“I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'”
“A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.”
| Victoria Abril, Actress (1959) |
| Thomas John Barnardo, Celebrity (1845) |
| Irving Caesar, Composer (1895) |
| Al Davis, Businessman (1929) |
| Gerard Debreu, Mathematician (1921) |
| Sam Farr, Politician (1941) |
| Melanie Fiona, Musician (1983) |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi, Soldier (1807) |
| Christian Furchtegott Gellert, Poet (1715) |
| Ann Landers, Journalist (1918) |
| John Adams, President (1826) |
| Fisher Ames, Statesman (1808) |
| Gregory Bateson, Scientist (1980) |
| Otto Bauer, Writer (1938) |
| Eva Gabor, Actress (1995) |
| Thomas Jefferson, President (1826) |