Dolly Parton was born on January 19, 1946, in Sevierville, Tennessee. This countdown runs to the next birthday of country music's most beloved star.
The fourth of twelve children from a one-room cabin in the Smoky Mountains, Parton wrote classics like 'Jolene' and 'I Will Always Love You' and built Dollywood — while her Imagination Library has mailed hundreds of millions of free books to children.