Edith Hamilton

Edith Hamilton was an American educator and internationally known author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era in the United States. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she also studied in Germany at the University of Leipzig and the University of Munich. Hamilton began her career as an educator and head of the Bryn Mawr School, a private college preparatory school for girls in Baltimore, Maryland; however, Hamilton is best known for her essays and best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.

12 August 1867

Born on the same birth day (12 August): Austra Skujytė • Benjamin Sheares • Cantinflas • Cecil B. DeMille • Christian III of Denmark • Curtius baronets • Dana Ivey • Demir Demirkan • Ewa Farna • Franck Moutsinga • Gerd Buchdahl • Jule Niemeier • Karl Faber • Klaas-Jan Huntelaar • Klara Hitler • Kōji Kitao • Louise de Marillac • Mark Kinsella • Marvin Zeegelaar • Réjean Ducharme • Sitaram Yechury • Stuart Williams (cricketer) • Sushil Koirala • Tyson Fury

Born in the same month (August 1867): Charles Francis Jenkins • Cupid Childs • Emil Nolde • Ernest Dowson • Evelina Haverfield • George Luks • Jake Beckley • James W. Gerard • John Galsworthy • Maximilian Bircher-Benner • Stanley Baldwin • Umberto Giordano