“The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.”
“To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.”
| Dusty Baker, Athlete (1949) |
| Eileen Davidson, Actress (1959) |
| Alice Englert, Actress (1994) |
| Erik Erikson, Psychologist (1902) |
| Erik H. Erikson, Psychologist (1902) |
| Erroll Garner, Musician (1921) |
| Neil Patrick Harris, Actor (1973) |
| Waylon Jennings, Musician (1937) |
| Xi Jinping, Politician (1953) |
| Oliver Kahn, Athlete (1969) |
| Thomas Campbell, Poet (1844) |
| Ella Fitzgerald, Musician (1996) |
| Judy Johnson, Athlete (1989) |