Anniversaries 25 May
Birth
![Edward Bulwer-Lytton photo]()
English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician
1803–1873
![Ralph Waldo Emerson photo]()
American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1803–1882
![William Henry Channing photo]()
American Unitarian clergyman, writer and philosopher
1810–1884
![Henri Alexis Brialmont photo]()
Belgian military engineer and writer (1821-1903)
1821–1903
![Henry Codman Potter photo]()
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York
1835–1908
![Helmuth von Moltke the Younger photo]()
Chief of the German General Staff
1848–1916
![Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook photo]()
Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writer
1879–1964
![Padre Pio photo]()
Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic
1887–1968
![Dorothea Lange photo]()
American photojournalist
1895–1965
![Theodore Hesburgh photo]()
Congressional Gold Medal recipient
1917–2015
![Raymond Smullyan photo]()
American mathematician
1919–2017
![Hal David photo]()
American lyricist
1921–2012
![Karl Hess photo]()
American journalist
1923–1994
![Raymond Carver photo]()
American short story author and poet
1938–1988
![Doug Hall photo]()
American television personality
1944
![Jamaica Kincaid photo]()
Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardeni…
1949
![Eve Ensler photo]()
American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and arti…
1953
![Paul Weller (singer) photo]()
English singer-songwriter, Guitarist
1958
![Amy Klobuchar photo]()
United States Senator from Minnesota
1960
![Felix Femi Ajakaye photo]()
Nigerian catholic priest
1962
![Mike Myers photo]()
Canadian- British- American actor, comedian, singer, screen…
1963
![Poppy Z. Brite photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, food writer
1967
![Stacy London photo]()
television host and author from the United States
1969
![Frank Klepacki photo]()
American musician, video game music composer and sound dire…
1974
![Brian Urlacher photo]()
All-American college football player, professional football…
1978
![Адам Гонтьер photo]()
former lead singer and songwriter of Three Days Grace
1978
Death
![Bede photo]()
English monk and saint
672–735
![Pedro Calderón de la Barca photo]()
Spanish dramatist
1600–1681
![William Paley photo]()
Christian apologist, natural theologian, utilitarian
1743–1805
![Gustav Holst photo]()
English composer
1874–1934
![Chester Bowles photo]()
American politician
1901–1986
![Witold Pilecki photo]()
World War II concentration camp leader and resistor
1901–1948
![Robert Capa photo]()
American photographer
1913–1954
![Dave Dellinger photo]()
American activist
1915–2004
![Leonora Carrington photo]()
Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist
1917–2011
![Beatrice Sparks photo]()
American writer
1917–2012
![Wojciech Jaruzelski photo]()
Polish military officer and politician
1923–2014
![Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt photo]()
German theologian
1928–2002
![Sunil Dutt photo]()
Hindi film actor
1929–2005
![Ivan Van Sertima photo]()
British Africanist in New Jersey
1935–2009
![Ismail Merchant photo]()
Indian-born film producer and director
1936–2005
![George Floyd photo]()
African American man who was a victim of police violence in…
1973–2020
