August 25
August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 129 days remaining.
Events
railroads to avert a strike.
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)
- 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 (d. 1917)
- 1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
- 1850 - Charles Richet, scientist
- 1882 - Sean O'Kelly, President of Ireland 1945-59 (d. 1966)
- 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. 1973)
- 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
- 1929 - Gordon Sherwood, composer
- 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 (b. 1142)
- 1774 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer
- 1822 - William Herschel, astronomer (b. 1738)
- 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
