“My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.”
| Adele, Musician (1988) |
| Henry Cavill, Actor (1983) |
| Geoffrey Fisher, Clergyman (1887) |
| Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman (1909) |
| Vincent Kartheiser, Actor (1979) |
| Soren Kierkegaard, Philosopher (1813) |
| James Branch Cabell, Novelist (1958) |
| Ludwig Erhard, Politician (1977) |
| Murray Kempton, Journalist (1997) |
| Henri Laurens, Sculptor (1954) |
| Arthur Laurents, Playwright (2011) |