Anniversaries 25 November

Birth

Lope De Vega8

Spanish playwright and poet 1562–1635

René-Aubert Vertot1

French historian 1655–1735

Robert Mayer5

German physicist 1814–1878

Andrew Carnegie34

American businessman and philanthropist 1835–1919

Ernst Schröder1

German mathematician 1841–1902

Khwaja Ghulam Farid1

19th-century sufi Punjabi poet of the punjab , polyglot, sc… 1845–1901

José Maria Eça de Queiroz14

Portuguese writer 1845–1900

Maurice Denis17

French painter 1870–1943

Leonard Woolf1

English political theorist, author, publisher and civil ser… 1880–1969

Pope John XXIII5

261st Pope of the Catholic Church 1881–1963

Isaac Rosenberg5

English poet 1890–1918

Joseph Wood Krutch2

American writer, critic, and naturalist 1893–1970

Helen Hooven Santmyer1

American novelist 1895–1986

Virgil Thomson1

American composer 1896–1989

Rudolf Höss11

German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz concentration … 1901–1947

Ba Jin36

Chinese novelist 1904–2005

John Summerson5

British architectural historian 1904–1992

Lewis Thomas31

American physician, poet and educator 1913–1993

Augusto Pinochet28

Former dictator of the republic of Chile 1915–2006

Harold Chestnut27

American engineer 1917–2001

Mauno Koivisto2

President of Finland 1923–2017

Paul Desmond12

American jazz musician 1924–1977

Poul Anderson140

American science fiction and fantasy writer 1926–2001

Jimmy Johnson1

American Chicago blues guitarist and singer 1928

Kathryn Crosby1

American actress 1933

Shelagh Delaney2

English playwright 1938–2011

Martin Feldstein9

American economist 1939–2019

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi8

Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet, author 1941–2001

Ben Stein30

actor, writer, commentator, lawyer, teacher, humorist 1944

Feng Shih-kuan6

Taiwanese politician 1945

John Larroquette1

born 1947; American film, television and stage actor 1947

Lixion Avila10

American meteorologist 1950

Arturo Pérez-Reverte8

Spanish writer and journalist 1951

Charlaine Harris128

American writer 1951

Chen Ming-tong2

Taiwanese politician 1955

Caterina Davinio16

Italian writer 1957

Monte Melkonian16

National Hero of Armenia 1957–1993

Charles Kennedy2

British politician 1959–2015

Amy Grant4

American musician 1960

Konrad Krajewski1

Roman Catholic cardinal 1963

Shafi Muhammad Burfat3

Separatist Leader 1965

Charles Eisenstein17

American writer 1967

Dominic Cummings1

English political strategist 1971

Christina Applegate1

American actress 1971

Sarah Monette10

American novelist and short story author 1974

Prosanta Chakrabarty2

American ichthyologist 1978

Thea Gilmore1

British singer-songwriter 1979

Death

John Mandeville7

writer 1300–1372

Isaac Watts47

English hymnwriter, theologian and logician 1674–1748

Antoine François Prévost11

French novelist 1697–1763

Fryderyk Skarbek4

Polish noble 1792–1866

John Gibson Lockhart7

Scottish writer and editor 1794–1854

Michel Bréal10

French philologist 1832–1915

Robert Stawell Ball6

Irish astronomer 1840–1913

Henry Morgenthau, Sr.4

American diplomat 1856–1946

Kenesaw Mountain Landis1

American judge and baseball commissioner 1866–1944

Charles Kettering11

American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of… 1876–1958

Upton Sinclair50

American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist 1878–1968

Ossip Zadkine31

French sculptor 1890–1967

Норман Шварцкопф1

United States Army general and first superintendent of the … 1895–1958

Hastings Banda2

First president of Malawi 1898–1997

U Thant5

3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations 1909–1974

Albert K. Cohen5

American criminologist 1918–2014

Yukio Mishima60

Japanese author 1925–1970

Fidel Castro77

former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President… 1926–2016

Anwar Shaikh8

British Pakistani writer 1928–2006

Flip Wilson1

Comedian, actor 1933–1998

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi8

Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet, author 1941–2001

George Best8

British footballer 1946–2005

Nick Drake22

British singer-songwriter 1948–1974

Judith Fitzgerald1

Canadian poet 1952–2015

Peter Lipton1

American philosopher 1954–2007