A very special Austinite will celebrate his 92nd birthday on Tuesday, April 29, so please join us in congratulating the one and only Willie Hugh Nelson. Austin has been proud to be one of Willie’s homes for many years, so we’re sharing 92 facts about the legend: one for each year of his life.
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- Willie Nelson has two birthdays — he celebrates on April 29 and April 30 due to a clerical error on his birth certificate.
- However, Willie didn’t start celebrating both days until he turned 18.
- Willie was born in 1933 in the town of Abbott, Texas, which only had a population of about 326 people at the time.
- Willie’s cousin Mildred chose his name.