On This Day — May 25
4313 noted people were born and 1897 died on May 25 in our archive, including Gershon Ben-Shakhar, Pieter Zeeman and Aleksandr Lyapunov.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 25
Gershon Ben-Shakhar
1942 – 2026
Pieter Zeeman
1865 – 1943
Aleksandr Lyapunov
1857 – 1918
Alice Gast
1958 – 2025
Amy Klobuchar
b. 1960
Anette Trettebergstuen
b. 1981
Charles Bayet
1849 – 1918
David Atlas
1924 – 2015
Dorothy B. Porter
1905 – 1995
Francesco Moraglia
b. 1953
Francis Mer
1939 – 2023
Franco Restivo
1911 – 1976
Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns
1901 – 1986
Frederik Wilhelm Stabell
1763 – 1836
Friederike Fless
b. 1964
Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles
1922 – 2020
Gustaf von Düben
1822 – 1892
Guy Gaunt
1869 – 1953
Henry Alexander Miers
1858 – 1942
Herbert Edward Ryle
1856 – 1925
Igor Komarov
b. 1964
Igor Sikorsky
1889 – 1972
Jack Steinberger
1921 – 2020
Jean Wahl
1888 – 1974
M. Stanley Livingston
1905 – 1986
Maelle Gavet
b. 1978
Mario Hamuy
b. 1960
Per Edvin Sköld
1891 – 1972
Peter Fox
1959 – 2021
Robin Day
1915 – 2010
Rosario Castellanos
1925 – 1974
Theodore Hesburgh
1917 – 2015
Torsten Albig
b. 1963
Umberto Zannier
b. 1957
Werner Hildenbrand
b. 1936
Zeng Zhaolun
1899 – 1967
Édouard Bureau
1830 – 1918
Adamu Adamu
b. 1956
Adolf Ciborowski
1919 – 1987
Agata Tuszyńska
b. 1957
Aleksandr Gurevich
b. 1964
Alexander Fomin
b. 1959
Alexander Kalyagin
b. 1942
Arthur Mutambara
b. 1966
Basdeo Panday
1933 – 2024
Benedetto Castelli
1577 – 1643
Bennett Cerf
1898 – 1971
Beverly Sills
1929 – 2007
Borys Bespalyi
1953 – 2022
Camillo Ripamonti
1919 – 1997
Catherine G. Wolf
1947 – 2018
Charles Binamé
b. 1949
Charles L. Melson
1904 – 1981
Charlotte Roberts
b. 1957
Christopher R. Dickman
b. 1955
Clare Tickell
b. 1958
Claude Jodoin
1913 – 1975
Clyde Kruskal
b. 1954
David Levering Lewis
b. 1936
David Pearce Penhallow
1854 – 1910
Dixie Carter
1939 – 2010
Dmitri Kondratyev
b. 1969
Donald J. Atwood Jr.
1924 – 1994
Donald Maclean
1913 – 1983
Dorothea Lange
1895 – 1965
Douglas H. Ginsburg
b. 1946
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1803 – 1873
Eižens Laube
1880 – 1967
Elaine Fantham
1933 – 2016
Eliška Balzerová
b. 1949
Ella Kivikoski
1901 – 1990
Enjott Schneider
b. 1950
Ernest Borek
1911 – 1986
Eugen Simion
1933 – 2022
Evelyn Sharp, Baroness Sharp
1903 – 1985
Filiberto Avogadro di Collobiano
1797 – 1868
Filippo Pacini
1812 – 1883
François Bayrou
b. 1951
Frederic de Forest Allen
1844 – 1897
Friedrich August III of Saxony
1865 – 1932
Fyodor Trepov
1854 – 1938
Gene Budig
1939 – 2020
Georges Colomb
1856 – 1945
Georgy Grechko
1931 – 2017
Germán Picó Cañas
1905 – 1988
Gloria Hooper, Baroness Hooper
b. 1939
Gordon H. Smith
b. 1952
Gregorio Funes
1749 – 1829
Gui-Qiang Chen
b. 1963
Guy André Boy
b. 1952
György Marx
1927 – 2002
Hector Hanoteau
1823 – 1890
Heinrich Aigner
1924 – 1988
Helvi Leiviskä
1902 – 1982
Henri Alexis Brialmont
1821 – 1903
Herb Gray
1931 – 2014
Hélène Solomon-Langevin
1909 – 1995
Jamaica Kincaid
b. 1949
James McKeen Cattell
1860 – 1944
Jan Józef Lipski
1926 – 1991
Jaroslav Skála
1916 – 2007
Jean Alexandre Barré
1880 – 1967
Jean Bertoin
b. 1961
Johan Schreiner
1903 – 1967
Johann Friedrich von Brandt
1802 – 1879
John Crosbie, 2nd Earl of Glandore
1753 – 1815
John Merryweather
1932 – 2019
John Strugnell
1930 – 2007
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
1713 – 1792
Julian Leeser
b. 1976
Jānis Vanags
b. 1958
Katharine L. Sharp
1865 – 1914
Khachik Dashtents
1910 – 1974
Klaus Naumann
b. 1939
Kurt Thomas
1904 – 1973
Leslie Uggams
b. 1943
Lucien Servanty
1909 – 1973
Lucy Sante
b. 1954
Lukas Hammer
b. 1983
Madeleine Thien
b. 1974
Majka Jeżowska
b. 1960
Marcel Bluwal
1925 – 2021
Maria Colombo
b. 1989
Marianne Ahrne
b. 1940
Markus Brüderlin
1958 – 2014
Martine Rebetez
b. 1961
Mary Scanlon
b. 1947
Masashi Yanagisawa
b. 1960
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
1879 – 1964
Max Becker
1888 – 1960
Maziar Bahari
b. 1967
Meryl Broussard
1950 – 2019
Michael Spivak
1940 – 2020
Michael Wollny
b. 1978
Michel Pleau
b. 1964
Michelle Bowman
b. 1971
Mieczysław Krąpiec
1921 – 2008
Mike Storey
b. 1949
Milan Zver
b. 1962
Moon Chung-hee
b. 1947
Murray G. Hall
1947 – 2023
Nadine Heredia
b. 1976
Nobuhide Minorikawa
b. 1964
Núria Perpinyà
b. 1961
Otto Dempwolff
1871 – 1938
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
b. 1955
Petar Stoyanov
b. 1952
Peter Benner
b. 1967
Philipp Graf Lerchenfeld
1952 – 2017
Reinhold Pauli
1823 – 1882
Renaud Girard
b. 1955
Ricardo Merlo
b. 1962
Rich Miner
b. 1964
Richard Dimbleby
1913 – 1965
Richard Ellis
b. 1950
Robert MacPherson
b. 1944
Romain Coolus
1868 – 1952
Ruben Vardanyan
b. 1968
Sagadat Nurmagambetov
1924 – 2013
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet
1809 – 1898
Srinivasan Sampath
b. 1961
Stanisław Rogalski
1904 – 1976
Stanisław Łempicki
1886 – 1947
Stefan Pasławski
1885 – 1956
Stephen Ailes
1912 – 2001
Steve Cochran
1917 – 1965
Steve Russell
b. 1963
Sven Erlander
1934 – 2021
Takekai Shirane
1883 – 1957
Teodoro Ribera
b. 1958
Theodore Roethke
1908 – 1963
Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington
1914 – 2000
Torill Kove
b. 1958
Uladzimir Karyzna
1938 – 2026
Urbano Navarrete Cortés
1920 – 2010
Ursula Braun-Moser
1937 – 2022
Uta Frith
b. 1941
Vladimir Voevodin
1962 – 2026
Vladimir Voronin
b. 1941
Walter Duranty
1884 – 1957
Wendy Mackay
b. 1956
Werner Zeyer
1929 – 2000
William Blaauw
1793 – 1870
William Petit Trowbridge
1828 – 1892
William V. McBride
1922 – 2022
William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley
1867 – 1932
Wolfgang Golther
1863 – 1945
Wolfgang Schneiderhan
1915 – 2002
Yahya Jammeh
b. 1965
Yamuna Krishnan
b. 1974
Yap Thiam Hien
1913 – 1989
Yevgeny Afanasyev
b. 1947
Zahida Manzoor
b. 1958
Zhao Pengda
b. 1931
Abbas-Ali Soleimani
1947 – 2023
Abbey D'Agostino
b. 1992
Abdallah Salem el-Badri
b. 1940
Abdul Fatah
1925 – 2010
Abeng Remulla
b. 1993
Adeyemo Alakija
1884 – 1952
… and 4,113 more
Died on May 25
Frank Watson Dyson
1868 – 1939
Andreas von Ettingshausen
1796 – 1878
Anna Pankratova
1897 – 1957
Ashutosh Mukherjee
1864 – 1924
Bruno Touschek
1921 – 1978
Franz Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld
1817 – 1896
Friedrich Müller
1834 – 1898
Giovanni Bignami
1944 – 2017
Ivone Kirkpatrick
1897 – 1964
Johann Radon
1887 – 1956
John Warner
1927 – 2021
Lars Gyllensten
1921 – 2006
Luigi Federico Menabrea
1809 – 1896
Nicolas Vilant
1737 – 1807
Pekka Kuusi
1917 – 1989
Peter Andreas Munch
1810 – 1863
Philip Habib
1920 – 1992
Wilhelm Exner
1840 – 1931
Aldo Pontremoli
1896 – 1928
Alexander Kohut
1842 – 1894
Anna Shabanova
1842 – 1932
Arthur Wilson
1842 – 1921
Artur Vader
1920 – 1978
Burkhard Gotthelf Struve
1671 – 1738
Carl Berner
1841 – 1918
Carlo Forlanini
1847 – 1918
Carlo Salinari
1919 – 1977
Christopher Dawson
1889 – 1970
Daniel Ernst Jablonski
1660 – 1741
David Dellinger
1915 – 2004
Dudley Ryder
1691 – 1756
Emil Sommerstein
1883 – 1957
Emilio Castelar
1832 – 1899
Ernst Stuhlinger
1913 – 2008
Ethel Portnoy
1927 – 2004
Euphemia Haynes
1890 – 1980
Ferdinand von Wrangel
1796 – 1870
Ferenc Kossuth
1841 – 1914
Francišak Kušal
1895 – 1969
Franz von John
1815 – 1876
Gemma Frisius
1508 – 1555
Godtfred Rump
1816 – 1880
Guillaume Dubufe
1853 – 1909
Henri Hubert
1872 – 1927
Hermann Friedmann
1873 – 1957
Hyun Soong-jong
1919 – 2020
Ishii Kikujirō
1866 – 1945
Ivan van Sertima
1935 – 2009
Jan Gebauer
1838 – 1907
Jerónimo Bécker
1857 – 1925
John M. Murphy
1926 – 2015
Joseph Grew
1880 – 1965
Júlio Dantas
1876 – 1962
Karl Koch
1809 – 1879
Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha
1757 – 1798
Krushna Chandra Gajapati
1892 – 1974
Margaret-Ann Armour
1939 – 2019
Maurice E. Baringer
1921 – 2011
Michael Hudson
1938 – 2021
Michel Jobert
1921 – 2002
Motarilavoa Hilda Lini
1954 – 2025
Pontus Reuterswärd
1871 – 1949
Rajanikant Arole
1934 – 2011
Randall Davidson
1848 – 1930
Renzo De Felice
1929 – 1996
Riad Haidar
1951 – 2023
Richard Stockton Field
1803 – 1870
Roger Gifford
1955 – 2021
Samuel Simpson Sharpe
1873 – 1918
Silvius Magnago
1914 – 2010
Solon J. Buck
1884 – 1962
Sunil Dutt
1929 – 2005
Thomas Murphy
1925 – 2022
Tobías Lasser
1911 – 2006
Tommaso Boggio
1877 – 1963
Vilém Kurz
1872 – 1945
William Paley
1743 – 1805
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie
1893 – 1977
Wojciech Jaruzelski
1923 – 2014
Xhafer Deva
1904 – 1978
Yang Jiang
1911 – 2016
Yukio Yashiro
1890 – 1975
Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye
1811 – 1883
Ítalo Luder
1916 – 2008
Albert Robinson
1877 – 1943
Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov
1753 – 1840
Ali-Asghar Badiezadegan
1940 – 1972
Amedeo Gordini
1899 – 1979
Andrew Butler
1796 – 1857
Angelo Brofferio
1802 – 1866
Anne Charles François de Montmorency
1768 – 1846
Antoine Laurent Dantan
1798 – 1878
Arthur C. Mellette
1842 – 1896
August Breisky
1832 – 1889
August Christian Manthey
1811 – 1880
August Wilhelm Knobel
1807 – 1863
Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen
1867 – 1925
Austin Lane Crothers
1860 – 1912
Avraham Deutsch
1889 – 1953
Barbara Stoddard Burks
1902 – 1943
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu
1950 – 2007
Benjamin d'Urban
1777 – 1849
Bertram Fraser-Reid
1934 – 2020
Biren Mitra
1917 – 1978
Bob Lynn
1933 – 2020
Charles Bowers Momsen
1896 – 1967
Charles G. Bennett
1863 – 1914
Charles Grenfill Washburn
1857 – 1928
Charles Nelson Reilly
1931 – 2007
Charles P. Cabell
1903 – 1971
Charles Stuart
1753 – 1801
Charles à Court Repington
1858 – 1925
Chester Bowles
1901 – 1986
Claude Louis Petiet
1749 – 1806
Cornelius Becker
1561 – 1604
Demyan Bedny
1883 – 1945
Dmytro Kremin
1953 – 2019
Donald Crisp
1882 – 1974
Ebenezer Peck
1805 – 1881
Edgardo Seoane
1903 – 1978
Eduard Sonnenburg
1848 – 1915
Eduardo Lizalde
1929 – 2022
Edward G. Connolly
1928 – 2006
Eilat Mazar
1956 – 2021
Emanuel Feuermann
1902 – 1942
Eric Ruuth
1746 – 1820
Ernests Vīgners
1850 – 1933
Ettore Tolomei
1865 – 1952
Feliks Dutkiewicz
1872 – 1932
Finis J. Garrett
1875 – 1956
Flem D. Sampson
1875 – 1967
Francesco Ercole
1884 – 1945
Frank W. Coe
1870 – 1947
Franz von Roggenbach
1825 – 1907
Friedrich Mühlberg
1840 – 1915
Gene Burns
1940 – 2013
Georg Malmstén
1902 – 1981
George Fordyce
1736 – 1802
Gerard Lewis Howe
1899 – 1955
Giuseppe Mancinelli
1813 – 1875
Grace McCarthy
1927 – 2017
Graham Kennedy
1934 – 2005
Grigorie Comșa
1889 – 1935
Gustav Holst
1874 – 1934
Gustave Mossa
1883 – 1971
Hans-Joachim Rietz
1914 – 1996
Harold Ridley
1906 – 2001
Henri II of Navarre
1503 – 1555
Henri Plantier
1813 – 1875
Henry Bathurst, 4th Earl Bathurst
1790 – 1866
Henry R. Gibson
1837 – 1938
Hillary Brooke
1914 – 1999
Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier
1753 – 1839
Horatio Townshend
1780 – 1843
Horia Sima
1903 – 1993
Idris I of Libya
1889 – 1983
Irena Jurgielewiczowa
1903 – 2003
J. H. Shennan
1933 – 2015
James H. Baker
1829 – 1913
Jean-Guillaume-Augustin Cuvelier
1766 – 1824
Johann Joachim Spalding
1714 – 1804
Johannes Wolf
1869 – 1947
John Carstairs McNeill
1831 – 1904
John E. Erickson
1863 – 1946
John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton
1825 – 1897
John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden
1719 – 1797
John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale
1906 – 1996
John O'Neill
1822 – 1905
John R. Guthrie
1921 – 2009
John Stafford
1350 – 1452
Jonathan Chapman
1807 – 1848
Josep Yxart
1852 – 1895
Joseph Cabassol
1859 – 1928
Joseph Chappell Hutcheson
1842 – 1924
Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen
1869 – 1939
Joseph-Michael Lamm
1899 – 1976
Josephine D. Edwards
1942 – 1985
Josiah Sutherland
1804 – 1887
Jules Gentil
1898 – 1985
Julian Bullard
1928 – 2006
Ján Levoslav Bella
1843 – 1936
József Tempfli
1931 – 2016
Karelius August Arntzen
1802 – 1875
Karen Lumley
1964 – 2023
Karl August Wittfogel
1896 – 1988
Kenneth Claiborne Royall
1894 – 1971
Kiyoshi Nakamura
1913 – 1985
Konrad Krzyżanowski
1872 – 1922
Konrad Sundlo
1881 – 1965
Krešimir Ćosić
1948 – 1995
Kuzma Podlas
1893 – 1942
Lalitha Rajapakse
1900 – 1976
Laura Conti
1921 – 1993
Leonora Carrington
1917 – 2011
Lorne MacLaine Campbell
1902 – 1991
Louis Charles Delescluze
1809 – 1871
Louis Saalschütz
1835 – 1913
Léon Vasseur
1844 – 1917
Madam C. J. Walker
1867 – 1919
Malcom McLean
1913 – 2001
… and 1,697 more