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Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.
I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.
| Roland Allen, Clergyman (1868) |
| Ashleigh Banfield, Journalist (1967) |
| Pablo Casals, Musician (1876) |
| Ted Danson, Actor (1947) |
| Jennifer Ehle, Actress (1969) |
| Samuel G. Engel, Writer (1904) |
| Marianne Faithfull, Musician (1946) |
| William Gaddis, Novelist (1922) |
| William E. Gladstone, Leader (1809) |
| Josefa Iloilo, Statesman (1920) |
| Cleveland Abbe, Scientist (1916) |
| Jacques-Louis David, Artist (1825) |


