Edgar Degas
(07/19/1834 – 09/26/1917)
French painter
"I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own."
Margaret Fuller(05/23/1810 – 07/19/1850)
US writer , great-aunt of Bucky
"The definition of a specialist as one who knows 'more and more about less and less' is good and true."
Dr. Charles Horace Mayo(07/19/1865 – 05/26/1939)
US physician (brother of William James Mayo)
"The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old."
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow(07/19/1921 – 05/30/2011)
US medical physicist
"You know, sometimes, when they say you are ahead of
your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense
of timing."
George McGovern(07/19/1922 – )
US senator (SD) and presidential candidate
"I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films."
Campbell Scott(07/19/1961 – )
US actor (son of George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst
"If those absolutely important things are ignored,
of how we speciated, how we adapted to the planet, then we're going to
lose something precious. There won't be anywhere to go and no place to
come home to."
Alan Lomax
(01/31/1915 – 07/19/2002)
US musicologist
(01/31/1915 – 07/19/2002)
US musicologist
"Happiness is hard to recall. It's just a glow."
Frank McCourt(08/19/1930 – 07/19/2009)
Irish-American writer (brother of Malachy McCourt)
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