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Jun 25, 2021 · Billie Holiday died aged 44 due to complications brought by liver cirrhosis. Billie Holiday was born on 7th April 1915 to teenage couple Sadie Fagan and Clarence Halliday. Clarence abandoned the family to pursue a career in jazz, leaving Billie under the care of Sadie.
Billie Holiday died in Metropolitan Hospital, New York, on Friday, July 17, 1959, in the bed in which she had been arrested for illegal possession of narcotics a little more than a month before, as she lay mortally ill; in the room from which a police guard had been removed – by court order – only a few hours before her death.
Apr 10, 2021 · In 1959 she collapsed in Manhattan and was taken to the hospital where, according to Hari, Holiday told a friend she thought the Feds — who never stopped hounding her over her drug use, in an effort to silence her — were going to kill her at the hospital.
Nov 5, 2024 · Died: July 17, 1959, New York City, New York. Also Known As: Lady Day. Eleanora Fagan. Eleanora Harris. Eleanora Gough. Elinore Harris. Show More. Top Questions. Why was Billie Holiday significant? What was Billie Holiday best known for? How did Billie Holiday get famous? News •.
Billie Holiday, famed jazz singer, died yesterday in Metropolitan Hospital. Her age was 44. The immediate cause of death was given as congestion of the lungs complicated by heart...
Jul 17, 2022 · Billie Holiday passed away on July 17, 1959, of pulmonary edema and heart failure caused by cirrhosis, or liver disease, in the Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The cirrhosis was...
Apr 7, 2015 · Died. Billie Holiday, 44, Negro blues singer, whose husky, melancholy voice reflected the tragedy of her own life; in Manhattan.
After years of substance abuse, Holiday’s body had grown weary of the abuse and she died from heart failure on July 17, 1959, at age 44. View objects relating to Billie Holiday. Top image: Photograph of Billie Holiday and her dog Mister by David Hawkins, ca. 1948. 2013.46.25.89
Jun 16, 2007 · Forty-four-year-old Billie Holiday died on July 17, 1959, of cirrhosis of the liver in Metropolitan Hospital in New York City. Subjects: African American History , People
Apr 1, 2015 · We’re talking not of Michael Jackson’s funeral, but that of Billie Holiday, whose death in 1959 brought to an end one of the sadder stories in American pop music. Holiday was born Eleanora...
