January 3 Birthdays

Mel Gibson
Biography

Author Profession: US Actor
Born: 1956-01-03
Died: —

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Mel Gibson

After about 20 years of marriage, I think I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Biography

Author Profession: English Novelist
Born: 1892-01-03
Died: 1973-09-02

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Not all those who wander are lost.
Michael Schumacher

Biography

Author Profession: German retired racing driver.
Born: 1969-01-03
Died:

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Michael Schumacher

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.
Cicero
Biography

Author Profession: Roman writer
Born: 106-01-03
Died: 43-12-07

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Cicero Marcus Tullius

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Anna Pavlova
Biography

Author Profession: Russian dancer
Born: 1885-01-03
Died: 1931-01-23

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Anna Pavlova

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Bobby Hull
Biography

Author Profession: Canadian Athlete
Born: 1939-01-03
Died: 2023-01-30

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Bobby Hull

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And its almost like, as Yogi Berra said, deja vu all over again.
Clement Attlee
Biography

Author Profession: English Leader
Born: 1883-01-03
Died: 1967-10-08

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Clement Attlee

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Dana Hussein
Biography

Author Profession: Iraqi Athlete
Born: 1986-01-03
Died: —

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Dana Hussein

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.
Pola Negri
Biography

Author Profession: Polish Actress
Born: 1897-01-03
Died: 1987-08-01

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Pola Negri

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.
Robert Lacey
Biography

Author Profession: British Historian
Born: 1944-01-03
Died: —

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Robert Lacey

Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, whod always been his fathers protege but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had.
Vernon A. Walters
Biography

Author Profession: US Soldier
Born: 1917-01-03
Died: 2002-02-10

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Vernon A. Walters

I dont think we should tell them what were going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
Pietro Metastasio
Biography

Author Profession: Italian writer
Born: 1698-01-03
Died: 1782-04-12

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Pietro Metastasio

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
Lucretia Coffin Mott
Biography

Author Profession: US social reformer
Born: 1793-01-03
Died: 1880-11-11

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Lucretia Coffin Mott

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
Josephine Hull
Biography

Author Profession: US actor
Born: 1884-01-03
Died: 1957-03-12

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Josephine Hull

Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down unless you're a king.
Marion Davies
Biography

Author Profession: US actor
Born: 1897-01-03
Died: 1961-09-22

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Marion Davies

Al, why don't you get a haircut?
ZaSu Pitts
Biography

Author Profession: US actor
Born: 1898-01-03
Died: 1963-06-07

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ZaSu Pitts

I was what they called a feature player, never a star. They say I was in 500 films, everything but the newsreels.
Victor Borge
Biography

Author Profession: Danish entertainer
Born: 1909-01-03
Died: 2000-12-23

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Victor Borge

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Stephen Stills
Biography

Author Profession: US singer-songwriter
Born: 1945-01-03
Died: —

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Stephen Stills

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.
Adair Lara
Biography

Author Profession: US writer
Born: 1952-01-03
Died: —

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Adair Lara

Women who buy perfume and flowers for themselves because their men won't do it are called 'self basting.'
Sergio Leone

Biography

Author Profession: Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, credited as the inventor of the "Spaghetti Western" genre.
Born: 1929-01-03
Died: 1989-04-30

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Sergio Leone

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.
Wilhelm Pieck

Biography

Author Profession: German politician and a Communist. In 1949, he became the first President of the German Democratic Republic, an office abolished upon his death.
Born: 1876-01-03
Died: 1960-09-07

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Wilhelm Pieck