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Thursday October 30th, 2025
Theodore Roosevelt
October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th ...
Napoleon Hill
October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill was an American author in the area of the new thought movement who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of ...
John Keats
October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets along with Lord Byron ...
John Adams
October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826
Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams was the second president of the United States, having earlier served as the first vice president of the United States. An ...
Paul Valery
October 30, 1871 – July 20, 1945
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction, his interests ...
Desiderius Erasmus
October 27, 1466 – July 12, 1536
The desire to write grows with writing.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social ...
Mahalia Jackson
October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972
How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
Mahalia Jackson was an American gospel singer. Possessing a powerful contralto voice, she was referred to as "The Queen of Gospel". She ...
Jean Rostand
October 30, 1894 – September 4, 1977
To be adult is to be alone.
Jean Rostand was a French biologist and philosopher. Active as an experimental biologist, Rostand became famous for his work as a science ...
Ezra Pound
October 30, 1885 – November 1972
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic who was a major figure of the early modernist movement. His ...
Jean Giraudoux
October 29, 1882 – January 31, 1944
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French ...
Michael Landon
October 31, 1936 – July 1991
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
Michael Landon (October 31, 1936 – July 1, 1991) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who starred in three popular NBC ...
Fritz Sauckel
October 27, 1894 – October 16, 1946
I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.
Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Thuringia and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour ...
Jonas Salk
October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio ...
Ethel Waters
October 31, 1896 – September 1977
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
Ethel Waters was an African-American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, and pop music, ...
Dylan Thomas
October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall ...
Evelyn Waugh
October 28, 1903 – April 10, 1966
Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, known as Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific ...
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
October 30, 1751 – July 7, 1816
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known ...
Alexander Alekhine
October 31, 1892 – March 24, 1946
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever. By ...
Enid Bagnold
October 27, 1889 – March 31, 1981
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBE was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet which was filmed ...
Roy Lichtenstein
October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, ...
Oliver Tambo
October 27, 1917 – April 24, 1993
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
Oliver Reginald Tambo was a South African anti-apartheid politician and a central figure in the African National Congress.
Emily Post
October 27, 1872 – September 25, 1960
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post (October 27, 1872 - September 25, 1960) was an American author famous for writing on etiquette. Post was born as Emily Price in ...
Daniel Nathans
October 30, 1928 – November 16, 1999
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
Daniel Nathans (October 30, 1928 - November 16, 1999) was an American microbiologist. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the last of ...
Catherine Helen Spence
October 31, 1825 – April 3, 1910
After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
Catherine Helen Spence was a Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragist. In 1897 she became ...
Juliette Gordon Low
October 31, 1860 – January 17, 1927
Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.
Juliette Gordon Low was the founder of Girl Scouts of the USA, with the help of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouting ...
Maude Adams
November 1872 – July 17, 1953
Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.
Maude Ewing Adams Kiskadden, known professionally as Maude Adams, was an American actress who achieved her greatest success as the ...