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Ginger Rogers
Featured Biography Ginger Rogers

American dancer and actress Ginger Rogers, born this day in 1911, achieved fame as the partner of Fred Astaire in a series of popular musicals and later won an Oscar for her dramatic performance in Kitty Foyle (1940).

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August 23, 1740 — July 16, 1764
Ivan VI
Ivan VI was an infant emperor of Russia in 1740–41. The son of Prince...
John Kay, detail of a lithograph by Madeley
July 16, 1704 — c.1780
John Kay
John Kay was an English machinist and engineer, inventor of the flying...
Böll, Heinrich
December 21, 1917 — July 16, 1985
Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Böll was a German writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature...
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August 30, 1919 — July 16, 2012
Kitty Wells
Kitty Wells was an American country music singer and songwriter who...
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February 28, 1909 — July 16, 1995
Sir Stephen Spender
Sir Stephen Spender was an English poet and critic, who made his reputation...
Motherwell, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1959
January 24, 1915 — July 16, 1991
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell was an American painter, one of the founders and...
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July 16, 1486 — September 29, 1530
Andrea del Sarto
Andrea del Sarto was an Italian painter and draftsman whose works...
Dean Ornish, 2011.
July 16, 1953 —
Dean Ornish
Dean Ornish is an American physician and author whose approach to...