Births
- January 7 — Jack Greene, star of the 1960s and 1970s ("There Goes My Everything") and longtime Grand Ole Opry star.
- September 23 — Ray Charles, blind African-American pop singer who recorded a series of influential country music albums, starting with Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (died 2004).
- September 28 — Tommy Collins, singer and songwriter who helped create the Bakersfield Sound (died 2000)
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)