1819 Herman Melville - US novelist, short story writer and poet (Moby Dick, White-Jacket, Pierre, The Piazza Tales, Omoo, Mardi, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd)


I never have read Moby Dick. I keep telling myself I'm going to but still haven't gotten around to it.







1930 Geoffrey Holder - Actor (Live and Let Die, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sex-But were Afraid to Ask, Doctor Dolittle, Annie)

He was one of those actors that was absolutely one of a kind. I bet he would have been fun to know.