Updated at November 7, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Billie Holiday |
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Birthdate | April 07, 1915 |
Birth Place | Philadelphia, PA |
Age (in 2024) | 109 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Jazz Singer |
Billie Holiday is best known as Jazz Singer who has born on April 07, 1915 in Philadelphia, PA. Currently, Billie Holiday is 109 years, 7 months and 0 days old. Billie Holiday will celebrate 110th birthday on Monday, 7th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Billie Holiday upcoming birthday.
American jazz singer and songwriter who sang "Strange Fruit," "Easy Living," and "Lady Sings the Blues." She received numerous awards, including being inducted into the Grammy Award Hall of Fame.
She went to New York City, where she and her mother both ended up in prostitution and were later sent to prison.
After her release from prison at age fourteen, she began singing under the stagename Billie Holiday. Holiday's name came from Billie Dove, an actress, and the man she believed to be her father, Clarence Holiday.
She married Jimmy Monroe on August 25, 1941 and, after their divorce in 1957, she married Louis McKay on March 28, 1957.
She was good friends with fellow jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald.
Billie Holiday is 109 years old today.
Billie Holiday was born on April 07, 1915 in Philadelphia, PA.
Billie Holiday zodiac sign is Aries.
Billie Holiday was best known as Jazz Singer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Billie Holiday's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1994 | Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy. |
1995 | First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya. |
2001 | NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter. |
2003 | Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later. |
2009 | Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces. |
2009 | Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent. |
2011 | The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever. |
2017 | A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others. |
2017 | U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack. |
2018 | Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the “Car-Wash Operation”. Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, after being released by the Brazilian Supreme Court. |
2018 | Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War. |
2020 | COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan. |
2020 | COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier. |
2021 | COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States. |
2022 | Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice. |
1989 | The birth of Mitchell Pearce, Australian rugby league player |
1989 | The birth of Teddy Riner, French judoka |
1990 | The birth of Nickel Ashmeade, Jamaican sprinter |
1990 | The birth of Anna Bogomazova, Russian-American kick-boxer, martial artist, and wrestler |
1990 | The birth of Sorana Cîrstea, Romanian tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Trent Cotchin, Australian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Luka Milivojević, Serbian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Anne-Marie, English singer-songwriter |
1992 | The birth of Andreea Acatrinei, Romanian gymnast |
1992 | The birth of Guilherme Negueba, Brazilian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Ichinojō Takashi, Mongolian sumo wrestler |
1994 | The birth of Johanna Allik, Estonian figure skater |
1994 | The birth of Aaron Gray, Australian rugby league player |
1996 | The birth of Emerson Hyndman, American international soccer player |
1997 | The birth of Rafaela Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player |
2014 | The death of Zeituni Onyango, Kenyan-American computer programmer (b. 1952) |
2014 | The death of John Shirley-Quirk, English opera singer (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of George Shuffler, American guitarist (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Josep Maria Subirachs, Spanish sculptor and painter (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Royce Waltman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1942) |
2015 | The death of Tim Babcock, American soldier and politician, 16th Governor of Montana (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of José Capellán, Dominican-American baseball player (b. 1981) |
2015 | The death of Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Richard Henyekane, South African footballer (b. 1983) |
2015 | The death of Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (b. 1935) |
2016 | The death of Blackjack Mulligan, American professional wrestler (b. 1942) |
2019 | The death of Seymour Cassel, American actor (b. 1935) |
2020 | The death of John Prine, American country folk singer-songwriter (b. 1946) |
2020 | The death of Herb Stempel, American television personality (b. 1926) |
2021 | The death of Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1950) |
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Wikipedia | Billie Holiday on Wikipedia |
Website | Billie Holiday's Webiste |
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