Anniversaries 25 August
Birth
![Johann Gottfried Herder photo]()
German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic
1744–1803
![Louis Antoine de Saint-Just photo]()
military and political leader
1767–1794
![Niels Henrik Abel photo]()
Norwegian mathematician
1802–1829
![Bret Harte photo]()
American author and poet
1836–1902
![Edgar Wilson Nye photo]()
American journalist, who later became widely known as a hum…
1850–1896
![George Parsons Lathrop photo]()
United States novelist and poet
1851–1898
![Virchand Gandhi photo]()
Jain scholar who represented Jainism at the first World Par…
1864–1901
![William Feather photo]()
Publisher, Author
1889–1981
![Paul A. Baran photo]()
American Marxist economist
1909–1964
![Dorothea Tanning photo]()
American artist
1910–2012
![Võ Nguyên Giáp photo]()
North Vietnamese commander
1911–2013
![Walt Kelly photo]()
American cartoonist
1913–1973
![Leonard Bernstein photo]()
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and p…
1918–1990
![George Wallace photo]()
45th Governor of Alabama
1919–1998
![Allen B. Rosenstein photo]()
American systems engineers
1920–2018
![Thea Astley photo]()
Australian novelist
1925–2004
![Herbert Kroemer photo]()
Nobel laureate in physics
1928
![Sean Connery photo]()
Scottish actor and producer
1930
![Regis Philbin photo]()
American television personality
1931
![Patrick F. McManus photo]()
American journalist
1933–2018
![Diana Norman photo]()
British author and journalist
1933–2011
![Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani photo]()
Iranian politician, Shi'a cleric and Writer
1934–2017
![Virginia Euwer Wolff photo]()
American children's writer
1937
![Zenon Pylyshyn photo]()
Canadian philosopher
1937
![Howard Jacobson photo]()
British author and journalist
1942
![Michael Denton photo]()
British-Australian author and biochemist
1943
![Conrad Black photo]()
Canadian-born newspaper publisher
1944
![Gene Simmons photo]()
Israeli-born American rock bass guitarist, singer-songwrite…
1949
![Robert J. Marks II photo]()
American electrical engineering researcher and intelligent …
1950
![Elvis Costello photo]()
English singer-songwriter
1954
![Han Nolan photo]()
American children's writer
1956
![Ian Falconer photo]()
American illustrator and writer, costume and set designer
1959
![David Mabuza photo]()
South African head teacher
1960
![Billy Ray Cyrus photo]()
American singer-songwriter, actor and film producer
1961
![Taslima Nasrin photo]()
Poet, columnist, novelist
1962
![Mohamed Azmin Ali photo]()
Malaysian politician
1964
![Noam Elkies photo]()
American mathematician
1966
![Rachael Ray photo]()
American businessman
1968
![Steve Hilton photo]()
British political consultant
1969
![Antony Johnston photo]()
writer, mainly of comics, known for his post-apocalyptic se…
1972
![Katie Hill (politician) photo]()
former U.S. Representative from California
1987
Death
![Ibrahim of Ghazna photo]()
sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire
1032–1099
![Genghis Khan photo]()
founder and first emperor of the Mongol Empire
1162–1227
![Thomas Dekker photo]()
English dramatist and pamphleteer
1572–1632
![David Hume photo]()
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
1711–1776
![James Watt photo]()
British engineer
1736–1819
![William Herschel photo]()
German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and compo…
1738–1822
![William Elford Leach photo]()
English zoologist and marine biologist
1790–1836
![Michael Faraday photo]()
English scientist
1791–1867
![Celia Thaxter photo]()
American writer
1835–1894
![Henri Fantin-Latour photo]()
painter from France
1836–1904
![John Lancaster Spalding photo]()
Catholic bishop
1840–1916
![Friedrich Nietzsche photo]()
German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl…
1844–1900
![Julius Tandler photo]()
Austrian physician & politician
1869–1936
![Charles Baudouin photo]()
French-Swiss psychoanalyst
1893–1963
![Alfred Kinsey photo]()
American scientist (1894–1956)
1894–1956
![Carl Barks photo]()
American cartoonist, author, and painter
1901–2000
![George Lincoln Rockwell photo]()
American politician, founder of the American Nazi Party
1918–1967
![G. Spencer-Brown photo]()
British mathematician
1923–2016
![Truman Capote photo]()
American author
1924–1984
![Neil Armstrong photo]()
American astronaut; first person to walk on the moon
1930–2012
![Ted Kennedy photo]()
United States Senator
1932–2009
![John McCain photo]()
politician from the United States
1936–2018
![Robert Todd Carroll photo]()
American philosopher
1945–2016
![Rich Piana photo]()
American bodybuilder and internet personality
1970–2017
![Joshua Casteel photo]()
US Army soldier, lecturer, and writer
1979–2012
![Aaliyah photo]()
American singer, actress and model
1979–2001
