Angela Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 or May 27, 1878[a] â€" September
14, 1927) was an American dancer who performed to great acclaim
throughout Europe. Born and raised in California, she lived and danced
in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her
death at age 50 when her scarf became entangled in the wheels and axle
of the car in which she was riding in Nice, France.Isadora Duncan was
born in San Francisco, the youngest of the four children of Joseph
Charles Duncan (1819â€"1898), a banker, mining engineer and
connoisseur of the arts, and Mary Isadora Gray (1849â€"1922). Her
brothers were Augustin Duncan and Raymond Duncan; her sister,
Elizabeth Duncan, was also a dancer. Soon after Isadora's birth, her
father was found to have been using funds from two banks he had helped
set up to finance his private stock speculations. Although he avoided
prison time, Isadora's mother (angered over his infidelities as well
as the financial scandal) divorced him and from then on, the family
struggled with poverty.After her parents' divorce, Isadora's mother
moved with her family to Oakland, California, where she worked as a
seamstress and piano teacher. From ages six to ten, Isadora attended
school, but she dropped out, finding it constricting. She and her
three siblings earned money by teaching dance to local children.In
1896, Duncan became part of Augustin Daly's theater company in New
York, but she soon became disillusioned with the form and craved a
different environment with less of a hierarchy. Her father, along with
his third wife and their daughter, died in 1898 when the British
passenger steamer SS Mohegan ran aground off the coast of Cornwall. Isadora Duncan Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter