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Born
December 12, 1915 · Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

Died
May 14, 1998 · Los Angeles, California, USA (bladder cancer, and heart and kidney disease)

Birth name
Francis Albert Sinatra

Spouses
Barbara Sinatra (July 11, 1976 – May 14, 1998) (his death)
Mia Farrow (July 19, 1966 – August 16, 1968) (divorced)
Ava Gardner (November 7, 1951 – July 5, 1957) (divorced)
Nancy Barbato Sinatra (February 4, 1939 – October 29, 1951) (divorced, 3 children)

QUOTES:

[when Dean Martin walked out on The Together Again Tour] You can’t put a gun to his head. He just didn’t want to do it.
Nothing anybody’s said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

[after the deaths of Sammy Davis Jr., Ava Gardner, Jilly Rizzo and Dean Martin] I’m next. I ain’t scared, either. Everybody I ever knew is already over there.

[on Elvis Presley in 1957] Sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons; and by means of its almost imbecilic reiterations and sly, lewd – in plain fact, dirty – lyrics it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the Earth. This rancid-smelling aphrodisiac I deplore. His kind of music is deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

[on Ava Gardner] I love her, and God damn me for it.

You better get busy living, because dying’s a pain in the ass.

[on Elvis Presley’s death in 1977] There have been many accolades uttered about his talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree to wholeheartedly, I shall mi