Sharon Tate was just two weeks away from becoming a mother when she was murdered in the most brutal way imaginable by the Charles Manson 'Family'.
Aged just 26, the rising Hollywood actress was eight and a half months pregnant when she was slaughtered in her home on August 9, 1969, by crazed members of the infamous cult.
Tate - who would have turned 80 today - was relaxing with friends Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski and Abigal Folger after dinner when the Manson Family burst into the home she was renting with film director husband, Roman Polanski, who was away in Europe at the time.