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It was recorded that Woody Guthrie had Huntington's Disease. He was born on July 14, 1912 and was a famous folk musician from America. His most famous song is This Land is Your Land. It was said that in the late 1940's is when the symptoms started to show and no one could diagnosis it. Many doctors told him he was an alcoholic and schizophrenic. But in 1952, it was confirmed that  he was suffering from Huntington's Disease where he inherited it from his mother. Once he died his second ex-wife, Marjorie, found the Committee to Combat Huntington's disease, which was later re-named the Huntington's Disease Society of America. Unfortunately, three children that Guthrie had with Marjorie and two children from his first wife inherited the disease from their father.