Paco de Lucía

Francisco Sánchez Gómez, known as Paco de Lucía, was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer, and record producer. A leading proponent of the new flamenco style, he was one of the first flamenco guitarists to branch into classical and jazz. Richard Chapman and Eric Clapton, authors of Guitar: Music, History, Players, describe de Lucía as a "titanic figure in the world of flamenco guitar", and Dennis Koster, author of Guitar Atlas, Flamenco, has referred to de Lucía as "one of history's greatest guitarists".

21 December 1947

Born on the same birth day (21 December): Dennis Boutsikaris • Edward Schreyer • Emiliano Brembilla • Kaitlyn Dever • Karrie Webb • Krishnamachari Srikkanth • Lorenzo Bandini • Marta Fernández (basketball) • Robert Worcester • Thomas Allen (mathematician) • William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers

Born in the same month (December 1947): Alain Bashung • Brian Daley • Chris Mullin (politician) • Christopher Parkening • Doug Livermore • Gregg Allman • Gérard Blanc • Henk van Woerden • Isaac Bitton • Ivan Atanassov Petrov • Jaak Jõerüüt • James Keach • James T. Conway • Margaret Geller • Martyn Poliakoff • Miroslav Vitouš • Richard Crandall • Tommy Jenkins • Willy Polleunis • Wings Hauser