Slim Dusty

Slim Dusty, AO MBE was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He was an Australian cultural icon, referred to universally as Australia's King of Country Music and one of the country's most awarded stars, with a career spanning nearly seven decades and producing numerous recordings. He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australia, particularly of bush life and renowned Australian bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson that represented the lifestyle. The music genre was coined the "bush ballad", a style first made popular by Buddy Williams, the first artist to perform the genre in Australia, and also for his many trucking songs.

13 June 1927

Born on the same birth day (13 June): Antje Möldner-Schmidt • Christo and Jeanne-Claude • Erich Ribbeck • Giacomo Biffi • Gotthard Graubner • Irvin D. Yalom • Juan Carlos Navarro (basketball) • Karl Blossfeldt • Leon Chwistek • Roy Cooper • Ryszard Kukliński • Whitley Strieber

Born in the same month (June 1927): Ariano Suassuna • Carl Stokes • Claudio Gilberto Froehlich • Herbert Lichtenfeld • Ibn-e-Insha • Paul Salamunovich • Pierre Perrault • Robert Kroetsch