* 1921 – Manitas de Plata, French guitarist

* 1977 – Tom Frager, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and surfer

* 1959 – Nicola Sirkis, French singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Indochine )

* 1949 – Yves Duteil, French singer-songwriter and guitarist

** Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer ( b. 1806 )

* June 28 – Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer ( d. 1883 )

He began looking for a new band to play with, having " grown tired of Sacramento's coffeehouse circuit ", and quickly attracted trumpet player Vince DiFiore, guitarist Greg Brown, bassist Shon Meckfessel and drummer Frank French.

Dieter Kaiser, a Belgian-German singer, who performs internationally in public concerts with a music quartet comprising the French-German professional guitarist, Stéphane Bazire, the guitar playing female singer Barbara and a keyboarder, as Stéphane – Didier & Cie, has translated 30 of Brel's songs and has gathered them in a booklet with over 100 other French chansons in German ( also available at www. deutsche-chanson-texte. de ).

Early recorded examples of free-form improvisation include solo guitar works by the French guitarist Django Reinhardt and a pair of 1949 recordings for Capitol by a group led by Lennie Tristano, " Intuition " and " Digression ".

Stéphane Grappelli ( ; 26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997 ) was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934.

Twisted Sister's guitarist Jay Jay French stated " I would say our direct lineage these days is a bit of Slade and Alice Cooper.

* Laurent Brancowitz, guitarist for French band Phoenix ( band )

* Rendezvous Entertainment, an American record label founded by French jazz guitarist Marc Antoine

Though Winding himself was credited with playing the Ondioline, guitarist Vinnie Bell, who worked on the session, has said he remembers distinctly that the French electronic-music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey was the actual player.

Some of these ensemble musicians were German, Polish, French or Italian ; the court of Gábor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania, included a Spanish guitarist.

On this album, the Godfrey brothers emphasised their role as producers creating a set of instrumental tracks entirely sung by a roster of guest performers — cult folk-rock singer Judie Tzuke, Norwegian singer-songwriter and former Jaga Jazzist collaborator Thomas Dybdahl, blues singer / guitarist Bradley Burgess, Korean-American rapper Cool Calm Pete, and French singer Manda ( Amanda Zamolo ).

* Jay Jay French ( born 1952 ), also called John French, American guitarist

* Henri Salvador ( 1917 − 2008 ), French singer and jazz guitarist

Although the band was formed by guitarist Jay Jay French in December 1972, all of their songs were written by Dee Snider from 1976 onward.

The line up was lead singer Micheal Valentine, guitarist Billy Diamond, drummer Mell Star, bass player Kenneth Harrison Neill, and Johnny Heartbreaker ( soon to change his name to Jay Jay French ).

* Peaches Geldof and Max Drummey guitarist, Chester French ( August 5, 2008 )

He has also worked with the French experimental guitarist Jean-Marc Montera.

2010: " Billy Price and Fred Chapellier Live on Stage "-CD and DVD documenting the May 2009 Night Work tour, featuring French guitarist Fred Chapellier and his band and Billy Price Band keyboard player Jimmy Britton.

The task of taking the raw material of Marcel Pagnol's original trio of French films about people of the waterfront in Marseilles and putting them again on the screen, after their passage through the Broadway musical idiom, was a delicate and perilous one, indeed.

However, after reading the work of French sociologists Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss, Radcliffe-Brown published an account of his research ( entitled simply The Andaman Islanders ) that paid close attention to the meaning and purpose of rituals and myths.

Most commentators consider Marcel Mauss ( 1872 – 1950 ), nephew of the influential sociologist Émile Durkheim, to be the founder of the French anthropological tradition.

Marcel Griaule and Michel Leiris are examples of people who combined anthropology with the French avant-garde.

* 1912 – Marcel Camus, French director ( d. 1982 )

Gabriel Marcel explicitly rejected existentialism, due to Sartre, but not phenomenology, which has enjoyed a wide following among French Catholics.

The French school of ethnology was particularly significant for the development of the discipline since the early 1950s with Marcel Griaule, Germaine Dieterlen, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jean Rouch.

* 1916 – Marcel Bigeard, French general ( d. 2010 )

* 1884 – Marcel Cohen, French linguist ( d. 1974 )

* 1895 – Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and film director ( d. 1974 )

In the wake of Mussolini ’ s declaration of war against France and England on June 10, 1940, he discovered Kafka ’ s The Metamorphosis, Gogol, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner along with French films by Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Julien Duvivier.

French Impressionist filmmakers include Abel Gance, Jean Epstein, Germaine Dulac, Marcel L ’ Herbier, Louis Delluc, and Dmitry Kirsanoff.

* 1871 – Marcel Proust, French writer ( d. 1922 )

* 1901 – Marcel Mule, French saxophonist ( d. 2001 )

* 1899 – Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter, and author ( d. 1974 )

* 1897 – Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer ( d. 1946 )

* 1892 – Marcel Dassault, French industrialist ( d. 1986 )

* 1916 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer ( d. 1949 )

* 1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter ( d. 1968 )

Marcel Achard was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly-recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades.

* 1886 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer ( d. 1971 )

* 1882 – Marcel Lalu, French gymnast ( d. 1951 )

* 1923 – Marcel Marceau, French mime artist ( d. 2007 )

* 1918 – Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician ( d. 1991 )