Births By Century and Decade
In total there have been:
- 14 born in the 18th century.
- 19 born in the 19th century.
- 10 born in the 20th century.
Between the births of George Washington in 1732 and Barack Obama in 1961, a president has been born in every decade except for the 1810s, 1930s and 1950s.
Read more about this topic: List Of Presidents Of The United States By Date Of Birth
Famous quotes containing the words births, century and/or decade:
“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.”
—18th century English proverb.
“More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down—not by solving the problem, but by deciding it’s their own damn fault.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)