Gregory Hines

Gregory Hines

male, deceased (2003)
New York actor, throat cancer, Musical theatre actor, American, television actor, Tony Award winner…American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee, Americantapdancer, tap, dancer
Gregory Hines was a Tony Award-winning American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer. Born Gregory Oliver Hines in New York City, Hines and his...
Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

male, deceased (1987)
Omaha, Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe, Best Musical or Comedy Actor Golden Globe, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, American ballroom dancer, Emmy Award winner…American crooners, dancer, Ballroom dancer, American, Americantapdancer
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 - June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer,...
Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers

female, deceased (1995)
Christian, Republican, From Fort Worth, Texas, Traditional pop music singer, death from cardiovascular disease, scientist…dancer, American, American ballroom dancer, Americantapdancer
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 - April 25, 1995) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress and singer. In a film career spanning...
Bill Robinson

Bill Robinson

male, deceased (1949)
Vaudeville performer, Virginia actor, Americantapdancer, African-American, tap dance, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was a pioneer and pre-eminent African-American tap dance performer.
Bob Hope

Bob Hope

male, deceased (2003)
Radio personality, Honorary British knighthoods, Americantapdancer, Academy Awards host, Freemason, Academy Honorary Award recipient…American, tap dancer, English American
Bob Hope, KBE (May 29 1903 - July 27 2003), was an English-born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and...
Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple

female, 81 years old
child actor, Americantapdancer, dancer, Shirley Jane Temple, Child singer, diplomat…American
Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928) later known as Shirley Temple Black, is an American former child actress. She starred in over 40 films...
Nicholas Brothers

Nicholas Brothers

male
Harlem, Standard Theater, acrobatic dancing, Cotton Club, acrobatics, Americantapdancer…African American, dancer, tap dance, tap dancer, American
Fayard Antonio Nicholas was born October 20 1914 born in Mobile, Alabama. Harold Nicholas was born March 27, 1921 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina....
Savion Glover

Savion Glover

male, 36 years old
If Trane Wuz Here, Number Ones, The One, Rye Country Day School, Broadway theatre, Bamboozled…The Tap Dance Kid, Americantapdancer, tap dancer, tap, American
Savion Glover (born November 19, 1973 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American actor, tap dancer and choreographer. Glover is a graduate of the Newark...
Fayard Nicholas

Fayard Nicholas

male, deceased (2006)
Americantapdancer, Mobile, The Nicholas Brother, Fayard Antonio Nicholas, The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour, Cotton Club…American, tap dancer, tap dance, dancer, African American
Fayard Antonio Nicholas was an American dancer, and the elder brother of the tap dancing pair The Nicholas Brothers. The two greatest tap dancers...
Sammy Davis Jr.

Sammy Davis Jr.

male, deceased (1990)
the rat pack, period, Puerto Rican comedy and humor, buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, American military personnel of World War II, Puerto Rican-American…tap dancer, dancer, American, Jewish American, Americantapdancer
Samuel George Davis, Jr., better known as Sammy Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925 - May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer. He was a dancer, singer,...