Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
| Florence Ballard, Musician (1943) |
| Robert Ballard, Scientist (1942) |
| Fantasia Barrino, Musician (1984) |
| Frederic Bastiat, Economist (1801) |
| Vincent D'Onofrio, Actor (1959) |
| Laurence Fishburne, Actor (1961) |
| John Gay, Poet (1685) |
| Franz Halder, Soldier (1884) |
| Margery Allingham, Writer (1966) |
| Buddy Hackett, Comedian (2003) |
| David Harris, (2004) |

