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"If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.... If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed." -- Thomas Jefferson to Col. Yancey, 1816
Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. They include (Pat-ts4ms); missionary St. Francis Xavier in 1506; English poet William Wordsworth in 1770; gossip columnist Walter Winchell in 1897; conductor Percy Faith in 1908; singer Billie Holiday in 1915; sitar player Ravi Shankar in 1920 (age 88); actor James Garner in 1928 (age 80); former Defense Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, in 1931 (age 77); actor Wayne Rogers in 1933 (age 75); former California Gov. and current state Attorney General Jerry Brown Jr., in 1938 (age 70); film director Francis Ford Coppola ("The Godfather") and British TV personality David Frost, both in 1939 (age 69); former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 1944 (age 64); musician John Oates in 1948 (age 60); actor/martial arts expert Jackie Chan in 1954 (age 54); and actor Russell Crowe in 1964 (age 44).
What I once considered boring, I now consider paradise.
Faust
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