Todays Dead List 08/10/2008

“Two mothers-in-law.”

• Lord Russell of Killowen
  (11/10/1832 – 08/10/1900)
  Irish-born legislator, on the maximum punishment for bigamy

“I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.”

• Adela Rogers St. Johns
  (05/20/1894 – 08/10/1988)
  US journalist

“Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter’s gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.”

• Mahmoud Darwish
  (03/13/1942 – 08/10/2008)
  Palestinian Poet and Writer

“Shaft.”

• Issac Hayes (08/20/1844 – 08/10/2008)
  US Musician and Songwriter