Barbara Bush

Barbara Bush was the first lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993, as the wife of George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States. She was previously the second lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, and founded the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. Among her children are George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, and Jeb Bush, the 43rd governor of Florida. She and Abigail Adams are the only two women to be the wife of one U.S. president and the mother of another. At the time she became first lady, she was the second oldest woman to hold the position, behind only Anna Harrison, who never lived in the capital. Bush was generally popular as first lady, recognized for her apolitical grandmotherly image.

8 June 1925

Born on the same birth day (8 June): Alexis Smith • Alicia Boole Stott • Jeļena Ostapenko • John Q. A. Brackett • John Smeaton • Kevin Farley • Lindsay Davenport • Maurice Bellemare • Scott Adams

Born in the same month (June 1925): Audie Murphy • Cara Williams • Dilia Díaz Cisneros • Doc Pomus • Herman Sarkowsky • Jackie Lynn Taylor • Jean Frydman • Jean d'Ormesson • Larisa Avdeyeva • Nat Hentoff • Ogden Reid • Pavel Belyayev • Pierre Salinger