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Fact #106576

When:

16051953

Short story:

Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt dies, aged 43, from a brain hemorrhage in hospital in Fontainebleau, France, Europe. Reinhardt is regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time and the first important European jazz musician to make major contributions to the development of the genre.