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| William James Dixon(12) 1 39180? 601? Vicksburg, Warren County, MS 1915(07/01) – 1992(01/29) | Israel López Valdés(26) 53 ? Habana Vieja, La Habana, CU 1918(09/14) – 2008(03/22) | Charles Mingus(2) 1 85621? 520? Nogales, Santa Cruz County, AZ 1922(04/22) – 1979(01/05) | William Patton Black(40) 1 38101? 901? Memphis(MMPH), Shelby County, TN 1926(09/17) – 1965(10/21) | Richard Davis(34) 1 60607? Chicago, IL 1930(04/15) |
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| Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers 1 15233? 412? Pittsburgh(PITB), Allegheny County, PA 1935(04/22) - 1969(01/04) | James Lee Jamerson(1) 1 29438 Edisto Island, SC 1936(01/29) – 1983(08/02) | William George Perks(23) 44 Lewisham, London, England, GB 1936(10/24) | Ronald Levin Carter(10) 1 48220 Ferndale, MI 1937(05/04) | Charles Edward Haden(16) 1 51601 Shenandoah(SHND), IA 1937(08/06) – 2014(07/11) |
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| Robert Kreinar 1 15233? 412? Pittsburgh(PITB), Allegheny County, PA 1937(11/26) - 2012(07/16) | Philip Chapman(11) 1 94704? 510? Berkeley(BKLY), Alameda County, CA 1940(03/15) | Donald Dunn(15) 1 38101? 901? Memphis(MMPH), Shelby County, TN 1941(11/24) – 2012(05/13) | James Paul McCartney(9) 44 ? Liverpool, England, GB 1942(06/18) | John Symon Asher Bruce(6) 44S Bishopbriggs, Lanarkshire, Scotland, GB 1943(05/14) – 2014(10/25) |
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| Richard Clare Danko(20) 1CON ? Blayney, Norfolk County, ON 1943(12/29) – 1999(12/10) | David Hood(27) 1 35660 Sheffield(SHFD), AL 1943(09/21) | John William Casady 1 20090? Washington, DC 1944(04/13) | John Alec Entwistle(3) 44 ? Chiswick, London, England, GB 1944(10/09) – 2002(06/27) | Stuart Alden Cook 1 ? ?, US 1945(04/25) |
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| John Graham McVie(37) 44 ? Ealing, Middlesex, England, GB 1945(11/26) | Ian Fraser Kilmister(33) 44 ? Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, GB 1945(12/24) - 2015(12/28) | John Richard Baldwin(14) 44 ? Sidcup, Kent, England, GB 1946(01/03) | Anthony Frederick Levin(42) 1 02205? 339,508,617? Boston, Suffolk County, MA 1946(06/06) | Larry Graham(7) 1 77707? 409? Beaumont, Jefferson County, TX 1946(08/14) |
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| Dave Holland 44 ? Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, GB 1946(10/01) | Aston Francis Barrett(28) 1 ? 658,876 Kingston, JM 1946(11/22) | Leland Bruce Sklar(47) 1 53201? 414? Milwaukee(MILW), WI 1947(05/28) | George Joseph Porter(41) 1 70140? 504? New Orleans(NWOR), Jefferson, Orleans Parish, LA 1947(12/26) | Timothy Bruce Schmit 1 94617? 510?, 415870 Oakland(OKLD), Alameda County, CA 1947(10/30) |
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| Christopher Russell Edward Squire(18) 44 ? Kingsbury, London, England, GB 1948(03/04) - 2015(06/27) | Raymond Berry Oakley 1 60607? Chicago, IL 1948(04/04) - 1972(11/11) | Ross Lamont Valory 1 94142? 415?,650? San Francisco(SNRF), CA 1949(02/02) | Lawrence Edward Junstrom 1 15233? 412? Pittsburgh(PITB), Allegheny County, PA 1949(06/22) - 2019(10/05) | Terence Michael Joseph Butler(21) 44 ? Aston, Birmingham, England, GB 1949(07/17) |
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| John Richard Deacon 44 ? Leicester, England, GB 1951(08/19) | Stanley Clarke(13) 1 19104? 215?,610? Philadelphia(PHLA), PA 1951(06/30) | Verdine White(19) 1 60607? Chicago, IL 1951(07/25) | Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner(32) 44 ? Wallsend, Northumberland, England, GB 1951(10/02) | William Earl Collins(4) 1 45202? 513? Cincinnati, OH 1951(10/26) |
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| John Francis Anthony Pastorius(8) 1 19403? ? Norristown(NRTW), Montgomery County, PA 1951(12/01) – 1987(09/21) | Thomas William Hamilton 1 80903? 719? Colorado Springs(CLSP658), El Paso County, CO 1951(12/31) | William Sheehan 1 14240? Buffalo(BFLO), Erie County, NY 1953(03/19) | Gary Lee Weinrib(24) 1CON ? North York, ON 1953(07/29) | Robert Shakespeare(17) 1 ? 658,876 Kingston, JM 1953(04/13) |
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| Louis Johnson(35) 1 90086? Los Angeles, CA 1955(04/13) – 2015(05/21) | Nathan Harrell East 1 19104? 215?,610? Philadelphia(PHLA), PA 1955(12/08) | Peter Woodhead(46) 44 ? Broughton, Salford, England, GB 1956(02/13) | Stephen Percy Harris 44 ? Leytonstone, Essex, England, GB 1956(03/12) | Giuseppe Henry Palladino(38) 44W ? Cardiff, Wales, GB 1957(10/17) |
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| Michael David Watt(43) 1 23707? 757? Portsmouth(PTMO), VA 1957(12/20) | Mark Raymond King 44 ? Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, GB 1958(10/20) | William Henry Marcus Miller 1 10001? Brooklyn, NY 1959(06/14) | Stuart Hamm 1 70140? 504? New Orleans(NWOR), Jefferson, Orleans Parish, LA 1960(02/08) | Adam Charles Clayton 44 ? Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England, GB 1960(03/13) |
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| Clifford Lee Burton(25) 1 94546? 510 Castro Valley, Alameda County, CA 1962(02/10) - 1986(09/27) | Michael Peter Balzary(22) 61 ? Melbourne, Victoria, AU 1962(10/16) | Leslie Edward Claypool(36) 1 94802? 510? Richmond(RCMD), Contra Costa County, CA 1963(09/29) | Michael Andrew McKagan(49) 1 98101? 206? Seattle, King County, WA 1964(02/05) | |
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| Victor Lemonte Wooten 1 83647 Mountain Home, ID 1964(09/11) | Krist Anthony Novoselic 1 90221? 310? Compton(CMTN), Los Angeles County, CA 1965(05/16) | John Ro Myung 1 60607? Chicago, IL 1967(01/24) | Stephen Lee Bruner(50) 1 90086? Los Angeles, CA 1984(10/19) |
| Bob Loyce Moore(30) | 1 37202? 615? Nashville(NSVL), Davidson County, TN | 1932(11/30)
| Charles Walter Rainey | 1 44101? 216? Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH | 1940(06/17)
| Bernard Edwards(31) | 1 27834? 252? Greenville(GNVL), Pitt County, NC | 1952(10/31) - 1996(04/18)
| Randall Herman Meisner | 1 69361? 308? Scottsbluff, Scotts Bluff County, NE | 1946(03/08)
| Edward John Gagliardi | 1 10001? Brooklyn, NY | 1952(02/13) - 2014(05/11)
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| Martina Michèle Weymouth(29) 1 92118? 619? Coronado(CRND), San Diego County, CA 1950(11/22) | Kim Althea Gordon(39) 1 14692? 585? Rochester(ROCH), Monroe County, NY 1953(04/28) | Kimberley Ann Deal(48) 1 45401? 937? Dayton, OH 1961(06/10) | Esperanza Emily Spalding(45) 1 97208? 503? Portland, County, OR 1984(10/18) |
| Carol Smith Kaye(5) | 1 98201? 425? Everett, Snohomish County, WA | 1935(03/24) |
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