“If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.”
“Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.”
| Alfonso X, Royalty (1221) |
| Vincent Cassel, Actor (1966) |
| Paul Celan, Poet (1920) |
| Joe Eszterhas, Writer (1944) |
| Oded Fehr, Actor (1970) |
| Steve Harvey, Actor (1956) |
| Boris Karloff, Actor (1887) |
| Mary Landrieu, Politician (1955) |
| Roy Acuff, Musician (1992) |
| Elbridge Gerry, Politician (1814) |
| Hanns Johst, Playwright (1978) |