Anniversaries 25 May

Birth

Edward Bulwer-Lytton31

English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician 1803–1873

Ralph Waldo Emerson727

American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

William Henry Channing1

American Unitarian clergyman, writer and philosopher 1810–1884

Henri Alexis Brialmont2

Belgian military engineer and writer (1821-1903) 1821–1903

Henry Codman Potter2

Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York 1835–1908

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger4

Chief of the German General Staff 1848–1916

Уильям Максвелл Эйткен1

1879–1964

Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook1

Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writer 1879–1964

Padre Pio10

Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic 1887–1968

Dorothea Lange6

American photojournalist 1895–1965

Gene Tunney2

American boxer 1897–1978

Theodore Roethke86

American poet 1908–1963

Theodore Hesburgh1

Congressional Gold Medal recipient 1917–2015

Ramesh Balsekar6

Indian guru 1917–2009

Raymond Smullyan10

American mathematician 1919–2017

Jack Steinberger3

Swiss physicist 1921

Hal David17

American lyricist 1921–2012

Karl Hess25

American journalist 1923–1994

Robert Ludlum11

Novelist 1927–2001

Beverly Sills19

opera soprano 1929–2007

Raymond Carver51

American short story author and poet 1938–1988

Ian McKellen2

British actor 1939

Doug Hall4

American television personality 1944

David Warsh4

American journalist 1944

Rick Shiomi2

Canadian writer 1947

Klaus Meine4

German singer 1948

Jamaica Kincaid13

Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardeni… 1949

Gordon H. Smith1

American politician 1952

Eve Ensler14

American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and arti… 1953

Larry Hogan20

American politician 1956

Paul Weller (singer)20

English singer-songwriter, Guitarist 1958

Amy Klobuchar3

United States Senator from Minnesota 1960

Mary Alice Monroe1

American writer 1960

Felix Femi Ajakaye1

Nigerian catholic priest 1962

Mike Myers4

Canadian- British- American actor, comedian, singer, screen… 1963

Vera Nazarian38

American writer 1966

Steven Kotler1

American journalist 1967

Poppy Z. Brite11

Novelist, short story writer, food writer 1967

Stacy London1

television host and author from the United States 1969

Frank Klepacki9

American musician, video game music composer and sound dire… 1974

Madeleine Thien2

Canadian writer 1974

Brian Urlacher5

All-American college football player, professional football… 1978

Адам Гонтьер1

former lead singer and songwriter of Three Days Grace 1978

Death

Bede4

English monk and saint 672–735

Pedro Calderón de la Barca8

Spanish dramatist 1600–1681

Madame de La Fayette1

French writer 1634–1693

William Paley15

Christian apologist, natural theologian, utilitarian 1743–1805

Friedrich Thyssen1

German banker 1804–1877

Gustav Holst6

English composer 1874–1934

Lyubov Popova3

Russian artist 1889–1924

Chester Bowles4

American politician 1901–1986

Witold Pilecki7

World War II concentration camp leader and resistor 1901–1948

Robert Capa2

American photographer 1913–1954

Dave Dellinger5

American activist 1915–2004

Leonora Carrington4

Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist 1917–2011

Beatrice Sparks16

American writer 1917–2012

Wojciech Jaruzelski13

Polish military officer and politician 1923–2014

Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt2

German theologian 1928–2002

Sunil Dutt18

Hindi film actor 1929–2005

Ivan Van Sertima1

British Africanist in New Jersey 1935–2009

Ismail Merchant2

Indian-born film producer and director 1936–2005

George Floyd3

African American man who was a victim of police violence in… 1973–2020