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“If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.”
“By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.”
| Lucille Ball, Comedian (1911) |
| Ron Davies, Politician (1946) |
| Vera Farmiga, Actress (1973) |
| Alexander Fleming, Scientist (1881) |
| Melissa George, Actress (1976) |
| Hoot Gibson, Actor (1892) |
| Charlie Haden, Musician (1937) |
| Geri Halliwell, Musician (1972) |
| George Kenney, Soldier (1889) |
| Kenneth Scott Latourette, Historian (1884) |
| Theodor Adorno, Philosopher (1969) |
| David Allan, Artist (1796) |
| Jorge Amado, Writer (2001) |
| Robin Day, Journalist (2000) |
| Eduard Hanslick, Writer (1904) |
| Cedric Hardwicke, Actor (1964) |
| Rick James, Musician (2004) |
| Hiram Johnson, Politician (1945) |
| Ben Jonson, Poet (1637) |