Still, Barack Obama has long seemed in a class of his own when it comes to his self-confidence, seemingly born of a charmed life of extraordinary opportunities and, by and large, a lack of accountability for his actions.
The others had died in 1969 (ie, at the age of 73, the average life expectancy at birth of women born around Boston in 1896).
The idea that we are born knowing how to handle the greatest challenges of life is a theme that runs throughout eastern and western cultures in the major myths, religious texts and popular stories of our time.
More recently, an elevation in leukemia diagnosed in the first year of life was seen in children born in 1986 and 1987, just after the accident at Chernobyl, representing a latency period of less than two years between in-utero exposure and diagnosis.
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Two hundred and thirty-three years ago, a Polish-born patriot gave his life to advance the cause of American independence.
Christopher Doyle is a self-taught Sydney-sider who was born in 1952 but who has spent most of his life in Hong Kong.
In an empty theatre, a curtain rises on an unusual kind of show: archival footage of life in the streets of Liverpool, where the director, Terence Davies (who was born in 1945), grew up, and which he both celebrates and mourns in this personal, essaylike documentary of urban reminiscences.
Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon could face life in jail if convicted of accessing 97 US military and Nasa computers.
The two most dangerous years of your life are the year you are born and the year you retire.
He was born Dorris Brown, but for the sake of a quiet life at school in Arkansas he preferred to call himself Dee.
His father, the Marxist ideologue Ralph Miliband, was born in Brussels and spent the first sixteen years of his life in the Belgian capital.
Robson was born in Australia and spent the first six years of her life in Singapore, but now lives just five minutes' walk from the All England Club.
What really shook up the world's neurologists, though, was the Duke team's finding that people born with two copies of the E-4 version of apo E developed Alzheimer's symptoms an average of 20 years earlier in life than those born with an E-2 version.
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Estrada, 62, is candid about a private life that includes flocks of mistresses and children born out of wedlock.
Somewhere in America a child is being born whose bold idea may save a life, or the lives of millions.
"The Pianist" mirrors some of the French-born, Polish Jewish director's real life when he escaped from Krakow's Jewish ghetto as a child and lived off the charity of strangers until reuniting with his father years later.
And while Cook is adapting to the demands, and nocturnal wails, of a new-born baby, Luevano hasn't made life any easier for himself by choosing to fly into the UK just five days before the fight, a decision Cook finds odd.
Born in Akron, Ohio, Thom spent all but 20 years of her life in Manhattan.
Hollywood actor Willem Dafoe is to star in The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic alongside the Serbian-born performance artist.
Mr Quinn said he brought the application north of the border because he was born, reared and worked all his life in County Fermanagh.
Mr Morsi claims to have disliked life in America, but two of his sons were born there and he lingered for several years after earning a doctorate before heading home to teach at the University of Zagazig, up the road from Edwa.
Walzer, born two months premature and diagnosed with cerebral palsy, has spent much of his life following sports and dreaming about becoming a sportswriter.
At 25, Boss, whose grandmother was born in Co Antrim coastal town of Glenarm, is going to give his new life in Ireland a real go.
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Those who favour change argue that children born as a result of donor insemination can be psychologically damaged by discovering in later life that they will never know their biological father.
The Brooklyn-born Vasquez is the star of her own reality series La La's Full Court Life (Melo makes an occasional appearance), and not long ago started her own line of beauty products.
Born into slavery on an Alabama plantation, Bill Traylor lived the first eighty years of his life as a laborer.
International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell told the BBC the reforms were born out of a "total commitment" to improving the NHS at a time of increased life expectancy and rising medical costs.
In an interview at his campaign headquarters, its walls painted with Jersey City landmarks, Fulop, a former Marine who moved to Jersey City shortly after graduating college and was elected to the City Council in 2005, said he cares deeply about quality of life in Jersey City and it doesn't matter whether he was born and raised here.
Salman Rushdie was born in India but is a British citizen and has lived in the UK for most of his life.
You know, I was born in 1961, and at the time that I was born, I think for me to do many of the things that I've done in my life would've been an impossibility, and certainly for a 22-year-old.
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