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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.

Read full obituary from The New York Times

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