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“It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.”
| Charles Adams, Activist (1770) |
| Isaac Albeniz, Musician (1860) |
| Ana Beatriz Barros, Model (1982) |
| Eric Davis, Athlete (1962) |
| Paul R. Ehrlich, Scientist (1932) |
| Danny Elfman, Musician (1953) |
| Melissa Etheridge, Musician (1961) |
| Rupert Everett, Actor (1959) |
| Noel Gallagher, Musician (1967) |
| John Gilling, Director (1912) |
| John Barrymore, Actor (1942) |
| Sam Dash, Lawyer (2004) |
| Samuel Dash, Lawyer (2004) |
| Humphry Davy, Scientist (1829) |
| W. S. Gilbert, Dramatist (1911) |
| William Gilbert, Composer (1911) |
| Juan Ramon Jimenez, Poet (1958) |