Frederic WIlliam Maitland, b. 1850. English lawyer, historian, lecturer, and jurist. I always go for the personal: one site noted that Maitland was a great friend of Virginia Woolf’s father.

Ian Fleming, b. 1908. Creator of James Bond, the famous fictional spy, but I prefer Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Walker Percy, b. 1916. American Southern novelist and essayist. He was Catholic, died in 1990. I read one book by Percy because I kept hearing what a great novelist. I can’t remember the title even when I look at a list of his books. I only remember that someone in the book was sitting in a tree for a very long time (maybe trying to break some kind of record?), and someone else was putting stuff (drugs?) into the water supply. Oh, and the setting was southern Louisiana or Mississippi or somewhere similar. Obviously, I didn’t get much out of it. The people in the novel seemed to me to all be crazy. Maybe I was too young when I read it. Or maybe not.

Rudolph Giuliani, b. 1944. Good mayor for NYC, bad presidential candidate for Republicans.