Billie Holiday
4/7/1915 - 7/17/1959
Aries
Last Words
"Not Recorded"
Death & Legacy
Billie Holiday, famed jazz singer, died yesterday in Metropolitan Hospital. The immediate cause of death was given as pulmonary edema and heart failure. The blues singer, who had lived so much, so hard and so fast, was only 44 years old.
Details
- Cause of Death
- Cirrhosis of the liver
- Age at Death
- 44 years
- Funeral Location
- Saint Paul the Apostle Roman Catholic Church, New York City, New York, USA
- Final Resting Place
- Saint Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, USA