James MacGregor Burns
James MacGregor Burns was an American historian and political scientist, presidential biographer, and authority on leadership studies. He was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus at Williams College and Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 1971 Burns received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in History and Biography for his work on America's 32nd president, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom. James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (d. 2014)
3 August 1918
Born on the same birth date (3 August 1918): Eddie Jefferson • Larry Haines • Sidney Gottlieb
Born on the same birth day (3 August): Argyro Strataki • Dolores del Río • Haystacks Calhoun • Ivan Zajc • John C. McGinley • Kaspar Kokk • Luis Robert Jr.
Born in the same month (August 1918): August 25 • Betty Oliphant • Billy Johnson (baseball) • Gordon Zahn • Guy Gibson • L. B. Cole • Larry Haines • Mary McGrory • Noor Hassanali • Sidney Gottlieb • Sikander Bakht • T. J. Jemison • Ted Williams • Tom Drake