1915 - 1959
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Billie Holiday has received more than 12,839,914 page views. Her biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Billie Holiday is the 48th most popular singer (up from 70th in 2019), the 297th most popular biography from United States (up from 532nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Singer.
Billie Holiday was a jazz singer who is most famous for her songs "God Bless the Child" and "Strange Fruit."
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Among singers, Billie Holiday ranks 48 out of 3,528. Before her are Joe Dassin, Mireille Mathieu, Nina Simone, Toto Cutugno, Albano Carrisi, and Constanze Mozart. After her are Joe Cocker, José Carreras, Celine Dion, Ella Fitzgerald, George Michael, and Phil Collins.
1938 - 1980
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 42
1946 - Present
HPI: 70.06
Rank: 43
1933 - 2003
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 44
1943 - Present
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 45
1943 - Present
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 46
1762 - 1842
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 47
1915 - 1959
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 48
1944 - 2014
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 49
1946 - Present
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 50
1968 - Present
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 51
1917 - 1996
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 52
1963 - 2016
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 53
1951 - Present
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 54
Among people born in 1915, Billie Holiday ranks 13. Before her are Vasily Zaitsev, Moshe Dayan, David Rockefeller, Orson Welles, Paul Samuelson, and Eli Wallach. After her are Arthur Miller, Jerome Bruner, Stanley Matthews, Yitzhak Shamir, Joachim Peiper, and Paul Tibbets. Among people deceased in 1959, Billie Holiday ranks 7. Before her are Stepan Bandera, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ante Pavelić, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, George Marshall, and Raymond Chandler. After her are Owen Willans Richardson, Gérard Philipe, Boris Vian, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Camilo Cienfuegos, and Adolf Windaus.
1915 - 1991
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 7
1915 - 1981
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 8
1915 - 2017
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 9
1915 - 1985
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 10
1915 - 2009
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 11
1915 - 2014
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 12
1915 - 1959
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 13
1915 - 2005
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 14
1915 - 2016
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 15
1915 - 2000
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 16
1915 - 2012
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 17
1915 - 1976
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 18
1915 - 2007
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 19
1909 - 1959
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 1
1867 - 1959
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 2
1889 - 1959
HPI: 70.80
Rank: 3
1869 - 1959
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 4
1880 - 1959
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 5
1888 - 1959
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 6
1915 - 1959
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 7
1879 - 1959
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 8
1922 - 1959
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 9
1920 - 1959
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 10
1887 - 1959
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 11
1932 - 1959
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 12
1876 - 1959
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 13
Among people born in United States, Billie Holiday ranks 297 out of 18,182. Before her are Raymond Chandler (1888), Gloria Stuart (1910), Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958), Edward Hopper (1882), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), and Eli Wallach (1915). After her are Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Jack Kerouac (1922), Ezra Pound (1885), Audie Murphy (1925), Martin Sheen (1940), and Fred Astaire (1899).
1888 - 1959
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 291
1910 - 2010
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 292
1958 - Present
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 293
1882 - 1967
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 294
1887 - 1986
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 295
1915 - 2014
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 296
1915 - 1959
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 297
1927 - 1987
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 298
1922 - 1969
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 299
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 300
1925 - 1971
HPI: 69.28
Rank: 301
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 302
1899 - 1987
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 303
Among singers born in United States, Billie Holiday ranks 19. Before her are Whitney Houston (1963), Barry White (1944), James Brown (1933), Patti Smith (1946), Joe Dassin (1938), and Nina Simone (1933). After her are Ella Fitzgerald (1917), 50 Cent (1975), Jennifer Lopez (1969), Kurt Cobain (1967), Sarah Vaughan (1924), and Stevie Wonder (1950).
1963 - 2012
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 13
1944 - 2003
HPI: 71.53
Rank: 14
1933 - 2006
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 15
1946 - Present
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 16
1938 - 1980
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 17
1933 - 2003
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 18
1915 - 1959
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 19
1917 - 1996
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 20
1975 - Present
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 21
1969 - Present
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 22
1967 - 1994
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 23
1924 - 1990
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 24
1950 - Present
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 25