When Billie Holiday was born on 7 April 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Clarence Earnest Holiday, was 16 and her mother, Sarah Julia Fagan, was 18. She married James Norman Monroe on 25 August 1941, in Elkton, Cecil, Maryland, United States. She lived in New York City, New York County, New York, United States in 1940 and New York, United States in 1959. In 1930, her occupation is listed as american jazz and swing music singer. She died on 17 July 1959, in New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Saint Raymond's New Cemetery and Mausoleum, The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States.
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English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): variant of Holliday .
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Possible Related NamesBillie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan in 1915, the daughter of unwed teenage parents; her mother was thirteen years old, her father fifteen. Her father, a musician, left the family when Billie was a …
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