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August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 129 days
remaining.
Events
Births
- 1530 - Ivan I of Russia
(Ivan the Terrible) (d. 1584)
- 1635 - Sir Henry Morgan,
privateer (d. 1688)
- 1767 - Louis Antoine Leon de Saint
Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
- 1796 - James Lick, California land
baron (d. 1876)
- 1819 - Allan Pinkerton,
founder of the Pinkerton Agency (d. 1884)
- 1836 - Bret Harte, author (d.
1902)
- 1841 - Emil Kocher,
medical researcher
- 1845 - King Ludwig II
of Bavaria
- 1850 - Charles Richet,
scientist
- 1900 - Sir Hans Adolf
Krebs, scientist
- 1902 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (d.
1972)
- 1909 - Michael Rennie, actor
(d. 1971)
- 1909 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress
(d. 1993)
- 1912 - Erich Honecker,
head of state of East
Germany (d. 1994)
- 1913 - Walt Kelly, cartoonist (d.
1917)
- 1916 - Van Johnson, actor
- 1917 - Mel Ferrer, actor
- 1918 - Leonard
Bernstein, conductor, composer (d. 1990)
- 1918 - Richard Greene,
actor
- 1919 - George Wallace,
Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
- 1921 - Monty Hall, game show host
- 1927 - Althea Gibson, tennis champion
- 1930 - Sir Sean Connery,
actor
- 1933 - Regis Philbin, television host
- 1933 - Tom Skerritt, actor
- 1933 - Wayne Shorter, jazz musician
- 1938 - Frederick
Forsyth, author
- 1938 - David Canary, actor
- 1941 - Marshall Brickman, screenwriter
- 1944 - Anthony Heald, actor
- 1945 - John Birch, soldier,
missionary, first casualty of the Cold War
- 1946 - Rollie Fingers,
baseball pitcher
- 1947 - Anne Archer, actress
- 1949 - Gene Simmons, bassist
- 1949 - Martin Amis, novelist
- 1949 - John Savage, actor
- 1952 - Peter Wolf, singer, composer
- 1954 - Elvis Costello,
songwriter, musician
- 1958 - Tim Burton, film director,
producer, screenwriter
- 1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus,
singer
- 1962 - Viv Campbell, Def Leppard guitarist
- 1964 - Maxim Kontsevich,
Russian mathematician
- 1964 - Blair Underwood, actor
- 1968 - Rafet El Roman,
singer, composer
- 1970 - Claudia Schiffer,
supermodel
Deaths
- 1192 - Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy, in
Acre
- 1774 - Niccolò
Jommelli, composer
- 1867 - Michael Faraday,
scientist
- 1900 - Friedrich
Nietzsche - philosopher
- 1904 - Henri
Fantin-Latour, painter
- 1908 - Henri Becquerel,
French physicist
- 1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff, WWI
- 1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent
- 1967 - Stanley Bruce, eighth
Prime Minister of Australia
- 1967 - Paul Muni, Academy
Award winning actor
- 1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader
- 1971 - Ted
Lewis, jazz musician, entertainer (b. 1890)
- 1979 - Stan Kenton, jazz musician, big band leader
- 1979 - Ray Eberle, jazz musician, big
band leader
- 1980 - Gower Champion, dancer, actor, choreographer
- 1984 - Truman Capote,
author
- 1984 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1899)
- 1985 - Samantha Smith, U.S.
social activist, actress
- 1990 - Morley Callaghan,
Canadian writer
- 2000 - Carl Barks, 99, illustrator of Donald Duck
- 2001 - Aaliyah, singer
Holidays and observances
August 24 - August 26 -
July 25 - September 25 --
listing of all days
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