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Bessie Smith 1932 - 2008

Bessie Smith of Austin, Travis County, Texas was born on November 20, 1932, and died at age 75 years old on January 10, 2008.
Bessie Smith
Austin, Travis County, Texas 78731
November 20, 1932
January 10, 2008
Female
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    1932

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    November 20, 1932
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  • 01/10
    2008

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    January 10, 2008
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    Bessie Smith lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 75.
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In 1932, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, on February 27th, actress Elizabeth Taylor was born in London. Her parents were Americans living in London and when she was 7, the family moved to Los Angeles. Her first small part in a movie was in There's One Born Every Minute in 1942 but her first starring role was in National Velvet in 1944. She became as famous for her 8 marriages (to 7 people) as she was for her beauty and films.
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In 1945, at the age of only 13 years old, Bessie was alive when on April 12th, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. At 1p, he was sitting for a portrait when he complained that he had a "terrific pain" in the back of his head and collapsed. A doctor was summoned and the doctor gave him a shot of adrenaline into his heart. It didn't help and he was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m. A slow moving train took him back to Washington D.C. while thousands of mourners lined the tracks. He was buried at his home in Hyde Park, New York.
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