“I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'”
“I'm very conscious that I'm in the minority in that I love what I do. How big is the number of people who are running to work to do a job that they like? And how lucky to be employed at it - how incredibly lucky.”
| Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator (1799) |
| Louisa May Alcott, Novelist (1832) |
| John D. Barrow, Scientist (1952) |
| Brian Baumgartner, Actor (1972) |
| Kim Delaney, Actress (1961) |
| Taisen Deshimaru, Philosopher (1914) |
| Rahm Emanuel, Politician (1959) |
| Harry Essex, Writer (1910) |
| Anna Faris, Actress (1976) |
| John Ambrose Fleming, Inventor (1849) |
| William Cartwright, Dramatist (1643) |
| Dorothy Day, Activist (1980) |
| Louis Finkelstein, Clergyman (1991) |
| Dan Flavin, Sculptor (1996) |
| George Harrison, Musician (2001) |
| Thomas Hewitt Key, Writer (1875) |