Updated at December 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | James Hetfield |
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Birthdate | August 03, 1963 |
Birth Place | Downey, CA |
Age (in 2024) | 61 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Metal Singer |
James Hetfield is best known as Metal Singer who has born on August 03, 1963 in Downey, CA. Currently, James Hetfield is 61 years, 4 months and 11 days old. James Hetfield will celebrate 62nd birthday on Sunday, 3rd of August 2025. Below the countdown to James Hetfield upcoming birthday.
Co-founder of the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Metallica who was named the eighth greatest metal guitarist by Joel Mclver in 2009. He is joined in Metallica by bassist Robert Trujillo, drummer Lars Ulrich and guitarist Kirk Lee Hammett.
His favorite band growing up was Aerosmith, from whom he drew inspiration to learn the guitar. He learned how to play guitar, bass, and piano.
He observed his mother die of cancer without medicine when he was sixteen because of her strong belief in Christian Science, an event that inspired the Metallica song "The God That Failed."
He married his wife Francesca on August 17, 1997, with whom he had three children: Cali, Castor, and Marcella.
He first met Lars Ulrich after answering a 1981 classified ad placed by Ulrich in The Recycler.
James Hetfield is 61 years old today.
James Hetfield was born on August 03, 1963 in Downey, CA.
James Hetfield zodiac sign is Leo.
James Hetfield was best known as Metal Singer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about James Hetfield's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with James Hetfield's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1972 | The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. |
1975 | A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188. |
1977 | Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers. |
1981 | Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front - Suxxali Reew Mi. |
1997 | Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara. |
1997 | The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction. |
2004 | The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks. |
2005 | President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia. |
2007 | Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping. |
2010 | Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage. |
2014 | A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China. |
2014 | The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins. |
2018 | Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan. |
2019 | Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia. |
2019 | Twenty-three people are killed and 23 injured in a shooting in El Paso, Texas. |
1989 | The birth of Nick Viergever, Dutch footballer |
1990 | The birth of Jourdan Dunn, English model |
1990 | The birth of Kang Min-kyung, South Korean singer |
1992 | The birth of Gamze Bulut, Turkish runner |
1992 | The birth of Gesa Felicitas Krause, German runner |
1992 | The birth of Diāna Marcinkēviča, Latvian tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Aljon Mariano, Filipino basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Lum Rexhepi, Finnish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Karlie Kloss, American fashion model |
1993 | The birth of Ola Abidogun, English sprinter |
1993 | The birth of Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer |
1994 | The birth of Manaia Cherrington, New Zealand rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Esther Earl, American author, vlogger, and online personality. (d. 2010) Celebrated annually as Esther day |
1994 | The birth of Todd Gurley, American football player |
1995 | The birth of Victoria Kan, Russian tennis player |
2013 | The death of Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Jack Hynes, Scottish-American soccer player and manager (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Miangul Aurangzeb, Pakistani captain and politician, 19th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Dorothy Salisbury Davis, American author (b. 1916) |
2014 | The death of Kenny Drew, Jr., American pianist and composer (b. 1958) |
2014 | The death of Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist and academic (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (b. 1917) |
2015 | The death of Mel Farr, American football player and businessman (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of Coleen Gray, American actress (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Margot Loyola, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Jef Murray, American artist and author (b. 1960) |
2020 | The death of John Hume, Northern Irish politician (b. 1937) |
2022 | The death of Jackie Walorski, American politician (b. 1963) |
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