* April 29 – Deborah Sampson, first American female soldier ( b. 1760 )

* December 17 – Deborah Sampson, first American female soldier ( d. 1827 )

The town's most famous resident was Deborah Sampson, born in the town in 1760.

Uxbridge played key roles in women's rights by granting town meeting voting rights to America's first woman voter, Lydia Taft, and the right to serve on juries to Massachusetts's first women jurors, and playing minor roles in the narratives of American Revolution soldier, Deborah Sampson, and abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster.

* Deborah Sampson, a female soldier during the American War of Independence.

In front of the Sharon Public Library stands a statue of Deborah Sampson, Sharon's town heroine.

A street in Sharon is named Deborah Sampson Street in her honor.

Deborah Sampson Gannett ( December 17, 1760-April 29, 1827 ), better known as Deborah Sampson, was an American woman who impersonated a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Deborah Sampson was born in the town of Plympton, Massachusetts, on December 17, 1960.

She was the oldest of 6 children of Jonathan and Deborah Bradford Sampson, both of old Colonial stock.

Her family was poor, and when Jonathan Sampson abandoned them, Deborah became an indentured servant.

Thus, on October 25, 1783, General Henry Knox honorably discharged Deborah Sampson from the Army at West Point, after a year and a half of service.

The town of Sharon, Massachusetts now memorializes Sampson with Deborah Sampson Street, a Deborah Sampson Statue in front of the public library, Deborah Sampson Field, and the Deborah Sampson House.

Deborah Sampson was the only woman who fought in the Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ).

* 1958 – Deborah Norville, American journalist

* 1943 – Deborah Walley, American actress ( d. 2001 )

* 1946 – Deborah Howe, American author

* 1952 – Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress

The American Film Institute acknowledged the iconic status of the scene from that film in which he and Deborah Kerr make love on a Hawaiian beach amid the crashing waves.

* 1985 – Deborah Ann Woll, American actress

* 1951 – Deborah Harmon, American actress

* 1956 – Deborah Jeane Palfrey, American escort agency operator ( d. 2008 )

* 1954 – Deborah Blum, American writer

* 1953 – Deborah Allen, American singer-songwriter and producer

* August 12 – Deborah Walley, American actress ( The Mothers-in-Law ) ( d. 2001 )

** Deborah Foreman, American actress

" American scholar Deborah Burton contends that Franchetti gave it up simply because he saw little merit in it and could not feel the music in the play.

Part of Burton's success was due to how well he varied his acting with the three female characters, each of whom he tries to seduce differently: Ava Gardner ( the randy hotel owner ), Sue Lyon ( the nubile American tourist ), and Deborah Kerr ( the poor, repressed artist ).

* Deborah S. Kearney ( born 1965 ), American scientist and author

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

James Cuomo, an American musician, composed a dance suite, " Warraguk, a Flying Mormo " in the late 1960s, with his sister Deborah as the winged Warraguk.

* Deborah Scranton, an American documentarian

Irving's reputation as an historian was widely discredited after he brought an unsuccessful libel case against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books.

Deborah " Debi " Mazar ( or ; born August 13, 1964 ) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her Jersey Girl-type roles ; as sharp-tongued women in independent films ; and for her recurring role as press agent Shauna Roberts on the HBO series Entourage.

* Deborah Addington, an American author

Julie Deborah Kavner ( born September 7, 1950 ) is an American film and television actress, comedian and voice artist.

* Brake, Deborah L. Getting in the Game: Title IX and the Women's Sports Revolution ( New York University Press ; 2010 ) 287 pages, scholarly history

* The Inward Revolution ( with Deborah Benstead ) ( 1998 )

* Kennedy, Deborah, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution.

Deborah Cadbury says that she invested with a conman who swindled her and disappeared with the money, but Shelley Emling writes that is not clear whether the man ran off with the money or whether he died suddenly leaving Anning with no way to recover the investment.

In the novel, Lora May ( not Lora Mae ) is less a gold digger than a woman who has always been dominated by her wealthy husband ; Rita is trying to succeed in a second marriage with a man she has never felt passionate about ; and Deborah is a plain and quiet ex-spinster whose " catch " of a husband has been disappointed in her lack of success in society.

In 1966, Le Mesurier portrayed Abadiah the religious sandwich man in Robert Hartford-Davis's The Sandwich Man, and had small roles in Don Sharp's Our Man in Marrakesh, Sidney Hayers's Finders Keepers and the supernatural J. Lee Thompson film Eye of the Devil, featuring Deborah Kerr and David Niven in the lead roles.

In her first album, Rimes recorded such material as Deborah Allen's " My Baby ", whose lyrics provocatively say, " my baby is a full-time lover, my baby is a full-grown man.

Women were not allowed to join the army, but in 1782 Deborah disguised herself as a man and joined the 4th Massachusetts Regiment, going by the name of Robert Shurtliff of Uxbridge and soon saw action in the front lines against the British.

O ' Donnell was the first openly gay man elected to the New York State Assembly and currently serves as one of six LGBT members of the New York Legislature, alongside Assemblymembers Deborah Glick, Micah Kellner, Matthew Titone and Harry Bronson, as well as Senator Thomas Duane .< ref name =" advocate ">

In July 2000, a man bludgeoned his former girlfriend, mother-of-two Deborah Boyd, to death in a rented home in Brabant Way.

Rescued by Petyr Van Abel ( blonde haired, grey eyed ) because people assume that Deborah will turn out just like her mother, twelve-year-old Deborah quietly falls in love with and later seduces her rescuer the evening before her marriage to another man.

She pleads with Deborah to end the affair, telling her she'll never get another man as good as John.

Distraught after witnessing the execution of a man he helped prosecute, Curtis, who is married and has three children, cheats on his wife, Deborah, with a college student ( played by Jennifer Garner ).

Boetticher had planned the film for Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr, who had played a man of action and a nun in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison.

Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man and enlisted as a Continental Army soldier 1782-83 was wounded twice and was later awarded a soldier's pension.

He was helped by his two companions Deborah Dancer, a beautiful young woman who Bennett saved from Mary at Woodstock ( and was also his girlfriend ) and Dmitri Mishkin, a Russian man whom Bennett had rescued from Mary when Mishkin was a child.