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“It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.”
“There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.”
| Franklin P. Adams, Journalist (1881) |
| Franklin Pierce Adams, Writer (1881) |
| Lily Aldridge, Model (1985) |
| B.o.B, Musician (1988) |
| Howard Baker, Statesman (1925) |
| Howard H. Baker, Jr., Politician (1925) |
| Daniel Barenboim, Musician (1942) |
| Kevin Eubanks, Musician (1957) |
| W. Averell Harriman, Politician (1891) |
| Mwai Kibaki, Statesman (1931) |
| Samuel Hopkins Adams, Writer (1958) |
| Lionel Barrymore, Actor (1954) |
| Stokely Carmichael, Activist (1998) |
| Jean Gabin, Actor (1976) |
| Johannes Kepler, Scientist (1630) |