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Arthur Stanley Jefferson "If any of you cry at my funeral, I'll never speak to you again!"

Stan Laurel
(06/16/1890 – 02/23/1965)
English comic, actor (also see Oliver Hardy)
Barbara McClintock "I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them."

Barbara McClintock
(06/16/1902 – 09/02/1992)
US scientist
Katharine Graham "A mistake is simply another way of doing things."

Katharine Graham
(06/16/1917 – 07/17/2001)
US businessperson (Washington Post owner)
Erich Segal "True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."

Erich Segal
(06/16/1937 – 01/17/2010)
US writer
Joyce Carol Oates "She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it."

Joyce Carol Oates
(06/16/1938 – )
US writer
Tupac Amaru Shakur "For every dark night, there's a brighter day."

Tupac Shakur
(06/16/1971 – 09/13/1996)
US rapper
Wernher von Braun "We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."

Wernher von Braun
(03/23/1912 – 06/16/1977)
German rocket scientist

"While the bat's are a -flyin'
And the cat's are a-sighing
And the zombies are a-dancin'
And the skeleton's prancin'
I get back into my big black coffin till the following night."

"Screaming Lord" Sutch
(11/10/1940 – 06/16/1999)
English entertainer (shown [l] with Keith Moon [r])