Born in The Same Year
10 presidents have been born in the same year as another.
- Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams were both born in 1767.
- Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes were both born in 1822.
- Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford were both born in 1913.
- George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter were both born in 1924.
- George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were both born in 1946.
All pairs except the fourth were direct predecessor - direct successor pairs. George H. W. Bush directly succeeded Ronald Reagan, who was the direct successor of Jimmy Carter. Also, in three pairs, the successor was older by days and Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford were the only pair who were both a Presidential and Vice Presidential Pair, as Nixon served under Dwight David Eisenhower and Ford served under Nixon.
Read more about this topic: List Of Presidents Of The United States By Date Of Birth
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“Don Pedro. To be merry best becomes you; for, out o’ question, you were born in a merry hour.
Beatrice. No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under than was I born.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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Now up, my knee, to keep on top of another year of snow.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)