july 12 famous birthdays
Disco clearly died on this day in 1979.
St. Paul Saints co-owner Mike Veeck, son of then-Chicago White Socks buyer Bill Veeck, and a afresh accursed disc jockey were the brace abaft the infamous “Disco Demolition Night,” which, for 98 cent admission, arrive bedrock music admirers to stick it to the brand and accompany LP annal to abort abaft doubleheader amateur at Chicago’s Comiskey Park.
Fans stormed the field, the annal were absolute up and then, in the words of above Twins afterpiece Jack Morris, casting for Detroit, “all hell bankrupt loose.”
Chicago had to cost the bold — and disco was dealt a afterlife blow.
Nobel Peace Prize almsman Malala Yousafzai is 20. She’s the adolescent Pakistani woman attempt and about dead by the Taliban for speaking out about apprenticeship for girls. Now Mulala and her account are accepted worldwide.
Dan Murphy, above advance guitarist for the Twin Cities bandage Soul Asylum, is 55.
Brock Lesnar, a above Minnesota Gophers All American wrestler, WWEer and now a mixed-martial arts competitor, is 40.
Aussie extra Phoebe Tonkin of “The Vampire Diaries” (and now “the Originals”) is 27.
Erik Per Sullivan — the little brother Dewey from “Malcolm in the Middle” — is 26.
Actress Ta’Rhonda Jones of “Empire” is 29.
Model/actress Natalie Martinez of “CSI: NY” is 33. She’s additionally the spokesmodel for J Lo’s appearance line.
Austin, Minn., biographer Amanda Hocking, the berserk accepted columnist of abstruse affair young-adult ebooks, is 33. She showed the publishing industry how it’s done to self-publish and affairs millions of ebooks.
Singer and guitarist Kimberly Perry — in country’s The Bandage Perry with her brothers — is 34.
Indy car racer Katherine Legge of England is 37.
Actress Kristen Connolly of “House of Cards” is 37. These canicule she’s apparent in the CBS ball “Zoo” and the Steven Spielberg ABC ball “The Whispers.”
Actor Topher Grace of “That ’70s Show” is 39. He additionally played Venom in “Spider-Man 3.”
Actor Steve Howey of “Shameless” (and “Reba”) is 40.
Actress Michelle Rodríguez — who consistently plays boxy women, on such shows as “The Fate and the Furious” (and the added “Furious” flicks), “Lost,” “Avatar” and “Girlfight” — is 39.
Actress Anna Friel of “Pushing Daisies” is 41. Now she stars in the a British crime-noir detective series.
Country music artisan Shannon Lawson is 44.
Olympics amount skating and “Dancing with the Stars” best Kristi Yamaguchi is 46. She’s affiliated to North St. Paul built-in and above Olympic hockey amateur Bret Hedican, whom she met at the 1992 Olympic Winter Amateur back both were on the U.S. team.
Actress Mel Harris of TV’s “Thirtysomething” is 61-something.
Gospel accompanist Sandi Patty is 61.
Actress Cheryl Ladd is 66. This nice South Dakota built-in had the accident of aggravating to alter Farrah Fawcett-Majors in the 1970s cheesecake-detective appearance “Charlie’s Angels.”
Fitness authority Richard Simmons is 69. And yes, he is still alive; he aloof appetite his privacy.
Actress and biographer Denise Nicholas is 73. Her mostly ’70s acting credits accommodate “Room 222,” “In the Heat of the Night,” and “Blacula.”
Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie is 74. Among the hits she wrote for the bandage were “You Make Loving Fun” and “Don’t Stop.”
Comedian and “The Cosby Show” brilliant Bill Cosby is — eh, who cares.
