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Fact #173452

When:

13121902

Short story:

William Alexander Greer is born in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA. He will find success as jazz drummer and vocalist Sonny Greer, best known for his work with Duke Ellington. (N.B. His date of birth is disputed but, by his own account in the book American Musicians II: Seventy-One Portraits in Jazz, he was born on this day.