American bandleader, jazz musician, songwriter.
Born March 14th, 1912 in Reinerton. [ref]
Died January 4th, 2001 at 88 years old in Pacific Palisades (lung cancer). [ref]
It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks