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Leonard Chess
Sign in to saveAlso known as Lejzor Shmuel Czyż, Leonard Samuel Chess
Polish-American record company executive (1917-1969)
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Motal
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Sibling
- Phil Chess
- Occupation
- entrepreneur
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Genre
- Chicago blues
- Record label
- Chess Records
- Residence
- Chicago
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- date of birth
- 1917-03-12
- date of death
- 1969-10-16
- cause of death
- cardiac arrest
- birth name
- Lejzor Shmuel Czyż
- start of work period
- 1938-00-00
- Commons category
- Leonard Chess
- manner of death
- natural causes
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