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Donna Mae Wold (born Donna Mae Johnson on January 3, 1929 in Minneapolis, United States) died on August 8, 2016 in Richfield, United States. She is the real woman who inspired the Little Red-Haired Girl character in Charles Monroe Schulz’s “Peanuts” comic strip, and who served as the object of Charlie Brown’s desire, and a symbol of unrequited love. Donna Wold and Schulz knew each other at Art Instruction Schools in Minneapolis: he proposed marriage to her more than one time, but she preferred to marry a firefighter, Al Wold, with whom she had four children. She said afterwards that she married Al on the advice of her mother, who doubted the probability of success for Schulz.