1995 Death Ginger Rogers, actress/dancer (Top Hat, Stage Door), dies at 83 1988 Death Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats), dies at 82 1978 Death Brackett Hamilton Leigh, Douglass, author (Ginger Star), dies at 62 1972 Birthday Geri Halliwell, born in Watford, England, author, philanthropist, known as 'Ginger Spice' from band, the Spice Girls, representative for the United Nations Population Fund 1968 Birthday Ginger Helgeson Nielson, St. Cloud, Minnesota, tennis star 1939 Birthday Ginger [Peter] Baker, England, drummer, Cream-White Room 1939 Birthday Ginger Baker, British Musician 1939 Birthday Earl of Seafield, Ginger, English large landowner 1932 Event Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio) 1926 Birthday James P. Donleavy, born in Brooklyn, novelist, Ginger Man, Onion Eaters 1915 Birthday Brackett Hamilton Leigh, Douglass, U.S., sci-fi author, Ginger Star 1911 Birthday Ginger Rogers, Independence, Missouri, dancer, Gay Divorcee 1906 Birthday Eleanor Estes, author, Ginger Pye, Moffats
