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On July 6, 1971 Louis Armstrong passed away at his home in Queens, NY. Two days later, more than 30,000 came to pay their respects to the beloved jazz legend. Louis Armstrong was buried in Flushing Cemetery in Queens, just a few miles away from his home in Corona.
Louis Armstrong (Photo: Jack Bradley) Some 15 years after âPopsâ passed away on July 6, 1971, New Orleans historian Tad Jones discovered a baptismal certificate that indicated, and some say proved, that Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901. On what many consider flimsy evidence, history books were changed, and now the date is often described as Armstrongâs ârealâ birthday.