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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

December Birthdays

It's the last month of the year. Time to end the year right by saying Happy Birthday!

Stevie Young

-Birth name: Stephen Crawford Young Jr.

-DOB: 12/11/1956

-Where: Glasgow, Scotland

-He is the nephew of AC/DC founding members Angus Young and his brother Malcolm Young

Rick Savage

-Birth name: Richard Savage

-DOB: 12/2/1960

-Where: Sheffield, England

-He suffered from a small bout with Bell's Palsy in January 1994, but has regained the feeling in most of his face

Richard Hammond

-Birth name: Richard Mark Hammond

-DOB: 12/19/1969

-Where: Solihull, England

-He and his wife Mindy own a home just outside of Cheltenham with their two daughters Isabella, aka "Izzy" and Willow and a handful of animals, such as chickens, a rabbit, two cats, four dogs and three horses

Cliff Williams

-DOB: 12/14/1949

-Where: Romford, Essex, England

-His first album with AC/DC was 1978's Powerage

Maggie Smith

-Birth name: Margaret Natalie Smith

-DOB: 12/28/1934

-Where: Essex, England

-Her best known role to this day is the formidable assistant headmistress Professor Minerva McGonagall in the famed Harry Potter series

Phil Collen

-Birth name: Phillip Kenneth Collen

-DOB: 12/8/1957

-Where: London, England

-He realized he had a problem with alcohol when he started blacking out and not remembering things

Denzel Washington

-Birth name: Denzel Hayes Washington Jr.

-DOB: 12/28/1954

-Where: Mount Vernon, New York

-He would become known for playing real life historical figures, such as Steven Biko, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Coach Herman Boone, Malcolm X, Frank Lucas, Melvin B. Tolson

Lemmy Kilmister

-Birth name: Ian Fraser Kilmister

-DOB: 12/24/1945

-Where: Stoke-On-Trent, England

-DOD: 12/28/2015

-Where: Los Angeles, California

-He worked as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix when he was younger

Dave Murray

-Birth name: David Michael Murray

-DOB: 12/23/1956

-Where: Edmonton, London, England

-As a child, he moved around with his mother and two sisters to avoid their father's angry moods

Lucy Liu

-Birth name: Lucy Alexis Liu

-DOB: 12/2/1968

-Where: New York City, New York

-She speaks both English and Mandarin Chinese fluently

Keith Richards

-DOB: 12/18/1943

-Where: Dartford, Kent, England

-Met Mick Jagger as a teenager while on his way home from art school