The screenplay, written by Lowell Ganz, is based on the best-selling novel by Billie Letts.

* 1884 – Billie Burke, American actress ( d. 1970 )

* 1915 – Billie Holiday, American singer and songwriter ( d. 1959 )

* 1908 – Billie Bird, American actress ( d. 2002 )

* 1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player

* 1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.

* April 20 – Billie Holiday records " Strange Fruit ", the first anti-lynching song.

* July 17 – Billie Holiday, American singer ( b. 1915 )

* August 7 – Billie Burke, American actress ( d. 1970 )

* March 25 – Motown celebrates its 25th anniversary and has the television special Motown 25 during which Michael Jackson performed " Billie Jean " and introduces to the world the moonwalk.

Her mother, Billie ( née Early ), is an import-export agent, and her father, Emilio Diaz ( 1949 – 2008 ), worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for more than 20 years as a field gauger.

* Sugar Chile Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet ( 1950 ) – as himself

* Judy Holliday – Billie Dawn

* Madeline Kahn – Billie Dawn

* Billie Joe Armstrong – lead vocals, guitar

* Billie Wayne Lemons ( 1955 – 2008 ), Church of Christ minister in Lubbock and player for Cleveland Browns in 1977

* Billie Smith – Mitzi Green

* Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport – Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday

* Billie Holiday Sings – Billie Holiday

*# US Open – Billie Jean King

*# Wimbledon – Billie Jean King

* 20 September – In the famed Battle of the sexes at Houston's Astrodome – Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in 3straight sets.

Artists signed to American Decca in the 1930s and 1940s included Louis Armstrong, Charlie Kunz, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Jane Froman, The Boswell Sisters, Billie Holiday, The Andrews Sisters, Ted Lewis, Judy Garland, The Mills Brothers, Billy Cotton, Guy Lombardo, Chick Webb, Louis Jordan ( the No. 1 R & B artist of the 1940s ), Bob Crosby, Bill Kenny & The Ink Spots, Dorsey Brothers ( and subsequently Jimmy Dorsey after the brothers split ), Connee Boswell and Jack Hylton, Victor Young, Earl Hines, Claude Hopkins, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the original ' soul sister ' of recorded music.

Green Day's lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong co-wrote the only released single " Unforgiven " which peaked at No. 22 on Billboard's Adult Top 40 chart.

*" Percolator ( Twist )" by Billie Joe & the Checkmates ( No. 10, 1962 )

* " No Brakes On My Rollerskates " ( Hot Skates 3000 featuring Billie Ray Martin ) ( 2005 )

Songs by Billie Holiday (" Don't Explain ", " Down In The Dumps "), Patsy Cline (" Imagine That ", " I Fall to Pieces "), Sonic Youth (" Pacific Coast Highway "), Selena (" No Me Quedo Mas "), and even The Minutemen ( a rearranged " Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth?

Billie had unhitched the mules from both Tom Brannon's and his father's wagon.

All I could remember was Billie Dove pasted over the ceiling of my big brother's room.

Other key traditional pop and jazz ballads include: " Body and Soul " by Johnny Green ; " Misty " by Erroll Garner ; " The Man I Love " by George Gershwin ; " My Funny Valentine " by Rodgers and Hart, " God Bless the Child " by Billie Holiday, " Ev ' ry Time We Say Goodbye " by Cole Porter, the instrumental ballad " Naima " by John Coltrane, " In a Sentimental Mood " by Duke Ellington and " Always " by Irving Berlin.

In 2009, Universal Pictures signed music video and film director Billie Woodruff ( Barbershop, Honey ) to direct the fifth film in the Bring It On series titled Bring It On: Fight to the Finish.

In 2003, some of the members from Devo were alleged to have partaken in a side project called The Network, which featured Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool and Jason White of Green Day.

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

When in New York, he and Billie held numerous parties at the Silver Horn restaurant, where they got to know Marge Zimmerman, the proprietress.

After two weeks in hospital, Zimmerman became his full-time caregiver, traveling with him and Billie wherever they went.

On September 28, 1922, Cagney married dancer Frances Willard " Billie " Vernon, with whom he remained for the rest of his life.

The house was rather run-down and ramshackle, and Billie was initially reluctant to move in, but soon came to love the place as well.

Billie once received a phone call telling her that Cagney was dead.

She began singing in the local choir and expanded her listening to blues singers such as Odetta, Billie Holiday and Big Mama Thornton.

He had four siblings: Lawrence, Billie, Neil, and Harry Jr.

The remaining Mouseketeers, consisting of the White or Blue Teams, were Don Agrati ( later known as Don Grady when starring as " Robbie " on the long running sitcom My Three Sons ), Sherry Alberoni, Billie Jean Beanblossom, Johnny Crawford, Jonathan A. Kahn ( a. k. a. Tio Juan ), Eileen Diamond, Dickie Dodd ( not related to Jimmie Dodd ), Mary Espinosa, Bonnie Lynn Fields, Judy Harriet, Linda Hughes, Dallas Johann, John Lee Johann, Bonni Lou Kern, Charlie Laney, Larry Larsen, Paul Petersen, Lynn Ready, Mickey Rooney Jr., Tim Rooney, Mary Lynn Sartori, Bronson Scott, Michael Smith, Margene Storey, Ronnie Steiner, Mark Sutherland and Don Underhill.

In Michael Jackson's " Billie Jean " video a number of freeze frames are shown in split screen.

Other important pioneers for the sport are Beulah Gundling, Käthe Jacobi, Marion Kane Elston, Dawn Bean, Billie MacKellar, Teresa Anderson, Gail Johnson, Gail Emery and Charlotte Davis.

She is also known for her role on Fastlane as Wilhelmina ' Billie ' Chambers, as well as her current role of Elizabeth Burke in the USA Network television series White Collar.