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Big Mama Thornton
1926–1984American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
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Famous people · Ariton
Ariton has one famous person on record
Big Mama Thornton came into the world in 1926. That places their birth between 1920 and 1969. Readers can find them written up in 39 languages. 289 towns in Alabama have at least one famous person on record.
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notable people
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Big Mama Thornton
in 39 Wikipedia languages
First
1926
Big Mama Thornton
Most common field
Music
1 people
The best known
Born in Ariton
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Ariton and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
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- Big Mama Thornton: Barbara Weinberg Barefield, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons