March 10 – Ralph Emery, radio and television personality.
April 15 – Roy Clark, singer and multi-instrumentalist, host of television's Hee Haw (died 2018).
April 30 – Willie Nelson, songwriter and key member of the 1970s "outlaw" movement.
September 1 – Conway Twitty, singer-songwriter who successfully defected from 1950s rock music career to become a giant in the country genre from the 1960s through the early 1990s (died 1993).