May 25
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May 25 is the 146th day of the year (147th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 219 days remaining after May 25 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 1048 – Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
- 1334 – Emperor Suko of Japan (d. 1398)
- 1458 – Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
- 1606 – Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
- 1661 – Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
- 1713 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1792)
- 1725 – Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
- 1803 – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
- 1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
- 1820 – Anne Brontë, English writer (d. 1849)
- 1845 – Lip Pike, baseball player (d.1883)
- 1860 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
- 1865 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
- 1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
- 1877 – Billy Murray, American singer (d. 1954)
- 1879 – Lord Beaverbrook, English publisher (d. 1964)
- 1880 – Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
- 1882 – Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
- 1887 – Francesco Forgione, Italian priest (d. 1968)
- 1888 – Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
- 1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor (d. 1972)
- 1907 – U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
- 1912 – Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
- 1913 – Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
- 1918 – Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1922 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
- 1924 – István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
- 1925 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (d. 1974)
- 1925 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1926 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
- 1927 – Robert Ludlum, writer (d. 2001)
- 1929 – Beverly Sills, American soprano
- 1931 – Georgi Grechko, cosmonaut
- 1932 – John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
- 1935 – Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
- 1936 – Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter
- 1938 – Raymond Carver, American writer (d. 1988)
- 1939 – Dixie Carter, American actress
- 1939 – Ian McKellen, English actor
- 1943 – Jessi Colter, American singer
- 1944 – Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director
- 1949 – Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist
- 1953 – Daniel Passarella, Argentine football player
- 1956 – Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer
- 1958 – Paul Weller, British musician
- 1963 – Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
- 1965 – Simon Fowler, English singer (Ocean Colour Scene)
- 1966 – McLoud, Swiss composer, musician, and multimedia artist
- 1967 – Poppy Z. Brite, American author
- 1968 – Kendall Gill, American basketball player
- 1969 – Anne Heche, American actress
- 1970 – Jamie Kennedy, American actor
- 1971 – Sonya Smith, American actress
- 1974 – Monica Keena, American actress
- 1975 – Lauryn Hill, American singer
- 1976 – Miguel Tejada, Dominican Major League Baseball player
- 1976 – Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
- 1977 – Pat Burrell, baseball player
- 1978 – Brian Urlacher, American football player
- 1979 – Carlos Bocanegra, American soccer player
- 1982 – Adam Boyd, English footballer.
- 1984 – Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Miss Iceland, crowned Miss World in 2005.
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[change] Events
Liverpool win champions league, 2005
