Eric Weissberg
Eric Weissberg was an American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist, whose most commercially successful recording was his banjo solo in "Dueling Banjos", featured as the theme of the film Deliverance (1972) and released as a single that reached number 2 in the United States and Canada in 1973. Eric Weissberg, American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist (d. 2020)
16 August 1939
Born on the same birth date (16 August 1939): Billy Joe Shaver • Seán Brady (cardinal) • Trevor McDonald
Born on the same birth day (16 August): Arthur Achleitner • Bruce Beresford • E. F. Schumacher • Frank Gifford • Fritz Von Erich • Hal Foster • Hasely Crawford • Jean de La Bruyère • Lesley Ann Warren • Otto Messmer • Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster • Pierre Richard • Robert Culp • Vladimir Sukhomlinov • Willie Jones (third baseman)
Born in the same month (August 1939): Billy Henderson (American singer) • Bulle Ogier • Carl Yastrzemski • James Burton • James Mancham • Joel Schumacher • John Peel • John W. Snow • Johnny Preston • Jorge Paulo Lemann • Luther Allison • Maxine Brown (soul singer) • Robert Horton (businessman) • Robert James Waller • Seán Brady (cardinal) • Sushil Koirala • The Mighty Hannibal • Trevor McDonald • William Least Heat-Moon