September 25
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September 25 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 96 days remaining after September 25 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 1599 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss-Italian architect (d. 1667)
- 1644 – Ole Romer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
- 1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
- 1694 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
- 1711 – Qianlong, Chinese Emperor (d. 1799)
- 1744 – Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1797)
- 1764 – Fletcher Christian, English mutineer (d. 1793)
- 1766 – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, French statesman (d. 1822)
- 1829 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
- 1860 – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, 1st Governor-General of Australia (d. 1908)
- 1862 – Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
- 1866 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist (d. 1945)
- 1879 – Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader (d. 1963)
- 1881 – Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
- 1896 – Sandro Pertini, President of Italy (d. 1990)
- 1897 – William Faulkner, American writer (d. 1962)
- 1903 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter (d. 1970)
- 1906 – Jose Figueres Ferrer, Costa Rican politician (d. 1990)
- 1906 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
- 1911 – Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
- 1921 – Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
- 1922 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
- 1929 – Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
- 1932 – Adolfo Suarez, former Prime Minister of Spain
- 1932 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (d. 1982)
- 1938 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland (d. 2010)
- 1939 – Gianfranco Leoncini, Italian footballer
- 1943 – Robert Gates, American politician
- 1944 – Michael Douglas, American actor
- 1946 – Felicity Kendal, British actress
- 1951 – Mark Hamill, American actor
- 1952 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1954 – Juande Ramos, Spanish football manager
- 1955 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
- 1956 – Salvatore Bagni, Italian footballer
- 1961 – Heather Locklear, American actress
- 1963 – Tate Donovan, American actor
- 1963 – Mikael Persbrandt, Swedish actor
- 1965 – Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
- 1968 – Will Smith, American actor and rapper
- 1968 – Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau, Prince of the Netherlands
- 1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
- 1976 – Petit, Portuguese footballer
- 1978 – Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
- 1978 – Jodie Kidd, British model
- 1979 – Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer
- 1980 – Nikola Zigic, Serbian footballer
- 1984 – Siphiwe Tshabalala, South African footballer
- 1990 – Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
- 1994 – Jansen Panettiere, American actor
[change] Deaths
- 1066 – Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria (b. 1020)
- 1066 – King Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)
- 1506 – Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
- 1534 – Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
- 1617 – Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1572)
- 1849 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (b. 1804)
- 1918 – Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev, Russian general (b. 1857)
- 1931 – Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, German classical philologist (b. 1848)
- 1933 – Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
- 1970 – Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (b. 1898)
- 1971 – Hugo Black, American politician and jurist (b. 1886)
- 1980 – John Bonham, British musician (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
- 1983 – King Leopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
- 1983 – Gunnar Thoroddsen, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1910)
- 1984 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
- 1986 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist (b. 1896)
- 1991 – Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
- 2003 – Franco Modigliani, Italian economist (b. 1918)
- 2005 – Don Adams, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmental and political activist (b. 1940)
[change] Events
- 1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
- 1513 – Spanish explorers become the first Europeans to sight the Pacific Ocean.
- 1890 – Sequoia National Park in California is founded.
- 1942 – Switzerland denies entry to Jewish refugees.
- 1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas is integrated with help from United States Army troops.
- 1959 – Sri Lankan Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike is shot by Buddhist monk Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
- 1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is proclaimed.
- 1972 – In a referendum, voters in Norway reject membership of the European Community.
- 1978 – A mid-air collision between two planes over San Diego, California results in 144 deaths.
- 1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1981 – Belize joins the UN.
- 2003 – A magnitude 8 earthquake hits Hokkaido, Japan.
- 2003 – It is announced that 14,802 people died in France during the previous month's heatwave.
- 2008 – Thabo Mbeki resigns as President of South Africa.
