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“It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.”
“I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.”
| Agha Hasan Abedi, Businessman (1922) |
| Hall Caine, Novelist (1853) |
| Bobby Darin, Musician (1936) |
| Kurt Eisner, Politician (1867) |
| Julian Eltinge, Actor (1881) |
| William Emerson, Mathematician (1701) |
| B. C. Forbes, Journalist (1880) |
| Thomas Gainsborough, Artist (1727) |
| Lou Harrison, Composer (1917) |
| Robert Jarvik, Inventor (1946) |
| Lyle Alzado, Athlete (1992) |
| Henri La Fontaine, Lawyer (1943) |
| H. Rider Haggard, Writer (1925) |
| Georgia Douglas Johnson, Poet (1966) |
| Bill Lear, Inventor (1978) |
| Anna Lee, Actress (2004) |