Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
| Sandy Adams, Politician (1956) |
| Morey Amsterdam, Actor (1908) |
| Lester Bangs, Critic (1948) |
| Dan Dailey, Actor (1913) |
| Wade Davis, Scientist (1953) |
| Paul Eluard, Poet (1895) |
| King George VI, Royalty (1895) |
| Shirley Jackson, Novelist (1919) |
| Raj Kapoor, Actor (1924) |
| Charles Lawrence, Politician (1709) |
| Louis Agassiz, Scientist (1873) |
| Vicente Aleixandre, Poet (1984) |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Musician (1788) |
| Stanley Baldwin, Statesman (1947) |
| Maurice Baring, (1945) |
| John Harvey Kellogg, Businessman (1943) |

