1919
Born on this day in China Grove, North Carolina was bluegrass musician Curly Seckler. He played with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs in their band the Foggy Mountain Boys from 1949 to 1962. He died in his sleep on December 27, 2017, just two days after his 98th birthday.

1944
Born on this day in Atlanta, Georgia was musician and producer Emory Gordy Jr. He has worked with many artists including Steve Earle and he accompanied Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris on Parson's Grievous Angel album.

1946
Born on this day was Jimmy Buffett, singer-songwriter, film producer, and businessman. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band. He has a devoted base of fans known as "Parrotheads". Buffett died on September 1, 2023, at age 76, at his home in Sag Harbor, New York, due to complications from Merkel-cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer, with which he had been diagnosed four years earlier.

1948
Born on this day, was Country singer Barbara Mandrell, named Country Music Association entertainer of the year in 1979, 1980 & 1981, who scored the 1977 US #1 Country single "Sleeping Single In A Double Bed."

1949
Born on this day in Quitman, Texas was actress Sissy Spacek. She recorded vocals for the soundtrack album of Coal Miner's Daughter, which peaked at #2 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

1954
Born on this day in Noblesville, Indiana, was Steve Wariner, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist who has charted more than fifty singles on the Billboard country singles charts, including ten #1 hits: "All Roads Lead to You", "Some Fools Never Learn", "You Can Dream of Me", "Life's Highway", "Small Town Girl", "The Weekend", "Lynda", "Where Did I Go Wrong", and "I Got Dreams", and "What If I Said", a duet with Anita Cochran.

1982
Special guests on this week's syndicated US music television series The Glen Campbell Music Show included Emmylou Harris who performed "My Song Bird" and "Cheatin' Is" and then with Glen Campbell played "Gone at Last" and "Time in a Bottle".

2014
Little Jimmy Dickens was hospitalized after suffering a stroke just days after his last appearance at the the Grand Ole Opry to mark his 94th birthday. He later died of cardiac arrest on January 2, 2015.

2018
"Speechless" by American country music duo Dan + Shay was at #1 on the Country singles chart. Taken from their for their 2018 self-titled third studio album the track became the duo's first #1.

2020
American guitarist and bluegrass musician Tony Rice died age 69. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2013.

2022
Zach Bryan released a live album called All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster (Live from Red Rocks), which was recorded at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on November 3, 2022. Bryan had tweeted the statement "all my homies hate Ticketmaster" multiple times throughout 2022, also asking "can someone shut down Ticketmaster yet" due to its prices.