American singer-songwriter

Lana Del Rey

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is noted for its melancholic exploration of glamor and romance, with frequent references to pop culture and 1950s–1970s Americana. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award, three MTV Europe Music Awards, two Brit Awards, two Billboard Women in Music awards, and a Satellite Award, in addition to nominations for 11 Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Variety honored her at their Hitmakers Awards for being "one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century".

Born

1985

June 21

Died

Living

Era

1980s

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Key dates

1985 Born

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533 A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarios sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily.
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1529 French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
1582 Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.

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The world in 1985

When Lana arrived

april 12 Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-51D to deploy two communications satellites.
april 19 Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
april 20 University of California, Riverside 1985 laboratory raid: Animal Liberation Front rescues 467 animals being tested in a lab at University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California, causing $700,000 in damages to the laboratory, in advocacy for animal rights.
april 21 The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.

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Alois Hába 1893– Czech composer and educator (died 1973) Benazir Bhutto 1953–2007 Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1953) Claude Auchinleck 1884– English field marshal (died 1981) Dimitris Papaioannou 1964– Greek director and choreographer Heinrich Wölfflin 1864– Swiss historian and critic (died 1945) John Paul Young 1950– Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter Lana Wachowski 1965– American director, producer, and screenwriter Luis Antonio Tagle 1957– Filipino cardinal Mary McCarthy 1912–1989 American novelist and critic (died 1989)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1985

Acie Law 1985– American basketball player Alison Pill 1985– Canadian actress Beth Tweddle 1985– English gymnast Brent Burns 1985– Canadian ice hockey player Chad Henne 1985– American football player Cristiano Ronaldo 1985– Portuguese footballer David Hart Smith 1985– Canadian wrestler Deborah Ann Woll 1985– American actress Ibragim Todashev 1985– Russian-American mixed martial artist (died 2013)

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