Olivia Newton-John

Dame Olivia Newton-John AC DBE (September 26, 1948 – August 8, 2022) was born in Cambridge, England, and moved with her family to Melbourne, Australia, as a child. She became a world-famous British-Australian pop and country singer, as well as an actress and philanthropist.

Over her long career Newton-John won four Grammy Awards and scored five Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, fifteen top-ten singles and two number-one albums on the Billboard 200. With more than 100 million records sold worldwide, she is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. In 1978 she starred opposite John Travolta in the musical film Grease, whose soundtrack was a worldwide smash and became a pop-culture landmark. Her 1981 signature single "Physical" spent a remarkable ten consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

In later life Newton-John fought breast cancer for many years and devoted herself to charitable work for cancer research and plant-based complementary medicine, establishing the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre. She died on August 8, 2022, at the age of 73.