Django Reinhardt (Gypsy Jazz Guitarist), May 16, 1953

A Gypsy, he never lived in a house or wore a suit until age twenty. At age 18, a late-night caravan fire left him with only two, useful fingers on his fretting hand. And yet somehow, he went on to be one of the world's great guitar players ... much admired, much copied ... his recorded music still purchased and downloaded nearly sixty years after his death and nearly eighty years after it was recorded. The strange truth about the man we knew as "Django," just 43 when he died.