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Tex Fletcher was born Geremino Bisceglia in Harrison, New York, the fifth of eight children. His parents, Michael (a stonemason) and Josephine, were Italian immigrants. Tex left home at age 15, joined a circus and traveled across the US and Canada. He settled in South Dakota, where he learned to handle horses and cattle, becoming a "real" cowboy. He returned to New York in the early 1930s, taking a job as a singing cowboy on radio station WFAS in White Plains. He eventually landed a job as the Cowboy Answer Man on WWOR radio in New Jersey. It was the height of the "singing cowboy" craze and Tex was heard by some Hollywood talent scouts. After one screen test, he was signed by Grand National Pictures, a "B" studio, to do a series of lower-budget westerns. However, soon after the completion of the first one, Six-Gun Rhythm (1939), Grand National went belly-up, leaving the only existing prints of the film unreleased. Tex literally "took the bull by the horns" and set out on a one-man promotional tour for the film of the Northeast US. He personally booked and traveled to each movie theater, opening the showing with a couple of songs, showing the film and then signing autographs for fans after the film was over. After this, however, Tex had no taste for Hollywood anymore and turned down all subsequent offers from other production companies to continue the series.

During World War II Tex served in the military, reaching the rank of sergeant. At the end of the war he married, and he and his wife eventually had five children: Robert, Jayne, Kathy, George and Michael. He returned to radio, night clubs (Village Barn, Manhattan) and television (ABC, NBC, WOR), and released his last album in 1964, having recorded during his career for London, Decca, Dakota and others.

Helen Lightbody was born in 1908 in Scotland, UK. She died on 14 March 1987 in Hawick, Scotland, UK.

Omar Gregorio Parada was a Uruguayan filmmaker. He wrote and directed five short films in 16 mm. (documentary and fiction). Parada's work is representative of Uruguayan cinema during the period 1950-1970. "Miguelete: cara y cruz de un arroyo" is considered one of the first documentary about contaminated water in Uruguay. "Tal vez mañana", a science fiction film, was awarded as the best film of Uruguay in 1966. "Montevideo hoy", a documentary film about the political and social reality of Uruguay, was abducted by the military dictatorship (1973-1985) and is now lost.

Boris Muravyov was born on 4 August 1934. He was an actor, known for Bessmertnaya pesnya (1958), Na dorogakh voyny (1959) and Vozvrashchyonnaya muzyka (1965). He died on 14 March 1987.