December Birthdays

Since it's December, time to say Happy Birthday

Dave Murray

-Birth name: David Michael Murray

-DOB: 12/23/1956

-Where: Edmonton, London, England

-He, his sisters and mother spent time in Salvation Army shelters to avoid their father's emotional outbursts

Stevie Young

-Birth name: Stephen Crawford Young Jr.

-DOB: 12/11/1956

-Where: Glasgow, Scotland

-He replaced Malcolm Young in AC/DC when Malcolm passed away

Rick Savage

-DOB: 12/2/1960

-Where: Sheffield, England

-He suffered with a bout of Bell's palsy and has started to regain feeling in part of his face

Richard Hammond

-Birth name: Richard Mark Hammond

-DOB: 12/19/1969

-Where: Solihull, West Midlands, England

-Unlike Jeremy Clarkson and James May, Richard's idea of a perfect vacation (holiday) is camping in rainy weather in the Lake District of England

Cliff Williams

-Birth name: Clifford Williams

-DOB: 12/14/1949

-Where: Romford, United Kingdom

-The first AC/DC album he played on was 1978's Powerage

Dame Maggie Smith

-Birth name: Margaret Natalie Smith

-DOB: 12/28/1934

-Where: Ilford, Essex, England

-DOD: 9/27/2024

-Where: Chelsea, London, England

-While filming the 2009 film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, she was undergoing radiotherapy treatment for breast cancer

Phil Collen

-Birth name: Philip Kenneth Collen

-DOB: 12/8/1957

-Where: Hackney, London, England

-He decided to get himself in shape after he became tired of blacking out due to alcoholism

Denzel Washington

-Birth name: Denzel Hayes Washington Jr.

-DOB: 12/18/1954

-Where: Mount Vernon, New York

-His son John David Washington signed on as a running back with the St. Louis Rams, now the LA Rams

Lemmy Kilmister

-Birth name: Ian Fraser Kilmister

-DOB: 12/24/1945

-Where: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England

-DOD: 12/28/2015

-Where: Los Angeles, California

-He was fired from Hawkwind for possession of narcotics

Lucy Liu

-Birth name: Lucy Alexis Liu

-DOB: 12/2/1968

-Where: New York City, New York

-Her mother, Cecilia, was a Beijing-born biochemist and her father, Tom, is a Shanghai-born civil engineer

Keith Richards

-DOB: 12/18/1943

-Where: Dartford, Kent, England

-He met future Rolling Stones member Mick Jagger at a train station