Your American History Reference Guide! - August 25
August 25
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August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining.
Events
1500-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Births
1500-1899
1900-1999
1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs , scientist
1902 - Stefan Wolpe , composer (d. 1972 )
1909 - Ruby Keeler , singer, actress (d. 1993 )
1909 - Michael Rennie , actor (d. 1971 )
1912 - Erich Honecker , head of state of East Germany (d. 1994 )
1913 - Walt Kelly , American cartoonist (d. 1973 )
1916 - Van Johnson , actor
1917 - Mel Ferrer , American actor
1918 - Leonard Bernstein , American conductor and composer (d. 1990 )
1918 - Richard Greene , actor
1919 - George Wallace , Governor of Alabama (d. 1998 )
1921 - Monty Hall , game show host
1927 - Althea Gibson , American tennis player (d. 2003 )
1929 - Gordon Sherwood , composer
1930 - Sir Sean Connery , Scottish actor
1933 - Regis Philbin , television host
1933 - Wayne Shorter , jazz musician
1933 - Tom Skerritt , actor
1935 - Charles Wright , American poet
1938 - David Canary , actor
1938 - Frederick Forsyth , author
1939 - John Badham , film director
1940 - José Van Dam , Belgian baritone
1941 - Marshall Brickman , screenwriter
1944 - Anthony Heald , actor
1946 - Rollie Fingers , baseball player
1947 - Anne Archer , actress
1949 - Martin Amis , novelist
1949 - John Savage , actor
1949 - Gene Simmons , bassist
1951 - Robert Joseph Glass , artist
1952 - Peter Wolf , singer and composer
1954 - Elvis Costello , musician
1958 - Tim Burton , film director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus , singer
1962 - Viv Campbell , guitarist (Def Leppard )
1964 - Maxim Kontsevich , Russian mathematician
1964 - Blair Underwood , actor
1968 - Rafet El Roman , singer, composer
1968 - Rachael Ray , cook and television host
1970 - Claudia Schiffer , German model
1972 - Marvin Harrison , American football player
Deaths
1000-1899
1900-1999
1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher
1900 - Kuroda Kiyotaka , Japanese politician and prime minister (b. 1840 )
1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour , painter
1908 - Henri Becquerel , French physicist
1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf , Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army , WWI
1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor , Duke of Kent
1945 - John Birch , soldier, missionary, first casualty of the Cold War
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
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
External links
August 24 - August 26 - July 25 - September 25 -- listing of all days