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Richard Rodgers

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Profession
Composer
Died
Dec 30, 1979
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
New York City NY
About
Broadway composer with Oscar Hammerstein II and Lorenz Hart. He composed over 900 songs and 43 musicals, including "Oklahoma!," "The King and I," "The Sound of Music," and many other immortal classics.
Family
He was born into the upper-class German Jewish family of Dr. William Abrahams Rodgers, a respected physician. He married Dorothy Rodgers in 1940, and they had two children together.

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