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Fact #101195

When:

16101969

Short story:

Leonard Chess, co-founder of Chess Records, dies of a heart attack, in Chicago, Illinois, aged 52.

Full article:

Marshall Chess (son of Leonard Chess, founder of Chess Records] : My father died in '69. He was 52. I stayed on as president of Chess under the GRT Corporation, but I hated it. GRT had no understanding of black music or a family-owned business.

(Source : unknown)