If presidents’ birthdays were spread out through the months evenly, we’d be approaching four births per month as we approach 48 presidents (Obama is 44th administration, of 43 presidents; Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms, screwing up numbering for all time).
August has just more than its share of presidential births, five. In date order as we go through August:
- Barack Obama, our 43rd President, was born August 7, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii
- Herbert Hoover, 30th President, was born August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa
- Bill Clinton, 42nd President, was born August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas
- Benjamin Harrison, 22nd President, was born August 20, 1833, in North Bend, Ohio
- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 34th President, was born August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas
Obama will get cards and letters, and network news programs will probably make a light-hearted mention of his birthday. Are the other August presidents celebrated, even in their hometowns?
Barack Obama as an infant. Buzzfeed
Barack Obama, about age two, with his mother. Parade Magazine image.
Herbert Hoover as an infant. Difficult to find photos of young Hoover. He was orphaned.
Bill Clinton, about age two. Parade Magazine image.
Lyndon Johnson’s birthday is August 27. Even near his birth he looked like the cowboy-hatted president we remember. Image from Readers Digest
Photos of Benjamin Harrison as an infant or young child appear to be exceedingly rare.
March and November also feature births of five presidents.
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You made one error. President Obama’s birthday is August 4, not the 7th.
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August should be Presidents Month perhaps. What fun to see photos of the presidents as their younger selves that I have never seen before!
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