January 3, 1948

Charlotte Gray (January 3, 1948) was born in England and attended the University of Oxford. She is an historian who now lives in Canada. Some of her titles include:

Bob Geldof: the rock star who raised $140 million for famine relief in Ethiopia (1988)
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill (1999)
Canada, A Portrait in Letters (2003)
Extraordinary Canadians: Nellie McClung (2008)
Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike (2010)
The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country (2013).

Gray has won most of Canada's top honors. She received, for example,  the UBC Medal for Biography, and the Pierre Berton Prize for popularizing Canadian history, in 2003. 

 And she has commented on cats: Many books of cat quotations cite Charlotte Gray as the source of these clever phrases:After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

and also

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

Since these observations are superficial, I wonder could she have said them. I can find no citations as to where she said these things. She is also a journalist, and I did not check her newspaper work, but the quotations have all the earmarks of inaccuracies fed by cyber citations just copying each other. Charlotte Grays gets to stay in this almanac because she includes cat references in at least two of her books, like Sisters in the Wilderness.