Tracey Conway – Seattle, WA – 38 at the time of the event (January 21, 1995)

It is not unusual for celebrities who suffer a health crisis to become an advocate to promote the awareness, research and management of that disease or condition. Lance Armstrong uses his fame as a cyclist to help find a cure for the cancer that devastated him a decade ago; actor Parkinson’s Disease victim Michael J. Fox is campaigning for stem cell research in the hope that it will lead to the cure and prevention of that disease, and the late Christopher Reeve championed that same research as a possible answer to the crippling paralysis he suffered in a spill from a horse.