Events

462 – Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.

1355 – King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes ''In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum'' from the old town of Visoki.

1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.

1604 – Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib.

1644 – Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.

1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years — the longest of any major European monarch.

1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow

1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.

1804 – Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.

1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.

1859 – Solar Superstorm

1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly – Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.

1864 – American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.

1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.

1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.

1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she was recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.

1894 – More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.

1897 – The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.

1902 – ''A Trip to the Moon'', considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.

1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.

1906 – The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.

1911 – The armored cruiser ''Georgios Averof'' is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.

1914 – St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.

1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.

1920 – The ''Fountain of Time'' opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.

1923 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.

1928 – Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.

1934 – SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning World War II.

1939 – George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.

1939 – The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date.

1939 – Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).

1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.

1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.

1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.

1961 – The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.

1969 – A revolution in Libya brings Muammar al-Gaddafi to power, which is later transferred to the People's Committees.

1969 – Tran Thien Khiem became Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyen Van Thieu.

1970 – Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.

1972 – In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.

1974 – The ''SR-71 Blackbird'' sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 mph (2,310.353 km/h).

1979 – The American space probe ''Pioneer 11'' becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.

1980 – Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends near Thunder Bay, Ontario.

1980 – Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.

1981 – A ''coup d'état'' in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.

1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.

1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.

1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the .

1990 – The Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party of Turkey.

1991 – Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union

2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.

Births

1286 – Elisabeth Richeza of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1335)

1453 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)

1566 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)

1588 – Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d. 1646)

1651 – Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)

1653 – Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)

1689 – Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Czech Baroque architect (d. 1751)

1711 – William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)

1789 – Ferencz Gyulai Hungarian nobleman (d. 1868)

1795 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)

1818 – José María Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica and founder of the republic (d. 1892)

1848 – Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)

1851 – John Clum, American Indian agent (d. 1932)

1854 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)

1855 – Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)

1856 – Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)

1866 – James J. Corbett, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1933)

1868 – Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)

1871 – J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)

1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d. 1950)

1876 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (d. 1961)

1877 – Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)

1878 – Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)

1878 – J. F. C. Fuller, British Army officer and military theorist (d. 1966)

1883 – Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice-hockey player (d. 1934)

1884 – Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (d. 1947)

1886 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1957)

1887 – Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)

1888 – Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)

1892 – Leverett Saltonstall, 55^th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)

1895 – Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)

1895 – Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (d. 1955)

1896 – A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON, the Hare Krishna Movement (d. 1977)

1897 – Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)

1899 – Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)

1902 – Kazimierz Dąbrowski, Polish psychiatrist, psychologist (d. 1980)

1904 – Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (d. 1974)

1905 – Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)

1906 – Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)

1906 – Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)

1906 – Eleanor Burford English writer (d. 1993)

1907 – Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)

1907 – Miriam Seegar, American actress (d. 2011)

1908 – Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)

1909 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)

1913 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1979)

1913 – Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)

1916 – Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player

1919 – Ossie Dawson, South African cricketer (d. 2008)

1920 – Liz Carpenter, American feminist writer (d. 2010)

1920 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)

1921 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (d. 1995)

1921 – Madhav Mantri, Indian cricketer

1922 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)

1922 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)

1923 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)

1923 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)

1925 – Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982)

1926 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh

1926 – Gene Colan, American comic book artist

1927 – Wyatt Cooper, American author and screenwriter (d. 1978)

1928 – Clifford Lincoln, Canadian politician

1928 – George Maharis, American actor

1929 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)

1931 – Cecil Parkinson, British politician

1931 – Boxcar Willie, American country musician (d. 1999)

1932 – Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician

1932 – Sunny von Buelow, American socialite (d. 2008)

1933 – Ann Richards, 45th Governor of Texas (d. 2006)

1933 – Conway Twitty, American singer (d. 1993)

1935 – Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor

1937 – Al Geiberger, American golfer

1937 – Ron O'Neal, American actor, film director and screenwriter (d. 2004)

1938 – Alan Dershowitz, American attorney and author

1938 – Per Kirkeby, Danish artist

1939 – Lily Tomlin, American actress and comedian

1941 – Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer

1942 – C. J. Cherryh, American writer

1943 – Don Stroud, American actor

1944 – Leonard Slatkin, American conductor

1944 – Archie Bell, singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)

1945 – Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer

1946 – Greg Errico, American drummer (Sly & the Family Stone)

1946 – Barry Gibb, English singer (Bee Gees)

1946 – Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea (d. 2009)

1947 – Al Green, American politician

1948 – Józef Życiński, Polish archbishop and philosopher

1949 – P.A. Sangma, Indian politician

1950 – Phillip Fulmer, American football coach

1950 – Phil McGraw, American talk show host

1951 – David Bairstow, England cricketer (d. 1998)

1951 – Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (d. 1996)

1952 – Phil Hendrie, American radio personality

1953 – Beau Billingslea, American voice actor

1953 – Ted Petty, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)

1954 – Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player

1955 – Billy Blanks, American martial artist

1955 – Bruce Foxton, English bassist (The Jam)

1956 – Vinnie Johnson, American basketball player

1956 – Philece Sampler, American voice artist

1956 – Bernie Wagenblast, American broadcaster and editor

1957 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer

1957 – Duško Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball coach

1958 – Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (d. 2002)

1959 – Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist

1960 – Joseph Williams, American singer and film score composer

1961 – Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)

1961 – Christopher Ferguson, American astronaut

1962 – Tony Cascarino, Irish footballer

1962 – Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer

1963 – Stephen Kernahan, Australian rules footballer

1963 – Carola Smit, Dutch singer

1964 – Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player

1964 – Ray D'Arcy, Irish DJ and TV presenter

1964 – Holly Golightly, American cartoonist

1964 – Cécilia Rhode, Swedish model

1965 – Ľudovít Kaník, Slovak politician

1965 – Tibor Simon, Hungarian football player

1966 – Tim Hardaway, American basketball player

1967 – David Whissell, Quebec politician

1968 – Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)

1969 – Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer

1970 – Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor

1970 – Padma Lakshmi, Indian actress

1970 – Mitsou, Canadian singer, television and radio host, actress

1970 – Vanna, Croatian singer

1971 – Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor

1971 – Joe Enochs, American soccer player

1971 – Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese composer

1971 – Lââm, French singer

1971 – Jimmy Reiher, Jr., American professional wrestler

1971 – Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer

1972 – Doug Williams, British professional wrestler

1973 – J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)

1973 – Ram Kapoor, Indian actor

1973 – Zach Thomas, American football player

1974 – Burn Gorman, American-born British actor

1974 – Jason Taylor, American football player

1974 – Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist

1975 – R. Kan Albay, Flemish film director

1975 – Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian actress and singer

1975 – Cuttino Mobley, American basketball player

1975 – Omar Rodríguez-López, Puerto Rican musician

1975 – Scott Speedman, English-born actor

1975 – Nomy Lamm, American singer-songwriter

1976 – Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver

1976 – Clare Connor, England Woman cricketer

1976 – Erik Morales, Mexican boxer

1976 – Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer

1976 – Polly Shannon, Canadian actress

1977 – David Albelda, Spanish footballer

1977 – Aamir Ali, Indian television actor

1977 – Shoshana Bean, American stage actress

1977 – Raffaele Giammaria, Italian racing driver

1977 – Arsalan Iftikhar, American attorney and Muslim advocate

1977 – Aaron Schobel, American football player

1978 – Max Vieri, Australian soccer player

1978 – Adam Yahiye Gadahn, American-born al-Qaeda operative

1979 – Neg Dupree, British comedian and actor

1979 – James O'Connor, Irish footballer

1980 – Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer

1980 – Nigar Jamal, Azerbaijani singer

1980 – Chris Riggott, English footballer

1980 – Sean Stewart, American songwriter, musician, model and the son of Rod Stewart

1981 – Michael Adamthwaite, Canadian voice actor

1981 – Matthew McGuire, Australian Rower

1981 – Clinton Portis, American football player

1981 – Adam Quick, Australian basketball player

1982 – Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater

1982 – Paul Dumbrell, Australian racing driver

1982 – Ryan Gomes, American basketball player

1983 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer

1983 – Jeff Woywitka, Canadian ice hockey player

1984 – László Köteles, Hungarian football player

1984 – Nick Noble, American football player

1984 – Rod Pelley, Canadian ice hockey player

1984 – Joe Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)

1985 – Larsen Jensen, American swimmer

1985 – Camile Velasco, Filipino-American singer

1986 – Anthony Allen, English rugby union player

1986 – Gaël Monfils, French tennis player

1987 – Dann Hume, New Zealand musician (Evermore)

1988 – Gabriel Ferrari, American footballer

1988 – Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer

1989 – Bill Kaulitz, German singer

1989 – Daniel Sturridge, English footballer

1992 – Cristiano Biraghi, Italian footballer

1992 – Kirani James, Grenadian sprinter

1993 – Ilona Mitrecey, French singer

1994 – Bianca Ryan, American singer

1996 – Zendaya, American actress

Deaths

1067 – Baldwin V of Flanders

1126 – Prince Álmos, Hungarian prince

1159 – Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)

1256 – Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)

1414 – William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)

1557 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)

1581 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)

1600 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)

1615 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)

1648 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)

1678 – Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish Baroque painter (b. 1601)

1685 – Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)

1687 – Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)

1715 – François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)

1715 – King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)

1818 – Robert Calder, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1745)

1838 – William Clark, American explorer, part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (b. 1770)

1839 – Izidor Guzmics, Hungarian theologian (b. 1786)

1868 – Ferencz Gyulai, Hungarian nobleman (b. 1798)

1922 – Samu Pecz, Hungarian architect and academic (b. 1854)

1928 – Elemér Bokor, Hungarian entomologist (b. 1887)

1930 – Peeter Põld, Estonian pedagogic scientist and politician (b. 1878)

1943 – Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)

1947 – Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)

1953 – Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)

1957 – Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)

1964 – Ferenc Joachim, Hungarian painter (b. 1882)

1967 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b. 1886)

1967 – Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)

1969 – Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)

1970 – François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)

1977 – Ethel Waters, American singer (b. 1896)

1981 – Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)

1981 – Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901)

1982 – Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)

1982 – Władysław Gomułka, Polish communist leader (b. 1905)

1983 – Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912)

1983 – Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)

1985 – Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)

1986 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)

1988 – Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)

1989 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)

1989 – Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish inventor (b. 1894)

1990 – Seub Nakhasathien, Thai conservationist (b. 1949)

1991 – Otl Aicher, German graphic designer (b. 1922)

1994 – Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)

1997 – Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian football player (b. 1929)

1998 – Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (b. 1930)

1998 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)

1999 – W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)

2001 – Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)

2003 – Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)

2004 – Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)

2005 – R. L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)

2005 – Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)

2006 – Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)

2006 – Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)

2006 – György Faludy, Hungarian-Jewish author and translator (b. 1910)

2006 – Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)

2007 – Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)

2006 – Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)

2008 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)

2008 – Jerry Reed, American musician and actor (b. 1937)

2008 – Oded Schramm, Israeli-American mathematician (b. 1961)

2009 – Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (b. 1974)

2010 – Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45^th Yokozuna (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

Anniversary of the Start of the Armed Struggle (Eritrea)

Christian Feast Day:

*Giles

*The beginning of the new liturgical year (Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Church)

*September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Constitution Day (Slovakia)

Disaster Prevention Day (Japan)

Earliest day on which Father's Day can fall, while September 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday in September. (Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea)

Earliest day on which Labor Day can fall, while September 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday in September. (United States, Canada, Palau)

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uzbekistan from the Soviet Union in 1991.

Journalist Day (Republic of China, commemorates promulgation of the Protection of Journalists and Public Opinion Organizations law in 1933)

Knowledge Day (Russia)

Revolution Day (Libya)

Teachers' Day (Singapore)

External links

BBC: On This Day

On This Day in Canada

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background	solo_singer
birth name	Diana Ernestine Earle Ross
born	March 26, 1944
origin	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
genre	R&B;, soul, disco, jazz, pop
occupation	Singer, record producer, actress
years active	1959–present
label	Lu Pine, Motown, RCA, EMI
associated acts	The Supremes, Lionel Richie, Marvin Gaye, The Jackson 5, Michael Jackson, CHIC, The Temptations, Ashford & Simpson
website	www.dianaross.com }}

Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway. She received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her role as Billie Holiday in ''Lady Sings the Blues'' (1972), for which she won a Golden Globe award. She won several American Music Awards, garnered twelve Grammy Award nominations, and won a Tony Award for her one-woman show, ''An Evening with Diana Ross'', in 1977.

In 1976, ''Billboard'' magazine named her the "Female Entertainer of the Century." In 1993, the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' declared Diana Ross the most successful female music artist in history due to her success in the United States and United Kingdom for having more hits than any female artist in the charts with a career total of 18 number one records in the United States. Diana Ross has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

Ross is one of the few recording artists to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—one as a solo artist and the other as a member of The Supremes. In December 2007, she received a John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Honors Award.

Early life

Diana Ross, the daughter of Ernestine (née Moten) (January 27, 1916October 9, 1984), a schoolteacher, and Fred Ross, Sr. (July 4, 1920November 21, 2007), a former United States Army soldier, was born at Hutzel Women's Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Ross said she didn't see her father until he returned from serving in World War II. Much has been made of whether her first name ends in an "a" or an "e". According to Ross, her mother actually named her "Diane" but a clerical error resulted in her name being recorded as "Diana" on her birth certificate. She always went by "Diane" at home and at school. Her high school yearbook listed her as "Diana" and as early as 1963, when The Supremes released their first album, she was listed in the liner notes as "Diana". At The Supremes' first Copacabana engagement in 1965, she introduced herself to the audience as "Diane", but later that year she started introducing herself as "Diana". Her intimates still call her "Diane".

After living on Belmont Road in Detroit's North End for several years, Ross's family settled on St. Antoine Street in the Brewster-Douglass housing projects on Diana's fourteenth birthday in 1958. Ross aspired to be a fashion designer, and studied design, millinery, pattern-making and seamstress skills while attending Cass Technical High School, a four-year college preparatory magnet school, in downtown Detroit. In her late teens, Ross worked at Hudson's Department Store where, it was claimed in biographies, that she was the first black employee "allowed outside the kitchen". Ross graduated in January 1962, one semester earlier than her classmates. Ross' parents had a difficult marriage and separated when Ross was still in her teens.

Career

The Supremes: 1959–1970

In 1959, Ross was brought to the attention of Milton Jenkins, the manager of the local doo-wop group The Primes, by Mary Wilson. Primes member Paul Williams convinced Jenkins to enlist Ross in the sister group The Primettes, which included Wilson, Florence Ballard and Betty McGlown. Ross, Wilson and Ballard each sang lead during live performances. In 1960, Lu Pine Records signed the group and issued the Ross-led single "Tears of Sorrow" backed with the Wilson-led "Pretty Baby".Soon after winning a singing contest in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ross approached former neighbor William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. for an audition at the label with which he recorded, Motown Records. The group garnered the audition and impressed Motown's CEO, Berry Gordy, Jr. (who arrived at the audition during the group's performance), but declined to work with the group due to their being underaged. Undeterred, the group would stand outside the label's Hitsville USA studios hoping to grab attention, eventually providing backing vocals & hand claps for many of Motown's more established artists. Meanwhile during the group's struggling early years Ross earned pay in the day as Berry Gordy's secretary. She also served at the group's main hair stylist, make-up artist, seamstress & costume designer during this period.

In 1961, having already replaced McGlown with Barbara Martin, the quartet signed with Motown Records under their new moniker, ''The Supremes'', chosen by Florence Ballard, who was the only member to be present when the group was offered a name change. Both Ross and Wilson initially disliked the name, afraid they would be mistaken for a men's group (Ruby & The Romantics' original name was The Supremes) but the name stuck regardless.

Following Martin's exit in 1962, the group remained a trio. In 1963, Ross became the group's lead singer, as Berry Gordy felt the group could "cross over" to the pop charts with Ross' unique vocal quality, and the Ross-led "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" became the group's first Billboard Top 20 Pop single. The Supremes hit number one with "Where Did Our Love Go", a song rejected by The Marvelettes, and then achieved unprecedented success: between August 1964 and May 1967, Ross, Wilson and Ballard sang on ten number-one hit singles, all of which also made the United Kingdom Top 40.

Gordy removed Florence Ballard from the group in July 1967 and chose Cindy Birdsong, a member of Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, as her replacement. Shortly thereafter, he changed the group's name to Diana Ross & the Supremes.

Motown initially conceived of a solo career for Diana Ross in 1966, but did not act on it until 1968. Television specials such as ''TCB'' (1968) and ''G.I.T. on Broadway'' (1969) were designed to spotlight her as a star in her own right, and much of the later Ross-led Supremes material was recorded by Ross with session singers The Andantes, not Wilson and Birdsong, on backing vocals. By the summer of 1969, Ross began her first solo recordings. In November of the same year, three years after it was first rumored, ''Billboard'' magazine confirmed Ross's departure from the group to begin her solo career. That same year, Ross introduced Motown's newest act, The Jackson 5, to national audiences on the Hollywood Palace television variety program.

Ross recorded her initial solo sessions with a number of producers, including Bones Howe and Johnny Bristol. Her first track with Bristol, "Someday We'll Be Together", was tagged as a potential solo single, but it instead was issued as the final Diana Ross & the Supremes release. "Someday We'll Be Together" was the 12th and final number-one hit for the Supremes and the last American number-one hit of the 1960s. Ross made her final appearance with the Supremes at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas on January 14, 1970.

Early solo career: 1970–1981

After a half-year of recording material with various producers, Ross settled with the production team of Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the creative force behind Marvin Gaye's and Tammi Terrell's hit duets and Diana Ross & the Supremes' "Some Things You Never Get Used To". Ashford and Simpson helmed most of Ross's first album, ''Diana Ross'', and continued to write and produce for her for the next decade.

In May 1970, ''Diana Ross'' was released on Motown. The first single, the gospel-influenced waltz, "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)", peaked at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album's second single, a fully rearranged cover of Gaye's and Terrell's 1967 hit, and another Ashford and Simpson composition, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", was an international hit, and gave Ross her first #1 pop single and gold record award as a solo artist. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female. In 1971, Motown released Ross's second album ''Everything Is Everything'', which produced Ross's first UK number-one solo single, "I'm Still Waiting". Several months later, Ross released ''Surrender'', which included the top-20 pop hit, "Remember Me". That year, she hosted her first solo television special, ''Diana!'', featuring guest appearances by The Jackson 5, Bill Cosby and Danny Thomas.

In 1973 Ross returned to number-one with the single "Touch Me in the Morning". The album of the same name became her first top five charted pop release. Later that same year, Ross and fellow Motown star Marvin Gaye released a duet album, ''Diana & Marvin''. The duo scored an international hit with their cover of The Stylistics' "You Are Everything". Ross' 1974 follow-up album, ''Last Time I Saw Him'', wasn't as successful despite the success of its country-tinged title track. Two years later Ross ventured into disco with "Love Hangover", which returned her to number-one. The self-titled parent album became another top five hit and included her previous number-one, the movie theme, "Do You Know Where You're Going To (Theme from Mahogany)". Ross' subsequent follow-ups, including ''Baby It's Me'' (1977) and ''Ross'' (1978) fell off the charts soon after they appeared. Ross did have success with her first Broadway one-woman show, ''An Evening with Diana Ross''. Her performance later won her a Tony. She was featured in TV special with the same name.

In 1979 Ross hired former collaborators Ashford & Simpson, who had left Motown in 1973 due to contractual issues with Berry Gordy, to overlook the production of her next album, ''The Boss''. That album produced the hit title track and the modestly successful "It's My House". Ross' working relationship with Berry Gordy had deteriorated at that point as Gordy refused to be an executive producer of the project. In 1980, Ross hired Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of the group CHIC to overlook production of her final contractual Motown album, ''diana''. That album led to major success with "Upside Down" returning Ross to number-one on the pop charts for the first time since "Love Hangover". Its follow-up, "I'm Coming Out", was as successful and both songs found major success overseas. When Upside Down hit #1 in 1980, Diana Ross became the first woman in music history to chart 6 #1 records. Combining her 12 as lead singer of The Supremes, Diana Ross' career total of number one records is 18, the most for any female recording artist in music history. Mariah Carey tied Ross' record in 2007.

In 1981, Ross decided not to renew her Motown contract only to discover that everything she thought she had owned was only leased to her by Berry Gordy. Ross accepted a $20 million deal with RCA in 1981, then the most lucrative contract in music. To complete contractual obligations to Motown, Ross recorded several songs with Lionel Richie, one of which, "Endless Love", led to the duo having an international number-one hit. The song was the theme song of the movie of the same name. Motown issued a compilation album, ''To Love Again'', to compete with Ross' RCA debut.

Film career: 1972–1999

Though Ross had previously appeared in two films while a member of The Supremes, it wasn't until the early 1970s when Berry Gordy began to focus on making Ross an actress. In late 1971, Motown announced that Diana Ross was going to portray jazz icon Billie Holiday in a Motown-produced film loosely based on Holiday's autobiography ''Lady Sings the Blues'' (1956) written by Holiday and William Dufty. The movie co-starred Billy Dee Williams as Holiday's lover, Louis McKay. The cast also included comedian Richard Pryor as the "Piano Man".

Some critics ridiculed Ross's casting in the role. Ross and Holiday were considered to be "miles apart" in vocal styling and appearance. Undeterred, Ross immersed herself in Holiday's music and life story. She went to drug clinics and talked with doctors as research for the role. Ross made a crucial decision when it came to interpreting Holiday's music. Instead of imitating Billie Holiday's voice, Ross focused on Holiday's inimitable vocal phrasing.

Opening in October 1972, ''Lady Sings the Blues'' was a major success, and Ross's performance was lauded and well received. Jazz critic Leonard Feather, a friend of Billie Holiday, praised Ross for "expertly capturing the essence of Lady Day." In 1973, Ross was nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for "Best Actress". Ross along with fellow nominee that year Cicely Tyson, were the second African American actresses to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress after Dorothy Dandridge. Ross won the Golden Globe for Best Newcomer, but lost the Best Actress Oscar to her friend Liza Minnelli for her role in ''Cabaret''. The soundtrack album for ''Lady Sings the Blues'' reached number one on the Billboard 200 for two weeks and broke then industry records by shipping 300,000 copies during its first eight days of release. The double-pocket custom label record is one of Ross's best-selling albums of all time, with total sales to date of nearly two million copies.

In 1975, Ross again co-starred with Billy Dee Williams in the Motown film ''Mahogany''. The story of an aspiring fashion designer who becomes a runway model and the toast of the industry, ''Mahogany'' was a troubled production from its inception. The film's original director, Tony Richardson, was fired during production and Berry Gordy assumed the director's chair himself. In addition, Gordy and Ross clashed during filming, with Ross leaving the production before shooting was completed, forcing Gordy to use secretary Edna Anderson as a body double for Ross. While a box office success, the film was not well received by the critics: ''Time'' magazine's review of the film chastised Gordy for "squandering one of America's most natural resources: Diana Ross".

In 1977, Motown acquired the film rights to the Broadway play ''The Wiz'', an African-American reinterpretation of L. Frank Baum's ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz''. Although teenage Stephanie Mills, a veteran of the play, was originally cast as Dorothy, Ross convinced Universal Pictures producer Rob Cohen to have Ross cast as Dorothy. Because of Ross' age, the script was modified to make the protagonist a school teacher rather than a schoolgirl. Among Ross's costars were Lena Horne, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russell and Ted Ross. Upon its October 1978 release, the film adaptation of ''The Wiz'', a $24 million production, earned $21,049,053 at the box office. Though pre-release television broadcast rights had been sold to CBS for over $10 million, the film produced a net loss of $10.4 million for Motown and Universal. At the time, it was the most expensive film musical ever made. The film's failure ended Ross' short career on the big screen and contributed to the Hollywood studios' reluctance to produce the all-black film projects which had become popular during the blaxploitation era of the early-to-mid 1970s for several years. The Wiz was Ross' final film for Motown.

Ross had success with movie-themed songs. While her version of Holiday's "Good Morning Heartache" only performed modestly well in early 1973, her recording of "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" gave Ross her fourth number-one hit in late 1975. Three years later, Ross and Michael Jackson had a modest dance hit with their recording of "Ease on Down the Road". Their second duet, actually as part of the ensemble of ''The Wiz'', "Brand New Day", found some success overseas. Ross scored a Top 10 hit in late 1980 with the theme song to the 1980 film ''It's My Turn''. The following year, she collaborated with former Commodores singer-songwriter Lionel Richie on the theme song for the film ''Endless Love''. The Academy Award-nominated "Endless Love" single became her final hit on Motown Records, and the number one record of the year. Several years later, in 1988, Ross recorded the theme song to ''The Land Before Time''. "If We Hold On Together" became an international hit reaching number-one in Japan.

Ross would be given movie offers over the years but reportedly turned them down because of either contractual obligations or fears of being typecast. Ross had campaigned to portray pioneering entertainer Josephine Baker in a feature film even during her later years in Motown. However, in 1991, the feature film turned into a TV film with Lynn Whitfield playing Baker instead of Ross. Ross was also offered a role in an early adaptation of ''The Bodyguard'' with Ryan O'Neal. However, plans of this adaptation fell through. Years later, Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner assumed the roles of Ross and O'Neal in the 1992 film. In 1993, Ross returned to making movies with a dramatic role in the TV film, ''Out of Darkness''. Ross won acclaim for her role in the film and a well earned third Golden Globe nomination. In 1999, she and Brandy co-starred in the film, ''Double Platinum'', which was released prior to the release of Ross' album, ''Every Day Is a New Day''.

Later solo career: 1981–1999

Diana Ross's RCA Records debut, ''Why Do Fools Fall in Love'', was issued in October 1981. The album yielded three Top 10 hits including the title track "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", a remake of the 1956 Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers classic of the same name, and the single "Mirror Mirror". A third single, "Work That Body", hit the Top Ten in the UK. That success was repeated if only more modestly with the 1982 album, ''Silk Electric''. Ross' recording of Michael Jackson's "Muscles" gave Ross another top ten hit. Ross' 1983 album, ''Ross'', failed to produce any success.

On July 21, 1983, Ross performed a concert in Central Park for a taped Showtime special. Proceeds of the concert would be donated to build a playground in the singer's name. Midway through the beginning of the show, a torrential downpour occurred. Ross tried to keep on performing, but the severe weather required that the show be stopped. Ross urged the large crowd to exit the venue safely, promising to perform the next day. The second concert held the very next day was without rain. The funds for the playground were to be derived from sales of different items at the concert; however, all profits earned from the first concert were spent on the second. When the mainstream media discovered the exorbitant costs of the two concerts, Diana Ross faced criticism and poor publicity. Although representatives of Diana Ross originally refused to pay anything for the proposed playground, Ross later paid the $250,000 required to build the park. The Diana Ross Playground was finally built three years later.

In 1984, Ross' career was revived modestly again with the release of ''Swept Away''. The title track became an international hit as did the ballad, "Missing You", which was a tribute to Marvin Gaye, who had died earlier that year. Her 1985 album, ''Eaten Alive'', found success overseas with the title track and "Chain Reaction", while neither of the songs found success in America. Earlier in 1985, she appeared as part of the supergroup USA for Africa on the "'We Are the World'" charity single, which sold over 20 million copies. Ross' 1987 follow up to ''Eaten Alive'', ''Red Hot Rhythm & Blues'', found less success than the prior album. In 1988, Ross chose to not renew her RCA contract.

Motown Records was being sold by Berry Gordy for $60 million. Ross advised Gordy not to make the move. Before leaving Motown, Gordy offered Ross a contract back to Motown. Ross was at first hesitant to return to the label but agreed after Gordy offered her part-ownership of the label. Despite initial promotion, Ross' next album, ''Workin' Overtime'', bombed. Subsequent follow-ups including ''The Force Behind the Power'' (1991), ''Take Me Higher'' (1995) and ''Every Day is a New Day'' (1999) produced similarly disappointing sales. Ross had more success overseas with the albums than she did in America. In 1994, Ross performed at the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup, hosted in the USA. Her performance has become a running joke in football circles due to her obvious miming and for missing the goal from close range. In 1999, she was named the most successful female singer in the history of the United Kingdom charts, based upon a tally of her career hits. Madonna would eventually succeed Ross as the most successful female artist in the UK.

Later that year, Ross presented at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards in September of the year and shocked the audience by touching rapper Lil' Kim's exposed, pasty-covered breast, amazed at the young rapper's brashness.

Supremes reunions and Return to Love

In 1983, Ross reunited with former Supremes Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong for the television special ''Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever''. The three performed their 1969 number-one hit "Someday We'll Be Together", although alleged onstage altercations between Ross and Wilson became an issue during and after the taping of the special. A four-song Supremes set was planned but Ross, suffering from influenza, declined to rehearse with "The Girls" and stated that they would have to be happy just doing "Someday We'll Be Together". Before the special was taped later that evening, Wilson allegedly planned with Birdsong to take a step forward every time Ross did the same. This appeared to frustrate Ross, causing her to push Wilson's shoulder. Later, Wilson was not aware of the script set by producer Suzanne DePasse, in which Ross was to introduce Berry Gordy. Wilson took it upon herself to do so, at which point Ross pushed down Wilson's hand-held microphone, stating "It's been taken care of." Ross, then, introduced Gordy. These incidents were excised from the final edit of the taped special, but still made their way into the news media; ''People'' magazine reported that "Ross [did] some elbowing to get Wilson out of the spotlight."

The original Supremes were inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Original member Florence Ballard had died twelve years earlier. Ross was performing around the time of the induction ceremony and was unable to attend; Mary Wilson accepted the award. In 1999, Ross, Wilson and Cindy Birdsong held discussions about a possible Supremes reunion tour. These negotiations failed, and Ross hired late-era Supremes members Lynda Laurence and Scherrie Payne, who were touring as the Former Ladies of the Supremes, to participate. The ''Return to Love'' tour was launched in June 2000. The tour did well in large markets, but, struggled in medium markets due to controversial press stories. Despite selling out the final evening at Madison Square Garden in New York, the tour ended abruptly after just fourteen dates.

Current work

Following successful European and American tours in 2004, Diana Ross returned to the Billboard music charts with two duets in 2005. "I've Got a Crush on You", recorded with Rod Stewart for his album ''The Great American Songbook'', reached number 19 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart. The second, recorded with Westlife, was a remake of Ross's 1991 number-2 UK single, "When You Tell Me You Love Me", and reached number 2 in the UK, just as the original had, and number 1 in Ireland. In January, 2005, M.A.C. Cosmetics named Diana Ross its beauty icon for 2005. In June 2006, Motown released the shelved ''Blue'' album, which peaked at number 2 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart. Ross' new studio album, ''I Love You'', was released worldwide on October 2, 2006 and January 16, 2007, in North America, on the Manhattan Records/EMI label. Since its release in 2007, EMI Inside reports that ''I Love You'' has sold more than 622,000 copies worldwide.

In January 2007, Ross appeared on a number of television shows across the U.S. to promote her new album and began touring in the spring. She appeared on ''American Idol'' as a mentor to the contestants Ross's United States "I Love You" tour garnered positive reviews, as did her European tour of the same year.

At the 2007 BET Awards, Ross was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by her five children and singer Alicia Keys. Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu and Chaka Khan performed musical tributes to Ross, covering several of her most popular recordings. During her acceptance speech, Ross lambasted the declining level of professional standards among the younger generation's musicians, as well as their overabundant use of vulgarity and profanity to garner press attention and record sales. Later that year, the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors committee, which recognizes career excellence, cultural influence and contributions to American culture, named Diana Ross as one of its honorees. Past honoree and fellow Motown alumni Smokey Robinson and actor Terrence Howard spoke on her behalf at the official ceremony that December, and singers Ciara, Vanessa L. Williams, Yolanda Adams and ''American Idol'' winner Jordin Sparks performed musical tributes. In February 2008, Ross was guest speaker at the Houston-based Brilliant Lecture series at The Hobby Center, Houston.

The lectures are designed to present prolific and influential characters to speak about their life and inspirations. During her lecture Ross stated that it is "unlikely" that she would undertake any further movie projects.

In May 2008, Ross headlined at New York City's Radio City Music Hall's 'Divas with Heart' concert event, which also featured fellow performers Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan and Patti LaBelle. The following month she was a headliner at the City Stages music festival in Birmingham, AL, next to The Flaming Lips. The New York Times said about the duo, "the most incongruous headliners at an outdoor urban concert series, with the once-in-a-lifetime-at-most combination of Diana Ross and the Flaming Lips. Something for everyone, surely." She performed at two major events in the UK in July 2008: the famous Liverpool Pops Festival and the National Trust Summer Festival at Petworth House, West Sussex. On October 16–17, 2009, Diana Ross headlined the annual Dutch concert event, Symphonica in Rosso, in the 34,000-seat Gelredome Stadium, in Arnhem, The Netherlands. She was accompanied by a 40-piece orchestra. Each of the two concerts was sold-out.

Ross performed a cross-country tour in the summer of 2010. The More Today Than Yesterday: The Greatest Hits Tour featured an all-new set list, stage design, and costumes galore, and was dedicated to her friend Michael Jackson who died in June 2009. The tour, which commenced on May 15, 2010, in Boston, Massachusetts, earned Ross excellent reviews in every city in which she performed, and concluded in Saratoga, California. An extended American leg of the tour began in September, 2010, and is scheduled to continue until March 2011, in Stamford, Connecticut, after which, another American leg of her tour will begin on September 11, 2011, at Temecula, CA's Pechanga Resort and Casino, & continuing throughout autumn, 2011. It is rumored that Ross will mount European & Asian legs of the tour.

Personal life

Ross' parents separated when Ross was 17. After 12 years of estrangement, the couple divorced in 1973. Ernestine Ross later married John Jordan in 1977. Fred Ross remained divorced, never remarrying. While Ross' mother was supportive of her career, her father was disappointed in her choice to be an entertainer rather than attend college like her other siblings. Biographies later stated Ross' drive was inspired by a lack of a support she felt from her father. Ross and her father's relationship repaired over the years until Fred Ross died in 2007. Ross' mother died in 1984.

Ross' elder sister Barbara found success as a doctor and in 1993, was appointed as dean of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, becoming the first black American woman to administer a medical school in the states. Rita Ross, Diana's younger sister, became a teacher. Brothers Arthur and Wilbert "Ninja" Ross followed their sister into the recording industry and entertainment business, respectively. Arthur became a songwriter for Motown writing hits for Michael Jackson, The Miracles and Marvin Gaye while Chico became a professional dancer and choreographer joining his elder sister as a choreographer on her shows during the 1970s and 1980s. He's since retired. Eldest brother Fred Ross, Jr., a Vietnam veteran, never followed his sister into show business settling for civilian life in his native Detroit. Brother Arthur and his wife, Patricia Robinson, were murdered in 1996 in Detroit. Their bodies were found bound and gagged in their basement. As of this writing, no one has been convicted of the murders. A state's witness reportedly disappeared before the case's primary suspect could be tried.

Ross married twice. Her first husband was music business manager Robert Ellis Silberstein, whom she married in January 1971. They divorced in March 1977. In January 1986, after a romantic courtship, Ross married Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Næss, Jr.. After several years of legal separation, the couple were officially divorced in 2000. Næss was later killed in a mountain climbing accident in 2004. Ross attended the funeral.

Ross is the mother of five children. Daughter Rhonda Suzanne Silberstein was born on August 13, 1971, Rhonda's biological father is Berry Gordy. She is now married; her married name is Rhonda Ross Kendrick. Ross and Silberstein had two daughters: Tracee Joy Silberstein, born October 29, 1972 (now known as Tracee Ellis Ross) and Chudney Lane Silberstein, born November 4, 1975 (now known as Chudney Ross). Ross had two sons with Næss. Their sons are Ross Arne Næss (born October 7, 1987) and Evan Olav Næss (born August 26, 1988), now known as Evan Ross). In the summer of 2009, Ross became a grandmother when her daughter, Rhonda Ross-Kendrick, gave birth to a boy on August 7, 2009 by the name of... Raif-Henok Emmanuel Kendrick.

Rhonda and Tracee graduated from Brown University, and Chudney from Georgetown University. All have followed their mother to show business. Rhonda gained success as an actress in television movies and daytime soap operas. Tracee was a co-star of the UPN sitcom ''Girlfriends''. Chudney is active in behind-the-scenes work and is also a model. Son Ross currently attends New York's Marist College, where he is a ski club member, and has not followed his siblings into show business. Youngest son Evan Ross is a successful actor, who starred in the films ''ATL'' and ''Pride'' (co-starring Terrance Howard) and the HBO film, "Life Support", co-starring Dana Owens (Queen Latifah) and his older sister, Tracee Ellis-Ross. He currently is starring in The CW's hit show "90210" playing the character named Charlie.

A month after the Lil Kim incident, authorities at London's Heathrow Airport detained Ross for "assaulting" a female security guard. The singer claimed that she had felt "violated as a woman" by the full-body search to which she was subjected while wearing a skintight bodysuit. Ross complained to airport staff, but, was ignored. In retaliation, she was alleged to have touched the female airport security guard in a similar manner. The singer was detained but later released. In December 2002, Ross was arrested in Tucson, Arizona for drunk driving. She pleaded "no contest", and later served a two-day jail sentence near her home in Greenwich, Connecticut. Following the arrest and jail sentence, Ross stayed out of the American public eye during much of the following year. She performed a well-received set at Britain's Prince Charles' Prince's Trust concert, held in London's Hyde Park, in 2002, but would not return to touring until 2004.

Ross was a close friend and longtime mentor of Michael Jackson, with whom she co-starred in the 1978 film version of the Broadway musical, The Wiz (a remake of ''The Wizard of Oz''). After Jackson's sudden death on June 25, 2009, Ross was named in his will as the custodian of his children in the event of the death of his mother, Katherine Jackson. Ross was invited to speak at the memorial held in Los Angeles on Tuesday July 7, 2009, but declined in a letter read by Smokey Robinson at the ceremony. Like Jackson's other close friends, Macaulay Culkin, Elizabeth Taylor, Quincy Jones, Liza Minnelli, and his ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley, Ross stated that she wanted to grieve in private. Ross dedicated her 2010–11 "More Today Than Yesterday-Greatest Hits" tour to Michael Jackson.

In popular culture

Ross was portrayed by actress Samantha Kaine in the 2004 VH1 film ''Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story'', a biographical film about Michael Jackson.

Actress Holly Robinson Peete portrayed Ross in the 1992 television mini-series ''The Jacksons: An American Dream''.

In the 1996 film ''Phenomenon'', Forest Whitaker's character, Nate Pope, is obsessed with Ross.

In an episode of the TV sitcom ''The Facts of Life'' titled "Out of the Fire", Natalie (Mindy Cohn) purchases a novelty item: a Diana Ross clothes hanger. Natalie comments, "it used to have backup hangers, but now she hangs alone".

In the 2001 comedy film ''Get Over It'', the Dr Desmond Forrest-Oates character once claimed he made a song for Ross, which even included a flashback of the event, however Ross is not actually seen, only her leg passing (she did not, however, actually star in the film).

In an episode of the TV sitcom ''Gimme a Break!'' titled "Alabamy Bound", Nell Harper (Nell Carter) reminisces with sister Loretta (Lynne Thigpen) and friend Addy Wilson (Telma Hopkins) about the girl group they had in the 1960's. Loretta says "how we dreamed we'd be The Supremes". Addy adds "boy, I had that dream", to which Nell replies, "no, no, no, that was my dream! Because I was gonna be Diana Ross!"

Ross contributed her voice to the fictionalized version of herself in the debut episode of popular 1970s classic cartoon by ABC entitled, The Jackson 5ive.

New Zealand band Diana Rozz take their name from Ross.

In the 2007 comedy "Juno", the main character, Juno MacGuff says about her name, "Zeus had tons of lays, but I'm pretty sure Juno was his only wife. She was supposed to be really beautiful, but really mean, like Diana Ross."

In 2010, Keri Hilson portrayed Ross and The Supremes in the music video for her song, "Pretty Girl Rock".

Her voice can be heard introducing The Jackson 5 at the beginning of the Jackson 5 medley in the film ''Michael Jackson's This Is It''.

Solo discography

Filmography

1964: ''T.A.M.I. Show'' (with The Supremes)

1965: ''Beach Ball'' (with The Supremes)

1972: ''Lady Sings the Blues''

1975: ''Mahogany''

1978: ''The Wiz''

1994: ''Out of Darkness''

1999: ''Double Platinum''

2002: ''The Making and Meaning of We Are Family'' (documentary)

2010: ''Met With Sandra Ellison and Tamia Holmes''

Television

1968: ''Tarzan'' (with The Supremes)

1968: ''T.C.B.'' (with The Supremes)

1969: ''G.I.T. on Broadway'' (with The Supremes)

1971: ''Diana!''

1977: ''The Big Event: An Evening with Diana Ross''

1979: ''Diana Ross in Concert!''

1981: ''diana''

1981: ''Standing Room Only: Diana Ross''

1983: ''Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever''

1983: ''For One And For All – Diana Ross Live! in Central Park''

1987: ''Diana Ross: Red Hot Rhythm and Blues''

1989: ''Diana Ross: Workin' Overtime''

1992: ''Diana Ross Live! The Lady Sings... Jazz & Blues: Stolen Moments''

1994: ''Out of Darkness''

1996: ''Super Bowl XXX''

1999: ''Double Platinum''

2000: ''VH1 Divas 2000: A Tribute to Diana Ross''

2005: ''Tsunami Aid''

2007: ''BET Awards 2007''

2007: ''Kennedy Center Honors''

2008: ''Nobel Peace Prize Concert''

Autobiographies

(A scrapbook-style collection of photographs)

See also

List of awards and nominations received by Diana Ross

List of best-selling music artists

List of number-one hits (United States)

List of artists who reached number one in the United States

List of number-one dance hits (United States)

List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. dance chart

References

http://sixmillionsteps.com/drupal/node/1085 – 80 minute audio mix of Diana Ross songs/interviews

(31) http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=wiz.htm

Further reading

External links

Diana Ross Tribute Fansite website

Barbara Walters interviews Diana Ross about "Return To Love" Tour

International Diana Ross website

International Diana Ross Fanclub website

Diana Ross Superstar website

Diana Ross discography at MusicBrainz

Carlo's Supremes website

Mark's Diana Ross website

unofficial biography page

Supremes 9.0 — fansite

Diana Ross interview recorded 10.13.1968 on the Pop Chronicles

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