August 25

On This Day

28 people found

Born on this day (15)

1949(1)

Martin Amis

19492023

British novelist

1934(1)

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

19342017

Iranian politician

1932(1)

Tomohiko Ikoma

19322009

Japanese association football player

1930(2)

Sean Connery

19302020

Scottish actor

Georgiy Daneliya

19302019

Soviet film director and screenwriter

1928(1)

Herbert Kroemer

19282024

German-American physics

1918(1)

Leonard Bernstein

19181990

American conductor and composer

1916(1)

Frederick Chapman Robbins

19162003

American doctor

1912(1)

Erich Honecker

19121994

former leader of East Germany, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party

1911(1)

Võ Nguyên Giáp

19112013

Vietnamese general and communist politician

1900(1)

Hans Krebs

19001981

German-British biochemist

1841(1)

Emil Theodor Kocher

18411917

surgeon, laureate of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine

1786(1)

Ludwig I of Bavaria

17861868

King of Bavaria

1767(1)

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

17671794

Philosopher, military and political leader

1707(1)

Louis I of Spain

17071724

king of Spain

Died on this day (13)

2025(1)

Rainer Weiss

19322025

American physicist

2018(1)

John McCain

19362018

American politician

2016(1)

James Cronin

19312016

American physicist

2012(1)

Neil Armstrong

19302012

American astronaut and lunar explorer

2009(1)

Ted Kennedy

19322009

United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009

2001(1)

Aaliyah

19792001

American R&B singer

1985(1)

Samantha Smith

19721985

American peace activist and child actress

1984(1)

Truman Capote

19241984

American writer

1976(1)

Eyvind Johnson

19001976

Swedish writer

1967(1)

Paul Muni

18951967

Austrian-born American stage and film actor

1956(1)

Alfred Kinsey

18941956

American sexologist

1908(1)

Henri Becquerel

18521908

French physicist

1419(1)

Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia

13611419

king of Bohemia and Germany