The annual Miss America beauty pageant originated September 8, 1921 and
is run by the Miss America Organization, a not-for-profit corporation based in 
Linwood, New Jersey. It developed the "Miss America Scholarship Program, 
that awards educational scholarships to successful competitors between the
ages of 17 and 24. 

Margaret Gorman, of Washington, D.C., was the first
Miss America Pageant winner in 1921.

The current title-holder, Miss America 2015, is Miss New York 2014,
Kira Kazantsev. She is the third consecutive Miss America winner
from the state of New York.

Kitty Wells (born Ellen Muriel Deason in Nashville, Tennessee)
(August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012)

Known as The Queen of Country Music, she chartered numerous singles,
including "It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels. In 1976, she was
inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 1991, she became the third
country music artist, after Roy Acuff and Hank Williams, and the eighth woman
to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Her accomplishments
earned her the nickname Queen of Country Music.

1952

Roy Kelton Orbison  (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988)

The song "Oh, Pretty Woman" was a worldwide success for Roy Orbison. It
spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard also 
ranked the record as the No. 4 song of 1964. The record sold seven million
copies.

Musicians on the record included Floyd Cramer on piano, Bob Moore on an
upright bass, Boots Randolph and Charlie McCoy on sax, and Buddy Harman
and Paul Garrison on drums. Guitar players included Billy Sanford, Jerry
Kennedy and Wayne Moss. Orbison also played a 12 string guitar.

Ingrid Bergman ( August 29, 1915 – August 29, 1982)

Bergman was a Swedish born actress who starred in many European
and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards,
four Golden Globe Awards and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is
ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time
by the American Film Institute. She is best remembered for her roles as
Lisa Lund in Casablanca (1942), Bergman died on her 67th birthday in
London, of breast cancer.

Tuesday Weld (born Susan Ker Weld in New York City)

Teen flick actress Tuesday Weld starred in Wild in the Country (1961) with
Elvis Presley, and began a romance with him shortly after.

She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Play
It As It Lays (1972). She modeled as a child to help with her family’s financial
troubles.