“The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.”
“I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.”
| Namie Amuro, Musician (1977) |
| Mychael Danna, Musician (1958) |
| James Dewar, Scientist (1842) |
| Dante Hall, Athlete (1978) |
| Kristen Johnston, Actress (1967) |
| Henry Arthur Jones, Dramatist (1851) |
| Van Jones, Activist (1968) |
| William Kapell, Musician (1922) |
| Elizabeth Kenny, Celebrity (1880) |
| Guy Lafleur, Athlete (1951) |
| Robert Emmet, Activist (1803) |
| Paul Erdos, Mathematician (1996) |
| Fiorello LaGuardia, Politician (1947) |