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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.
| Roy Castle, Musician (1932) |
| Richard Gere, Actor (1949) |
| Debbie Gibson, Musician (1970) |
| L. Wolfe Gilbert, Musician (1886) |
| Buddy Hackett, Comedian (1924) |
| Stefan Banach, Mathematician (1945) |
| Charles Baudelaire, Poet (1867) |
| Hall Caine, Novelist (1931) |
| Ilya Ehrenburg, Writer (1967) |
| Lionel Hampton, Musician (2002) |
| Harry Johnston, Explorer (1927) |
| Ferdinand Lassalle, Politician (1864) |


