Births
- January 6 - Earl Scruggs, early bluegrass pioneer who, with Lester Flatt, formed the Foggy Mountain Boys (died 2012).
- June 20 - Chet Atkins, session musician and record producer, primarily with RCA Records (died 2001).
- June 28 - George Morgan, pop-styled singer of the 1940s and 1950s; Grand Ole Opry stalwart and father of 1990s star Lorrie Morgan (died 1975).
- July 22 - Margaret Whiting, female country and pop vocalist of the 1940s and early 1950s; first female vocalist to top the Billboard country charts (1949's "Slippin' Around," as part of a duet with Jimmy Wakely). (died 2011)
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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.”
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