American guitarist, songwriter, and inventor (born 1915)

Les Paul

Lester William Polsfuss, known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, and his prototype, called the Log, served as inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul. Paul taught himself how to play guitar, and while he is mainly known for jazz and popular music, he had an early career in country music. In the 1950s, he and his wife, singer and guitarist Mary Ford, made numerous recordings, selling millions of copies.

Born

1915

June 9

Died

2009

Era

1910s

Country

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Les, in brief

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Key dates

1915 Born
2009 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

-411 The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
53 The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
68 Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
721 Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.

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The world in 1915

When Les arrived

april 18 World War I: French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines.
april 22 World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
april 24 The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.
april 25 World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on June 9

Christina Stürmer 1982– Austrian singer-songwriter D'banj 1980– Nigerian singer-songwriter and harmonica player Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata 1946– Italian politician and diplomat, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Johann Gottfried Galle 1812– German astronomer and academic (died 1910) Josh Cribbs 1983– American football player Mae Whitman 1988– American actress Patricia Cornwell 1956– American journalist and author Pierre Duhem 1861– French physicist, mathematician, and historian (died 1916) Robert Cummings 1910–1990 American actor, director, and producer (born 1908)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1915

Claudia Jones 1915–1964 Trinidad-British journalist and activist (born 1915) Ethel Rosenberg 1915–1953 American spy (born 1915) Germán Valdés 1915– Mexican actor, singer, and producer (died 1973) Jon Hall 1915–1979 American actor and director (born 1915) Joseph Ransohoff 1915–2001 American surgeon and educator (born 1915) Kiyosi Itô 1915–2008 Japanese mathematician and academic (born 1915) Leonard Goodwin 1915–2008 British protozoologist (died 2008) M. F. Husain 1915–2011 Indian painter and director (born 1915) Nicky Barr 1915–2006 Australian rugby player, soldier, and pilot (died 2006)

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