Timeline Friday 17 July 1959

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Friday 17 July 1959

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Events on Friday 17 July 1959 2

1915 – 1959 Billie Holiday Jazz singer Lady Day — the American jazz singer whose phrasing changed popular singing, and whose Strange Fruit became a landmark of protest music.
1959 Billie Holiday dies in New York Aged 44 Dies under police guard in hospital.

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