Quote of the day
when asked if she'd enjoyed a cocktail party: Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
Dmitri Shostakovich

Born: September 25, 1906
Died: August 9, 1975 (aged 68)
Bio: Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet composer and pianist, and a prominent figure of 20th-century music.