“I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?”
“Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.”
| John Agar, Actor (1921) |
| Tallulah Bankhead, Actress (1903) |
| Ernie Banks, Athlete (1931) |
| Bernard Barton, Poet (1784) |
| Eddie Cantor, Comedian (1892) |
| Peter Dawson, Musician (1882) |
| Dick Gephardt, Politician (1941) |
| Philip Glass, Composer (1937) |
| Tokugawa Ieyasu, Leader (1543) |
| Derek Jarman, Director (1942) |
| George Washington Cable, Novelist (1925) |
| John Galsworthy, Author (1933) |
| Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist (1944) |
| Molly Ivins, Journalist (2007) |
| Gil Kane, Artist (2000) |
| Coretta Scott King, Activist (2006) |