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My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.
Isaac Babel, Journalist (1894) |
Harrison Ford, Actor (1942) |
Ken Jeong, Actor (1969) |
Jack Kemp, Politician (1935) |
Tom Kenny, Actor (1962) |
Ruth Ellis, Criminal (1955) |
Bronislaw Geremek, Historian (2008) |
Frida Kahlo, Artist (1954) |
Yousuf Karsh, Photographer (2002) |