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Lena Horne
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Lena Horne

1917 – 2010 · aged 93

American singer, actress, dancer and activist (1917–2010)

Born
30 Jun 1917 · Brooklyn
Died
9 May 2010 · Manhattan
Part ofAfrican Americans1753 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 107 years
  1. 30 Jun 1917BornBorn in Brooklyn
  2. 1981AwardDrama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical
  3. 1981AwardGrammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
  4. 1981AwardSpecial Tony Award
  5. 1982AwardNAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award
  6. 1983AwardSpingarn Medal
  7. 1984AwardKennedy Center Honors
  8. 1984AwardPaul Robeson Award
  9. 1987AwardHonorary degree from Spelman College
  10. 1987AwardRadcliffe Medal
  11. 1989AwardGrammy Lifetime Achievement Award
  12. 1995AwardGrammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album
  13. 1999AwardNAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist
  14. 9 May 2010DiedDied in Manhattan

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1917 – 2010).

  1. 1917Balfour Declaration
  2. 1917February Revolution
  3. 1917October Revolution
  4. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  5. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  6. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  7. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  8. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  9. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  10. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  11. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1938Munich Agreement
  13. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  14. 1939 – 1945World War II
  15. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  16. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  17. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  18. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  19. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  20. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  21. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  22. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  24. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  25. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  27. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  28. 1956Suez Crisis
  29. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  31. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  33. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  35. 1968Prague Spring
  36. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  37. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  38. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  39. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  40. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution

Biography

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television and theater.

Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving on to Hollywood and Broadway. A groundbreaking Black American performer, Horne advocated for civil rights and took part in the March on Washington in August 1963. Later she returned to her roots as a nightclub performer and continued to work on television while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than 300 performances on Broadway. She then toured the country in the show, earning numerous awards and accolades. Horne continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, withdrawing from the public eye in 2000.

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