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Mildred Dixon (November 21, 1904 –September 18, 2001) was a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem who became a longtime companion of composer and musician Duke Ellington, and manager of his company. She was born in Boston to parents from Africville, Nova Scotia. She became a dancer and moved to New York in the mid-1920s, where she became known as part of the dance couple, "Mildred and Henri."

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Born	21 November 1904 (age 120)
Zodiac	Scorpio
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American jazz pianist and composer

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