Bret Harte

Bret Harte was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches.

25 August 1836

Born on the same birth day (25 August): Adam Warren (baseball) • Allan Pinkerton • August 25 • Brad Drew • David Shimoni • Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 2nd Duke of Alburquerque • Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie • James Lick • Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness • John Neal (writer) • Louis Antoine de Saint-Just • Petria Thomas • Philipp Mißfelder • William P. Foster • Zsuzsa Körmöczy

Born in the same month (August 1836): Archibald Willard • Vilhelm Dahlerup • Warren Brown (politician)