1996 Johnny "Guitar" Watson, musician, dies at 61
1994 Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar, dies at 60
1991 Leo Fender, inventor (Fender guitar), dies
1978 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
1976 George Harrison releases "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)"
1974 Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London
1967 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
1966 Mark Michaels, heavy metal guitarist, Teach Yourself Rhythm Guitar
1966 Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..."
1964 Lenny Kravitz, singer/guitar, 911 is a Joke, Are You Gonna Go My Way?
1961 Nick Heyward, guitar/vocals, Haircut 100-Favourite Shirts
1961 Lloyd Cole, guitar/vocals, & the Commotions-Rattlesnakes
1959 Slim [Eddie Jones] Guitar, rocker, dies at 32
1958 Paul Weller, guitar, Jam-This is Modern World, Style Council
1958 David Sylvian, vocal/guitar, Sylvian Sylvian, Japan-Adolescent Sex
1958 Gibson patents Flying V Guitar
1955 Pete Shelley, vocal/guitar, Buzzcocks-Going Steady, Love Bites
1955 Steve Earle, born in San Antonio, Texas, country singer, Guitar Town
1951 Martha Davis, California, vocalist/guitar, Motels-Only the Lonely, Shame
1949 Jeff Cook, Fort Payne Ala, country guitar/vocalist, Alabama-Mt Music
1949 Mark Knopfler, guitar/vocals, Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing
1949 John Miles, vocal/guitar/keyboards, John Miles Band-Rebel, Zaragon
1948 Mark Farner, Michigan, guitar/vocalist, Grand Funk Railroad-Locomotion
1942 Ray Ennis, England, guitar, Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good
1935 Johnny "Guitar" Watson, rock guitarist
1934 Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar
1926 Eddie Jones, "Guitar Slim" rocker
1925 Guitar Gabriel Robert Lewis Jones, singer/guitarist
1924 Scott Brady, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, China Syndrome, Gremlins, Johnny Guitar
1924 Chet Atkins, born in Luttrell, Tennessee, guitarist, Me and My Guitar
1915 Les Paul, born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, guitarist/inventor, Les Paul guitar
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