname for the old Yankee Stadium). Brown was a 1993 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ruth Brown is the 5,358th most popular actor (down from 5,256th in 2019), the 8,337th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,660th in 2019) and the 2,456th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Ruth Brown ranks 5,358 out of 13,578. Before her are Rita Gam, Inge Meysel, James Eckhouse, Werner Peters, Solveig Dommartin, and David Wayne. After her are Çağatay Ulusoy, Roscoe Lee Browne, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Xavier Dolan, Jennifer Ehle, and Sanjay Dutt.

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Among people born in 1928, Ruth Brown ranks 447. Before her are Raymond E. Brown, Giovanni Giacomazzi, Johnny Griffin, Raúl Cárdenas, Vic Damone, and Serge Blusson. After her are Kiyonori Kikutake, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Aleksandr Ivanov, Vasile Tiță, Angélica Gorodischer, and Surya Bahadur Thapa. Among people deceased in 2006, Ruth Brown ranks 284. Before her are Charles Haughey, Ondina Valla, Ion Drîmbă, Liese Prokop, Ted Grant, and Aron Gurevich. After her are Ingvar Gärd, Lloyd Bentsen, Hans Berglund, Francis Girod, Arthur Lee, and Jane Wyatt.

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Among people born in United States, Ruth Brown ranks 8,339 out of 20,380. Before her are John Eisenhower (1922), George Tenet (1953), Dorothea Dix (1802), Mike Stern (1953), David Wayne (1914), and Catherine Hardy Lavender (1930). After her are Roscoe Lee Browne (1922), Lynn Burke (1943), Abraham Polonsky (1910), Jennifer Ehle (1969), Kia Stevens (1977), and Sonny Clark (1931).

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Among actors born in United States, Ruth Brown ranks 2,457. Before her are Natalie Talmadge (1896), Richard Riehle (1948), Mildred Dunnock (1901), Rita Gam (1927), James Eckhouse (1955), and David Wayne (1914). After her are Roscoe Lee Browne (1922), Jennifer Ehle (1969), Greta Gerwig (1983), Kathryn Grayson (1922), Robert Harron (1893), and Billy Campbell (1959).

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