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1940 – 2023Raquel WelchAmerican Actress & IconAmerican actress and cultural icon who rose to international fame in the 1960s. Born Jo Raquel Tejada to a Bolivian father and American mother, she became one of the defining sex symbols of her era following her appearance in One Million Years B.C. (1966). She won a Golden Globe for The Three Musketeers and had a career spanning over fifty years.
1940Raquel Welch born in ChicagoBorn Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was a Bolivian aerospace engineer and her mother was of English ancestry. The family moved to San Diego when she was two.