“Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.”
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
| 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) |