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Thelonious Monk's birth name is Monk, Thelonious Sphere.
Thelonious Monk went by Melodious, The High Priest of Bebop, The Mad Monk, and The Genius of Modern Music.
Thomas Fitterling, in Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music(1997), points out that Monk's middle name, "Sphere," derives from his maternal grandmother, Sphere Batts. Not a hipster's cool affectation, "Sphere" was part of Monk's given name according to family documents.
Meredith Henderson's birth name is Meredith Janet Anne Henderson.
Monk was supposed to be 42 in the first show (July 2002), his birthday being October 17, 1959. Tony Shalhoub was born on October 9, 1953. He was 48 when the show started and 56 when it ended (December, 2009).