On this day: 25 September
Events, births and deaths on 25 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Arnold Palmer
- Deaths · Nahed Hattar
- Deaths · José Fernández
100 years ago1926
- Births · Aldo Ray
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1066 · Deaths · Harald III of Norway
- 1066 · Events · Battle of Stamford Bridge
- 1066 · Deaths · Tostig Godwinson
Events · 20
- 844(Julian date)Viking raid on Seville — attack on the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba, 844
- 1066Battle of Stamford Bridge — 1066 battle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
- 1237(Julian date)Treaty of York — 1237 treaty between England and Scotland
- 1396Battle of Nicopolis — Ottoman victory and raising of the siege of the fortress of Nicopolis in September 1396
- 1555Peace of Augsburg — 1555 peace treaty
- 1690Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick — first multi-page newspaper printed in the Americas
- 1775Battle of Longue-Pointe — 1775 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1890Sequoia National Park — national park in the Sierra Nevada mountains, California, U.S.
- 1915Second Battle of Champagne — 1915 battle
- 1944Operation Berlin — 1944 Second World War evacuation operation in the Netherlands
- 1955Royal Jordanian Air Force — air warfare branch of Jordan's military
- 1956TAT-1 — first trans-Atlantic telephone cable
- 1964Mozambican War of Independence — armed conflict (1964–1974)
- 1969Organisation of Islamic Cooperation — international organization
- 1978Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 — Boeing 727 airliner that collided with a Cessna 172 over San Diego, California in 1978
- 1983Maze Prison escape — prison escape on 25 September 1983 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
- 1985Larnaca yacht killings — attack on a yacht by gunmen
- 1998PauknAir Flight 4101 — 1998 aviation accident
- 20032003 Tokachi earthquake — earthquake occurred off the coast of Hokkaidō, Japan on 26 September 2003
- 2021
Births · 60
- 773(Julian date)Emperor Heizei — Emperor of Japan
- 1599Francesco Borromini — Italian architect from Ticino and leading figure in Roman Baroque architecture (1599-1667), sculptor, engineer, stonemason and draughtsman (1599–1667)
- 1644Ole Rømer — Danish astronomer (*1644 – †1710)
- 1683Jean-Philippe Rameau — French composer and music theorist (1683–1764)
- 1694(Julian date)Henry Pelham — Prime Minister of Great Britain; (1695-1754)
- 1711Qianlong Emperor — emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1711–1799)
- 1744Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia — King of Prussia from 1786 to 1797 (1744–1797)
- 1766Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu — French politician (1766-1822)
- 1782Charles Maturin — Irish writer
- 1862Billy Hughes — Australian politician (1862–1952), 7th Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923
- 1866Thomas Hunt Morgan — American biologist and professor from Kentucky (1866–1945)
- 1877Plutarco Elías Calles — 47th President of Mexico
- 1881Lu Xun — Chinese novelist and essayist (1881–1936)
- 1896Sandro Pertini — Italian journalist, resistance leader and politician, President of Italy from 1978 to 1985
- 1897William Faulkner — American writer (1897-1962)
- 1901Robert Bresson — French film director (1901–1999)
- 1903
- 1906Dmitri Shostakovich — Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)
- 1920Sergei Bondarchuk — Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor (1920–1994)
- 1927Colin Davis — British conductor (1927–2013)
- 1929Barbara Walters — American broadcast journalist (1929–2022)
- 1930Shel Silverstein — American poet, cartoonist, songwriter, and children's writer (1930–1999)
- 1932
- 1932Glenn Gould — Canadian composer and pianist (1932–1982)
- 1936Moussa Traoré — Malian former dictator (1936-2020)
Deaths · 60
- 1066(Julian date)Harald III of Norway — King of Norway from 1046 to 1066
- 1066(Julian date)Tostig Godwinson — Anglo-Saxon Earl
- 1086(Julian date)William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine — Duke of Aquitaine
- 1333(Julian date)Prince Morikuni — Japanese prince
- 1396Jean de Vienne — French admiral and general
- 1506Philip I of Castile — King of Castile (1506), Ruler of Habsburg Netherlands (1482-1506)
- 1534(Julian date)Clement VII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1523 to 1534 (1478–1534)
- 1536(Julian date)Johannes Secundus — Dutch poet (1511–1536)
- 1602
- 1617Francisco Suárez — Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian (1548-1617)
- 1617Go-Yōzei — emperor of Japan from 1586 to 1611
- 1621Mary Sidney — Countess of Pembroke, poet, and literary patron
- 1626Lancelot Andrewes — English bishop and scholar
- 1630Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases — Italian general (1569–1630)
- 1665Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria — Electress of Bavaria by marriage (1610-1665)
- 1773Johan Ernst Gunnerus — Norwegian bishop and botanist (1718-1773)
- 1777Johann Heinrich Lambert — German mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1728-1777)
- 1792Adam Gottlob Moltke — Danish art collector, politician and diplomat (1710-1792)
- 1849Johann Strauss I — Austrian Romantic composer
- 1918(Julian date)Mikhail Alekseyev — Russian general of infantry (1857–1918)
- 1920Jacob Schiff — American banker, philanthropist (1847–1920)
- 1928Richard F. Outcault — American cartoonist (1863-1928)
- 1933Ring Lardner — American sportswriter, short story writer (1885–1933)
- 1943Alexander Hall — Scottish-Canadian soccer player (1880-1943)
- 1955Martha Norelius — American swimmer
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