July Birthdays

Since it's July, time to say Happy Birthday

Daniel Ricciardo

-Birth name: Daniel Joseph Ricciardo

-DOB: 7/1/1989

-Where: Perth, Australia

-Like most Formula 1 drivers, he started out go-karting

Mick Jagger

-Birth name: Michael Phillip Jagger

-DOB: 7/26/1943

-Where: Dartford, Kent, England

-Met future Rolling Stones bandmate Keith Richards at a train station

Fernando Alonso

-Birth name: Fernando Alonso Diaz

-DOB: 7/29/1981

-Where: Oviedo, Spain

-Was formerly on the Alpine F1 team. Now drives for Aston Martin, to replace Sebastian Vettel

Triple H

-Birth name: Paul Michael Levesque

-DOB: 7/27/1969

-Where: Nashua, New Hampshire

-Earned the nickname "Triple H" from when he first started wrestling. His angle was that of a rich aristocrat named Hunter Hearst Helmsley, aka Triple H

Sebastian Vettel

-DOB: 7/3/1987

-Where: Heppenheim, Germany

-Considers Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton a close friend and warned him about racial things being uttered about him from other teams

Kevin Nash

-Birth name: Kevin Scott Nash

-DOB: 7/9/1959

-Where: Detroit, Michigan

-He had joined the Army after seeing the Bill Murray film Stripes and went on to have top-secret level clearance

Bret Hart

-Birth name: Bret Sergeant Hart

-DOB: 7/2/1957

-Where: Calgary, Canada

-He trained for wrestling with his father, Lou Hart, a famous wrestling promoter in Canada

Lauren Harris

-DOB: 7/6/1984

-Where: Essex, England

-Not much is known about her other than that she is the oldest daughter of Iron Maiden bassist / founding member / primary songwriter Steve Harris

Daniel Radcliffe

-Birth name: Daniel Jacob Radcliffe

-DOB: 7/23/1989

-Where: London, England

-He supports a charity that helps terminally ill children in Kent, East Sussex and South London areas of England called the Demelza House Children's Hospice. On his birthday, he asks people to donate to this charity instead of giving him gifts. This even inspired a character to be named Demelza in the sixth Harry Potter book The Half Blood Prince

Geezer Butler

-Birth name: Terence Michael Joseph Butler

-DOB: 7/17/1949

-Where: Aston, Birmingham, England

-He was arrested for getting into a drunken dispute at a bar in Death Valley, California. He was booked under his birth name of Terence Michael Butler

Ronnie James Dio

-Birth name: Ronald James Padavona

-DOB: 7/10/1942

-Where: Portsmouth, New Hampshire

-DOD: 5/16/2010

-Where: Los Angeles, California

-He introduced the so-called "Metal Horns" gesture (made by holding the thumb over the middle and ring finger) to heavy metal. He was inspired by his superstitious Italian grandmother, who used the gesture to ward off evil spirits

Ian Anthony Dale

-DOB: 7/3/1978

-Where: St. Paul, Minnesota

-He has Japanese in his heritage

Diana, Princess of Wales

-DOB: 7/1/1961

-Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom

-DOD: 8/31/1997

-Where: Paris, France

-She did a variety of charitable work, including visiting patients sick with AIDS in the hospital. She proved that AIDS was not contagious by hugging these patients and raising their spirits