On September 5, 1946, a future music icon referred to as Farrokh Bulsara was born in Zanzibar to his Parsi mother and father.

Taking on the stage identify of Freddie Mercury, he would go on to turn into one of many biggest singers within the historical past of rock because the frontman of Queen.

Tragically, he died at simply 45 in 1991 from issues of AIDS, which he was recognized with in 1987.

Today would have been Freddie’s 77th birthday and his fellow bandmates Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor have posted candy tributes to him on Instagram.

However, followers shouldn’t anticipate one from bassist John Deacon, since he’s been retired and living a very private life since 1997.

Sir Brian posted a photograph of the We Will Rock You musical’s gold statue of the Queen singer and captioned it: “Happy Birthday dear Freddie. Bri.”

Meanwhile, Roger shared an image of himself and Freddie carrying Mexican sombrero hats. He merely wrote: “Happy birthday dear Fred.”

Today additionally marks the ultimate day that the general public can view the content material of Freddie’s Garden Lodge dwelling at no cost at Sotheby’s London, earlier than his possessions are auctioned off from tomorrow.