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Events on Friday 3 December 1948 1
1948Ozzy Osbourne born in Marston Green, BirminghamJohn Michael Osbourne was born on 3 December 1948 in Marston Green, Warwickshire, and grew up in Aston, a working-class area of Birmingham. His father Jack worked night shifts at a GEC factory; his mother Lillian worked days. He was one of six children. Dyslexic and bullied at school, he left at fifteen and worked in a slaughterhouse, a car factory and as a plumber's apprentice before discovering music.