Anniversaries 25 September
Birth
![François Bernier photo]()
French physician and traveller
1620–1688
![Jean-Philippe Rameau photo]()
French composer and music theorist of the Baroque era
1683–1764
![Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand photo]()
French salon-holder
1697–1780
![Qianlong Emperor photo]()
emperor of the Qing Dynasty
1711–1799
![George Salmon photo]()
mathematician and Anglican theologian
1819–1904
![Billy Hughes photo]()
Australian politician, seventh prime minister of Australia
1862–1952
![Jaroslav Kvapil photo]()
Czech politician, poet, theatre director, playwright, libre…
1868–1950
![Lu Xun photo]()
Chinese novelist and essayist
1881–1936
![Leon Rene Yankwich photo]()
United States federal judge
1888–1975
![G. D. H. Cole photo]()
British historian, economist, writer
1889–1959
![John Howard Lawson photo]()
American politician
1894–1977
![William Faulkner photo]()
American writer
1897–1962
![Robert Bresson photo]()
French film director
1901–1999
![Mark Rothko photo]()
American painter
1903–1970
![Abul A'la Maududi photo]()
Indian theologian, politician and philosopher
1903–1979
![Deendayal Upadhyaya photo]()
RSS thinker and co-founder of the political party Bharatiya…
1916–1968
![Vincent Ostrom photo]()
American academic, educator and political scientist
1919–2012
![Robert Muldoon photo]()
Prime Minister of New Zealand, politician
1921–1992
![Paul MacCready photo]()
American aeronautical engineer
1925–2007
![Anthony Stafford Beer photo]()
British theorist, consultant, and professor
1926–2002
![Barbara Walters photo]()
American broadcast journalist, author, and television perso…
1929
![Shel Silverstein photo]()
American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer
1930–1999
![Francine du Plessix Gray photo]()
American writer
1930–2019
![Glenn Gould photo]()
Canadian pianist
1932–1982
![Robert M. Gates photo]()
CIA director, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and university pre…
1943
![Michael Douglas photo]()
American actor and producer
1944
![Mark Hamill photo]()
American actor, voice actor, producer, director, and writer
1951
![Christopher Reeve photo]()
actor, director, producer, screenwriter
1952–2004
![Bell Hooks photo]()
American author, feminist, and social activist
1952
![Joep Lange photo]()
dutch clinical researcher specializing in HIV therapy
1954–2014
![Marc Benioff photo]()
American businessman
1964
![James Berardinelli photo]()
American film critic
1967
![Will Smith photo]()
American actor, film producer and rapper
1968
![Jonathan G. A. Johnson photo]()
Island Governor of Saba since 2008.
1976
![T.I. photo]()
American rapper, record producer, actor, and businessman fr…
1980
Death
![Samuel Butler (poet) photo]()
poet and satirist
1612–1680
![Johann Heinrich Lambert photo]()
German mathematician, physicist and astronomer
1728–1777
![Richard Porson photo]()
British classical scholar
1759–1808
![John Ireland (bishop) photo]()
Catholic bishop
1838–1918
![John Churton Collins photo]()
British literary critic
1848–1908
![Gancho Tsenov photo]()
Bulgarian historian
1870–1949
![Emily Post photo]()
American etiquette expert
1872–1960
![Paul Ehrenfest photo]()
Dutch physicist
1880–1933
![Mina Loy photo]()
Futurist poet and actress
1882–1966
![Viktor Schauberger photo]()
austrian philosopher and inventor
1885–1958
![Ring Lardner photo]()
Sportswriter, short story writer
1885–1933
![Hugo Black photo]()
U.S. Supreme Court justice
1886–1971
![James O. Fraser photo]()
missionary to China, inventor of Tibeto-Burman Nosu alphabet
1886–1938
![Erich Maria Remarque photo]()
German novelist
1898–1970
![Margaret Fishback photo]()
American writer
1900–1985
![Leopold III of Belgium photo]()
King of Belgians
1901–1983
![Cornell Woolrich photo]()
American author and screenwriter
1903–1968
![Emlyn Williams photo]()
British dramatist and actor
1905–1987
![Alastair Borthwick photo]()
British journalist
1913–2003
![Klaus Barbie photo]()
SS-Hauptsturmführer, soldier and Gestapo member
1913–1991
![Franco Modigliani photo]()
Italian-American economist
1918–2003
![Jeff Cooper photo]()
American journalist
1920–2006
![Baba Hari Dass photo]()
master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritu…
1923–2018
![George Plimpton photo]()
journalist, writer, editor, actor
1927–2003
![Dawn Hampton photo]()
American musician and songwriter
1928–2016
![Franco Bassani photo]()
Italian physicist
1929–2008
![Marion Zimmer Bradley photo]()
Novelist, editor
1930–1999
![Vijay R. Singh photo]()
Fijian politician
1931–2006
![José Montoya photo]()
American artist
1932–2013
![Edward Said photo]()
Professor of English and literature
1935–2003
![Alejandra Pizarnik photo]()
Argentinian poet
1936–1972
![Robert Floyd photo]()
American computer scientist
1936–2001
![M. Scott Peck photo]()
American psychiatrist
1936–2005
![Wangari Maathai photo]()
Kenyan environmental and political activist
1940–2011
![Chuba Okadigbo photo]()
Nigerian politician
1941–2003
![John M. Ford photo]()
American author
1957–2006
