Short answers, pulled from the story.
Virginia Katherine McMath was born on the 16th of July 1911 in Independence, Missouri. Her mother, Lela Emogene Owens, chose to deliver Ginger at home due to a family history of losing a child in a hospital.
A young cousin who could not pronounce Virginia correctly bestowed the nickname Ginger, which eventually eclipsed her legal name entirely. Her legal name was Virginia Katherine McMath before she took the surname Rogers after her mother married John Logan Rogers.
Ginger Rogers won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1941 for her role in Kitty Foyle. This performance solidified her status as one of the highest-paid actresses of the 1940s.
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire made nine films at RKO Pictures between 1933 and 1939. Their partnership ended with two commercial failures, Carefree and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, driven by the hard economic reality of the 1930s.
Ginger Rogers died of a heart attack at her Rancho Mirage home on the 25th of April 1995. She was 83 years old at the time of her death.