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Charles V"Name me an Emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball."

Charles V
(02/24/1500 – 09/21/1558)
Roman emperor (image is from Bridgeman Art Library)
Samuel Lover "Come live in my heart and pay no rent."

Samuel Lover
(02/24/1797 – 07/06/1868)
Irish writer
Georg C. Lichtenberg "One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them."

Georg C. Lichtenberg
(07/01/1742 – 02/24/1799)
German writer
George William Curtis "He is so old that his blood type was discontinued."

George William Curtis
(02/24/1824 – 08/31/1892)
US writer
Rosalia de Castro "After God, long live wine."

Rosalia de Castro
(02/24/1837 – 06/15/1885)
Spanish writer
George Augustus Moore "The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand."

George Augustus Moore
(02/24/1852 – 01/21/1933)
Irish writer
Johannes Peter Wagner "Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. We had to stop cussing."

Honus Wagner
(02/24/1874 – 12/06/1955)
US baseball player
"As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do."

Zachary Scott
(02/24/1914 – 10/03/1965)
US actor
"Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known."

Michael Harrington
(02/24/1928 – 07/31/1989)
US writer
Denis Law "Who ever wins today will win the championship no matter who wins."

Denis Law
(02/24/1940 – )
Scottish football player
George Harrison "I'd rather be a musician than a rock star."

George Harrison
(02/24/1943 – 11/29/2001)
English musician, singer, songwriter (Beatles)
Rupert Holmes "Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize. If I were still touring with that song, my teeth might clench at its mention—but I've done a lot since then."

Rupert Holmes
(02/24/1947 – )
English songwriter , on 'The Pina Colada Song' (he also wrote "Timothy")
Steven Jobs "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"

Steven Jobs
(02/24/1955 – )
US entrepreneur
Karen Michelle Johnston "The secret of a long life is knowing when it's time to go."

Michelle Shocked
(02/24/1962 – )
US singer, songwriter
Mitch Hedberg "The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall."

Mitch Hedberg
(02/24/1968 – 03/30/2005)
US comic
"On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks."

H. Allen Smith
(12/19/1906 – 02/24/1976)
US writer
"By the time we've made it, we've had it."

Malcolm Forbes
(08/19/1919 – 02/24/1990)
US gazillionaire
Johnnie Ray "I am constantly asked why I never made other films after "There's No Business Like Show Business," the answer is I was never asked."

Johnnie Ray
(01/10/1927 – 02/24/1990)
US singer
George Gobel "If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight."

George Gobel
(05/20/1919 – 02/24/1991)
US comedian
Dinah Shore "Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower."

Dinah Shore
(02/29/1916 – 02/24/1994)
US singer (died near her birthday)
Henry Youngman "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."

Henny Youngman
(01/12/1906 – 02/24/1998)
US comedian
John Randolph "How could you not become radicalized during the Depression? You'd have to be an idiot not to be radical with 17 million unemployed."

John Randolph
(06/01/1915 – 02/24/2004)
US actor (blacklisted in the 50s)

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