He was a famous composer
Well, he has a state level honor band name after. I would know; I was picked on alto saxophone for the John Phillip Sousa Honor Band in my state.
John Philip Souza didn't invent anything, but his father invented the fraudulent enlistment. When Souza was thirteen years old, his father got him enlisted in the Marine Corps so he wouldn't join a...
John Philip Sousa died in Reading on March 6th 1932. He was 77 years, 4 months and 1 day old when he died.
John António de Sousa and Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus.