August 25
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August 25 is the 238th day of the year (239th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 127 days remaining after August 25 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 1530 – Ivan IV of Russia ("Ivan the Terrible") (d. 1584)
- 1635 – Sir Henry Morgan, privateer (d. 1688)
- 1724 – George Stubbs, British painter (d. 1806)
- 1744 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803)
- 1767 – Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
- 1786 – King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
- 1796 – James Lick, California land baron (d. 1876)
- 1819 – Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
- 1836 – Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)
- 1841 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss doctor, won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (d. 1917)
- 1845 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
- 1882 – Sean O'Kelly, President of Ireland (d. 1966)
- 1898 – Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
- 1900 – Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German scientist (d. 1981)
- 1902 – Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972)
- 1909 – Ruby Keeler, singer and actress (d. 1993)
- 1909 – Michael Rennie, actor (d. 1971)
- 1912 – Erich Honecker, head of state of East Germany (d. 1994)
- 1913 – Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
- 1916 – Van Johnson, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1917 – Mel Ferrer, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1918 – Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
- 1919 – George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
- 1921 – Monty Hall, game show host
- 1921 – Brian Moore, Irish-born Canadian writer (d. 1999)
- 1927 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
- 1928 – Herbert Kroemer, German physicist
- 1929 – Gordon Sherwood, composer
- 1930 – Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor
- 1933 – Regis Philbin, television host
- 1933 – Wayne Shorter, jazz musician
- 1933 – Tom Skerritt, actor
- 1934 – Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (d. 2010)
- 1935 – Charles Wright, American poet
- 1938 – David Canary, actor
- 1938 – Frederick Forsyth, author
- 1939 – John Badham, film director
- 1940 – José Van Dam, Belgian baritone
- 1941 – Marshall Brickman, screenwriter
- 1944 – Anthony Heald, actor
- 1946 – Rollie Fingers, baseball player
- 1947 – Anne Archer, actress
- 1949 – Martin Amis, novelist
- 1949 – John Savage, actor
- 1949 – Gene Simmons, American bassist (Kiss)
- 1951 – Robert Joseph Glass, artist
- 1952 – Peter Wolf, singer and composer
- 1954 – Elvis Costello, English musician
- 1956 – Takeshi Okada, Japanese football manager
- 1958 – Tim Burton, film director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer
- 1962 – Viv Campbell, guitarist (Def Leppard)
- 1964 – Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
- 1964 – Blair Underwood, actor
- 1965 – Mia Zapata, singer
- 1968 – Rafet El Roman, singer, composer
- 1968 – Rachael Ray, cook and television host
- 1970 – Claudia Schiffer, German model
- 1972 – Marvin Harrison, American football player
- 1980 – Ryan Horn, writer and commentator
- 1985 – Nick English, Rugby League player
- 1987 – Blake Lively, American actress
- 1987 – Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer
- 1988 – Alexandra Burke, English singer
[change] Deaths
- 383 – Gratian, Roman Emperor (b. 359)
- 1699 – King Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)
- 1776 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
- 1822 – William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
- 1867 – Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
- 1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
- 1900 – Kiroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
- 1908 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1852)
- 1956 – Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist (b. 1894)
- 1967 – Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
- 1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party (b. 1918)
- 1979 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer (b. 1900)
- 1984 – Truman Capote, American writer (b. 1924)
- 1985 – Samantha Smith, American activist (b. 1972)
- 2000 – Carl Barks, cartoonist (b. 1901)
- 2001 – Aaliyah, American singer (b. 1979)
- 2009 – Edward Kennedy, American politician (b. 1932)
[change] Events
- 1825 – Uruguay declares independence from Brazil.
- 1844 – Australia's first synagogue is started in Melbourne.
- 1912 – The Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) is founded.
- 1950 – US President Harry Truman gets the army to take over the railways to stop a strike.
- 1975 – Australian band, the Little River Band puts out its first recording, Curiosity Killed the Cat.
- 1981 – Voyager 2 approaches Saturn.
- 1989 – Voyager 2 approaches Neptune.
- 1991 – Belarus declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1997 – Former leader of East Germany Egon Krenz is convicted of ordering a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
