Born/Died Today- with Quotes- Born Today.com

"Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies."
Queen Christina
(12/08/1626 – 04/19/1689)
Swedish royalty 

"A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts."
Benjamin Rush
(01/04/1746 – 04/19/1813)
US physician, statesman (image courtesy of the Bridgeman Art Library) 

"If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune, and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity."
Benjamin Disraeli
(12/21/1804 – 04/19/1881)
English Prime Minister (29) (see other British PMs) , on the difference 

"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
Charles Darwin
(02/12/1809 – 04/19/1882)
English scientist 

"Every time I open my mouth, something silly comes out."
Constance Talmadge
(04/19/1900 – 11/23/1973)
US actor (daughter of Margaret) 

"Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do."
Richard Hughes
(04/19/1900 – 04/28/1976)
English writer 

"Today, literate people of the space age, in well-populated countries, are not prepared to accept taboos without question." 
Edith Clara Summerskill
(04/19/1901 – 02/04/1980)
English politician, physician, writer 

"Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands."
Jayne Mansfield
(04/19/1933 – 06/29/1967)
US actor 

"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it."
Dudley Moore
(04/19/1935 – 03/27/2002)
English comic, actor (Beyond the Fringe) 

"It's so comforting to know that there are so many people in this world sicker than I am."
Tim Curry
(04/19/1946 – )
English actor 

"He's always backing into the limelight."
Lord Berners
(09/18/1883 – 04/19/1950)
English composer , on T. E. Lawrence 

"Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows."
Al Unser, Jr.
(04/19/1962 – )
US race driver 

"The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer."
Alfred Whitney Griswold
(10/27/1906 – 04/19/1963)
US educator 

"Compton's like the ocean. It's real pretty, but, anytime, something can happen. Somebody getting eaten. Somebody fighting. Something's always going on."
"Suge" Knight
(04/19/1965 – )
US record producer 

"A thick skin is a gift from God."
Konrad Adenauer
(01/05/1876 – 04/19/1967)
Chancellor, German Republic 

"Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Virginia girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin'. And if we have an opinion, you know you're gonna hear it."
Ashley Judd
(04/19/1968 – )
US actor (daughter of Naomi Judd, half-sister of Wynonna Judd) 

"I have zero problems when people say, 'God, you look like your mother.' I go, 'Well, great! Thanks!'"
Kate Hudson
(04/19/1979 – )
US actor (daughter of Goldie Hawn; was married to Chris Robinson) 

"People who travel are always fugitives."
Daphne duMaurier
(05/13/1907 – 04/19/1989)
English writer 

"Chin up, Lipstick on."
Mary McConnell Morris
(03/17/1913 – 04/19/2001)
My US friend Molly's grandmother , giving advice to her granddaughters 

"A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction."
J. G. Ballard
(11/15/1930 – 04/19/2009)
China-born English writer 

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