(EN) Stanley Crouch, The TIME 100. Louis Armstrong, in Time, 8 giugno 1998.. URL consultato l'8 gennaio 2009 (archiviato dall'url originale il 27 maggio 2000).
«For many years it was thought that Armstrong was born in New Orleans on July 4, 1900, a perfect day for the man who wrote the musical Declaration of Independence for Americans of this century. But the estimable writer Gary Giddins discovered the birth certificate that proves Armstrong was born Aug. 4, 1901»