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“When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.”
“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
| 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) |