Édith Piaf was born on 19 December 1915 in Paris. A French singer born in a working-class district of Paris, Piaf began by singing on the streets and was discovered by the cabaret owner Louis Leplée in 1935. Nicknamed the Little Sparrow, she became the voice of French chanson, with an intense, tremulous delivery and songs about love and hardship. Her best-known recordings include La Vie en rose, Hymne à l'amour and Non, je ne regrette rien. She performed at the Paris Olympia and toured in the United States, and her life was marked by accidents, illness and addiction. She died at 47, and tens of thousands of mourners gathered at her funeral.
Before and after
- from 21 November 1915 to 30 August 1916Shackleton's Endurance is crushed by the ice
- from 22 November 1915 to 25 November 1915Battle of Ctesiphon
- 25 November 1915Birth of Augusto Pinochet
- 12 December 1915Birth of Frank Sinatra
- 19 December 1915Birth of Édith Piaf
- 1916General relativity
- 1916Establishment of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
- from 1916 to 1934Basmachi movement
- 1916Construction of Josep Tarradellas Airport Barcelona-El Prat
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