- A serious automobile accident in Long Island in July 1957 damaged her spleen, and another serious automobile accident in Southern California in the 1960s damaged her liver.
- As a beauty contestant, she was crowned Miss Long Island, Miss Dill Pickle, Miss Mink of 1953, and Miss Welder of 1953.
- In summer 1976, she was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles, California, where she went into a coma. She awoke for several days just before Labor Day, but sank back shortly afterward. She passed away on October 5, 1976, two months away from what would have been her 48th birthday on December 10. She was interred at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Farmingdale, New York.
- In the late 1940s, she was a showgirl at New York City's famed Latin Quarter nightclub.
- A biography of her life, "That Kind of Woman: The Life and Career of Barbara Nichols" by Richard Koper, was published in 2016.
- She was considered a minor rival to Marilyn Monroe, along with Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, Joi Lansing, Cleo Moore, Greta Thyssen, Diana Dors, and Sheree North.
- Attended and graduated from Woodrow Wilson Vocational High School in Jamaica, New York.
- Died in a Hollywood hospital.
- Born on exactly the same date as Dan Blocker of "Bonanza" fame.
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