"True friendship is like sound health. The value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
Charles Caleb Cotton
(04/28/1630 – 02/16/1687)
English writer (there is a Charles Caleb Colton from the 18th century who I may be mis-citing here, but I don't find specific dates, so will leave this one here for now -s)
Charles Caleb Cotton
(04/28/1630 – 02/16/1687)
English writer (there is a Charles Caleb Colton from the 18th century who I may be mis-citing here, but I don't find specific dates, so will leave this one here for now -s)
Sir Francis Galton
(02/16/1822 – 01/17/1911)
English scientist
"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."
Henry Brooks Adams
(02/16/1838 – 03/27/1918)
US writer
Henry Brooks Adams
(02/16/1838 – 03/27/1918)
US writer
G. M. Trevelyan
(02/16/1876 – 07/21/1962)
English historian
Robert Flaherty
(02/16/1884 – 07/23/1951)
US director
"His mind was like a Roquefort cheese, so ripe that it was palpably falling to pieces."
Van Wyck Brooks
(02/16/1886 – 05/02/1963)
US historian, critic , on Ford Maddox Ford
Van Wyck Brooks
(02/16/1886 – 05/02/1963)
US historian, critic , on Ford Maddox Ford
Edgar Bergen (as Charlie McCarthy)
(02/16/1903 – 09/30/1978)
US comic, actor (father of Candice Bergen)
"What do you give a man who has everything? Penicillin."
Jerry Lester
(02/16/1910 – 03/23/1995)
US actor
Jerry Lester
(02/16/1910 – 03/23/1995)
US actor
John Schlesinger
(02/16/1926 – 07/25/2003)
English director
"The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation."
Aharon Appelfeld
(02/16/1932 – )
Romanian writer
Aharon Appelfeld
(02/16/1932 – )
Romanian writer
Sonny Bono
(02/16/1935 – 01/05/1998)
US singer, congressman (was married to Cher) , on fame
James Harvey Robinson
(06/29/1863 – 02/16/1936)
US historian
Margaux Hemingway
(02/16/1954 – 07/02/1996)
US actor (granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway; sister of Mariel Hemingway)
John McEnroe
(02/16/1959 – )
US tennis ace , on losing a championship
Keith Haring
(05/04/1958 – 02/16/1990)
US artist
John W. Gardner
(10/08/1912 – 02/16/2002)
US writer, political theorist
"If you can bring yourself to imagine Liberace as King Lear, you will perhaps have some concept of what takes place in what is indubitably the worst musical since Mel Brooks's Springtime For Hitler."
Sheridan Morley
(12/05/1941 – 02/16/2007)
English writer (son of Robert Morley)
Sheridan Morley
(12/05/1941 – 02/16/2007)
English writer (son of Robert Morley)
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