Born on November 1, 1962, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Anthony Kiedis co-founded Red Hot Chili Peppers in Los Angeles with Flea, Hillel Slovak, and Jack Irons, originally performing under the name Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem before shortening it. The band's funk driven rock nearly collapsed when Slovak died of a heroin overdose in 1988, but Kiedis pushed through, and with John Frusciante on guitar the band broke through commercially with 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik, which sold over seven million copies in the US and produced the Grammy winning "Under the Bridge." After Frusciante's mid 90s departure and triumphant 1998 return, the band reached new heights with Californication, and later famously closed out the chaotic Woodstock '99 festival. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

Born on November 1, 1963, Rick Allen joined Def Leppard on his fifteenth birthday in 1978, after his mother answered the band's wanted ad on his behalf, and he celebrated turning sixteen onstage at Hammersmith Odeon opening for AC/DC. His career nearly ended on New Year's Eve 1984, when his Corvette crashed on a road outside Sheffield, severing his left arm in the seat belt; doctors reattached it, but infection later forced amputation. Rather than quit, Allen built a custom electronic kit, triggering his old left arm parts with foot pedals, and returned to the stage at the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington in August 1986. He went on to drum through the band's most commercially successful run, including Hysteria and Adrenalize, proving the setback never slowed him down.

Wayne Static, the industrial metal frontman who founded Static-X in Los Angeles in 1994, died on November 1, 2014, in Landers, California, at 48, just days shy of his own birthday. An autopsy later cited multiple prescription drug toxicity, involving oxycodone, hydromorphone, and alprazolam, compounded by years of chronic substance abuse. Static built the band's sound, which he jokingly dubbed "evil disco," around pummeling riffs, electronic textures, and his own trademark upswept hair, drawing on influences like Ministry and Skinny Puppy alongside the heaviness of Pantera. Their 1999 debut Wisconsin Death Trip went platinum on "Push It" and "I'm with Stupid," powering the band through a run that included Machine and Shadow Zone before splitting in 2013. His vocals later anchored the posthumous Project: Regeneration albums.