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Featured Biography Fred Astaire

To be in a picture with Fred Astaire was every dancing girl’s dream.

Ann Miller

Fred Astaire, born this day in 1899, is considered one of the greatest American popular-music dancers and is especially remembered for his partnership with Ginger Rogers in a series of highly successful musical comedy films.

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Karl Barth
May 10, 1886 — December 9, 1968 or December 10, 1968
Karl Barth
Karl Barth was one of the most influential Protestant theologians...
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June 13, 1773 — May 10, 1829
Thomas Young
Thomas Young was an English physician and physicist who established...
Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
July 1, 1725 — May 10, 1807
Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau was a French...
Percy, Walker
May 28, 1916 — May 10, 1990
Walker Percy
Walker Percy was an American novelist who wrote of the New South transformed...
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May 10, 1872 — February 10, 1950
Marcel Mauss
Marcel Mauss was a French sociologist and anthropologist whose contributions...
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May 10, 1888 — December 28, 1971
Max Steiner
Max Steiner was an Austrian-born U.S. composer and conductor. A prodigy,...
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May 10, 1930 — May 28, 2025
George E. Smith
George E. Smith was an American physicist who was awarded, with physicist...
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c.1919 — May 10, 2002
Kaifi Azmi
Kaifi Azmi was one of the most renowned Indian poets of the 20th century,...