| Year |
Month & Date |
Day |
Name |
|---|
| 1561 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Philippe van Lansberge |
Dutch astronomer (d. 1632) |
| 1624 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Francois de la Chaise |
French confessor of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709) |
| 1662 |
August 25 |
Friday |
John Leverett the Younger |
American educator (d. 1724) |
| 1719 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Charles-Amedee-Philippe van Loo |
French painter (d. 1795) |
| 1724 |
August 25 |
Friday |
George Stubbs |
British painter (d. 1806) |
| 1741 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt |
German theologian (d. 1792) |
| 1744 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Johann Gottfried Herder |
German writer (d. 1803) |
| 1767 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Antoine Louis Leon de Richebourg de Saint-Just |
French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794) |
| 1796 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
James Lick |
American land baron (d. 1876) |
| 1802 |
August 25 |
Wednesday |
Nikolaus Lenau |
Austrian poet (d. 1850) |
| 1803 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Luis Alves de Lima e Silva |
the Duque de Caxias‚ Brazilian military leader (d. 1880) |
| 1819 |
August 25 |
Wednesday |
Allan Pinkerton |
American private detective (d. 1884) |
| 1829 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Carlo Acton |
Italian composer and concert pianist (d. 1909) |
| 1836 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Bret Harte |
American writer (d. 1902) |
| 1841 |
August 25 |
Wednesday |
Emil Theodor Kocher |
Swiss medical researcher; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917) |
| 1867 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
James W. Gerard |
American jurist and diplomat (d. 1951) |
| 1868 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Nikolaos Levidis |
Greek shooter |
| 1882 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Sean T. O'Kelly |
Irish politician (d. 1966) |
| 1891 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
David Shimoni |
Russian-born Israeli poet and writer (d. 1956) |
| 1893 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Henry Trendley Dean |
American dental researcher (d. 1962) |
| 1898 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Helmut Hasse |
German mathematician (d. 1975) |
| 1898 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Arthur Wood |
England cricketer (d. 1973) |
| 1900 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Hans Adolf Krebs |
German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) |
| 1902 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Stefan Wolpe |
German-born composer (d. 1972) |
| 1903 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Arpad Elo |
American chess writer (d. 1992) |
| 1905 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Faustina Kowalska |
Polish mystic (d. 1938) |
| 1906 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Jim Smith |
England cricketer (d. 1979) |
| 1909 |
August 25 |
Wednesday |
Michael Rennie |
English actor (d. 1971) |
| 1910 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Ruby Keeler |
Canadia singer and actress (d. 1993) |
| 1910 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Dorothea Tanning |
American painter |
| 1910 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
George Cisar |
American baseball player (d. 2010) |
| 1912 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Erich Honecker |
East German politician (d. 1994) |
| 1913 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Walt Kelly |
American cartoonist (d. 1973) |
| 1913 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Don DeFore |
American actor (d. 1993) |
| 1915 |
August 25 |
Wednesday |
Walter Trampler |
American violist (d. 1997) |
| 1916 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Van Johnson |
American actor (d. 2008) |
| 1916 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Frederick Chapman Robbins |
American pediatrician and virologist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003) |
| 1916 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Saburo Sakai |
Japanese aviator (d. 2000) |
| 1917 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Mel Ferrer |
Cuban-American actor‚ film director and film producer (d. 2008) |
| 1918 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Leonard Bernstein |
American conductor and composer (d. 1990) |
| 1918 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Richard Greene |
English actor (d. 1985) |
| 1919 |
August 25 |
Monday |
George Wallace |
American politician (d. 1998) |
| 1921 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Monty Hall |
Canadian-born game show host |
| 1921 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Brian Moore |
Irish-born writer (d. 1999) |
| 1921 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Bryce Mackasey |
Canadian politician (d. 1999) |
| 1925 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Thea Astley |
Australian writer‚ (d. 2004) |
| 1927 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Althea Gibson |
American tennis player (d. 2003) |
| 1928 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Herbert Kroemer |
German-born physicist‚ Nobel Prize laureate |
| 1928 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Darrell Johnson |
American baseball player (d. 2004) |
| 1928 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
"John ""Kayo"" Dottley" |
American football player |
| 1930 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Sean Connery |
Scottish actor |
| 1930 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Graham Jarvis |
Canadian actor (d. 2003) |
| 1930 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Bruce Allpress |
New Zealand actor |
| 1931 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Hal Fishman |
Los Angeles based local news anchor. (d. 2007) |
| 1931 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Regis Philbin |
American television host |
| 1933 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Wayne Shorter |
American jazz musician |
| 1933 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Tom Skerritt |
American actor |
| 1934 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Lise Bacon |
French Canadian politician |
| 1934 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Eddie Ilarde |
Filipino disk jockey‚ television host‚ and Senator |
| 1935 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Charles Wright |
American poet |
| 1938 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
David Canary |
American actor |
| 1938 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Frederick Forsyth |
English author |
| 1939 |
August 25 |
Friday |
John Badham |
American film director |
| 1940 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Jose Van Dam |
Belgian baritone |
| 1941 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Marshall Brickman |
American film writer |
| 1942 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Nathan Deal |
American politician |
| 1944 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Anthony Heald |
American actor |
| 1944 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Conrad Black |
newspaper magnate |
| 1944 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Jacques Demers |
Canadian hockey coach |
| 1946 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Rollie Fingers |
American baseball player |
| 1946 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Charles Ghigna |
American poet and children's author |
| 1946 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Charlie Sanders |
American football player |
| 1948 |
August 25 |
Wednesday |
Nicholas A. Peppas |
Greek chemical and biomedical engineer |
| 1949 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Martin Amis |
English novelist |
| 1949 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
John Savage |
American actor |
| 1949 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Gene Simmons |
Israeli-born musician (Kiss) |
| 1949 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Fariborz Lachini |
Canadian-Iranian composer |
| 1950 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Charles Fambrough |
American jazz musician |
| 1951 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Rob Halford |
English singer (Judas Priest) |
| 1951 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Bill Handel |
American radio personality |
| 1952 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Geoff Downes |
English keyboardist |
| 1952 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Duleep Mendis |
Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 1954 |
August 25 |
Wednesday |
Elvis Costello |
English musician |
| 1955 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Gerd Mller |
German politician |
| 1955 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Vijayakanth |
Tamil actor and politician |
| 1956 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Henri Toivonen |
Finnish rally driver (d. 1986) |
| 1957 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Simon McBurney |
British actor‚ writer and theatre director |
| 1957 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Sikander Bakht |
Pakistani cricketer |
| 1958 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Tim Burton |
American film director |
| 1958 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Christian LeBlanc |
American actor |
| 1958 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Sterling Harwood |
American academic |
| 1959 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Ruth Ann Swenson |
American operatic soprano |
| 1960 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Ashley Crow |
American actress |
| 1960 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Georg Zellhofer |
Austrian footballer |
| 1961 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Billy Ray Cyrus |
American singer and actor |
| 1961 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Joanne Whalley |
British actress |
| 1962 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
David Packer |
American actor |
| 1962 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Vivian Campbell |
Irish musician |
| 1962 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Shahid Mahboob |
Pakistani cricketer |
| 1963 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Christine McGlade |
Canadian actress (You Can't Do That on Television) |
| 1963 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
James Backhouse |
British artist |
| 1964 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Maxim Kontsevich |
Russian mathematician |
| 1964 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Blair Underwood |
American actor |
| 1964 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Vasilios Kotronias |
Greek chess grandmaster |
| 1964 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Marti Noxon |
American television writer and producer |
| 1965 |
August 25 |
Wednesday |
Mia Zapata |
American singer (The Gits) (d. 1993) |
| 1965 |
August 25 |
Wednesday |
Sanjeev Sharma |
Indian cricketer |
| 1966 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Albert Belle |
American baseball player |
| 1966 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Derek Sherinian |
American keyboardist |
| 1966 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Robert Maschio |
American actor |
| 1967 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Tom Hollander |
English actor |
| 1967 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Jeff Tweedy |
American singer (Wilco) |
| 1968 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Rafet El Roman |
Turkish singer and composer |
| 1968 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Yuri Mitsui |
Japanese actress‚ model and racing driver |
| 1968 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Stuart Murdoch |
Scottish musician (Belle & Sebastian) |
| 1968 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Takeshi Ueda |
Japanese singer and composer |
| 1968 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Rachael Ray |
American chef and television personality |
| 1968 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Spider One |
American musician (Powerman 5000) |
| 1969 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Cameron Mathison |
Canadian actor |
| 1969 |
August 25 |
Monday |
John Witt |
author‚ sportswriter‚ actor and Ballhawk |
| 1969 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Vivek Razdan |
Indian cricketer |
| 1969 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Steve Staley |
American voice actor |
| 1970 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Robert Horry |
American basketball player |
| 1970 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Jo Dee Messina |
American country music singer |
| 1970 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Claudia Schiffer |
German model |
| 1971 |
August 25 |
Wednesday |
Mike Lockwood |
professional wrestler (d. 2003) |
| 1971 |
August 25 |
Wednesday |
Thalia Sodi |
Mexican actress and singer |
| 1972 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Marvin Harrison |
American football player |
| 1973 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Fatih Akin |
Turkish/German film director |
| 1974 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Eric Millegan |
American actor |
| 1974 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Dave Luza |
Dutch comedian |
| 1974 |
August 25 |
Sunday |
Pablo Ozuna |
Dominican baseball player |
| 1975 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Petria Thomas |
Australian swimmer |
| 1976 |
August 25 |
Wednesday |
Alexander Skarsg?rd |
Swedish actor |
| 1976 |
August 25 |
Wednesday |
Javed Qadeer |
Pakistani cricketer |
| 1976 |
August 25 |
Wednesday |
Damon Jones |
American basketball player |
| 1977 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Sophie Cadieux |
Canadian actress |
| 1977 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Diego Corrales |
American boxer (d. 2007) |
| 1977 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Andy McDonald |
Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1977 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Jonathan Togo |
American actor |
| 1978 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Kel Mitchell |
American actor |
| 1978 |
August 25 |
Friday |
Robert Mohr |
German rugby player |
| 1979 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Marlon Harewood |
English footballer |
| 1979 |
August 25 |
Saturday |
Deanna Nolan |
American basketball player |
| 1980 |
August 25 |
Monday |
Neal Musser |
American baseball player |
| 1981 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Rachel Bilson |
American actress |
| 1981 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Clare Oliver |
Australian cancer activist (d. 2007) |
| 1983 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
James Rossiter |
British racing driver |
| 1987 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Stacey Farber |
Canadian actress |
| 1987 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Liu Yifei |
Chinese actress and singer |
| 1987 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Blake Lively |
American actress |
| 1987 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Amy Macdonald |
Scottish singer and songwriter |
| 1987 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Justin Upton |
American baseball player |
| 1987 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
James Wesolowski |
Australian footballer |
| 1988 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Angela Park |
Brazilian/American golfer |
| 1988 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Ray Quinn |
English singer |
| 1988 |
August 25 |
Thursday |
Alexandra Burke |
English singer |
| 1992 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
Miyabi Natsuyaki |
Japanese singer |
| 1998 |
August 25 |
Tuesday |
China Anne McClain |
African-American actress and singer |
