Fayard Nicholas Death Cause and Date

Fayard Nicholas' Death

Born (Birthday) October 20, 1914

Death Date January 24, 2006

Age of Death 91 years

Cause of Death Pneumonia

Profession Dancer

The dancer Fayard Nicholas died at the age of 91. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Choreographer, dancer, and actor; he and his brother, Harold, became known as the Nicholas Brothers.

He married his girlfriend, Barbara, in January 1967.

He was 91. The cause was pneumonia and other complications of a stroke he suffered in November, his son Tony said. Fayard was 18 and Harold was 11 when they became the featured act at the Cotton Club in Harlem in 1932. Despite the racial hurdles facing them as black performers, they went on to Broadway, then Hollywood.