On This Day — August 25
4004 noted people were born and 1907 died on August 25 in our archive, including Giacomo Luigi Ciamician, Hans Krebs and Holger Bech Nielsen.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 25
Giacomo Luigi Ciamician
1857 – 1922
Hans Krebs
1900 – 1981
Holger Bech Nielsen
b. 1941
Nikolaos A. Peppas
b. 1948
Xavier Niel
b. 1967
Agha Shahi
1920 – 2006
André Leroi-Gourhan
1911 – 1986
Birgit Arrhenius
1932 – 2023
Charles Étienne Louis Camus
1699 – 1768
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
1719 – 1795
Crispin Tickell
1930 – 2022
Daniel J. Elazar
1934 – 1999
Eugen Gerstenmaier
1906 – 1986
Eugene V. Rostow
1913 – 2002
François Loeser
b. 1958
György Enyedi
1930 – 2012
Helmut Hasse
1898 – 1979
Herbert Kroemer
1928 – 2024
Hilmar Hoffmann
1925 – 2018
Inoue Masaru
1843 – 1910
James Booth
1806 – 1878
Jan Thompson
b. 1965
Johannes Stroux
1886 – 1954
John Aspinall
1851 – 1937
Jonas Gahr Støre
b. 1960
Karl Hase
1800 – 1890
Keizo Shibusawa
1896 – 1963
Ken Rutherford
b. 1962
Koichi Yamauchi
b. 1973
Lee Ross
1942 – 2021
Leonard Bernstein
1918 – 1990
Paul Herman Buck
1899 – 1978
Peter Dayan
b. 1965
Pierpaolo Sileri
b. 1972
Rainer Küchl
b. 1950
Richard Blaikie
b. 1965
Rino Fisichella
b. 1951
Robert J. Marks II
b. 1950
Seán T. O'Kelly
1882 – 1966
Thomas Francis Wade
1818 – 1895
Thomas Muir
1844 – 1934
Tim Burton
b. 1958
Tosio Katō
1917 – 1999
Võ Nguyên Giáp
1911 – 2013
Yury Vazhenin
b. 1954
Édouard Louis Trouëssart
1842 – 1927
Östen Undén
1886 – 1974
Adolfo Gilly
1928 – 2023
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
1934 – 2017
Alain Claeys
b. 1948
Alexander Fedorovich Zasyadko
1910 – 1963
Alexey Sitnikov
b. 1966
Andrzej Potocki
1964 – 2025
Anita Hansbo
b. 1960
Avraham Steinberg
b. 1947
Barbara Gibson
b. 1962
Bernard Epton
1921 – 1987
Beverly Malone
b. 1948
Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev
1859 – 1962
Brendan Donnelly
b. 1950
Carl Goresky
1932 – 1996
Cecil D. Andrus
1931 – 2017
Cezary Tomczyk
b. 1984
Charles M. Rice
b. 1952
Charles Wright
b. 1935
Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen
1791 – 1860
Claud E. C. G. Charlton
1871 – 1961
Clive Myrie
b. 1964
Conrad Black
b. 1944
Craig Noel
1915 – 2010
Daniel Oduber Quirós
1921 – 1991
Daniël Théodore Gevers van Endegeest
1793 – 1877
Dimitar Rizov
1862 – 1918
Dina Temple-Raston
b. 1965
Dominique Fernandez
b. 1929
Eddie Ilarde
1934 – 2020
Edwin H. Simmons
1921 – 2007
Eli Coleman
b. 1948
Emil Theodor Kocher
1841 – 1917
Erich Honecker
1912 – 1994
Ernest Beaglehole
1906 – 1965
Esperanza Martínez-Romero
b. 1957
Fartein Valen
1887 – 1952
Feike Sijbesma
b. 1959
Filip Bajon
b. 1947
Franco Parisi
b. 1967
Frederick Chapman Robbins
1916 – 2003
Frederick Forsyth
1938 – 2025
George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland
1784 – 1849
George W. Woodruff
1895 – 1987
George Wallace
1919 – 1998
Georgiy Daneliya
1930 – 2019
Gerd Müller
b. 1955
Gérard Davet
b. 1966
Günter Meyer
b. 1946
H. Trendley Dean
1893 – 1962
Harlan James Smith
1924 – 1991
Harold Redman
1899 – 1986
Heather Munroe-Blum
b. 1950
Henry Jones Ford
1851 – 1925
Howard Jacobson
b. 1942
Hugh Hudson
1936 – 2023
Indira Viswanathan Peterson
b. 1950
Ingvald Ulveseth
1924 – 2008
Ion Diaconescu
1917 – 2011
James Glancy
b. 1982
James Lindsay
1815 – 1874
James Till
1931 – 2025
Jan Kułakowski
1930 – 2011
Jane Langdale
b. 1960
Jane Stanford
1828 – 1905
Jaques Bagratuni
1879 – 1943
Jennifer duBois
b. 1983
Jilan Abdul Majid
b. 1969
Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness
1954 – 2026
Jiří Přibáň
b. 1967
Jonathan A. Kobes
b. 1974
Joshua Lionel Cowen
1877 – 1965
José van Dam
1940 – 2026
Juan Bautista Egusquiza
1845 – 1902
Juan Álvarez de Lorenzana, 10th Viscount of Barrantes
1818 – 1883
Juldyz Süleimenova
b. 1983
Józef Teodorowicz
1864 – 1938
Karen-Marie Ellefsen
b. 1950
Larysa Khorolets
1948 – 2022
Libe Rieber-Mohn
b. 1965
Louis Barthou
1862 – 1934
Louis Leygue
1905 – 1992
Lucia Sturdza-Bulandra
1873 – 1961
Ludwig I of Bavaria
1786 – 1868
Luis Félix López
1932 – 2008
Luke Delaney
b. 1979
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias
1803 – 1880
Maggy Nagel
b. 1957
Margarita Terekhova
b. 1942
Marsi Paribatra
1931 – 2013
Martin Amis
1949 – 2023
Martin Heinrich Rathke
1793 – 1860
Maxim Kontsevich
b. 1964
Michael Birt
b. 1948
Michael Cohen
b. 1966
Michael Hofmann
b. 1957
Michael Tien
b. 1950
Miro Cerar
b. 1963
Mykola Zhulynskyi
b. 1940
Nathan Deal
b. 1942
Nils Edén
1871 – 1945
Nirmala Rao
b. 1959
Noam Elkies
b. 1966
Paddy Glynn
1855 – 1931
Paul Garner
b. 1955
Paweł Czerwiński
b. 1965
Philipp Mißfelder
1979 – 2015
Rainer Froese
b. 1950
Raul Ruiz
b. 1972
Rawil Ğäynetdin
b. 1959
Ray McGovern
b. 1939
Reima Pietilä
1923 – 1993
René Castro
b. 1957
Richard Pares
1902 – 1958
Robert Abirached
1930 – 2021
Robert Leslie Ellis
1817 – 1859
Robert Lloyd Praeger
1865 – 1953
Robin Franklin
b. 1962
Robin Murphy
b. 1957
Ronald Greeley
1939 – 2011
Ronn Torossian
b. 1974
Roselan Daud
b. 1961
Roy Scranton
b. 1976
Ruby Keeler
1909 – 1993
Salamishah Tillet
b. 1975
Sandra Maischberger
b. 1966
Sara Bals
b. 1977
Sean Connery
1930 – 2020
Seishi Kikuchi
1902 – 1974
Selma Yıldırım
b. 1969
Serge Abiteboul
b. 1953
Sergei Solovyov
1944 – 2021
Sergey Bezdenezhnykh
b. 1979
Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
b. 1969
Sho-Chieh Tsiang
1918 – 1993
Sir Lachlan Maclean, 12th Baronet
b. 1942
Stefan Wolpe
1902 – 1972
Thomas Bruice
1925 – 2019
Tim Cain
b. 1965
Tsuneari Fukuda
1912 – 1994
Tu Tsung-ming
1893 – 1986
Uladzimir Arloŭ
b. 1953
Vladimir Dmitriev
b. 1953
Wan Waithayakon
1891 – 1976
William P. Foster
1919 – 2010
Willie Mount
b. 1949
Yitzhak Mastai
b. 1966
Zilda Arns
1934 – 2010
Aaron Vega
b. 1970
Abdullah Tarmugi
b. 1944
Ad Havermans
1934 – 2022
Adam Wilhelm Moltke
1785 – 1864
Adriana Poli Bortone
b. 1943
Agus Suhartono
b. 1955
… and 3,804 more
Died on August 25
Antoine Henri Becquerel
1852 – 1908
Charles Frederick Chandler
1836 – 1925
Ferdinand Piëch
1937 – 2019
Harry Hammond Hess
1906 – 1969
Alfred Kinsey
1894 – 1956
Arnold Rosé
1863 – 1946
Charles Baron Clarke
1832 – 1906
Cyril Stanley Smith
1903 – 1992
Francis Sejersted
1936 – 2015
Gustave Larroumet
1852 – 1903
James Cronin
1931 – 2016
James Watt
1736 – 1819
Johannes Stroux
1886 – 1954
John McCain
1936 – 2018
John R. Dunning
1907 – 1975
Kazimierz Morawski
1852 – 1925
Lodewijk Woltjer
1930 – 2019
Léon Gautier
1832 – 1897
M. Stanley Livingston
1905 – 1986
Marcelo González Martín
1918 – 2004
Margaret Anstee
1926 – 2016
Michael Faraday
1791 – 1867
Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill
1829 – 1884
Rafael Termes
1918 – 2005
Rainer Weiss
1932 – 2025
Raymond Barre
1924 – 2007
Shigeyoshi Matsumae
1901 – 1991
Vassili Nesterenko
1934 – 2008
Abdur Raquib Khandaker
1985 – 2010
Ali-Asghar Hekmat
1892 – 1980
Allan Macartney
1941 – 1998
Andrey Kryachkov
1876 – 1950
Anna Kurska
1929 – 2016
Arlo Bates
1850 – 1918
Arnold Spielberg
1917 – 2020
Charles Otto Blagden
1864 – 1949
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
1762 – 1836
Clodomiro Almeyda
1923 – 1997
Czeslaw Falkowski
1887 – 1969
Emile Bourgeois
1857 – 1934
Enrique Zileri
1931 – 2014
Erik Allardt
1925 – 2020
Eustachy Tyszkiewicz
1814 – 1873
Floyd Haskell
1916 – 1998
Francis Spring
1849 – 1933
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
1852 – 1925
G. W. Pierce
1872 – 1956
Gagik Sargsyan
1926 – 1998
George Henry Alexander Clowes
1877 – 1958
George Malcolm Thomson
1848 – 1933
Grigory Zinoviev
1883 – 1936
Gustav Halmhuber
1862 – 1936
Harry K. Newburn
1906 – 1974
Hisaakira Hijikata
1870 – 1942
Horace Archambeault
1857 – 1918
Jean Brunhes
1869 – 1930
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis
1746 – 1807
Johan Ludvig Heiberg
1791 – 1860
Josef Afritsch
1901 – 1964
José María Benegas
1948 – 2015
Julius Tandler
1869 – 1936
Karl-Hermann Flach
1929 – 1973
Karolina Lanckorońska
1898 – 2002
Lazar Mojsov
1920 – 2011
Lev Kamenev
1883 – 1936
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
1907 – 1998
Lydia Fotiyeva
1881 – 1975
M. J. Coldwell
1888 – 1974
Marcel Masse
1936 – 2014
Mary Esslemont
1891 – 1984
Maurice O'Rorke
1830 – 1916
Milan Gutović
1946 – 2021
Morris Travers
1872 – 1961
Mónica Jiménez
1940 – 2020
Neil Armstrong
1930 – 2012
Nikolaus Rüdinger
1832 – 1896
Noam Sheriff
1935 – 2018
Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach
1875 – 1943
Pedro de Tapia
1582 – 1657
Pehr Henrik Nordgren
1944 – 2008
Peter Cooper Hewitt
1861 – 1921
Peter Glotz
1939 – 2005
Philemon Bliss
1813 – 1889
Prince George, Duke of Kent
1902 – 1942
Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford
1800 – 1870
Robert Todd Carroll
1945 – 2016
Robin Miller
1949 – 2021
Roderick Cox
1911 – 2000
Roger Jouet
1944 – 2022
Rupert Ryan
1884 – 1952
S. M. Bruce
1883 – 1967
Seiji Tabata
1898 – 1984
Sergey Filatov
1936 – 2023
Stanisław Patek
1866 – 1944
Sylvia Fisher
1910 – 1996
Takashi Hanyūda
1948 – 2026
Ted Kennedy
1932 – 2009
Thomas F. Woodlock
1866 – 1945
Vassil Tzankov
1905 – 1986
Viktor Knorre
1840 – 1919
Vyacheslav Kochemasov
1918 – 1998
Wilfrid Noel Bond
1897 – 1937
William Greaves
1926 – 2014
Wolfgang Langhoff
1901 – 1966
A.T. Goldie Gardner
1890 – 1958
Aaliyah
1979 – 2001
Abdulla Avloniy
1874 – 1934
Adolph Tidemand
1814 – 1876
Ahmad Faraz
1931 – 2008
Ailsa Mellon Bruce
1901 – 1969
Al Haynes
1931 – 2019
Aleksandr Kuprin
1870 – 1938
Alexandre Franquet
1828 – 1907
Alfred Meyer-Waldeck
1864 – 1928
Alfredo Ceschiatti
1918 – 1989
Alma G. Stallworth
1932 – 2020
Alphonse Joseph Glorieux
1844 – 1917
Aly Maher Pasha
1881 – 1960
Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg
1926 – 2010
Andrii Pilshchykov
1993 – 2023
Antonio Sancho Dávila de Toledo y Colonna
1590 – 1666
Art Rooney
1901 – 1988
Arthur Asquith
1883 – 1939
Arthur H. White
1924 – 2014
Atanasije Stojković
1775 – 1832
B. V. Nimbkar
1931 – 2021
Boris Annenkov
1889 – 1927
Carl Barks
1901 – 2000
Carl Brewer
1938 – 2001
Charles Auguste Frossard
1807 – 1875
Charles C. Bass
1875 – 1975
Charles C. Craig
1865 – 1944
Charles D. Martin
1829 – 1911
Charles Delagrave
1881 – 1952
Charles R. Codman
1893 – 1956
Christian Friedrich von Leins
1814 – 1892
Christian Jakob Kraus
1753 – 1807
Christian V of Denmark
1646 – 1699
Clark Wissler
1870 – 1947
Clay Tallman
1874 – 1949
Dale Joseph Melczek
1938 – 2022
David Hume
1711 – 1776
Denis M. Robinson
1907 – 1994
Diego de los Cobos
1516 – 1565
Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov
1720 – 1758
Donald Justin Wolfram
1919 – 2003
Dorothy Coade Hewett
1923 – 2002
Dumitru D. Roșca
1895 – 1980
Edmund Piesse
1900 – 1952
Eduardo Brizuela del Moral
1944 – 2021
Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa
1917 – 2009
Edward L.R. Elson
1906 – 1993
Edward Preble
1761 – 1807
Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey
1656 – 1711
Edward Wickham
1890 – 1957
Edwin Kull
1855 – 1942
Ellis E. Patterson
1897 – 1985
Elly Tumwine
1954 – 2022
Elsa Gasser
1896 – 1967
Elsie Payne
1927 – 2004
Erskine Barton Childers
1929 – 1996
Eugene Nida
1914 – 2011
Eugene S. Ives
1859 – 1917
Eugenio Tarabini
1930 – 2018
Eyre Massey Shaw
1830 – 1908
Eyvind Johnson
1900 – 1976
Fernanda Young
1970 – 2019
Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau
1727 – 1794
Frank E. Petersen
1932 – 2015
Frederic Creswell
1866 – 1948
Füreya Koral
1910 – 1997
Gennady Shikin
1938 – 2006
George Baker
1908 – 1975
George Barclay Bruce
1821 – 1908
George Lincoln Rockwell
1918 – 1967
George Osborne Morgan
1826 – 1897
Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix
1698 – 1776
Giles Radice, Baron Radice
1936 – 2022
Giorgio Bidone
1781 – 1839
Giuseppe Acerbi
1773 – 1846
Gloria C. Gilmer
1928 – 2021
Gower Champion
1919 – 1980
Grigore N. Filipescu
1886 – 1938
Guillaume Bodinier
1795 – 1872
Hamad bin Thuwaini Al Busaidi
1857 – 1896
Harcourt Morgan
1867 – 1950
Haribhau Upadhyaya
1892 – 1972
Hedley Marston
1900 – 1965
Henry Morgan
1631 – 1688
Henry Shaw
1800 – 1889
Henry Vollmer
1867 – 1930
Hilda Ranscombe
1913 – 1998
Hripsime Djanpoladian
1918 – 2004
Hugh Shaw
1839 – 1904
Hugo Wittrock
1873 – 1958
Ioannis N. Svoronos
1863 – 1922
Ivan Stambolić
1936 – 2000
Jacob H. Stewart
1829 – 1884
Jacob van Lennep
1802 – 1868
Jean-Louis Laya
1761 – 1833
… and 1,707 more