Oops, forgot to post this yesterday. Well, a pretty boring selection it is too. Yeah, sure, all great men in their fields. And they are all men. But no one to get me even the slightest excited. And believe me, this is an entirely subjective project...!
1832 Ãdouard Manet France, Impressionist painter
1891 Antonio Gramsci Italian philosopher/marxist theorist
1898 Sergei Eisenstein Russia, film maker (Battleship Potemkin)
1899 Humphrey Bogart actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny, African Queen)
1919 Bob Paisley English soccer player/trainer/manager of FC Liverpool
1930 Derek Walcott St Lucia, poet/writer (Omeros, Nobel 1992)
