Muriel Ellen Deason, AKA Kitty Wells (1919)

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, today (30 August 1919) Wells sang gospel music in church as a child and performed on radio in the 1930s. She achieved fame with her 1952 hit, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," a rebuttal to a popular song about wayward women. It made her the first female musician to top the country music charts, paving the way for later female country stars such as Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline. She sang about topics such as drinking and divorce.

[edit: Kitty Wells died on July 16, 2012 in Madison, Tennessee, from complications of a stroke. She was 92.] 

Cheers - John