Linda McCartney

Linda McCartney was born on September 24, 1941 in New York City, New York, USA as Linda Louise Eastman. She was married to Paul McCartney and Joseph Melville See Jr.

Flirted with girl-group singing with school friends in the late 1950s, but didn't make anything of it.

A top photographer whose pictures of rock stars in the 1960s led to her meeting her future husband, Paul McCartney (Sir Paul from 1997).

She was in the audience for the 1965 Beatles' concert at Shea Stadium (known as Linda Eastman).

First female photographer to shoot a cover for Jan Wenner's Rolling Stone magazine with her portrait of Eric Clapton for the May 1968 issue.

Her oldest daughter Heather McCartney was adopted by her second husband Paul McCartney in 1969.

Along with Paul McCartney and Denny Laine, performed with the group Wings through the 1970s.

Oscar and Grammy nominee for co-writing the theme song of Live and Let Die (1973) with her husband.

The 200th episode of The Simpsons (1989), "Trash of the Titans", was dedicated to her memory.

A dedicated vegetarian who founded her own successful range of frozen veggie food in the early 1990s.

Diagnoised with breast cancer in December 1995. She lost her battle with the disease on April 17, 1998 at the McCartney Family Ranch in Tucson, Arizona. Her husband Paul McCartney and their four children were at her bedside.

Grandmother of five boys and one girl, all born after her death: Mary McCartney's three sons Arthur Alistair Donald (b. 3 April 1999) and Elliot Donald (b. 1 August 2002), and Sam Aboud (b. 11 August 2008) and Stella McCartney's two sons Miller Alasdhair James Willis (b. 25 Feburary 2005), and Beckett Robert Lee (b. 8 January 2008), and daughter Bailey Linda Olwyn Willis (b. 8 December 2006).

Is portrayed by Elizabeth Mitchell in The Linda McCartney Story (2000).