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1998 Mae Questel, actress, voice of Betty Boop, dies at 89

1997 Mae Boren Axton, song writer (Heartbreak Hotel), dies at 82

1996 Mae Barnes, singer, dies at 89

1995 Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter, dies at 72

1994 Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68

1994 Willie Mae Ford Smith, gospel Singer/Songwriter, dies at 89

1992 Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84

1988 Mae Whitman, American Actress

1986 Ida Mae McKenzie, entertainer, dies

1986 Edna Mae Cooper, actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce), dies

1980 Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87

1978 Vanessa Mae, Chinese Musician

1970 Elizabeth Hoisington and Anna Mae Mays named 1st female U.S. generals

1968 Mae Marsh, actress (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies at 72

1967 Eva McKenzie, sister of Ida Mae/actress (Virtuous Husband), dies at 78

1965 Mae Murray, actress (Bachelor Apartment), dies of heart ailment at 75

1956 Una Mae Carlisle, U.S. pianist/singer, dies at 40

1956 Mae C Jemison, Decatur Alabama, MD/astronaut, STS-47

1955 Lusia Mae Harris, born in Minter City, Mississippi, basketball player, Silver Medal 1976 Olympics

1945 Rod Stewart, born in London, singer, Maggie Mae, Do You Think I'm Sexy

1944 Rita Mae Brown, actress, Long Hot Summer, Slumber Party Massacre

1937 Mae West performs Adam and Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio

1932 Mae Heriwentha Faggs Starr, born in New Jersey, 4x100m runner 1952 Olympics gold

1929 Johnny Ace, born in Memphis, Tennessee, born John Marshall Alexander, Jr., singer, member of the B.B. King band, signed to Duke Records, toured with Willa Mae "Big Mama" Thornton

1928 Mae West's New York City debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"

1923 Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer and songwriter

1918 Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in New York City

1916 Dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union rep

1915 Una Mae Carlisle, U.S. pianist/vocalist, Walkin' at the River

1907 Mae Clarke, Klotz, Philadelphia, actress, Frankenstein, Waterloo Bridge

1904 Willie Mae "Mother" Smith, gospel singer/evangelist folk artist

1897 Mae Busch, Australian/US actress, Cowboy Socialist

1895 Mae Marsh, Madrid, New Mexico, silent film actress, Birth of a Nation

1894 Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith, Empress of Blues, over 200 songs

1892 Mae West, Brooklyn, actress, Go Up and See Her Sometime, Klondike Annie

1885 Mae Murray, Girl with bee-stung lips, Virginia, actress, High Stakes


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