Anniversaries 25 February
Birth
![Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld photo]()
Jesuit, author of Cautio Criminalis
1591–1635
![Quirinus Kuhlmann photo]()
German poet and mystic
1651–1689
![Thomas Adam photo]()
clergyman, religious writer
1701–1784
![Carlo Goldoni photo]()
Italian playwright and librettist
1707–1794
![Charles Cotesworth Pinckney photo]()
American politician
1746–1825
![José de San Martín photo]()
Argentine general and independence leader
1778–1850
![Taras Shevchenko photo]()
Ukrainian poet and painter
1814–1861
![Pierre-Auguste Renoir photo]()
French painter and sculptor
1841–1919
![Samuel Fielden photo]()
American anarchist
1847–1922
![Samuel Fielden photo]()
American anarchist
1847–1922
![Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé photo]()
French diplomat, orientalist, travel writer, archaeologist,…
1848–1910
![James Kenneth Stephen photo]()
English poet, tutor to Prince Albert Victor
1859–1892
![Rudolf Steiner photo]()
Austrian esotericist
1861–1925
![Benedetto Croce photo]()
Italian writer, philosopher, politician
1866–1952
![John Foster Dulles photo]()
United States Secretary of State
1888–1959
![Vyacheslav Molotov photo]()
Soviet politician and diplomat
1890–1986
![Oscar Cullmann photo]()
French theologian
1902–1999
![Howard Zahniser photo]()
American environmentalist
1906–1964
![Mary Chase photo]()
American writer
1907–1981
![John Arlott photo]()
English sports commentator and writer
1914–1991
![Peg Bracken photo]()
American writer
1918–2007
![Balraj Madhok photo]()
Indian politician
1920–2016
![Wendy Beckett photo]()
British Catholic nun and presenter of documentaries for the…
1930–2018
![Tony Campolo photo]()
American sociologist
1935
![Bob Schieffer photo]()
Journalist, Anchor for CBS News
1937
![Maryanne Amacher photo]()
Composer and installation artist
1938–2009
![John Leonard photo]()
American critic, writer, and commentator
1939–2008
![David Puttnam photo]()
British film producer
1941
![Cynthia Voigt photo]()
American writer of young adult books
1942
![George Harrison photo]()
British musician, former member of the Beatles
1943–2001
![António Damásio photo]()
neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern …
1944
![Campbell Black photo]()
Scottish author
1944–2013
![John P. Kotter photo]()
author of The heart of Change
1947
![Amin Maalouf photo]()
Francophone Lebanese writer based in France
1949
![Bhakti Tirtha Swami photo]()
American Hindu writer
1950–2005
![Neil Jordan photo]()
Irish filmmaker and fiction writer
1950
![José María Aznar photo]()
Spanish President from 1996 to 2004
1953
![John Doe photo]()
American singer, songwriter, actor, poet, guitarist and bas…
1954
![Lee Evans photo]()
English stand-up comedian and actor
1964
![Dominic Raab photo]()
British politician (born 1974)
1974
![Chelsea Handler photo]()
American comedian, actress, author and talk show host
1975
![Park Ji-sung photo]()
South Korean footballer
1981
![Lulu Wang photo]()
Asian-American filmmaker
1983
![Dhanush photo]()
Indian actor, singer, born 1983
1983
![Joakim Noah photo]()
American–French basketball player
1985
Death
![Jacob Hutter photo]()
Tyrolean Anabaptist leader and founder of the Hutterites
1500–1536
![Eliza Haywood photo]()
British actor and writer
1693–1756
![Thomas Moore photo]()
Irish poet, singer and songwriter
1779–1852
![Jang Bahadur Rana photo]()
Nepalese prime minister and Maharaja of Lamjung and Kaski
1817–1877
![John Tenniel photo]()
British illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoo…
1820–1914
![Henry Charles Beeching photo]()
English clergyman, author and poet
1859–1919
![Alfred Horsley Hinton photo]()
British photographer
1863–1908
![John McGraw photo]()
American baseball player, manager
1873–1934
![Elijah Muhammad photo]()
American religious leader
1897–1975
![Mark Rothko photo]()
American painter
1903–1970
![Tennessee Williams photo]()
American playwright
1911–1983
![Glenn T. Seaborg photo]()
American scientist
1912–1999
![Robert Hayden photo]()
American writer and academic
1913–1980
![Marvin J. Ashton photo]()
Apostle of the LDS Church
1915–1994
![C. Everett Koop photo]()
American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator
1916–2013
![Henry M. Morris photo]()
American young earth creationist and Christian apologist
1918–2006
![Philip José Farmer photo]()
American science fiction writer
1918–2009
![Daniel James Jr. photo]()
United States general
1920–1978
![Peter Benenson photo]()
English human rights activist
1921–2005
![Lynn Compton photo]()
Easy Company soldier turned noted jurist
1921–2012
![Dmitry Yazov photo]()
Soviet minister of defence
1924–2020
![George M. Fredrickson photo]()
American professor and historian
1934–2008
![Cynthia Heimel photo]()
American writer
1947–2018
