A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another. Classified under: Nouns denoting people. Synonyms: heir; heritor; inheritor. Hypernyms (heir is a kind of...): receiver; recipient (a person who gets something)
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on April 17, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. Her parents were William and Temperance (Tempie); they divorced shortly after she was born. Ella and her mother moved to Yonkers, New York, where they eventually moved in with her mother s boyfriend, Joseph Da Silva.
Newport News, Virginia, United States (1917 â 1996) Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 â June 15, 1996) was an American jazz vocalist with a vocal range spanning three octaves (Dâ­3 to Dâ­6).