Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.
In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.
| Alice Barrett, Actress (1956) |
| Jennifer Beals, Actress (1963) |
| Beatrice Dalle, Actress (1964) |
| Minnie Maddern Fiske, Actress (1865) |
| Jean Genet, Dramatist (1910) |
| Richard Hammond, Entertainer (1969) |
| Doug Harvey, Athlete (1924) |
| Derrick Jensen, Author (1960) |
| Al Kaline, Athlete (1934) |
| Richard Leakey, Environmentalist (1944) |
| John Amery, Politician (1945) |
| Arthur Capper, Politician (1951) |
| Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist (2001) |
| Masaru Ibuka, Businessman (1997) |


