Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20, 1967, at Grays Harbor Hospital in Aberdeen, Washington,[7] to a waitress, Wendy Elizabeth (née Fradenburg),[8] and an automotive mechanic, Donald Leland Cobain. His ancestry included Irish, English, Scottish, and German.[9][10][11] Cobain's Irish ancestors migrated from County Tyrone of Northern Ireland in 1875.[11] Researchers have found them to have been shoemakers, originally named Cobane, who came from the village of Inishatieve near Pomeroy, settling in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, and then in Washington.[12] Cobain had one younger sister named...
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