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Ballerina


1994 Kaleria Fadicheva, ballerina, dies at 58

1993 Diana Adams, ballerina, dies

1992 Kelvin Coe, Australian ballerina (A'sch Ballet/Bolshoi Ballet), dies

1991 Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71

1982 Marie Rambert, Cyviam Ramberg, Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94

1978 Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina, dies at 33

1970 Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum

1968 Ruth St. Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91

1967 Albertina Rasch, ballerina/choreographer, dies at 76

1965 Sylvie Guillem, France, ballerina, Royal Ballet

1963 Alessandra Ferri, British ballerina, American Ballet Theater

1958 Leslie Browne, born in New York City, ballerina, Turning Point

1956 Evelyn Hart, prima ballerina, Royal Winnipeg Ballet

1953 Heather Watts, born in Los Angeles, California, ballerina, Dancing on My Grave

1952 Gelsey Kirkland, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, ballerina/druggie, Nutcracker

1951 Janet Collins, ballerina, 1st Black dancer with Opera Co, Aida

1950 Merrill Ashley, St. Paul, Minnesota, ballerina, New York City Ballet

1949 Starr Danias, born in New York City, ballerina, Turning Point

1948 Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina, Baterina No Habataki

1946 Cynthia Gregory, born in Louisiana, ballerina, New York Ballet Co

1946 Jennifer Penney, ballerina

1945 Martine van Hamel, Brussels Belgium, ballerina, New York City Ballet Co

1945 Suzanne Farrell, Cincinnati, ballerina, Don Quioxote

1944 Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina

1942 Patricia McBride, Teaneck, New Jersey, ballerina, New York City Ballet Co

1942 Marian Sarstadt, dancer/ballerina

1941 Monica Mason, England, ballerina

1940 Natalia Makarova, Leningrad, ballerina, Kirov, defected 1970

1939 Antoinette Sibley, ballerina, Turning Point

1938 Allegra Kent, born in Santa Monica, California, ballerina

1937 Galina Samsova, ballerina

1937 Galina Samsova, ballerina

1936 Carla Fracci, Milan Italy, ballerina

1936 Kaleria Fadicheva, ballerina

1932 Svetlana Beriozova, ballerina

1931 Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies

1927 Nadine Judd, Nadia Moore/Nerina, South African/British ballerina

1927 Marjorie Tallchief, U.S. ballerina, Harkness Ballet

1927 Beryl Grey, prima ballerina

1926 Moira Shearer, Dunfermline Scotland, ballerina, Red Shoes

1925 Maya Plisetskaya, prima ballerina, Bolshoi Ballet

1925 Maria Tallchief, Fairfax, Oklahoma, ballerina

1924 Janine Charrat, French ballerina/choreographer

1923 Melissa Hayden, born in Toronto, Canada, ballerina, 1961 Silver Bowl

1922 Marina Svetlova, ballerina/choreographer, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

1921 Alica Alonso, Havana, ballerina

1921 Nina Vyroubova, Russian/French ballerina, Pavlova-prize 1957

1920 Nora Kaye, New York City, prima ballerina

1919 Margot Fonteyn, Surrey England, prima ballerina, Giselle

1917 Alicia Alonso, Havana Cuba, ballerina, American Ballet Theatre

1917 Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina), dies

1917 Mile Yvette Chauvire, born in France, ballerina assoluta, Sleeping Beauty

1917 Janet Collins, ballerina

1914 Dame Alicia Markova, ballerina, Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1925-32

1910 Dame Markova, Alicia Lilian Alice Marks, London, ballerina

1910 Galina Ulanova, St. Petersburg Russia, ballerina, Bolshoi

1907 Lucia Chase, U.S. ballerina/co-founder, American Ballet Theater

1904 Alexandra Danilova, Peterhof Russia, ballerina, Turning Point

1902 Willemina J H "Mascha" ter Weene, dancer/ballerina

1898 Ninette de Valois, Edris Stannus, Engl, ballerina, Royal Ballet

1890 Lubov Tchernicheva, Russian ballerina

1884 Franziska "Fanny" Elssler, Austrian ballerina/choreography, dies at 74

1882 Anna Pavlova, St. Petersburg Russia, ballerina/choreographer

1877 Ruth St. Denis, Newark, New Jersey, ballerina, Dances of the 5 Senses

1834 Edgar Degas, French painter, ballerina

1810 Franziska"Fanny" Elssler, Austrian ballerina

1808 Gaetano B Vestris, ballerina, dies at 79

1802 Marie Allard, French ballerina, dies at 59

1742 Marie Allard, French ballerina, Auguste Vestris


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