“When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”
“Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!”
| Benjamin Carson, Scientist (1951) |
| Pete Cashmore, Businessman (1985) |
| Debbi Fields, Businesswoman (1956) |
| June Foray, Actress (1917) |
| James Gandolfini, Actor (1961) |
| Greta Garbo, Actress (1905) |
| Samuel Johnson, Author (1709) |
| Alexander Bain, Philosopher (1903) |
| Leonhard Euler, Mathematician (1783) |
| Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat (1961) |
| Gwen John, Artist (1939) |
| Corita Kent, Artist (1986) |
| John Langdon, Politician (1819) |
| Robert N. Lee, Writer (1964) |