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Frank Sinatra

By Emily Brum

  • Birth Day

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was born December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. The only child of Sicilian immigrants.

  • Sinatra gained legions of new, younger fans

    At the age of 77, Sinatra gained legions of new, younger fans with the release of Frank Sinatra Duets, a collection of 13 Sinatra standards that he rerecorded alongside the likes of Barbra Streisand, Bono, Tony Bennett and Aretha Franklin.

  • Frank Sinatra married his childhood sweetheart, Nancy Barbato

    Sinatra had three children, Nancy, Frank Jr., and Tina

  • Joins Tommy Dorsey and his band

  • Begins his solo carrer

  • Frank debut as an actor

    Movie "Higher and Higher"
  • Period: to

    Frank's career take off

    The mobs of fans Sinatra attracted with his dreamy baritone earned him such nicknames as "The Voice" and "The Sultan of Swoon."

  • First visited the White House

    While campaigning for Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • He wins an special Acadamy Award

    For " The house I live in"
  • Period: to

    Frank's career starts to slide in the postwar years

  • Sinatra married actress Ava Gardner

  • Frank wins the Oscar

    In 1953, Frank makes an triumphant comeback winning the Oscar for "From Here to Eternity"

  • He is nominated for another Academy Award

    For "The men with the golden arm"
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    Frank starts his own record label, Reprise, and in association with Wanner Bros., he set up his own independent film production company, Artanis

  • Sinatra worked eagerly for John F. Kennedy's election

  • He receives a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Sinatra remarried a third time, to Mia Farrow

  • Frank returned to the music scene and also became more politically active

    With the album "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back"

  • Sinatra married for a fourth and final time to Barbara Blakely Marx

  • Sinatra is presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award

  • On this year an unauthorized biography of Sinatra is published

    Author Kitty Kelley published an unauthorized biography of Sinatra, accusing the singer of relying on mob ties to build his career.

  • Sinatra performed in concert for the last time

    At the Palm Desert Marriott Ballroom in California

  • Frank Sinatra died of a heart attack at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center