Facts:   - death place: baltimore , maryland    - caption: henrietta lacks circa 1945 -- 1951    - birth name: loretta pleasant    - height: 5 2    - death date: 4 october 1951    - spouse: david -rrb- lacks -lrb- 1941 -- 1951 ; her death    - parents: eliza pleasant i -lrb- 1881 -- 1969 -rrb- -lrb- 1886 -- 1924 -rrb- and john randall      - children: lawrence , jr. deborah lacks pullum zakariyya bari abdul rahman -lrb- lacks born joseph lacks -rrb- elsie lacks david `` sonny '' lacks    - birth date: 1 august 1920    - name: henrietta lacks    - image size: 200p    - occupation: tobacco farmer    - image: henrietta lacks _ -lrb- 1920-1951 -rrb- . jpg    - birth place: roanoke , virginia    - monuments: henrietta marker at clover , virginia lacks health and bioscience high school ; historical   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of henrietta lacks .
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henrietta lacks -lrb- august 1 , 1920 -- october 4 , 1951 -rrb- -lrb- sometimes erroneously called henrietta lakes , helen lane or helen larson -rrb- was an african-american woman who was the unwitting source of cells -lrb- from her cancerous tumor -rrb- which were cultured by george otto gey to create the first known human immortal cell line for medical research .this is now known as the hela cell line .