“I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.”
“I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.”
| Eddie Albert, Actor (1908) |
| Kingsley Amis, Novelist (1922) |
| Philip James Bailey, Poet (1816) |
| Robert Barany, Scientist (1876) |
| Glen Campbell, Musician (1936) |
| Paul Davies, Writer (1946) |
| Larry Elder, Journalist (1952) |
| Janet Evanovich, Writer (1943) |
| Henry Fielding, Novelist (1707) |
| Henri La Fontaine, Lawyer (1854) |
| Ansel Adams, Photographer (1984) |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Politician (1908) |
| Stephen Lawrence, Celebrity (1993) |