August 25, 1918 – American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
August 27, 1908 – 36th U. S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson is born near Stonewall, Texas.
August 27, 1910 – Mother Teresa is born in Skopje, Yugoslavia. Her religious order of nuns in Calcutta, India, the Missionaries of Charity, becomes famous worldwide for helping the poor and sick.
August 29, 1632 – British philosopher John Locke is born in Wrington, England. His pioneering doctrine that people naturally possess certain rights; chief being life, liberty, and property; greatly influence American colonists.