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| x Bruce Palmer, Jr. |
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Apr 13, 1913 | Male | Deceased Person |
Bruce Palmer, Jr., (April 13, 1913–October 10, 2000) was a noted United States Army General and acting Chief of Staff of the United States Army from July to October 1972.
Palmer was born in Austin, Texas. He graduated from the United States Military...
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| x Zachary Scott |
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Feb 24, 1914 | Male | Film actor |
Zachary Scott (24 February 1914 – 3 October 1965) was an American actor, most notable for his roles as villains and "mystery men".
Born in Austin, Texas, he was a distant cousin of George Washington, and his grandfather had been a very successful...
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| x Nellie Connally |
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Feb 24, 1919 | Female | Deceased Person |
Idanell Brill "Nellie" Connally (February 24, 1919 – September 1, 2006) was the First Lady of Texas from 1963 to 1969.
Born in Austin, Texas, she was wife of John Connally, who served as Governor of Texas and later as Secretary of the Treasury.
At...
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| x Dick Lane | Apr 16, 1928 | Male | Football player |
Richard "Dick" Lane (April 16, 1928 – January 29, 2002), nicknamed "Night Train", was an American football player, best known as a defensive back for the Detroit Lions. During his rookie season in 1952, Lane established the record for most...
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| x Dabney Coleman |
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Jan 3, 1932 | Male | Film actor |
Dabney Wharton Coleman (born January 3, 1932) is an American actor. He is best known for his abrasive characters and his usually present mustache.
Coleman was born in Austin, Texas, the son of Mary Wharton (née Johns) and Melvin Randolph Coleman. He...
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| x Willie Nelson |
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Apr 30, 1933 | Male | Film actor |
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains iconic, especially in American popular...
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| x Elizabeth Rogers | May 18, 1934 | Female | Film actor |
Elizabeth Rogers (May 18, 1934 – November 6, 2004) was an American actress.
Born Betty Jayne Rogers in Austin, Texas, she was famous for being the relief communications officer for Lt. Uhura in some episodes of the 1960s television series Star Trek....
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| x Don Walser |
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Sep 14, 1934 | Male | Musical Artist |
Donald Ray Walser (September 14, 1934 - September 20, 2006) was an American country music singer. He was known as a unique, award-winning yodeling "Texas country music legend."
Walser was born in Brownfield, Texas. A roots musician since he was 11...
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| x Brady Keys | May 19, 1936 | Male | Football player |
Brady Keys (born May 19, 1936 in Austin, Texas) was an American football player. He played as a defensive back for eight seasons in the NFL.
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| x Bob Schieffer |
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Feb 25, 1937 | Male | TV program guest |
Bob Lloyd Schieffer (born February 25, 1937) is an American television journalist who has been with CBS News since 1969, serving 23 years as anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News from 1973 to 1996; chief Washington correspondent since...
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| x Carole Keeton Strayhorn |
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Sep 13, 1939 | Female | Politician |
Carole Keeton Strayhorn (formerly McClellan, then Rylander) (born September 13, 1939) is the former Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Elected to the comptroller's post in 1998 as a Republican, Strayhorn ran as an independent candidate for Texas...
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| x Lucious Jackson | Oct 31, 1941 | Male | Basketball Player |
Lucious Brown "Luke" Jackson (born October 31, 1941) is a retired American professional basketball player.
Born in San Marcos, Texas, Jackson played college basketball at Pan American College (now known as the University of Texas-Pan American) and...
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| x Janis Joplin |
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Jan 19, 1943 | Female | Dead by 30 |
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a...
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| x Townes Van Zandt |
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Mar 7, 1944 | Male | Musical Artist |
John Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997), best known as Townes Van Zandt, was a country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Many of his songs, including "If I Needed You," "To Live Is To Fly," and "No Place to Fall" are...
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| x Jimmie Dale Gilmore |
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May 6, 1945 | Male | Musical Artist |
Jimmie Dale Gilmore (born May 6, 1945) is a country singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas.
Gilmore is a native of the Texas Panhandle, having been born in Amarillo, Texas and raised in Lubbock,...
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| x Dusty Rhodes |
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Oct 12, 1945 | Male |
Virgil Riley Runnels, Jr. (born October 12, 1945), better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, is a semi-retired American professional wrestler currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). He makes occasional on-air appearances...
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| x Paul A. Partain | May 3, 1946 | Male | Film actor |
Paul A. Partain (May 3, 1946 - January 27, 2005) was an American actor, perhaps best known for his role in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) as the "annoying" handicapped Franklin Hardesty.
Partain was born in Austin, Texas. He served in the...
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| x Russell A. Steindam | Aug 27, 1946 | Male | Military Person |
Russell A. Steindam (August 27, 1946 – February 1, 1970) was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.
Steindam joined the Army from his...
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| x Lloyd Doggett |
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Oct 6, 1946 | Male | Politician |
Lloyd Alton Doggett II (born October 6, 1946), American politician, is a Democratic politician from Texas. He has represented a district based in the state capital, Austin, in the United States House of Representatives since 1995. He represented...
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| x Joe Ely |
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Feb 9, 1947 | Male | Musical Artist |
Joe Ely (born February 9, 1947 in Amarillo, Texas) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music touches on honky-tonk, country and rock and roll.
He has had a genre-crossing career, performing with Bruce Springsteen, Uncle Tupelo, Los...
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| x Roky Erickson |
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Jul 15, 1947 | Male | Musical Artist |
Roky Erickson (born Roger Kynard Erickson on July 15, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist from Texas. He was a founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators and pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre.
Erickson was...
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| x John Varley |
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Aug 9, 1947 | Male | Film writer |
John Herbert Varley (born August 9, 1947 in Austin, Texas) is an American science fiction author.
Varley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School. He went to Michigan State University on a...
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| x Al Matthews | Nov 7, 1947 | Football player |
Alvin Leon Matthews (born November 7, 1947 in Austin, Texas) is a former professional American football defensive back who played in eight National Football League seasons from 1970-1977 for the Green Bay Packers, the Seattle Seahawks and the San...
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| x Marcia Ball |
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Mar 20, 1949 | Female | Musical Artist |
Marcia Ball (born March 20, 1949, Orange, Texas) is an American blues singer and pianist, born in Orange, Texas but who grew up in Vinton, Louisiana. She was described in USA Today as "a sensation, saucy singer and superb pianist...where Texas stomp...
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| x Kenneth Cockrell |
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Apr 9, 1950 | Male | Military Person |
Kenneth Dale "Taco" Cockrell (born 9 April 1950) is an American astronaut and a veteran of five space shuttle missions.
Cockrell was born in Austin, Texas to Buford Dale Cockrell and Jewell Moorman. He earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical...
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| x Rosie Flores | Sep 10, 1950 | Female | Musical Artist |
Rosie Flores (born September 10, 1950 in San Antonio, Texas) is a rockabilly and country music artist of Mexican American heritage. Her music blends rockabilly, honky tonk, jazz, and Western swing along with traditional influences from her Tex-Mex...
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| x Alejandro Escovedo |
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Jan 10, 1951 | Male | Musical Artist |
Alejandro Escovedo (born January 10, 1951, in San Antonio, Texas) is a Mexican-American musician and singer-songwriter.
He will be performing at The Voodoo Experience held at City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana over Halloween weekend 2009.
His...
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| x Lloyd Maines |
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Jun 28, 1951 | Male | Musical Group Member |
Lloyd Maines (born June 28, 1951) is an American Grammy Award-winning country music record producer, musician and songwriter and who was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas and is now based in Austin, Texas.
Arguably best known as a pedal steel player...
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| x Mike Patrick | Sep 6, 1952 | Deceased Person |
Charles Michael Patrick (September 6, 1952 - April 27, 2008) was an American punter in the National Football League who played for the New England Patriots from 1975 to 1978. He was born in Austin, Texas, and graduated from Biloxi High School in...
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| x Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson | Mar 3, 1953 | Male | Pro Athlete |
Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson (born March 3, 1953 in Austin, Texas) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League from 1975 through 1980.
Henderson was raised by his teenage mother in the eastside of Austin, Texas. In 1969...
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| x Jay O. Sanders | Apr 16, 1953 | Male | Film actor |
Jay Olcutt Sanders (born 16 April 1953) is an American character actor.
Sanders was born in Austin, Texas, to Phyllis Rae (née Aden) and James Olcutt Sanders. He is the brother of actor Fred Sanders and cabaret singer Marta Sanders.
Was in the same...
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| x Nanci Griffith |
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Jul 6, 1953 | Female | Musical Artist |
Nanci Caroline Griffith, (born July 6, 1953 in Seguin, Texas) is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas.
Griffith's career has spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country, Folk, and what she terms "folkabilly....
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| x Bruce Sterling |
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Apr 14, 1954 | Male | Author |
Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.
Sterling is, along with William Gibson, Rudy...
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| x Ron Kirk |
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Jun 27, 1954 | Male | Politician |
Ronald "Ron" Kirk (born June 27, 1954) is the 16th United States Trade Representative, serving in the Obama administration. He served as mayor of Dallas, Texas from 1995 to 2002; he also ran for the United States Senate in 2002.
Born in Austin,...
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| x Eric Johnson |
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Aug 17, 1954 | Male | Musical Artist |
Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is an American guitarist and recording artist from Austin, Texas. Best known for his success in the instrumental rock format, Johnson regularly incorporates jazz, fusion, New Age, and country and western music...
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| x Shawn Colvin |
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1956 | Female | Musical Artist |
Shawn Colvin (born January 10, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.
Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota. Her formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University...
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| x Terry Keel | Jan 13, 1958 | Male | Politician |
Terrence McCauley "Terry" Keel (born January 13, 1958), is a founding partner of the Keel & Nassour law firm in Austin, and he served as the Parliamentarian of the Texas House of Representatives from May 25, 2007 until January 13, 2009. He was...
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| x Matt McCoy | May 20, 1958 | Male | Film actor |
Matt McCoy (born May 20, 1958) is an American actor.
McCoy was born in Washington, D.C.. Since starring as Sgt. Nick Lassard in two Police Academy films, his motion picture credits have included the Curtis Hanson films The Hand That Rocks the Cradle...
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| x Kathy Valentine |
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Jan 7, 1959 | Female | Musical Artist |
Kathy Valentine (born Kathryn Valentine, January 7, 1959, Austin, Texas) is the American bass guitarist for the all-girl punk/pop band, The Go-Go's.
She began playing at age 16 in her hometown of Austin, and joined a fledgling Girlschool in London,...
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| x Aaron Peña |
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Jun 8, 1959 | Male | Social network user |
Aaron Peña, Jr. (born June 8, 1959) is a member of the Texas House of Representatives. Representative Peña represents a district in Hidalgo County in Deep South Texas. In November 2002, he was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives as a...
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| x John Hawkes |
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Sep 11, 1959 | Male | Film actor |
John Hawkes (born September 11, 1959) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his portrayal of Bugsy in The Perfect Storm and as the Jewish merchant Sol Star on the HBO series Deadwood. He played the role of Greg Penticoff in...
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| x Steve Kloves |
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Mar 18, 1960 | Male | Film director |
Steven Kloves (born March 18, 1960) is an American screenwriter mainly renowned for his adaptations of novels, especially for the Harry Potter film series and for Wonder Boys, whose screenplay was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award....
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| x Toni Price |
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Mar 13, 1961 | Female | Musical Artist |
Toni Price (born March 13, 1961) is a country-blues singer and former and once again resident of Austin, Texas. She resided in O-Side, California for two years 2007-2009.
Price was born in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her adoptive parents, the...
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| x Tom Ford |
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Aug 27, 1961 | Male | Influence Node |
Thomas Carlyle "Tom" Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer. He gained international fame for his turnaround of the Gucci fashion house and the creation of the Tom Ford label.
Ford was born August 27, 1961 in Austin, Texas to...
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| x Will Wynn |
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Sep 10, 1961 | Male | Politician |
William Patrick Wynn (born September 10, 1961) is a former mayor of Austin, Texas. He is a Democrat.
Born and raised in Beaumont, Texas, Wynn was the sixth of seven children. He attended Texas A&M; University, where he graduated cum laude with a...
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| x James McMurtry |
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Mar 18, 1962 | Male | Musical Artist |
James McMurtry (born March 18, 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a Texas Rock music singer-songwriter, and occasional actor (Daisy Miller, Lonesome Dove).
His father, novelist Larry McMurtry, gave him his first guitar at age seven. His mother, an...
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| x Sara Hickman | Mar 1, 1963 | Female | Musical Artist |
Sara Hickman (born March 1, 1963) is a rock/folk/pop/children's music singer, songwriter, and artist.
Hickman was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina. She grew up in Houston, Texas, where she attended the High School for the Performing and Visual...
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| x Steven Williams |
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Dec 18, 1964 | Male | Film actor |
Steve Austin (born Steven James Anderson on December 18, 1964, later Steven Williams), better known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin is an American film and television actor and retired professional wrestler. Austin wrestled for several...
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| x Michelle Forbes |
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Jan 8, 1965 | Female | Film actor |
Michelle Renee Forbes Guajardo (born January 8, 1965 in Austin, Texas) is an American actress who has built a career of work in television and independent film and has acted in productions in both the United States and in the United Kingdom. Forbes...
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| x Michael S. Dell |
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Feb 23, 1965 | Male | Board Member |
Michael Saul Dell is an American businessman and entrepreneur. Michael, founder and CEO of Dell, Inc. is listed as one of 2009 Forbes Billionaires.
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| x Ken Harvey | May 6, 1965 | Male | Football player |
Kenneth Ray Harvey (born May 6, 1965 in Austin, Texas) is a former professional American football player in the National Football League. He currently works as a fitness trainer for space tourists and a sports writer for The Washington Post.
Harvey...
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| x Bob Schneider |
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Oct 12, 1965 | Male | Musical Artist |
Bob Schneider (born October 12, 1965) is an Austin, Texas-based musician and artist, born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and raised in Munich, Germany. The son of an opera singer, he moved with his parents to Germany when he was two. He learned guitar and...
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| x Scott McClellan |
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Feb 14, 1968 | Male | Endorsing Person |
Scott McClellan (born February 14, 1968) is a former White House Press Secretary (2003–06) for President George W. Bush, and author of a controversial book about the Bush Administration titled What Happened. He replaced Ari Fleischer as press...
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| x Charlie Sexton |
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Aug 11, 1968 | Male | Musical Artist |
Charles Wayne Sexton (born August 11, 1968) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as the guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band from 1999 to 2002. He rejoined the band in 2009. His style of playing has varied and he has been...
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| x Kelly Willis |
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Oct 2, 1968 | Female | Musical Artist |
Kelly Willis (born October 2, 1968) is an American country music singer-songwriter, whose music has been described as contemporary country, alternative country and new traditionalist.
Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, U.S., Willis was the youngest of three...
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| x Johnny Goudie |
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Oct 14, 1968 | Male | Musical Artist |
John Charles "Johnny" Goudie (born October 14, 1968 in Miami, Florida, U.S.) is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, record producer and actor based in Austin, Texas.
Raised in the Miami, Florida area, Goudie comes from...
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| x Virgil Runnels III |
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Apr 11, 1969 | Male | Professional Wrestler |
Dustin Patrick Runnels (born April 11, 1969) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment's ECW brand as Goldust. He has also performed for World Championship Wrestling and Total Nonstop Action...
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| x Amanda Hope | Aug 23, 1969 | Female | Award Winner |
Amanda Hope (born Amanda Hope Crouch, August 23, 1969) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for July, 1992 and has appeared in some Playboy videos.
Prior to her appearance in Playboy, she...
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| x Rhett Miller |
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Sep 6, 1970 | Male | Musical Artist |
Stewart Ransom Miller II was born September 6, 1970 in Austin, Texas. He is the lead singer of the alt-country band Old 97's and a successful solo musician. He graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas, a private boys' school in Dallas in 1989 and...
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| x Ethan Hawke |
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Nov 6, 1970 | Male | Film actor |
Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, writer and film director. He made his feature film debut in 1985, opposite River Phoenix in the movie Explorers, before making a supporting appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets...
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