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.
Ella Fitzgerald Was Born April 25, 1918. Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald could sing like a saxophone. Today, April 25, 1918, is the day she was born in Newport News, Virginia. She mastered a technique called scat in which the singer makes up nonsense syllables to imitate musical instruments: Skee-ba-doobie-do-wah.