I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
| James F. Amos, Soldier (1946) |
| Roland Barthes, Critic (1915) |
| Richard Baxter, Clergyman (1615) |
| Michael Ende, Writer (1929) |
| Ernie Fletcher, Politician (1952) |
| Kathleen Hanna, Musician (1969) |
| Tonya Harding, Athlete (1970) |
| Anne Hathaway, Actress (1982) |
| Dolores Ibarruri, Politician (1895) |
| Grace Kelly, Actress (1929) |
| Joseph Cannon, Politician (1926) |
| Elizabeth Gaskell, Novelist (1865) |
| Umberto Giordano, Composer (1948) |
| James Laughlin, Poet (1997) |

