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“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.”
“It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.”
| Agha Hasan Abedi, Businessman (1922) |
| Hall Caine, Novelist (1853) |
| Bobby Darin, Musician (1936) |
| Kurt Eisner, Politician (1867) |
| Julian Eltinge, Actor (1881) |
| William Emerson, Mathematician (1701) |
| B. C. Forbes, Journalist (1880) |
| Thomas Gainsborough, Artist (1727) |
| Lou Harrison, Composer (1917) |
| Robert Jarvik, Inventor (1946) |
| Lyle Alzado, Athlete (1992) |
| Henri La Fontaine, Lawyer (1943) |
| H. Rider Haggard, Writer (1925) |
| Georgia Douglas Johnson, Poet (1966) |
| Bill Lear, Inventor (1978) |
| Anna Lee, Actress (2004) |