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"We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars."

Robert Burton
(02/08/1577 – 01/25/1640)
English writer
Mary, Queen of Scots "No more tears now; I will think about revenge."

Mary, Queen of Scots
(12/08/1542 – 02/08/1587)
British royalty
Tsar Peter the Great "Give back everything to—"

Tsar Peter the Great
(06/09/1672 – 02/08/1725)
Russian royalty , last words
"Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme."

Aaron Hill
(02/10/1685 – 02/08/1750)
English writer (died near his birthday)
John Ruskin "Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer."

John Ruskin
(02/08/1819 – 01/20/1900)
English critic
William Tecumseh Sherman "If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast."

General William Tecumseh Sherman
(02/08/1820 – 02/14/1891)
US military (died near his birthday)
Jules Verne "Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve."

Jules Verne
(02/08/1828 – 03/24/1905)
French writer
Katherine O'Flaherty "There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water."

Kate Chopin
(02/08/1850 – 08/22/1904)
US writer
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."

Martin Buber
(02/08/1878 – 06/13/1965)
German theologian
Berthold Auerbach "The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work."

Berthold Auerbach
(02/28/1812 – 02/08/1882)
German writer
"The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily—and perhaps most tellingly—described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit."

Joseph A. Schumpeter
(02/08/1883 – 01/08/1950)
Moravian-US economist
John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon "I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it." *

Lord Brabazon
(02/08/1884 – 05/17/1964)
English aviator, racer
Edith Mary Evans "When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?"

Dame Edith Evans
(02/08/1888 – 10/14/1976)
English actor
Elbert Vidor "Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence."

King Vidor
(02/08/1894 – 11/01/1982)
US writer-director , from the 1928 film 'The Crowd'
Rose Louise Hovick "She's descended from a long line her mother listened to."

Gypsy Rose Lee
(02/08/1911 – 04/26/1970)
US actor and entertainer
Elizabeth Bishop "The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster."

Elizabeth Bishop
(02/08/1911 – 10/06/1979)
US writer
Richard Dehmel "Those who love Mankind learn to hate men."

Richard Dehmel
(11/18/1863 – 02/08/1920)
German writer
Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner "I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick, of me being gullible."

Lana Turner
(02/08/1921 – 06/29/1995)
US actor , on her seven marriages (the first to Artie Shaw)
Peter Kropotkin "America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society."

Peter Kropotkin
(12/09/1842 – 02/08/1921)
Russian writer
John Uhler Lemmon III "I won't quit acting until I get run over by a truck, a producer, or a critic."

Jack Lemmon
(02/08/1925 – 06/27/2001)
US actor
James Byron Dean "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

James Dean
(02/08/1931 – 09/30/1955)
US actor
Edward James Martin Koppel "I think we're glazing eyes all across America."

Ted Koppel
(02/08/1940 – )
England-born US telejournalist
Nick Nolte "The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted."

Nick Nolte
(02/08/1941 – )
US actor
Mary Steenburgen "It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks."

Mary Steenburgen
(02/08/1953 – )
US actor (was married to Malcolm McDowell; is married to Ted Danson)
Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy "After all my years, there are two things I've never got used to—haggling with a player over his contract and telling a boy he's got to go back."

Connie Mack
(12/22/1862 – 02/08/1956)
US baseball manager
John von Neumann "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."

John von Neumann
(12/28/1903 – 02/08/1957)
Hungarian mathematician
Seth Green "There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers."

Seth Green
(02/08/1974 – )
US actor
"The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have."

John Hay Whitney
(08/17/1904 – 02/08/1982)
US gazillionaire
Cecily Strong "Fox News has been losing a lot of viewers lately, and may they rest in peace."

Cecily Strong
(02/08/1984 – )
US comic actor (SNL)
"This is no time to pull the rug out in the middle of the stream." *

Silvio Conte
(11/09/1921 – 02/08/1991)
US Representative (MA)
Iris Murdoch "I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

Iris Murdoch
(07/15/1919 – 02/08/1999)
Irish writer
Vickie Lynn Hogan "I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots."

Anna Nicole Smith
(11/28/1967 – 02/08/2007)
US stripper, playmate, golddigger

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