Anniversaries 25 August

Birth

Johann Gottfried Herder18

German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic 1744–1803

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just25

military and political leader 1767–1794

Niels Henrik Abel6

Norwegian mathematician 1802–1829

Bret Harte15

American author and poet 1836–1902

Jacob Maris7

Dutch painter 1837–1899

Edgar Wilson Nye3

American journalist, who later became widely known as a hum… 1850–1896

George Parsons Lathrop1

United States novelist and poet 1851–1898

Virchand Gandhi6

Jain scholar who represented Jainism at the first World Par… 1864–1901

William Feather31

Publisher, Author 1889–1981

Paul A. Baran24

American Marxist economist 1909–1964

Dorothea Tanning1

American artist 1910–2012

Võ Nguyên Giáp1

North Vietnamese commander 1911–2013

Walt Kelly23

American cartoonist 1913–1973

Leonard Bernstein17

American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and p… 1918–1990

George Wallace17

45th Governor of Alabama 1919–1998

Allen B. Rosenstein5

American systems engineers 1920–2018

Dorothy Dunnett8

British writer 1923–2001

Thea Astley1

Australian novelist 1925–2004

Herbert Kroemer3

Nobel laureate in physics 1928

Sean Connery3

Scottish actor and producer 1930

Regis Philbin1

American television personality 1931

Patrick F. McManus1

American journalist 1933–2018

Diana Norman3

British author and journalist 1933–2011

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani14

Iranian politician, Shi'a cleric and Writer 1934–2017

Virginia Euwer Wolff5

American children's writer 1937

Zenon Pylyshyn7

Canadian philosopher 1937

Frederick Forsyth3

English novelist 1938

Nathan Deal2

American politician 1942

Howard Jacobson7

British author and journalist 1942

Niles Eldredge2

American biologist 1943

Michael Denton6

British-Australian author and biochemist 1943

Conrad Black18

Canadian-born newspaper publisher 1944

Gene Simmons22

Israeli-born American rock bass guitarist, singer-songwrite… 1949

Martin Amis136

Welsh novelist 1949

Robert J. Marks II10

American electrical engineering researcher and intelligent … 1950

Elvis Costello47

English singer-songwriter 1954

Simon R. Green13

British writer 1955

Han Nolan1

American children's writer 1956

Tim Burton43

American filmmaker 1958

Ian Falconer2

American illustrator and writer, costume and set designer 1959

David Mabuza1

South African head teacher 1960

Billy Ray Cyrus1

American singer-songwriter, actor and film producer 1961

Taslima Nasrin11

Poet, columnist, novelist 1962

Mohamed Azmin Ali3

Malaysian politician 1964

Will Gompertz12

British journalist 1965

Noam Elkies3

American mathematician 1966

Michael Cohen (lawyer)3

American attorney 1966

Jeff Tweedy1

musician 1967

Rachael Ray7

American businessman 1968

Steve Hilton3

British political consultant 1969

Claudia Schiffer1

German model 1970

Joby Talbot1

British composer 1971

Lisa Papademetriou1

American writer 1971

Antony Johnston1

writer, mainly of comics, known for his post-apocalyptic se… 1972

Katie Hill (politician)3

former U.S. Representative from California 1987

Death

Ibrahim of Ghazna4

sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire 1032–1099

Genghis Khan5

founder and first emperor of the Mongol Empire 1162–1227

Louis IX of France3

King of France 1214–1270

Thomas Dekker19

English dramatist and pamphleteer 1572–1632

David Hume138

Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian 1711–1776

James Watt7

British engineer 1736–1819

William Herschel36

German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and compo… 1738–1822

William Elford Leach1

English zoologist and marine biologist 1790–1836

Michael Faraday30

English scientist 1791–1867

Celia Thaxter8

American writer 1835–1894

Henri Fantin-Latour5

painter from France 1836–1904

John Lancaster Spalding202

Catholic bishop 1840–1916

Friedrich Nietzsche655

German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge3

British writer 1861–1907

Julius Tandler1

Austrian physician & politician 1869–1936

Charles Baudouin4

French-Swiss psychoanalyst 1893–1963

Alfred Kinsey12

American scientist (1894–1956) 1894–1956

Eyvind Johnson1

Swedish writer 1900–1976

Carl Barks1

American cartoonist, author, and painter 1901–2000

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.6

American judge 1907–1998

George Lincoln Rockwell24

American politician, founder of the American Nazi Party 1918–1967

G. Spencer-Brown3

British mathematician 1923–2016

Truman Capote26

American author 1924–1984

Neil Armstrong32

American astronaut; first person to walk on the moon 1930–2012

Ted Kennedy21

United States Senator 1932–2009

John Brunner147

British author 1934–1995

John McCain169

politician from the United States 1936–2018

Robert Todd Carroll4

American philosopher 1945–2016

Rich Piana9

American bodybuilder and internet personality 1970–2017

Joshua Casteel6

US Army soldier, lecturer, and writer 1979–2012

Aaliyah27

American singer, actress and model 1979–2001