On this day: 25 August
Events, births and deaths on 25 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Sonia Rykiel
- Deaths · Marvin Kaplan
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1930 · Births · Sean Connery
- 1934 · Births · Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- 1918 · Births · Leonard Bernstein
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 985 · Deaths · Dietrich of Haldensleben
- 1054 · Deaths · Fujiwara no Michimasa
- 1091 · Deaths · Sisnando Davides
Events · 24
- 1580(Julian date)Battle of Alcântara — 1580 battle
- 1630Battle of Randeniwela — 1630 battle in the Sinhalese–Portuguese War
- 1651Battle of Wigan Lane — 1651 battle
- 1758(Julian date)Battle of Zorndorf — 1758 battle
- 1825Uruguay — sovereign state in South America
- 1830Belgian Revolution — conflict which led to the secession of the southern provinces from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the establishment of an independent Kingdom of Belgium
- 1904Battle of Liaoyang — 1904 Russo-Japanese War battle
- 1912Nationalist Party (1912) — political party founded by Song Jiaoren
- 1914Burning of Louvain — World War I destruction in Leuven
- 1916National Park Service — United States federal agency
- 1933Haavara Agreement — Agreement between Nazi Germany and Zionist German Jews signed on 25 August 1933
- 19331933 Diexi earthquake — earthquake
- 1939Anglo-Polish alliance — treaty
- 1941Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran — 1941 invasion during World War II
- 1942Battle of Milne Bay — 1942 battle
- 1958Nissin Chikin Ramen — Japanese instant noodle brand
- 19601960 Summer Olympics — Games of the XVII Olympiad, in Rome, Italy
- 1985Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 — 1985 aviation accident in the United States
- 1989Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404 — 1989 aircraft disappearance
- 1991Belarus — country in Eastern Europe
- 1991Battle of Vukovar — 1991 siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) during the Croatian War of Independence
- 20012001 Marsh Harbour Cessna 402 crash — 2001 aviation accident
- 20102010 Filair Let L-410 crash — Aviation accident
- 20112011 Monterrey casino attack — Terrorist attack
Births · 60
- 1530(Julian date)Ivan the Terrible — Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584
- 1707Louis I of Spain — king of Spain
- 1724George Stubbs — British painter (1724–1806)
- 1744Johann Gottfried Herder — German philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)
- 1767Louis Antoine de Saint-Just — Philosopher, military and political leader (1767-1794)
- 1786Ludwig I of Bavaria — King of Bavaria (1786-1868)
- 1836Bret Harte — American writer and poet (1836–1902)
- 1841Emil Theodor Kocher — surgeon, laureate of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine (1841-1917)
- 1845Ludwig II of Bavaria — King of Bavaria (1845–1886)
- 1850Charles Richet — French physiologist and parapsychologist (1850-1935)
- 1862Louis Barthou — French politician (1862-1934)
- 1882Seán T. O'Kelly — second President of Ireland (1882-1966)
- 1900Hans Krebs — German-British biochemist (1900-1981)
- 1903Arpad Elo — Hungarian American physicists, developer of the Elo rating
- 1905Santa Faustina Kowalska — nun and saint from Poland (1905–1938)
- 1910
- 1911Võ Nguyên Giáp — Vietnamese general and communist politician (1911–2013)
- 1912Erich Honecker — former leader of East Germany, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (1976-1989)
- 1916Frederick Chapman Robbins — American doctor
- 1916Van Johnson — American actor (1916–2008)
- 1917Mel Ferrer — American actor, director and producer (1917–2008)
- 1918Leonard Bernstein — American conductor and composer (1918–1990)
- 1919George Wallace — 45th Governor of Alabama (1919–1998)
- 1923Álvaro Mutis — Colombian novelist (1923-2013)
- 1927Althea Gibson — American tennis player (1927-2003)
Deaths · 60
- 79(Julian date)Pliny the Elder — Roman military commander and writer (AD23/24–79)
- 383(Julian date)Gratian — Roman emperor from 367 to 383
- 1192Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy — Duke of Burgundy from 1162 to 1192
- 1227(Julian date)Genghis Khan — founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire (1162–1227)
- 1270(Julian date)Louis IX of France — King of France from 1226 to 1270 (1214–1270)
- 1271(Julian date)Joan, Countess of Toulouse — French countess (1220-1271)
- 1330(Julian date)James Douglas, Lord of Douglas — Scottish knight
- 1482(Julian date)Margaret of Anjou — 15th-century English royal consort (1430-1482)
- 1554(Julian date)Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk — English politician (1473-1554)
- 1592William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel — astronomer, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532–1592)
- 1600Hosokawa Gracia — member of the Akechi family during the Sengoku period
- 1603Ahmad al-Mansur — Moroccan Sultan of the Saadi dynasty (1549-1603) (r.1578-1603)
- 1632Thomas Dekker — English dramatist and pamphleteer
- 1648Joseph Calasanz — Spanish writer and saint
- 1688Henry Morgan — Welsh pirate (1635-1688)
- 1699(Julian date)Christian V of Denmark — king of Denmark and Norway (1646–1699)
- 1742Carlos de Seixas — Portuguese composer
- 1774Niccolò Jommelli — Italian composer (1714–1774)
- 1776David Hume — Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
- 1794Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau — Austrian diplomat
- 1819James Watt — British engineer (1736–1819)
- 1822William Herschel — German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
- 1845Antoine Risso — Niçard naturalist (1777–1845)
- 1867Michael Faraday — British scientist (1791–1867)
- 1882Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald — Estonian writer, author of the national epic Kalevipoeg (1803–1882)
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