“I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.”
“The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.”
| James Truslow Adams, Historian (1878) |
| Frank Carlucci, Politician (1930) |
| Jean Claude Van Damme, Actor (1960) |
| Zac Efron, Actor (1987) |
| Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer (1831) |
| Charles Babbage, Mathematician (1871) |
| Thomas A. Edison, Inventor (1931) |
| Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher (1955) |
| Walt Kelly, Cartoonist (1973) |