Tuesday, August 2, 2016

August Birthdays

Since it's August, time to say Happy Birthday to the following people

-Birth name: Joseph Thomas Elliott
-DOB: 8/1/1958
-Where: Sheffield, England
-Going to be: 57
-Came up with the name for an imaginary band called Deaf Leopard. To keep it from being associated with punk, the band name was intentionally misspelled as "Def Leppard" and it stuck!
-DOB: 8/21/1952
-Where: Cannock, Staffordshire, England
-Going to be: 64
-Was named after the big band legend Glenn Miller
-DOB: 8/4/1968
-Where: Pusan, South Korea
-Going to be: 48
-Has played a variety of characters both onscreen and on stage, such as the King of Siam, a social worker, a counter-terrorist agent for the government or a police officer on a special task force
-Birth name: Yeoh Chu-kheng
-DOB: 8/6/1962
-Where: Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
-Going to be: 54
-Prior to acting, was a former Miss Malaysia
-DOB: 8/28/1985
-Where: New York City, New York
-Going to be: 31
-His half-sisters are Jade and Karis Jagger and his half-brother is Lucas Jagger while his brother is Gabriel Jagger and his sisters are models named Elizabeth and Georgia May Jagger
-Also plays a character named John Turnbull on Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
-Birth name: Richard Allan Ream
-DOB: 8/8/1961
-Where: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
-Going to be: 55
-Drummer for the glam metal band Poison
-Birth name: Jose Antonio Dominguez Banderas
-DOB: 8/10/1960
-Where: Malaga, Spain
-Going to be: 56
-Prior to acting, he held jobs as a waiter and in modeling
-DOB: 8/11/1965
-Where: Saint Matthews, South Carolina
-Going to be: 51
-Her mother, Mary Alice (Logan) was a civil rights activist
-Birth name: Robert Anthony De Niro Jr
-DOB: 8/17/1943
-Where: New York City, New York
-Going to be: 73
-Despite having an Italian name, he only has a small percentage of Italian ancestry, from his paternal grandfather's side
-Birth name: Vivian Patrick Campbell
-DOB: 8/25/1962
-Where: Belfast, Ireland
-Going to be: 54
-He shares a birthday with Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford and Kiss bassist Gene Simmons
-Birth name: Robert John Arthur Halford
-DOB: 8/25/1951
-Where: Sutton Colfield, United Kingdom
-Going to be: 65 
-Rather than face embarrassment over a receding hairline, in the late 1980s, Rob simply shaved his head completely
My sister has the biggest crush on him...
-Birth name: Robert Anthony Plant
-DOB: 8/20/1948
-Where: West Bromwich, West Midlands, England
-Going to be: 68
-He's known for adding spiritual, mystical or philosophical lyrics into his songs (i.e. references to Lord of the Rings in "Ramble On")
-Birth name: Thomas Sean Connery
-DOB: 8/25/1930
-Where: Edinburgh, Scotland
-Going to be: 86
-Prior to acting, he held a variety of jobs, ranging from lorry driver to milkman to model for Edinburgh College of Art to bodybuilder to coffin polisher
-Birth name: Chaim Weitz
-DOB: 8/25/1949
-Where: Tirat Carmel, Israel
-Going to be: 67
-When he initially met Paul Stanley, he was not very enamored of Paul
-Birth name: Paul Bruce Dickinson
-DOB: 8/7/1958
-Where: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
-Going to be: 58
-Has an estranged sister named Helen who he describes as "she was planned, I was an accident", referring to the fact his sister was a planned birth while his birth was accidental (Thank God he was born. History for Maiden might have been ALOT different!). His mother was 17 and father was 18 when Paul Bruce Dickinson was born. This definitely explains a lot on his solo album Accident of Birth
Still handsome for his age. Always will be :)