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On this day in 1959 Billie Holiday took leave of this earthly burden and left her mortal coil behind. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics had been targeting her since at least 1939. She was arrested and handcuffed for drug possession as she lay dying, her hospital room was raided and she was placed under police guard.
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On July 15, she received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church and died two days later, at the age of 44, on 7/17/1959, at 3:10 a.m., of pulmonary edema and heart failure caused by cirrhosis of the liver.