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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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