Anniversaries 25 April

Birth

Louis IX of France3

King of France 1214–1270

François Béroalde de Verville2

French writer 1556–1626

Oliver Cromwell49

English military and political leader 1599–1658

Emer de Vattel3

jurist from the Principality of Neuchâtel 1714–1767

Paulinus of St. Bartholomew1

Austrian Carmelite missionary and Orientalist 1748–1806

William Henry Maule11

British politician 1788–1858

John Keble7

English churchman and poet, a leader of the Oxford Movement 1792–1866

James Pierpont (musician)2

American composer whose songs include "Jingle Bells" 1822–1893

Marko Miljanov1

author from Montenegro 1833–1901

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky5

Russian composer 1840–1893

Leopoldo Alas1

novelist 1852–1901

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon20

British Liberal statesman 1862–1933

Walter de la Mare33

English poet and fiction writer 1873–1956

Guglielmo Marconi3

Italian inventor and radio pioneer 1874–1937

Maud Hart Lovelace13

American writer 1892–1980

Wolfgang Pauli35

Austrian physicist, Nobel prize winner 1900–1958

William J. Brennan12

American judge 1906–1997

Edward R. Murrow67

Television journalist 1908–1965

Victor Weisz1

German-British political cartoonist 1913–1966

John James Cowperthwaite38

British colonial administrator 1915–2006

Rousas John Rushdoony99

American theologian 1916–2001

Элла Джейн Фицджеральд1

1917–1996

Ella Fitzgerald2

American jazz singer 1917–1996

Karel Appel58

Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet 1921–2006

Cy Twombly18

American painter 1928–2011

J. Kevin Boland1

Catholic bishop 1935

Jim Peebles5

Canadian-American astronomer 1935

Henry E. Allison1

American philosopher 1937

Nicole Hollander103

Cartoonist 1939

Robert Skidelsky12

Economist and author 1939

Ted Kooser1

American poet 1939

Tarcisio Burgnich1

Italian footballer 1939

Al Pacino2

American film and stage actor and director 1940

Peter Unger3

American philosopher 1942

Gerald Thomas Walsh2

Catholic bishop 1942

Jon Kyl2

junior U.S. Senator from Arizona 1942

Björn Ulvaeus5

Swedish musician 1945

Vladimir Zhirinovsky9

Russian politician and political activist 1946–2022

Johan Cruyff25

Dutch association football player 1947–2016

Freda Foh Shen1

American actress 1948

James Fenton17

poet 1949

Evan Thomas1

American journalist 1951

Melvin Burgess4

British children's writer 1954

Roch Marc Christian Kaboré1

President of Burkina Faso 1957

Joseph G. Hanefeldt1

Eighth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Island. 1958

Daniel Kash3

Canadian actor 1959

Juha Sipilä1

Finnish businessman and politician (b. 1961) 1961

Dinesh D'Souza61

Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author 1961

Joe Buck11

American sportscaster 1969

David Eagleman9

neuroscientist and author 1971

Jason Tanamor14

Filipino-American Author and Writer 1975

Joel Pollak2

Politician, writer 1977

Manal al-Sharif5

Saudi Arabian activist 1979

Irfaan Ali1

President of Guyana 1980

Silvia Moreno-Garcia1

Canadian writer 1981

Joy Villa1

Singer, songwriter, and actress 1986

Sara Paxton3

American actress, model and singer 1988

Jonathan Bailey14

British actor 1988

Allisyn Ashley Arm1

American actress 1996

Mack Horton2

Australian freestyle swimmer 1996

Eitan Bernath3

American entertainer and chef 2002

Death

Louise Labé1

female French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon 1524–1566

Torquato Tasso94

Italian poet 1544–1595

William Cowper174

(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731–1800

Siméon Denis Poisson3

French mathematician, mechanician and physicist 1781–1840

Anna Sewell21

English novelist 1820–1878

Crowfoot1

Chief of the Siksika 1830–1890

Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord3

German general 1878–1943

Donald Davidson15

American poet, essayist, critic and author 1893–1968

Clifford D. Simak137

American writer, journalist 1904–1988

Irving Fiske3

American writer 1908–1990

Ginger Rogers7

American actress and dancer 1911–1995

Jane Jacobs26

American–Canadian journalist, author on urbanism and activi… 1916–2006

Saul Bass4

American graphic designer and filmmaker 1920–1996

Humphrey Lyttelton6

English jazz trumpeter 1921–2008

Bea Arthur10

actress, singer, comedian 1922–2009

Sidiq Koya1

Fijian politician 1923–1993

Alan Sillitoe9

British writer 1928–2010

Thom Gunn7

English poet 1929–2004

Valerie Solanas25

American radical feminist and writer. Attempted to assassin… 1936–1988