Violette Verdy

Violette Verdy was a French ballerina, choreographer, teacher, and writer who worked as a dance company director with the Paris Opera Ballet in France and the Boston Ballet in the United States. From 1958 to 1977 she was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet where she performed in the world premieres of several works created specifically for her by choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. She was Distinguished Professor of Music (Ballet) at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, in Bloomington, and the recipient of two medals from the French government.

1 December 1933

Born on the same birth date (1 December 1933): Lou Rawls

Born on the same birth day (1 December): Afrânio do Amaral • Andrew Adamson • Charlene Tilton • Laura Ling • Lee Trevino • Lou Rawls • Mubarak Hassan Shami • Neil Warnock • Stansfield Turner • Tyler Joseph • Verónica Forqué

Born in the same month (December 1933): Aquilino Pimentel Jr. • Ashleigh Brilliant • Bapu (director) • Dick Ricketts • Edward Bunker • Flip Wilson • Gennadiy Agapov • Horst Buchholz • Jackie Hendriks • John Hartle • John Y. Brown Jr. • Mike Larrabee • Milt Campbell • Nicolas Coster • Olavi Salonen • Paul Bracq • Paul J. Crutzen • Peter Harding (RAF officer, born 1933) • Robert Worcester • Samuel Brittan • Wink Martindale