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Audrey Kathleen Ruston was born on May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels to an aristocratic family, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. Hepburn would become an actress and humanitarian. She was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.

She rose to stardom in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) alongside Gregory Peck, for which she was the first actress to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. That year, she also won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine.

Hepburn went on to star in a many successful films, her last recorded performances were in the 1990 documentary television series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming.

Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. In recognition of her film career, she received BAFTA's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of only eighteen people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. Later in life, Hepburn devoted much of her time to UNICEF, to which she had contributed since 1954. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America, and Asia. In December 1992, she received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. A month later, she died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland at the age of 63. -READ MORE-

1903 – Luther Adler, American actor (d. 1984) 1905 – Al Dexter, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984) 1917 – Edward T. Cone, American pianist and composer (d. 2004) 1930 – Katherine Jackson, matriarch of the Jackson family 1930 – Roberta Peters, American soprano (d. 2017) 1944 – Russi Taylor, American voice actress (d. 2019) 1953 – Pia Zadora, American actress and singer 1959 – Randy Travis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1967 – Ana Gasteyer, American actress and singer 1970 – Gregg Alexander, American singer-songwriter and producer 1970 – Will Arnett, Canadian actor, and producer 1979 – Lance Bass, American singer, dancer, and producer