“Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.”
“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
| Charles Mengel Allen, Judge (1916) |
| Hoagy Carmichael, Composer (1899) |
| Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian (1921) |
| George Eliot, Author (1819) |
| Shawn Fanning, Businessman (1980) |
| Charles De Gaulle, Leader (1890) |
| Terry Gilliam, Director (1940) |
| George Gissing, Novelist (1857) |
| Peter Hall, Director (1930) |
| Scarlett Johansson, Actress (1984) |
| Luis Barragan, Architect (1988) |
| Arthur Eddington, Scientist (1944) |
| John Gilling, Director (1984) |
| Henry Hampton, Activist (1998) |
| Lorenz Hart, (1943) |
| John F. Kennedy, President (1963) |