Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.
If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
| Mary Decker, Athlete (1958) |
| Lane Evans, Politician (1951) |
| Greta Gerwig, Actress (1983) |
| William Rowan Hamilton, Mathematician (1805) |
| Knut Hamsun, Author (1859) |
| John Harrington, Writer (1561) |
| Edward Irving, Clergyman (1792) |
| Daniel Dae Kim, Actor (1968) |
| Osbert Lancaster, Cartoonist (1908) |
| Harry Lauder, Entertainer (1870) |
| Hans Christian Andersen, Author (1875) |
| John Bacon, Sculptor (1799) |
| Jeanne Calment, Celebrity (1997) |
| Lord Thomson Of Fleet, Publisher (1976) |
| William Floyd, Politician (1821) |


