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Fact #2704

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Jazz guitar legend Django Reinhardt dies in Fontainebleau, France, aged 43, following a brain hemorrhage which struck him as he walked home after playing in a Paris club. On the same day, rock guitar virtuoso and composer Mike Oldfield is born in Reading, Berkshire, UK.