August 25
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August 25 is the 237th day of the year (238th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 128 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1530 – Ivan IV of Russia ("Ivan the Terrible") (d. 1584)
- 1635 – Sir Henry Morgan, privateer (d. 1688)
- 1707 – King Louis I of Spain (d. 1724)
- 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)
- 1802 – Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (d. 1850)
- 1819 – Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
- 1829 – Carlo Acton, Italian composer and concert pianist (d. 1909)
- 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)
- 1865 – Arthur Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminster (d. 1943)
- 1869 – Tom Kiely, Irish athlete (d. 1951)
- 1882 – Sean O'Kelly, President of Ireland (d. 1966)
- 1891 – David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet and writer (d. 1956)
- 1895 – Robert A. Hurley, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1968)
- 1898 – Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
- 1900 – Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German scientist (d. 1981)
- 1902 – Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972)
- 1909 – Eileen Hiscock, British athlete (d. 1958)
- 1909 – Ruby Keeler, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1993)
- 1909 – Michael Rennie, British actor (d. 1971)
- 1910 – Dorothea Tanning, American painter (d. 2012)
- 1911 – Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese general and statesman
- 1912 – Erich Honecker, head of state of East Germany (d. 1994)
- 1913 – Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
- 1916 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist (d. 2003)
- 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, American game show host
- 1921 – Brian Moore, Irish-born Canadian writer (d. 1999)
- 1927 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
- 1928 – Herbert Kroehmer, German physicist
- 1929 – Gordon Sherwood, composer
- 1930 – Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor
- 1931 – Regis Philbin, American television host
- 1931 – Cecil D. Andrus, 26th and 28th Governor of Idaho
- 1933 – Wayne Shorter, jazz musician
- 1933 – Tom Skerritt, actor
- 1934 – Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President of Iran
- 1935 – Charles Wright, American poet
- 1938 – David Canary, actor
- 1938 – Frederick Forsyth, author
- 1939 – John Badham, movie director
- 1940 – José Van Dam, Belgian baritone
- 1941 – Marshall Brickman, screenwriter
- 1942 – Nathan Deal, 82nd Governor of Georgia, US
- 1944 – Anthony Heald, actor
- 1944 – Pat Martino, American musician
- 1944 – Conrad Black, Canadian newspaper magnate
- 1946 – Rollie Fingers, baseball player
- 1947 – Anne Archer, actress
- 1949 – Salif Keita, Malian singer-songwriter
- 1949 – Martin Amis, British novelist
- 1949 – John Savage, actor
- 1949 – Gene Simmons, American bassist (Kiss)
- 1951 – Rob Halford, English singer
- 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, American movie director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1959 – Soenke Wortmann, German movie director
- 1960 – Jonas Gahr Store, Norwegian politician
- 1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer
- 1962 – Viv Campbell, guitarist (Def Leppard)
- 1964 – Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
- 1964 – Blair Underwood, actor
- 1964 – Joanne Whalley, British actress
- 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
- 1979 – Marlon Harewood, English footballer
- 1980 – Ryan Horn, writer and commentator
- 1985 – Hendra Setiawan, Indonesian badminton player
- 1985 – Nick English, Rugby League player
- 1987 – Velimir Jovanovic, Serbian footballer
- 1987 – Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer
- 1987 – Blake Lively, American actress
- 1987 – Amy MacDonald, Scottish singer
- 1988 – Alexandra Burke, English singer
- 1992 – Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese actress and singer
- 1998 – China Anne McClain, American actress and singer
Deaths [change]
- 79 – Pliny the Elder, Roman author, naturalist, philosopher and military commander (b. 23)
- 383 – Gratian, Roman Emperor (b. 359)
- 471 – Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1270 – King Louis IX of France (b. 1214)
- 1482 – Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI of England (b. 1429)
- 1688 – Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer (b. 1635)
- 1699 – King Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)
- 1742 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (b. 1704)
- 1776 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
- 1819 – James Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor (b. 1736)
- 1822 – William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
- 1867 – Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
- 1886 – Zinovios Valvis, Greek politician and Prime Minister (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)
- 1938 – Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer (b. 1870)
- 1939 – Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
- 1942 – George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
- 1945 – John Birch, American Baptist missionary and intelligence officer (b. 1918)
- 1956 – Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist (b. 1894)
- 1957 – Leo Perutz, Austrian writer (b. 1882)
- 1967 – Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
- 1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party (b. 1918)
- 1976 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer (b. 1900)
- 1979 – Stan Kenton, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)
- 1984 – Truman Capote, American writer (b. 1924)
- 1984 – Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (b. 1899)
- 1984 – Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (b. 1921)
- 1985 – Samantha Smith, American activist (b. 1972)
- 2000 – Carl Barks, cartoonist (b. 1901)
- 2001 – Aaliyah, American singer (b. 1979)
- 2006 – Noor Mohamed Hassanali, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1918)
- 2007 – Raymond Barre, French politician (b. 1924)
- 2009 – Mande Sidibe, Malian politician (b. 1940)
- 2009 – Edward Kennedy, American politician (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut and first person to walk on the Moon (b. 1930)
Events [change]
- 1248 – The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, Archbishop of Utrecht.
- 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and second most senior, is founded.
- 1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
- 1758 – Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
- 1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage.
- 1778 – Triglav in the Julian Alps, which is Slovenia's highest peak, is successfully climbed for the first time, by Lovrenc Willomitzer.
- 1810 – Briton Paul Durand receives a patent for the tin can.
- 1825 – Uruguay declares independence from Brazil.
- 1830 – The Belgian Revolution begins.
- 1844 – Australia's first synagogue is started in Melbourne.
- 1861 – The Clayton Tunnel train crash in the UK kills 23 people and injures 176.
- 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to successfully swim across the English Channel, from Dover, England, UK to Calais, France.
- 1894 – Kitasato Shibasaburo discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague.
- 1898 – 700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mon in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
- 1912 – The Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) is founded.
- 1914 – World War I: The Library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army.
- 1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.
- 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends as the Red Army is defeated.
- 1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China, killing 9,000 people.
- 1939 – The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the United Kingdom promises to defend Poland in the case of invasion by a foreign power. Nazi Germany invades Poland just a week later, after which the United Kingdom and France both declare war on Germany on September 3.
- 1942 – World War II: Battle of Milne Bay.
- 1944 – World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
- 1945 – Ten days after the Japanese surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill American Baptist missionary John Birch. Some people on the American political right regard this as the start of the Cold War.
- 1945 – Emperor Bao Dai of Vietnam resigns, leaving Ho Chi Minh in power.
- 1950 – US President Harry Truman gets the army to take over the railways to stop a strike.
- 1956 – Off Stockholm, Sweden, the wreck of the ship Vasa is found. It had sunk at the start of its first voyage in 1628.
- 1960 – The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, begin.
- 1961 – President of Brazil Janio Quadros resigns after just seven months in power.
- 1975 – Australian band, the Little River Band puts out its first recording, Curiosity Killed the Cat.
- 1980 – Zimbabwe joins the UN.
- 1981 – Voyager 2 approaches Saturn.
- 1988 – Most of the old town of Lisbon, Portugal, is destroyed by fire.
- 1989 – Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
- 1989 – Voyager 2 approaches Neptune.
- 1991 – Belarus declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: The Battle of Vukovar begins, as an 87-day siege in the city of Vukovar begins, by the Yugoslav People's Army, supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces.
- 1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what would become Linux.
- 1991 – First flight of an Airbus A340.
- 1992 – Siege of Sarajevo: The National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina is deliberately set on fire, with thousands of irreplaceable works being destroyed.
- 1995 – First flight of an Airbus A319.
- 1997 – Former leader of East Germany Egon Krenz is convicted of ordering a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
- 2002 – For the first time, in election for Chancellor of Germany, the main candidates face each other in a television debate. The election is mainly between then-incumbent Gerhard Schroeder and his challenger Edmund Stoiber.
- 2003 – The Delta II rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, sending the Spitzer space telescope into space.
