Frankie Lee Sims

Birth Name:
Frankie Lee Sims
Birth Date:
April 30, 1917
Birth Place:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Death Date:
May 10, 1970
Place of Death:
Dallas, Texas
Age:
0
Cause of Death:
Pneumonia
Cemetery Name:
Lincoln Memorial Park
Claim to Fame:
Music

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Lincoln Memorial Park

Dallas, Texas, 0

USA

North America

Grave Location:

Block 25, Lot 15, Grave 7

Grave Location Description

Fifteen rows from the block marker

Grave Location GPS

32.695173, -96.68538

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Miles Davis

popular name: Miles Davis

date_of_death: September 28, 1991

age: 65

cause_of_death: Stroke, pneumonia, and respiratory failure

claim_to_fame: Music

best_know_for: There are few musical geniuses in this world, but as jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader Miles Davis is one of the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. His sound, technique and restless innovation as an individual performer and as a leader of jazz bands and groups won him recognition as perhaps the foremost setter of style and fashion in what is often called America's only indigenous musical art form.

Duke Ellington

popular name: Duke Ellington

date_of_death: May 24, 1974

age: 75

cause_of_death: Lung cancer and pneumonia

claim_to_fame: Music

best_know_for: Considered by many as the greatest jazz composer and bandleader of his time, Duke Ellington led his band for more than half a century, composed thousands of scores, and created one of the most distinctive ensemble sounds in all of Western music. In addition to the over 1000 composition and phenomenal sideman that graced his various musical groups, Ellington was noted for his inventive use of the orchestra and for his eloquence and charisma. His reputation continued to rise after he died, and he was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Award for music in 1999.

Bob Wills

popular name: Bob Wills

date_of_death: May 13, 1975

age: 70

cause_of_death: Complications from a stroke and pneumonia

claim_to_fame: Music

best_know_for: Bob Wills was a bandleader, fiddler, singer, and songwriter who is the most famous exponent of the popular musical genre now known as western swing, which synthesized ragtime, traditional fiddling, New Orleans jazz, blues, Mexican songs, and big band swing. Wills, along with his band the Texas Playboys, toured and recorded nonstop throughout the 1940s and early 1950s amassing dozens of hits including "Steel Guitar Rag", "New San Antonio Rose", "Smoke On The Water", "New Spanish Two Step" and "Faded Love." Wills had a heart attack in 1962 and a second one the next year, which forced him to disband the Playboys, although Wills continued to perform solo. He was recording an album with fan Merle Haggard in 1973 when a stroke left him comatose for 17 months until his death in 1975. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Wills and the Texas Playboys in 1999.

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