Editing Duke Ellington (section)

===Honors and inductions===
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|2022
|Foundational
|June 18, 2022<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Aderoju |first=Darlene |date=June 13, 2022 |title=Black Music Month & Juneteenth 2022: Industry Celebrations (Updating) |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/black-music-month-juneteenth-industry-celebrations-2022-1235079450/ |access-date=June 14, 2022 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref>
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| 2009
| [[50 State Quarters|Commemorative U.S. quarter]]
| D.C. and U.S. Territories Quarters Program.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/DCAndTerritories/ |title=The United States Mint · About The Mint |publisher=Usmint.gov |access-date=February 2, 2013 |archive-date=February 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110225011425/http://www.usmint.gov/mint%5Fprograms/dcandterritories/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="wapo">{{Cite news
 |author=Sheridan, Mary Beth
 | title = Ellington Comes Out Ahead in Coin Tossup
 | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]
 | date = June 20, 2008
 | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061904090.html
 | access-date =October 3, 2009
}}</ref>
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| 2008
| [[Gennett Records]] Walk of Fame
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| 2004
| [[Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame]]<br />at [[Jazz at Lincoln Center]]
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| 1999
| [[1999 Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prize]]
| [[Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards|Special Citation]]<ref name=pulitzer>[http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/1999-Special-Awards-and-Citations "The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Special Awards and Citations"]. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved December 3, 2013. With reprint of short biography and list of works (selected).</ref>

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| 1992
| [[Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame]]
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| 1986
| 22¢ [[List of people on stamps of the United States|commemorative U.S. stamp]]
| Issued April 29, 1986<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.centerforjazzarts.org/usps_exhibition2.html#ellington |title=Featured Exhibition |publisher=Center for Jazz Arts |access-date=February 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518025241/http://www.centerforjazzarts.org/usps_exhibition2.html#ellington |archive-date=May 18, 2013 }}</ref>
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| 1978
| Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame
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| 1973
| French [[Legion of Honour]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d5301c13.htm |title=NMAH Archives Center |publisher=Americanhistory.si.edu |access-date=February 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130222214/http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d5301c13.htm |archive-date=January 30, 2012 }}</ref>
| July 6, 1973
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| 1973
| Honorary Degree in Music from [[Columbia University]]
| May 16, 1973
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| 1971
| Honorary Doctorate Degree from [[Berklee College of Music]]
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| 1971
| Honorary Doctor of Music from [[Howard University]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Recipients of Honorary Degrees (By Year) | publisher = Howard University | url = http://www.howard.edu/secretary/convocations/recipients-year.htm }}</ref>
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| 1971
| [[Inductees of the Songwriters Hall of Fame|Songwriters Hall of Fame]]
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| 1969
| [[List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients|Presidential Medal of Freedom]]
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| 1968
| [[Grammy Trustees Award]]
| Special Merit Award
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| 1967
| Honorary Doctor of Music Degree from [[Yale University]]<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Galston | first = Arthur | title = The Duke & I: A professor explains how jazz legend Duke Ellington became a doctor in 1967 | journal = Yale Alumni Magazine | date = October 2002 | url = http://archive.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_10/outoftheblue.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Yale Honorary Degree Recipients |publisher=Yale University |url=http://ris-systech2.its.yale.edu/hondegrees/hondegrees.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150521015848/http://ris-systech2.its.yale.edu/hondegrees/hondegrees.asp |archive-date=May 21, 2015 }}</ref>
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| 1966
| [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]]
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| 1964
| Honorary degree, [[Milton College]], Wisconsin
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| 1959
| [[Spingarn Medal|NAACP Spingarn Medal]]
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| 1957
| [[Deutscher Filmpreis]]: Best Music
|Award won for the movie ''Jonah'' with fellow composer [[Winfried Zillig]]
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| 1956
| ''[[DownBeat]]'' Jazz Hall of Fame inductee
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