It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.
When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
| James F. Amos, Soldier (1946) |
| Roland Barthes, Critic (1915) |
| Richard Baxter, Clergyman (1615) |
| Michael Ende, Writer (1929) |
| Ernie Fletcher, Politician (1952) |
| Kathleen Hanna, Musician (1969) |
| Tonya Harding, Athlete (1970) |
| Anne Hathaway, Actress (1982) |
| Dolores Ibarruri, Politician (1895) |
| Grace Kelly, Actress (1929) |
| Joseph Cannon, Politician (1926) |
| Elizabeth Gaskell, Novelist (1865) |
| Umberto Giordano, Composer (1948) |
| James Laughlin, Poet (1997) |

