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Thursday, August 1, 2019

August Birthdays

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

Glenn Hughes
-DOB: 8/21/1957
-Where: Cannock, Staffordshire, England
-Named after Glenn Miller
Ian Gillan
-DOB: 8/19/1945
-Where: London, England
-Got in to heated arguments with then Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore repeatedly
Joe Elliott
-Birth name: Joseph Thomas Elliott, Jr.
-DOB: 8/1/1959
-Where: Sheffield, England
-Heavily influenced by Queen and David Bowie
Daniel Dae Kim
-Birth name: Kim-Dae-hyun
-DOB: 8/4/1968
-Where: Busan, South Korea
-Is best known for his role on Lost and as Five-O detective Chin Ho Kelly on Hawaii Five-O
James Jagger
-DOB: 8/28/1985
-Where: New York City, New York
-Shared a drama class with Robert Pattinson
Wow, he's handsome. But, eerily, he looks just like his dad!
Antonio Banderas
-Birth name: Jose Antonio Dominguez Banderas
-DOB: 8/10/1960
-Where: Malaga, Andalucia, Spain
-When he arrived in the US, to hopefully break into the acting world in Hollywood, he had to learn English phonetically
Viola Davis
-DOB: 8/11/1965
-Where: Saint Matthews, South Carolina
-She was born on the Singleton Plantation, which was owned by her grandmother
Robert De Niro
-Birth name: Robert Anthony De Niro Jr.
-DOB: 8/17/1943
-Where: New York City, New York
-Earned his nickname "Bobby Milk" because of his pale complexion
Sean Connery
-Birth name: Thomas Sean Connery
-DOB: 8/25/1930
-Where: Edinburgh, Scotland
-He stated losing his hair at age 17 and had to wear a hairpiece in most of his James Bond films. Though, in his later movies, he did not wear a hairpiece
Vivian Campbell
-Birth name: Vivian Patrick Campbell
-DOB: 8/25/1962
-Where: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
-Has two daughters, Lily Rose and Una Marigold
Rob Halford
-Birth name: Robert John Arthur Halford
-DOB: 8/25/1951
-Where: Sutton Colfield, West Midlands, England
-Is thinking about releasing an autobiography some time down the road
Robert Plant
-Birth name: Robert Anthony Plant
-DOB: 8/20/1948
-Where: West Bromwich, England
-His first wife was East Indian and moved to England with her family
Bruce Dickinson
-Birth name: Paul Bruce Dickinson
-DOB: 8/7/1958
-Where: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
-There are three things he is best known for: 1.) Waving the English flag back and forth and wearing a Revolutionary War British cavalry uniform during "The Trooper", 2.) His high pitched vocals earning him the nickname "The Air Raid Siren" and 3.) Saying "Scream for Me" before saying the name of the city Iron Maiden is in
Dustin Hoffman
-Birth name: Dustin Lee Hoffman
-DOB: 8/8/1937
-Where: Los Angeles, California
-He was born and raised into a strongly Jewish family that hailed from Ukraine, Russia, Poland and Romania
John Deacon
-Birth name: John Richard Deacon
-DOB: 8/19/1951
-Where: Leicester, Leicestershire, England
-Two of Queen's best known songs "You're My Best Friend", written as a tribute to his wife Veronica and "Another One Bites the Dust" were both written by him

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