We study compact Kähler manifolds $X$ admitting nonvanishing holomorphic vector fields, extending the classical birational classification of projective varieties with tangent vector fields to a classification modulo deformation in the Kähler case, and biholomorphic in the projective case. We introduce and analyze a new class of $\mathrm{𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠}$, and show that they form a smooth subspace in the Kuranishi space of deformations of the complex structure of $X$. We extend Calabi’s theorem on the structure of compact Kähler...