DIZZY
They were both nicknamed "Dizzy".
John Birks Gillespie
Cheraw, South Carolina
His nick-name was 'dizzie' gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was the first black person to run for president back in 1964.
Birk is the true last name of the legendary jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. He's born as John Birk en wrote 'Birk's Works' years after he was nicknamed Dizzy Gillespie, because of his clownesque behaviour.
Dizzy Gillespie was born on October 21, 1917.
John Anderson - jazz trumpeter - was born in 1921.
John Anderson - jazz trumpeter - died in 1974.
John Herbert Gillespie has written: 'Sacred and profane'
first of all, it's john birke, and it is Donna and Charles.
John Gillespie Magee Jr. was born on June 9, 1922.