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August 25
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
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1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, scientist
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1902 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972)
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1909 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (d. 1993)
- 1909 - Michael Rennie, actor (d. 1971)
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1912 - Erich Honecker, head of state of East Germany (d. 1994)
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1913 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
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1916 - Van Johnson, actor
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1917 - Mel Ferrer, American actor
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1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
- 1918 - Richard Greene, actor
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1919 - George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
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1921 - Monty Hall, game show host
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1927 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
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1929 - Gordon Sherwood , composer
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1930 - Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor
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1933 - Regis Philbin, television host
- 1933 - Wayne Shorter, jazz musician
- 1933 - Tom Skerritt, actor
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1935 - Charles Wright, American poet
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1938 - David Canary, actor
- 1938 - Frederick Forsyth, author
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1939 - John Badham, film director
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1940 - José Van Dam, Belgian baritone
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1941 - Marshall Brickman , screenwriter
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1944 - Anthony Heald , actor
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1946 - Rollie Fingers, baseball player
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1947 - Anne Archer, actress
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1949 - Martin Amis, novelist
- 1949 - John Savage, actor
- 1949 - Gene Simmons, bassist
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1951 - Robert Joseph Glass , artist
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1952 - Peter Wolf, singer and composer
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1954 - Elvis Costello, musician
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1958 - Tim Burton, film director, producer, and screenwriter
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1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, singer
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1962 - Viv Campbell , guitarist (Def Leppard)
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1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
- 1964 - Blair Underwood, actor
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1968 - Rafet El Roman, singer, composer
- 1968 - Rachael Ray, cook and television host
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1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German model
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1972 - Marvin Harrison, American football player
Deaths
1000-1899
1900-1999
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1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher
- 1900 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician and prime minister (b. 1840)
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1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter
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1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist
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1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army, WWI
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1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent
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1945 - John Birch, soldier, missionary, first casualty of the Cold War
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1967 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia
- 1967 - Paul Muni, Academy Award winning actor
- 1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader
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1971 - Ted Lewis, jazz musician, entertainer (b. 1890)
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1979 - Stan Kenton, jazz musician, big band leader
- 1979 - Ray Eberle , jazz musician, big band leader
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1980 - Gower Champion, dancer, actor, choreographer
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1984 - Truman Capote, author
- 1984 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1899)
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1985 - Samantha Smith, U.S. social activist, actress
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1990 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
External links
August 24 - August 26 - July 25 - September 25 -- listing of all days
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