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Dizzy Gillespie Famous memorial

Original Name: John Birks Gillespie
Birth: 21 Oct 1917
Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, USA
Death: 6 Jan 1993 (aged 75)
Englewood, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA
Burial: Flushing Cemetery

Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 40.7533531, Longitude: -73.7948227
Plot: Buried next to his mother. Unmarked.
Memorial ID: 3998 View Source

Maintained by: Find a Grave

Added: Nov 14, 1998
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3998/dizzy-gillespie: accessed ), memorial page for Dizzy Gillespie (21 Oct 1917–6 Jan 1993), Find a Grave Memorial ID 3998, citing Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.

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