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Birthdays occurring on August, 26
| 1945 |
Tom Ridge was born on August 26, 1945
You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead. More quotations from Tom Ridge |
| 1979 |
Allison Robertson was born on August 26, 1979
Our manager expected us to throw things at him, ... but I said, 'I'll do it! Yeah!' and the rest of the band was fine with it. We weren't looking for (a bunch of fair gigs), but for some reason they keep coming to us. More quotations from Allison Robertson |
Deaths occurring on August, 26
| 1974 |
Charles Lindbergh died on August 26, 1974
American aviator remembered for the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic, from New York to Paris, in 1927. 1902-1974I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them. More quotations from Charles Lindbergh | 
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| 1978 |
Charles Boyer died on August 26, 1978
French stage and motion picture actor known as the prototypical suave Gallic lover. 1889-1978A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man. More quotations from Charles Boyer | 
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| 1979 |
Mika Waltari died on August 26, 1979
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. More quotations from Mika Waltari |
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