Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Assuming the presidency after Roosevelt's death, Truman implemented the Marshall Plan in the wake of World War II to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the conservative coalition that dominated the Congress.

8 May 1884

Born on the same birth day (8 May): Ali Hassan Mwinyi • André Michel Lwoff • Arthur Q. Bryan • Bobby Labonte • Brooks Newmark • David Hurst • David Keith (actor) • George Woodcock • Jeff Wincott • João Havelange • Kevin Hayes • Lúcio • Philip Bailey • Ricky Nelson • Viviana Durante

Born in the same month (May 1884): Chief Bender • Corrado Gini • David Curtiss Munson • Edvard Beneš • Manuel Pérez y Curis • Max Brod • Oskar Rosenfeld • Richard Baggallay (cricketer) • Siegmund Glücksmann • Valdemar Psilander • Wilhelmina Hay Abbott