Born: September 5, 1940, Chicago Illinois, USA

Name: Jo Raquel Tejada

A new reigning 60s international sex symbol took her cinematic throne as soon as Raquel Welch emerged from the sea in her purposely depleted, furry prehistoric bikini get-up. Tantalizingly wet with her garb clinging to all the right amazonian places,

One Million Years B.C. (1966), if nothing else, captured the hearts and libidos of modern men (not to mention their teenage sons)

while producing THE most definitive and best-selling pin-up poster of that time. After a major dry spell following the death of Marilyn Monroe in 1962, the auburn-maned Ms. Welch effortlessly assumed Marilyn's title and forever wiped away the notion that enduring sex goddesses came only in one form -- bottled blonds.