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“My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'”
“What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.”
| Theodor Adorno, Philosopher (1903) |
| Daniel Akaka, Politician (1924) |
| Maria Bartiromo, Journalist (1967) |
| Elizabeth Daily, Actress (1961) |
| Jimmie Davis, Politician (1899) |
| Charles Evers, Activist (1922) |
| Tony Gilroy, Writer (1956) |
| Eduard Hanslick, Writer (1825) |
| Serge Haroche, Physicist (1944) |
| Mickey Hart, Musician (1943) |
| William Dampier, Explorer (1908) |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician (1948) |
| Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman (1971) |
| Erich Leinsdorf, Celebrity (1993) |