Damian's Dominion: Damian Lewis: A Time Capsule

A TIME CAPSULE
February 11, 1971

This page offers a "time capsule" featuring lots of information about events that occurred:
on February 11, 1971 -- Damian's date of birth,
in 1971 -- the year of Damian's birth,
and
on February 11 throughout history -- on the anniversary of Damian's birthday.

Events in history which took place on February 11:

1531 - Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of the Church in England
1543 - Battle at Wayna Daga Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army
1543 - Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant
1573 - First European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama)
1575 - King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
1638 - Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries Earl John of Brederode
1720 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)
1747 - Claude de Ramezay and a group of Acadian guides attack the British position at Grand Pré
1752 - Benjamin Franklin helps establish the Pennsylvania Hospital. the nation's first hospital
1766 - Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
1768 - Samuel Adams letter circulates around American colonies opposing Townshend Act taxes
1778 - Some 300 people visit Voltaire following his return to Paris after his having been in exile for 28 years
1790 - Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
1793 - Prussian troops occupy Venlo Netherlands
1794 - First session of US Senate open to the public
1808 - Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre PA
1809 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat
1810 - Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria
1811 - President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years
1812 - Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signs a law that redistricts the state to the advantage of his party, causing opponents to coin the term gerrymandering.
1814 - Norway's independence proclaimed
1826 - London University founded
1837 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
1840 - Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment" premieres in Paris
1843 - Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "I Lombardi" premieres in Milan
1851 - First cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania vs Victoria, Launceston
1852 - First British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
1854 - Major streets lit by coal gas for first time
1858 - First apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France
1861 - President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield, IL, to Washington, DC
1861 - US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state
1864 - Major Charls Heaphy, Auckland Rifel Volunteers, wins the Victoria Cross at Mangapiko River, Waikato during the New Zealand (Maori) Wars
1869 - Patrick James Whelan (c1840-1869) hanged in a snowstorm before a crowd of 5,000 people for the murder of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
1873 - Spanish Cortes fires King Amadeus I
1878 - First weekly weather report published in UK
1889 - The first Japanese written Constitution, handed by the Meiji emperor to his prime minister, Count Kuroda
1895 - Temperature falls to -17ºF (-27.2ºC) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
1895 - Georgetown becomes part of Washington, DC
1896 - Oscar Wilde's "Salomé" premieres in Paris
1897 - White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC
1898 - Owen Smith of North Carolina, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia
1899 - Temperature falls to -15ºF (-26ºC) in Washington, DC (district record)
1899 - Temperature falls to -61ºF (-52ºC) in Montana (record low temperature)
1902 - Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels
1907 - De Master's Dutch government resigns
1907 - Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die
1908 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England
1908 - Heemskerk's government begins in Holland
1916 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert
1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
1919 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD) elected President of Germany
1922 - "April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1
1922 - US intervention army leaves Honduras
1926 - Tokelau (Union) islands in south Pacific transfers to New Zealand
1927 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
1927 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1928 - 2nd Winter Olympics games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland
1929 - The independence and sovereignty of Vatican City is recognized by Italy with the signing of the Lateran Treaty
1932 - Temperature rises to 73ºF in Cleveland, OH (highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February)
1935 - Temperature falls to -11ºF (-24ºC) in Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)
1935 - First US airplane flight with auto slung beneath the fuselage, New York
1936 - Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay
1937 - General Motors formally recognizes the United Automobile Workers Union, ending a sit-down strike against the auto maker
1941 - First Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo)
1941 - Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli
1941 - Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti-German sentiments
1942 - "Archie" comic book debuts
1942 - In Montreal anti-conscription riot breaks out after 10,000 people rally at the Marché St-Jacques
1942 - The German battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, as well as the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, escape from the French port of Brest and make a mad dash up the English Channel to safety in German waters
1943 - General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe
1943 - Ottawa imposes severe wartime gasoline rationing of 10 gallons a month for every private car
1943 - Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1944 - German troops re-conquer Aprilia Italy
1944 - U-424 sunk off Ireland
1945 - First gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey CA
1945 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Russian leader Josef Stalin sign the Yalta Agreement during WWII
1948 - Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut England vs West Indies, out for 140
1948 - John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland
1948 - Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, vs England Port-of-Spain
1949 - Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title
1950 - "Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1
1951 - Kwame Nkrumah wins first parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
1951 - Marshall Teague drives a Hudson Hornet to victory on the beach oval of the 160-mile Daytona Grand National at Daytona Beach, Florida
1953 - President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple
1953 - Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel
1954 - 6th Emmy Awards, I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor & Eve Arden win
1956 - Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, former members of the British Foreign Office who had disappeared from England in 1951, resurface in Moscow
1958 - Auto racer Marshall Teague dies at age thirty-seven after attempting to raise the closed-course speed record at Daytona
1958 - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs
1958 - Ruth Carol Taylor is first African-American woman hired as flight attendant
1959 - Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v West Indies at Delhi)
1960 - Jack Paar walks off his TV show
1961 - Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by an African-American
1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
1962 - Nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon
1963 - Beatles tape 10 tracks for their first album, including "Please, Please Me"
1963 - CIA Domestic Operations Division created
1963 - Near Kapuskasing Ontario, a shoot-out between loggers and independents sees three Kapuskasing loggers killed and nine wounded
1964 - Beatles first live appearance in US - Washington, DC, Coliseum
1964 - Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
1964 - Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France
1965 - Beatles drummer Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox in London
1968 - Israeli-Jordan border fight
1968 - Jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River, NY
1968 - Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
1969 - Dorey Funk, Jr., beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa to become NWA champion
1969 - In Montreal, Quebec, Canadian and West Indian student demonstrators destroy $1.4 million computer and set fire to data centre at Sir George Williams University
1970 - Mt. Washington, NH, receives 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall (state 24-hour record)
1970 - Japan joins the space race by launching a satellite into earth orbit
1970 - John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 protesting the South African rugby team playing in Scotland
1971 (the very day Damian was born) - Montréal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal
1971 (the very day Damian was born) - US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
1972 - McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. and Life magazine canceled plans to publish what had turned out to be a fake autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes
1974 - Titan-Centaur test launch fails
1975 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
1976 - Clifford Alexander, Jr., confirmed as first African-American Secretary of Army
1977 - Off Nova Scotia, fisherman catches 20.2 kg lobster (the world's heaviest known crustacean)
1978 - 16 Unification church couples wed in New York, NY
1978 - China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens
1978 - EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus
1978 - Pacific Western Airlines aircraft crashes at Cranbrook, killing 43 people; snowplow on runway during PWA jet's landing
1979 - 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC
1979 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1979 - Followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seize power in Iran
1979 - Musical "They're Playing Our Song" premieres at Imperial NYC for 1082 performances
1981 - Australia all out 83 vs India at MCG chasing 143 to win
1981 - Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski
1983 - "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" & "Buckingham Blues" debut LP
1983 - 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm))
1984 - 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
1985 - Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord
1985 - Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, New Zealand still wins
1986 - Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1986 - Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
1986 - Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
1987 - British Airways begins trading as a public company
1987 - England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1987 - Philippines constitution goes into effect
1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Anthony M. Kennedy appointed to the Supreme Court
1989 - Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated first female bishop (Episcopalian)
1989 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1990 - Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson loses the title when he is knocked out in the tenth round in a fight with Buster Douglas in Tokyo
1990 - James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown
1990 - South African activist Nelson Mandela is freed after 27 years in prison
1990 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1991 - UNPO, Unrepresented Nations & People Organization forms in Hague Netherlands
1992 - F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (no deaths)
1993 - Baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan announces that he will be retiring after the 1993 season
1993 - Janet Reno is named by president Bill Clinton as the first woman to hold the position of U.S. attorney general
1994 - Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA
1994 - Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18) lands
1995 - The space shuttle Discovery touches down at Cape Canaveral, FL, ending a mission that included docking with the Russian Mir space station
1995 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1995 - West Indies score 5-660 against New Zealand
1995 - President Clinton, in his weekly radio address, threatened to veto any attempt by Republicans to scrap plans to put 100,000 additional police officers on the streets
1997 - Celine Dion receives an award for her 50 millionth record sold
1997 - STS 82 (Discovery 22) launches
1998 - A federal judge rules that golfer Casey Martin, who suffers from a circulatory condition making it hard to walk, is covered by the American with Disabilities Act; under the ADA, Martin should be allowed to use a golf cart when he competes in PGA tournaments
1998 - KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview
1998 - Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997" auctioned for $442,500
1999 - In Afghanistan a 6.0 earthquake kills 70 and leaves 500 injured, at least 14,000 homeless and 7,000 houses destroyed in Lowgar and Vardak Provinces
1999 - Pluto is once again the farthest planet from the sun in our solar system
2000 - The space shuttle Endeavour thundered away from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a mission to map the world as never before
2000 - Britain stripped Northern Ireland's Protestant-Catholic government of power in a bid to prevent its collapse over the IRA's refusal to disarm
2000 - French movie director Roger Vadim died in Paris at age 72
2004 - Wesley Clark dropped out of the race for the White House
2004 - A car bomb at an army recruiting center in Baghdad, Iraq, killed 47 people
2004 - Cable TV giant Comcast Corp. launched a hostile bid to buy The Walt Disney Co. for more than $54 billion (Comcast later dropped its bid)

Top news headlines during the week of February 7-13, 1971:

Feb 7 - Women win the right to vote in Switzerland
Feb 7 - Swiss men accept female suffrage
Feb 8 - Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in New York, to become WWF wrestling champion
Feb 8 - South Vietnamese troops invade Laos
Feb 9 - Apollo 14 returns to Earth
Feb 9 - Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 65 & causes over $½ billion damage
Feb 9 - Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF
Feb 9 - Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family
Feb 10 - Bill White becomes 1st black baseball announcer (NY Yankees)
Feb 10 - American Mensa, Ltd. incorporates in New York
Feb 10 - John Guares "House of Blue Leaves" premieres in New York, NY
Feb 10 - Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa
Feb 11 (the very day Damian was born) - Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal
Feb 11 (the very day Damian was born) - US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
Feb 12 - Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 & 0 Australia vs England
Feb 13 - Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2
Feb 13 - 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos

Academy Award winners in 1971:

Best Picture: The French Connection, directed by William Friedkin
Best Actor: Gene Hackman, the French Connection
Best Actress: Jane Fonda, Klute

On television in 1971 (USA):

Adam 12
All in the Family
Bonanza
Cannon
The Carol Burnett Show
The Dean Martin Show
The Doris Day Show
The Flip Wilson Show

Funny Face
Gunsmoke
Hawaii Five-O
Hee Haw
Here's Lucy
Ironside
The Jim Nabors Hour
Mannix The F.B.I.
Marcus Welby, M.D.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Mayberry R.F.D.
Medical Center
The Men from Shiloh
The Mod Squad
Monday Night Football
My Three Sons
The New Dick Van Dyke Show

The Partridge Family
Room 222
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Sanford and Son
The Smith Family
The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
The Wonderful World of Disney

Top songs for 1971 (USA):

Knock Three Times - Dawn
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - Bee Gees
It's Too Late - Carole King
Joy to the World - Three Dog Night

Brand New Key - Melanie
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Go Away Little Girl - Donny Osmond

Family Affair - Sly & the Family Stone
One Bad Apple - Osmonds
Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves - Cher

Top books in 1971 (USA):

Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
The Art of the Soluble - Peter B. Medawar
Children of Crisis - Robert Coles
Deliverance - James Dickey
The Double Helix - James D. Watson
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E. L. Konigsburg
The High King - Lloyd Alexander

Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
Present at the Creation - Dean Acheson
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Sounder - William Armstrong
Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
The Summer of the Swans - Betsy Cromer Byars
A Theory of Justice - John Rawls
Up a Road Slowly - Irene Hunt

Hot new toys in 1971 (USA):

Alien Zeroid
Barrel of Monkeys
Battling Tops
Big Sneeze
Billy Blastoff
Dawn Doll
Easy-Bake Premier Oven

Hoppity Hop
Jane Apollo Doll
Johnny Apollo Doll
Kicktail Skateboard
Land Of The Giants Signal-Ray Space Gun
Mandy ("My Friends Doll")
Mastermind

Masterpiece
Nerf Ball
The Outer Space Men Colorforms
Pop Yer Top
Silly String
Spirograph
Split-Level Aggravation

Star Trek Astro-Walkie Talkies
Stay Alive
Toss Across
Upsy Downsy Babies
Weebles
Wizzer
Zeroids
Zillion Bubble Blower

Prices in 1971 (USA):

Bread: $0.25/loaf
Milk: $1.32/gal
Eggs: $1.18/doz

House: $28,300
Car: $3,742

Gasoline: $0.36/gal
Postage stamp: $0.08/ea

Average income: $11,583/yr
Minimum wage: $1.60/hr

Noteworthy people (in addition to Damian, of course!) born on February 11:

1380 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italy, humanist
1465 - Elizabeth of York, London, Consort of King Henry VII
1506 - Juliana van Stolberg, engraver of Nassau
1535 - Gregory XIV, [Niccol-Sfondrati], Roman Catholic pope
1557 - John Wtenbogaert, remonstrants theologist
1568 - Honor‚ d'Urf, French writer
1657 - Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer
1732 - George Washington [NS=Feb 22]
1755 - Albert Christoph Dies, composer
1764 - Marie-Joseph de Ch nier, French poet
1776 - Joannis Capodistrias, Greek governor of Troezen
1780 - K v G nderode, writer
1783 - Jarena Lee, famous African
1790 - Ignaz Assmayer, composer
1800 - William Henry Fox Talbot, Wiltshire England, photographic pioneer
1802 - Lydia Maria Child, US, author/abolitionist
1810 - Loisa Puget, composer
1812 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President (Confederacy)
1819 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer
1821 - Hermann Allmers, writer
1821 - Auguste Édouard Mariette, French Egyptologist
1829 - William Anderson Pile, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1830 - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, composer
1833 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice
1839 - Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist
1840 - Sanuel Dana Greene, Lieutenant Commander (Union Navy)
1846 - William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor
1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, Milan OH, inventor
1860 - Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author
1867 - August W Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist
1869 - Helene ELJ Kröller-Müller, Dutch founder (Kröller-Müller Museum
1873 - Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist
1874 - Elsa Beskow [Maartman], Swedish children's book/fairy tales author
1874 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer
1875 - Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer
1879 - Jean Gilbert, composer
1882 - Gheorghe Cucu, composer
1883 - Paul August von Klenau, Danish composer/conductor
1887 - John van Melle, South African writer
1887 - Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstängl, German/US pianist/politician
1889 - Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer
1889 - John Mills, dancer (Mills Brothers)
1890 - John P M L de Vries, fairy tale writer
1891 - J W Hearne, cricket leg-spinner
1893 - Johan C P Alberts, Dutch literary
1894 - Alfonso Leng, composer
1894 - Isaac M Kolthoff, chemist
1895 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer
1896 - Else Lasker-Schüler, writer
1897 - Yves de La Casiniere, composer
1898 - Leo Szilard Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist
1900 - Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., polo player
1900 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher
1903 - Hans Redlich, composer
1903 - Rex Lease, West Virginia, actor
1904 - Keith Holyoake, New Zealand PM
1904 - Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF
1905 - Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Netherlands/Indonesian writer
1906 - Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal
1907 - E W Swanton, author & sports commentator
1908 - Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, geologist/explorer
1908 - Josh White, rocker
1908 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist
1909 - Joseph L Mankiewicz, Wilkes-Barre PA, film writer/director
1909 - Max Baer [The Livermore Larruper], Omaha NB, heavyweight boxing champion/actor
1911 - Alec Cairncross, chancellor (Glasgow U)
1912 - Rudolf Firkusny Napajedla, Czechoslovakia, pianist
1912 - Roy Fuller, England, poet/novelist
1913 - Lucio Diestro San Pedro, composer
1914 - Menelaos Pallantios, composer
1914 - Matt Dennis, Seattle WA, singer
1914 - Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge of Amsterdam
1914 - French Duynstee, Dutch constitutional lawyer
1915 - Patrick Leigh Fermor, author
1915 - Haakon Stotijn, Dutch oboist
1915 - Mervyn Levy, artist/critic
1916 - Bernice Levin Neugarten, social scientist/gerontologist
1917 - Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer
1917 - Sidney Sheldon, novelist
1919 - Gretchen Fraser, Tacoma WA, slalom skier
1920 - Farouk I Cairo, last King of Egypt
1920 - Paul Peter Piech, artist
1920 - Billy Halop, New York, NY, actor
1920 - Daniel F[rancis] Galouye, US, sci-fi author
1921 - Lloyd Bentsen (Senator-D-TX)
1921 - Eva Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress
1922 - Tudor Jarda, composer
1922 - Leslie Nielsen, Regina Sask, actor
1923 - Baroness Sharples
1923 - Ronald Arculus, British diplomat
1924 - Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian
1925 - Peter Berger, British Vice-Admiral
1925 - Kim Stanley [Patricia Reid], Tularosa NM, actress
1925 - Dr Virginia E Johnson, sexologist (Masters & Johnson)
1926 - Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder
1926 - Paul Bocuse, France, great chef
1928 - Conrad Janis, New York, NY, actor
1928 - Raoul Cita, rocker
1928 - Archibald Forster, CEO (Esso UK)
1928 - Gerry Alexander, cricket wicketkeeper
1929 - Leonard Gregory Kastle, composer

1930 - Alevtina Koltschina, USSR, cross country relay skier
1930 - C H Dearnley, organist
1930 - Earl of Rosebery
1931 - Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator
1932 - Dennis Skinner, MP
1932 - Jerome Lowenthal, Philadelphia PA, pianist/professor
1934 - Francesco Pennisi, composer
1934 - John Surtees, British race car driver
1934 - Mary Quant, Kent England, fashion designer
1934 - Patrick Holmes Sellors, ophthalmologist
1934 - Tina Louise, New York NY, actress
1935 - Bent Lorentzen, composer
1935 - Gene Vincent, Norfolk VA, rock guitarist/vocalist
1936 - Burt Reynolds, Waycross GA, actor
1937 - Bill Lawry, cricketer
1937 - Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist/playwright
1937 - Marilyn Butler, Rector (Exeter College-Oxford)
1937 - Peter Lashley, cricketer
1938 - Bevan Congdon, cricketer
1938 - Boris Majorov, USSR, ice hockey
1938 - General Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian General/dictator
1938 - Willy Correa de Oliveira, composer
1939 - Bryan Gould, MP
1939 - Gerry Goffin, Queens NY, rock lyricist
1939 - Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, US, sci-fi author
1940 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, rocker
1940 - Calvin Fowler, Pittsburgh PA, basketball player
1940 - John Fink, Detroit, MI, actor
1941 - Glenn Randall, Jr., stuntman
1941 - Jeremy Mackenzie, General
1941 - Sergio Mendes, jazz/pop musician
1942 - Archie Andrews, comic book character
1942 - Archie, comic book character
1942 - James Couchman, MP
1942 - Leon Haywood, US, vocalist/keyboardist
1942 - Otis Clay, US, gospel/R&B-singer
1942 - Tony Colton, rock producer
1943 - Iain Cameron, British brigadier
1943 - Win Griffiths, MP
1944 - Bert Greene, golfer
1944 - Buddhadev Dasgupta, director
1944 - Michael G Oxley (Representative-R-OH)
1946 - M C Walker, CEO (Iceland Frozen Foods)
1946 - Timothy Chambers, pediatrician
1948 - Sue Bernard, Los Angeles CA, playmate
1949 - Charlie Hargrett, rock guitarist
1950 - Clarence Ellis, NFLer
1950 - Earnest Jim Istook (Representative-R-OK)
1950 - Johanna E "Joke" Beerens, actress
1950 - Rochelle Fleming, US, soul vocalist
1953 - Alan Rubin, music figure
1953 - Philip Anglim, San Francisco CA, actor
1953 - Stephen D Thorne, Frankfurt-on-Main, German, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut
1954 - Catherine Hickland, Ft Lauderdale, actress
1956 - Kathleen Beller, Queens NY, actress
1958 - Michael Jackson, controller (BBC2)
1958 - Regina Marsikova Czechoslovakia, tennis star
1959 - Corinne Shigemoto, US judo coach
1960 - Richard A Mastracchio, Waterbury CT, astronaut
1961 - Becky LeBeau, Los Angeles CA, vocalist
1961 - Carey Lowell, New York NY, actress
1961 - Mary Docter, US, 3000 meter speed skater
1962 - Scott Kolden, Torrance CA, actor
1962 - Sheryl Crow, Kennett MO, singer/songwriter
1963 - Todd Benzinger, US, baseball player
1964 - Sheryl Crow, vocalist
1965 - Angie Ridgeway, Wabash IN, LPGA golfer
1965 - Stephen Gregory, New York, NY, actor
1966 - Alexander Semak Ufa, Russia, NHL center
1966 - Anthony Parker, NFL cornerback
1966 - Patrick Kuhnen, West Germany, tennis star
1966 - Stephen Gregory, New York, NY, actor
1967 - Barbara Byrne, Princeton NJ, rower
1967 - Derek King Hamilton, NHL left wing
1967 - John Patterson, US, baseball infielder
1969 - Bryan Eversgerd, US, baseball pitcher
1969 - Jennifer Aniston, Sherman Oaks, CA, actress
1969 - Joe Valerio, NFL outside corner/tackle
1969 - Kevin King, US, baseball pitcher
1969 - Mark Atkinson, cricket wicket-keeper
1969 - Mary Stoker, Miss Wisconsin-USA
1969 - Shannon Long Gladstone, Australia, playmate
1970 - Alistair Brown, cricketer
1970 - Jason Allyn Scott, Iowa City, IA, rower
1971 (the very day Damian was born) - Jennifer Lynne Faucette, Burlington, VT, Miss Vermont-America
1971 (the very day Damian was born) - John Bock, NFL center
1971 (the very day Damian was born) - Linda Wild, Arlington Heights, IL, tennis star
1972 - Dennis Iliohan, Dutch soccer player
1973 - Tom Tumulty, linebacker
1974 - Brian Newman, guard
1974 - Ronnie Ward, linebacker
1974 - Wally Richardson, quarterback
1974 - D'Angelo, singer
1975 - Chuck Watanabe, kayak
1975 - Jacque Vaughn, NBA guard
1975 - Kim Weir, Miss Nebraska-USA
1976 - Brice Beckham, Long Beach CA, actor
1976 - Tony Battie, NBA forward
1977 - Jessica Carlson, Kalamazoo, MI, archer
1977 - Stephanie Richardson, Toronto, Ontario, 200 meter/800 meter swimmer
1977 - Veronica Marie Duka, Campbellsville, KY, Miss Kentucky-America
1977 - Mike Shinoda, rock MC/vocalist (Linkin Park)
1979 - Brandy [Norwood], singer
1980 - Matthew Lawrence, Montgomery, PA, actor
1980 - Natasha Bobo, Watsonville, CA, actress
1981 - Kelly Rowland, singer (Destiny's Child)
1997 - Michael Jackson, Jr., son of Michael Jackson
???? - Deena Freeman, Palo Alto Calif, actress
???? - John Fink, Detroit Mich, actor
???? - Audrey Peters, actress
???? - Bianca Ferguson, actress
???? - BokYun Chon, actress

Noteworthy people (in addition to Damian, of course!) born in 1971:

Applegate, Christina (25 November)
Armstrong, Lance (18 September)
Blige, Mary J. (11 January)
Bourret, Caprice (24 October)
Coetzer, Amanda (22 October)
Coppola, Sofia (14 May)
Dido (25 December)
Durst, Fred (20 August)
Duval, David (9 November)
Elfman, Jenna (30 September)
Ghauri, Yasmeen (23 March)
Green, Tom (30 July)
Ivanisevic, Goran (13 September)
Karembeu, Adriana (17 September)
Kid Rock (17 January)
Koko the Gorilla (4 July)

Leonhart, Carolyn (10 July)
Lopes, Lisa (27 May)
Martin, Ricky (24 December)
McGregor, Ewan (31 March)
Nolin, Gena Lee (29 November)
Punisher, Big (9 November)
Richards, Denise (17 February)
Ryder, Winona (29 October)
Schiffer, Claudia (24 August)
Selena (16 April)
Shakur, Tupac (16 June)
St. John, Lara
Swoopes, Sheryl (25 March)
Wahlberg, Mark (5 June)
Weisz, Rachel (7 March)
Wyle, Noah (4 June)

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