Born this week
Tuesday August 26th, 2025
Lyndon B. Johnson
August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States, a position he assumed after his service as ...
William Feather
August 25, 1889 – January 7, 1981
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
William A. Feather was an American publisher and author, based in Cleveland, Ohio. Born in Jamestown, New York, Feather relocated with his ...
Mother Teresa
August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, M.C., commonly known as Mother Teresa, was a Roman Catholic Religious Sister and missionary who lived most of ...
John Locke
August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke FRS, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the ...
Charles Kettering
August 29, 1876 – November 25, 1958
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Franklin Kettering was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents. He was a founder of Delco, and ...
Max Beerbohm
August 24, 1872 – May 20, 1956
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.
Maurice Maeterlinck
August 29, 1862 – May 6, 1949
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was a Fleming, but wrote in French. He was ...
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831
Education is the art of making man ethical.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, and a major figure in German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of ...
Jorge Luis Borges
August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges KBE, was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish ...
Leonard Bernstein
August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
Leonard Bernstein was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and ...
Ingrid Bergman
August 29, 1915 – August 29, 1982
I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy ...
Theodore Dreiser
August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters ...
Robertson Davies
August 28, 1913 – December 2, 1995
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
William Robertson Davies, CC, OOnt, FRSC, FRSL was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of ...
Roger Tory Peterson
August 28, 1908 – July 28, 1996
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
Roger Tory Peterson was an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for ...
Theophile Gautier
August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. While Gautier was an ...
Theodore Parker
August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860
Politics is the science of urgencies.
Theodore Parker was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words ...
Bret Harte
August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic ...
Johann Georg Hamann
August 27, 1730 – June 21, 1788
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
Johann Georg Hamann was a German philosopher, whose work was used by his student J. G. Herder as a main support of the Sturm und Drang ...
Man Ray
August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
Man Ray was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist ...
C. Wright Mills
August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. ...