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Les Paul
Dead
Born: 6/9/1915 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USADied: 8/13/2009
Age: 94
Cause of death: pneumonia
Full name: Lester William Poifus
Noted For: guitarist and guitar designer; innovated "The Log", an early solid-body electric guitar (1939). Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1988).
