I'll bet most people under 35 will not, unless they pass by a building named after one of them, or something like that. Lots of people know that there's a Dirksen Senate Office Building. Only a very few know who Everett Dirksen was, let alone met him.
My dad would be horrified at the idea of a biography of himself. He was a true journalist to the end. He considered his job to be to report the news, not to be the news. As for me, I was more like passing through, rather than doing the moving and shaking on my own. I met up with a famous acquaintance one December and we exchanged what we had been doing in the past year. I said, same old stuff for me, and how about you? "Oh," he said, as if he had gone to the store for a jar of pickles, "I was building a couple of cities in China." Now THERE'S a guy whose biography would sell. At age 16, in Barcelona, I once was asked to play music for a reception for Salvador Dalí. He, on the other hand, WAS Salvador Dalí. There's a very good reason biographies get written about guys like him, and not about guys like me 
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