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“I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.”
“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”
| Italo Calvino, Journalist (1923) |
| Jane Darwell, Actress (1879) |
| Paige Davis, Actress (1969) |
| Sarah Ferguson, (1959) |
| John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist (1908) |
| Lee Iacocca, Businessman (1924) |
| Tito Jackson, Musician (1953) |
| Abdul Kalam, Statesman (1931) |
| Emeril Lagasse, Celebrity (1959) |
| Linda Lavin, Actress (1937) |
| Vincent Canby, Critic (2000) |
| Mata Hari, Dancer (1917) |
| Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Coach (1852) |
| Randall Jarrell, Poet (1965) |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Poet (1838) |
| Pierre Laval, Politician (1945) |