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): Alexander Skarsgård • Allan Pinkerton • Brian Moore (novelist) • Cornelius Bennett • Darrell Johnson • Don DeFore • Florian Mohr • György Enyedi (geographer) • Hannah Louise Shearer • Hans Krebs (biochemist) • Rob Halford • Stacey Farber • Tiina Intelmann • Tim Cain

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