Happy 78th Birthday Diana Ross! 25 Vintage Photos To Celebrate

Harry Langdon/Getty Images By Rivea Ruff ·Updated March 26, 2022

Today is a legend’s birthday! Songstress, actress, and originator of diva status Diana Ross turns 78 years young today.

Since her early Motown days as 1/3 of The Supremes, crafting the building blocks of R&B and Pop music, to her Oscar-nominated role in Lady Sings The Blues, to her multiple multi-platinum selling classics, Miss Ross has always been the blueprint.

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Take a look at some iconic photos spanning the last 60 years of her career and personal life, in celebration of all Diana Ross has given us and all she certainly still has in store.

01The Supremes – 1960’s Photo by RB/Redferns 02Shopping in New York City – 1965 Don Paulsen/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 03Portrait – 1960’s Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 04Portrait – 1970’s Photo by Echoes/Redferns 05Awards Ceremony – 1973 Getty Images 06ABC News ‘Americans All’ Special – 1974 Photo by American Broadcasting Companies via Getty Images 07Diana Ross in Performance Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 08Portrait – 1974 GAB Archive/Redferns 09Portrait – 1975 Harry Langdon/Getty Images 10Portrait – 1975 Harry Langdon/Getty Images 11Portrait – 1982 Harry Langdon/Getty Images 12Soul Train – 1982 Soul Train via Getty Images 13Diana Ross – 1980’s Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 14Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam – 1982 Rob Verhorst/Redferns 15Rotterdam, Netherlands – 1982 Rob Verhorst/Redferns 16In Concert – 1985 Chip HIRES/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images 17Portrait – 1987 Harry Langdon/Getty Images 18European Tour – 1994 Michael Putland/Getty Images 19Greeting Fans – 1994 Stephane Cardinale/Sygma via Getty Images 20MTV Video Music Awards – 1999 Scott Gries/ImageDirect 21Mariah Carey, Diana Ross sing during VH1 Divas 2000 Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images 22Kelly Rowland, Diana Rosss, Beyoncé, Mariah Carey at VH1 Divas 2000 Photo Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect 23Diana Ross & Janet Jackson at the American Music Awards – 2004 Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc 24Christian Dior Couture Show – 2019 Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images 25Evan Ross, Diana Ross, Tracee Ellis Ross at Vanity Fair Oscar Party – 2019 David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

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