August Birthdays

Since it's August, time to say Happy Birthday!!!

Glenn Hughes
-DOB: 8/21/1952
-Where: Cannock, Staffordshire, England
-Glenn finally got fully sober when he was living in LA and thought he was having a heart attack. His then girlfriend called for an ambulance and while en route to the hospital, he was babbling on about how he wasn't a typical drug addict. The ambulance driver threatened to come back there and beat him senseless

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ian Gillan

-DOB: 8/19/1945

-Where: London, England

-When he left the band Deep Purple the first time around, Paul Rodgers of Free and Bad Company was considered as a replacement

Joe Elliott

-Birth name: Joseph Thomas Elliott

-DOB: 8/1/1959

-Where: Sheffield, England

-He has been the singer of Def Leppard since the beginning, when the band had started out as a trio known as Atomic Mass. This trio consisted of bassist Rick Savage, drummer Tony Kenning and guitarist Pete Willis

Still good looking!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel Dae Kim

-Birth name: Dae-Hyun Kim

-DOB: 8/4/1968

-Where: Pusan, South Korea

-He had to relearn Korean very fast when he found out he would be playing a Korean character named Jin Kwon on Lost.

Very handsome!!

James Jagger

-DOB: 8/28/1985

-Where: New York City, New York

-He and Robert Pattinson were high school classmates

Wow, he resembles his father so much!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Antonio Banderas

-Birth name: Jose Antonio Dominguez Banderas

-DOB: 8/10/1960

-Where: Malaga, Spain

-When he first arrived in the US, he learned how to speak English phonetically before attempting something as risky as breaking into Hollywood, who seems very hard on foreign-born talent

Viola Davis

-DOB: 8/11/1965

-Where: Saint Matthews, South Carolina

-She is the first black actress to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for the show How to Get Away with Murder

Robert De Niro

-Birth name: Robert Anthony De Niro Jr

-DOB: 8/17/1943

-Where: Greenwich Village, New York City, New York

-As a child, his nickname was "Bobby Milk" because he was so pale

Vivian Campbell

-Birth name: Vivian Patrick Campbell

-DOB: 8/25/1962

-Where: Belfast, Ireland

-Was let go from the band Dio after a disagreement between him and singer/founding member Ronnie James Dio

Rob Halford

-Birth name: Robert John Arthur Halford

-DOB: 8/25/1951

-Where: Sutton Colfield, England

-As a child, he sang in the local church choir

Robert Plant

-Birth name: Robert Anthony Plant

-DOB: 8/20/1948

-Where: West Bromwich, England

-Is a supporter of the Wolverhampton Wanderers

Sean Connery

-Birth name: Thomas Sean Connery

-DOB: 8/25/1930

-Where: Edinburgh, Scotland

-He has a tattoo saying "Scotland forever" and a tattoo saying "Mum and dad" on his right arm. He had gotten them at 16 when he enlisted in the Royal Navy

Bruce Dickinson

-Birth name: Paul Bruce Dickinson

-DOB: 8/7/1958

-Where: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England

-Wrote the song "Accident of Birth" about himself because he describes himself as an accident of birth. He says he was born by mistake because his parents were only 17 and 18 when he was born. While five years later, his sister Helena, was a planned birth.

LOL! I don't think he's wearing anything underneath those spandex pants!!

Dustin Hoffman

-Birth name: Dustin Lee Hoffman

-DOB: 8/8/1937

-Where: Los Angeles, California

-Was raised in a Jewish family