Buck Owens

Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and band leader. He was the lead singer for Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart. He pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, named in honor of Bakersfield, California, Owens's adopted home and the city from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call "American music".

12 August 1929

Born on the same birth day (12 August): Andy Hui • Benjamin Sheares • Bryan Pata • Cara Delevingne • Charlie O'Donnell • Danny Graham (footballer) • Del the Funky Homosapien • Ebba Haslund • Jayakumar • Jim Schlossnagle • John Derek • Laurent Fignon • Marvin Zeegelaar • Matt Gillett • Maurice Fernandes • Ross McWhirter

Born in the same month (August 1929): Abdi İpekçi • Betty Dodson • Bill Evans • Bill Foster (basketball, born 1929) • Don Matheson • Francis Gary Powers • Giacomo Capuzzi • Guy de Lussigny • Hafizullah Amin • Helmut Rahn • Ion N. Petrovici • Ira Levin • István Kertész (conductor) • John Gale (theatre producer) • Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer) • Kishore Kumar • Mike Elliott (saxophonist) • Reuben Kamanga • Roxie Roker • Thom Gunn • Vellore G. Ramabhadran • Vera Miles • Vidya Charan Shukla