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Musicians with July birthdays: dates, source classes, and verification status
Eighteen musicians with July birthdays are listed with dates, acts, source classes, and a verification status, plus how July dates drift and the re-check cycle.
What to take away
- Eighteen musicians with July birthdays are listed below, with date, year, act, the class of source the date rests on, and a verification status.
- The status column is new. Each entry is marked press-backed, band-backed, or flagged.
- Two entries carry a flagRingo Starr (July 7, 1940) and Kate Bush (July 30, 1958, printed as 1957 in some listings).
- July 1 is day 182 in a common year and day 183 in a leap year, which shifts a reused sort by one.
- A copied date is not a source. The chain has to end at a record, a registry, or the person.
The July entries and the source behind each
Press-backed means label or press material carries the date. Band-backed means the band's own material carries it. An entry is flagged when the chain ends in repetition, or when sources give different years. The musicians with January birthdays page grades its dates the same way, and shows what to check before trusting one.
| Musician | Date and year | Act | Source class | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debbie Harry | July 1, 1945 | Blondie | Label, press | Press-backed |
| Missy Elliott | July 1, 1971 | solo | Label, press | Press-backed |
| Lindsey Buckingham | July 3, 1949 | Fleetwood Mac | Label, band | Band-backed |
| Bill Withers | July 4, 1938 | solo | Label, press | Press-backed |
| 50 Cent | July 6, 1975 | solo | Label, press | Press-backed |
| Ringo Starr | July 7, 1940 | The Beatles | Press repetition | Flagged |
| Beck | July 8, 1970 | solo | Label | Press-backed |
| Courtney Love | July 9, 1964 | Hole | Press | Press-backed |
| Jack White | July 9, 1975 | The White Stripes | Label, press | Press-backed |
| Ronnie James Dio | July 10, 1942 | Black Sabbath, Dio | Label, band | Band-backed |
| Suzanne Vega | July 11, 1959 | solo | Label | Press-backed |
| Carlos Santana | July 20, 1947 | Santana | Label, band | Band-backed |
| Don Henley | July 22, 1947 | The Eagles | Label, band | Band-backed |
| Bill Wyman | July 24, 1936 | The Rolling Stones | Band | Band-backed |
| Mick Jagger | July 26, 1943 | The Rolling Stones | Band | Band-backed |
| Roger Taylor | July 26, 1949 | Queen | Band | Band-backed |
| Kate Bush | July 30, 1958 | solo | Label; 1957 in some lists | Flagged |
| Paul Anka | July 30, 1941 | solo | Label | Press-backed |
Four dates are shared. Debbie Harry and Missy Elliott share July 1. Courtney Love and Jack White share July 9. Mick Jagger and Roger Taylor share July 26. Kate Bush and Paul Anka share July 30. Match on full name and birthplace, not on the date alone.
The two flagged entries
Ringo Starr's row gets the same treatment as the rest. The chain is recorded, and it starts at press repetition rather than at a record. July 7, 1940 appears in band material and in decades of coverage. That is a strong press record, and still not a birth certificate.
Kate Bush's year is the open disagreement. Label publicity and UK press coverage give July 30, 1958. Some aggregator listings print 1957 with no record named. This page prints both years and picks neither.
Where outlets disagree, the Wikipedia guideline on reliable sources is the standard used to weigh the claims. For unsettled details about a living person, the guidance on biographies of living persons sets the rule.
Why a July date moves
July 1 is day 182 in a common year and day 183 in a leap year. A compiler who sorts by day-of-year without checking the leap flag shifts every July entry by one day.
July 1: Common vs Leap Year
Common year
- Day-of-year
- 182
- 2027 weekday
- Thursday
- Reused table risk
- Off by one
Leap year
- Day-of-year
- 183
- 2027 weekday
- Thursday
- Reused table risk
- Off by one
Weekday drift does the rest. July 1, 2027 falls on a Thursday. A table built for 2026 and reused without recalculation puts the wrong weekday beside the right date. The July birthdays page works through the day-of-year and weekday arithmetic in full.
A birth just before or after midnight local time can land on two dates in two records, one at the hospital and one at the registry.
Checking the list
The re-check runs on a fixed cycle. Memory is not a schedule.
- Re-resolve every citation in the table. Log the status code and the date you looked. A page that answered last month can fail this month.
- Downgrade any entry whose only source has died and has no archived copy. The status goes to Flagged until a replacement is found.
- Take one independent second source per entry. If the two disagree on the year, print both and grade the entry Flagged.
- Recompute the day-of-year and the weekday for every July date against the 2027 calendar.
- Record the rundate, entries changed, entries downgraded, sources replaced, and what you still could not confirm.
Checking July Birthday Dates
- Confirm each date against a second source
- Note consultation date beside every source
- Quote the sentence you relied on
- Recalculate day-of-year and weekday for 2027
- Print both when sources disagree
A full pass over 18 entries takes one person about two hours the first time and under an hour after that. The cost and payment breakdown covers who funds that hour.
What a wrong date costs
One bad date propagates. An aggregator publishes it, three sites copy the aggregator, and a fourth cites the three. Within a year the wrong date has four citations and no record behind it. Link rot makes this worse, because the pages doing the copying vanish while the copies stay.
Where a source carries a stable identifier, cite the identifier rather than the address it resolves to today. Most music press pages carry none, so record the URL you used and the date you looked at it.
An identifier is not a guarantee. It moves the promise from a company with no obligation to a body that has taken one on.
