“A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.”
“It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.”
| Edmondo De Amicis, Novelist (1846) |
| Patti Davis, Celebrity (1952) |
| John W. Dawson, Politician (1820) |
| Will Estes, Actor (1978) |
| Carrie Fisher, Actress (1956) |
| Whitey Ford, Athlete (1928) |
| Martin Gardner, Mathematician (1914) |
| Dizzy Gillespie, Musician (1917) |
| Paul Ince, Athlete (1967) |
| Kim Kardashian, Celebrity (1980) |
| Isabelle Eberhardt, Explorer (1904) |
| Samuel Foote, Dramatist (1777) |
| Jim Garrison, Public Servant (1992) |
| Jack Kerouac, Novelist (1969) |