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“I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.”
| GG Allin, Musician (1956) |
| Bob Beamon, Athlete (1946) |
| Edward Carpenter, Activist (1844) |
| Humphrey Carpenter, Author (1946) |
| Todd English, Chef (1960) |
| Chris Hadfield, Astronaut (1959) |
| Michael Jackson, Musician (1958) |
| Charles Kettering, Inventor (1876) |
| Robin Leach, Writer (1941) |
| Vicki Baum, Novelist (1960) |
| Michael Ende, Writer (1995) |
| Manly Hall, Philosopher (1990) |
| Wendell Johnson, Psychologist (1965) |