American-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress

Angélica María

Angélica María Hartman Ortiz is an American-born Mexican singer and actress. Referred to as "La Novia de México", she began her career as a child actress in films of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, such as Pecado (1951), Una mujer decente (1951), and Mi esposa y la otra (1952). During the 1960s, she rose to prominence as a teen idol through her roles in films and telenovelas, concurrently launching a successful music career. Her recordings of compositions by Armando Manzanero established her as a popular singer of rock and roll and pop ballads, with hit songs including the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks top 40-singles "El hombre de mi vida", "Reina y cenicienta", "Prohibido", and "El taconazo".

Born

1944

September 27

Died

Living

Era

1940s

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Key dates

1944 Born

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1066 William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme river, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
1331 The Battle of Płowce is fought, between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order. The Poles are defeated but their leaders escape capture.
1422 After the brief Gollub War, the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with Poland and Lithuania.
1529 The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.

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The world in 1944

When Angélica arrived

april 1 World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
april 10 Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
april 16 World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
april 17 Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.

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Albert Ellis 1913–2007 American psychologist and author (born 1913) Alfred Thayer Mahan 1840–1914 American captain and historian (born 1840) Alvin Stardust 1942–2014 English singer and actor (born 1942) Bhagat Singh 1907–1931 Indian activist (born 1907) Cosimo de' Medici 1389–1464 Italian ruler (born 1386) Denis Lawson 1947– Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter Diane Abbott 1953– English journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Freddy Quinn 1931– Austrian singer, guitarist, and actor Guillaume Rondelet 1507–1566 French doctor (born 1507)

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Same-year contemporaries

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Al Kooper 1944– American singer-songwriter and producer Al Michaels 1944– American sportscaster Anne Robinson 1944– English journalist and game show host António Variações 1944–1984 Portuguese musician (died 1984) Azizan Abdul Razak 1944–2013 Malaysian politician, 10th Menteri Besar of Kedah (died 2013) Ban Ki-moon 1944– South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations Barry White 1944–2003 American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1944) Carlos Alberto Torres 1944–2016 Brazilian footballer and manager (died 2016) Carolyn McCarthy 1944–2025 American nurse and politician (died 2025)

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