When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
| Roland Allen, Clergyman (1868) |
| Ashleigh Banfield, Journalist (1967) |
| Pablo Casals, Musician (1876) |
| Ted Danson, Actor (1947) |
| Jennifer Ehle, Actress (1969) |
| Samuel G. Engel, Writer (1904) |
| Marianne Faithfull, Musician (1946) |
| William Gaddis, Novelist (1922) |
| William E. Gladstone, Leader (1809) |
| Josefa Iloilo, Statesman (1920) |
| Cleveland Abbe, Scientist (1916) |
| Jacques-Louis David, Artist (1825) |

