June 25
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June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 189 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Births
- 1242 – Beatrice of England, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1275)
- 1328 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
- 1560 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
- 1612 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
- 1715 – Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
- 1726 – Thomas Pennant, British naturalist (d. 1798)
- 1755 – Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
- 1814 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
- 1852 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (d. 1926)
- 1858 – Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
- 1860 – Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956)
- 1863 – Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat (d. 1935)
- 1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1941)
- 1865 – Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)
- 1884 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
- 1886 – Henry H. Arnold, American General of the Army and of the Air Force (d. 1950)
- 1887 – George Abbott, American playwright (d. 1995)
- 1894 – Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)
- 1900 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British Viceroy of India (d. 1979)
- 1901 – Harold Roe Bartle, American lawyer, and politician, mayor of Kansas City, MO (d. 1974)
- 1902 – Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu of Japan, brother of Emperor Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) (d. 1953)
- 1903 – George Orwell, British writer (d. 1950)
- 1903 – Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
- 1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
- 1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
- 1912 – William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
- 1913 – Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
- 1921 – Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
- 1923 – Nicholas Mosley, British writer
- 1923 – Sam Francis, America painter (d. 1994)
- 1924 – Sidney Lumet, American film director
- 1925 – June Lockhart, American actress
- 1925 – Ted Stepien, American business (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
- 1927 – Chuck Smith, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa
- 1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1928 – Michel Brault, Quebec film director, screenwriter and producer
- 1928 – Peyo, Belgian illustrator (d. 1992)
- 1928 – Bill Russo, American jazz composer (d. 2003)
- 1929 – Eric Carle, American author
- 1930 – George Murdock, American actor
- 1930 – Mary Beth Peil, American singer
- 1932 – Peter Blake, British pop artist
- 1933 – James Meredith, American civil rights activist
- 1933 – Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect
- 1934 – Jack W. Hayford, fourth president of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
- 1934 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (d. 2006)
- 1935 – Eddie Floyd, American soul singer
- 1936 – Jusuf Habibie, President of Indonesia
- 1939 – Harold Melvin, American singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (d. 1997)
- 1939 – Allen Fox, American tennis player
- 1940 – Clint Warwick, English bassist (The Moody Blues) (d. 2004)
- 1940 – A.J. Quinnell, British writer (d. 2005)
- 1941 – Denys Arcand, Canadian film director
- 1942 – Nikiforos Diamandouros, Greek academic and European Ombudsman
- 1942 – Willis Reed, American basketball player
- 1942 – Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright
- 1944 – Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer
- 1945 – Carly Simon, American singer and songwriter
- 1946 – Roméo Dallaire, Dutch-born Canadian senator
- 1946 – Ian McDonald, English saxophonist (King Crimson, Foreigner)
- 1947 – Jimmie Walker, American actor
- 1950 – Nitza Saul, Israeli actress
- 1952 – Tim Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
- 1952 – Alan Green, Northern Irish BBC Sport broadcaster and commentator
- 1954 – David Paich, American keyboardist, singer and songwriter (Toto)
- 1954 – Daryush Shokof, Iranian filmmaker
- 1954 – Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- 1956 – Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
- 1956 – Anthony Bourdain, American chef and author
- 1959 – Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper
- 1959 – Paris Themmen, American actor
- 1960 – Craig Johnston, Australian footballer
- 1961 – Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor and writer
- 1962 – Phill Jupitus, English comedian and broadcaster
- 1963 – Yann Martel, Spanish-born Canadian novelist
- 1963 – Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 – John Benjamin Hickey, American actor
- 1963 – George Michael, British singer and songwriter
- 1964 – Johnny Herbert, English race car driver
- 1964 – Emma Suárez, Spanish actress
- 1964 – Dell Curry, American basketball player
- 1964 – Greg Raymer, American professional poker player
- 1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, Democratic Republic of the Congo basketball player
- 1968 – Vaios Karagiannis, Greek footballer
- 1969 – Matt Gallant, American television host
- 1969 – Zim Zum, American guitarist (Marilyn Manson)
- 1970 – Lucy Benjamin, British actress
- 1970 – Ariel Gore, American journalist and novelist
- 1970 – Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete
- 1970 – Roope Latvala, Finnish guitarist (Children of Bodom)
- 1971 – Scott Maslen, English actor
- 1971 – Angela Kinsey, American actress
- 1971 – Santiago de Tezanos, Uruguayan architect
- 1971 – Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
- 1971 – Michael Tucker, American baseball player
- 1972 – Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1972 – Mike Kroeger, Canadian bassist (Nickelback)
- 1973 – Milan Hnilička, Czech ice hockey player
- 1973 – Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
- 1974 – Jim LaMarca, American bass guitarist (Chimaira)
- 1974 – Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
- 1974 – Nisha Ganatra, Canadian film director
- 1975 – Linda Cardellini, American actress
- 1975 – Chenoa, Argentine-born Spanish singer
- 1975 – Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
- 1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
- 1975 – Natasha Klauss, Colombian actress
- 1976 – José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
- 1976 – Carlos Nieto, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
- 1978 – Aramis Ramirez, Dominican baseball player
- 1978 – Aftab Shivdasani, Indian Bollywood actor
- 1978 – Layla El, British dancer, model and professional wrestler
- 1978 – Luke Scott, American baseball player
- 1978 – Marcus Stroud, American football player
- 1979 – Hirooki Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1979 – Busy Philipps, American actress
- 1979 – Richard Hughes, Scottish footballer
- 1979 – La La, American actress and television personality
- 1980 – Nozomi Takeuchi, Japanese actress
- 1981 – Sheridan Smith, English actress
- 1981 – Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
- 1981 – Pooja Umashanker, Indian actress
- 1982 – Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
- 1982 – Rain, Korean singer and actor
- 1983 – Todd Cooper, English swimmer
- 1984 – Lauren Bush, American model and fashion designer
- 1984 – Indigo, American actress
- 1985 – Daniel Bard, American baseball player
- 1985 – Karim Matmour, Algerian soccer player
- 1986 – Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
- 1986 – Charlie Davies, American soccer player
- 1986 – Megan Burns, English actress and singer
- 1993 – Barney Clark, English actor
- 2002 – Mason Vale Cotton, American actor
Deaths
- 635 – Emperor Gāozǔ, first Emperor of the Chinese Táng Dynasty (b. 566)
- 1134 – King Niels of Denmark (b. 1064)
- 1218 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
- 1483 – Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer
- 1522 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
- 1533 – Mary Tudor, English-born Queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)
- 1579 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
- 1593 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)
- 1634 – John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
- 1638 – Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
- 1665 – Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630)
- 1669 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
- 1673 – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, Captain-Lieutenant of the Musketeers of the Guard under Louis XIV of France (b. c. 1611)
- 1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
- 1686 – Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
- 1715 – Jean du Casse, French admiral (b. 1646)
- 1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
- 1792 – Thomas Peters, one of the founding fathers of Sierra Leone (b. 1738)
- 1798 – Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721)
- 1822 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German writer (b. 1776)
- 1838 – François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
- 1861 – Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
- 1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
- 1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
- 1870 – David Heaton, American Congressional Representative (b. 1823)
- 1875 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
- 1876 – George Armstrong Custer, American Army officer (b. 1839)
- 1876 – Thomas Custer, American Army officer, two-time Medal of Honor recipient, brother of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1845)
- 1876 – Boston Custer, American guide, forager, packer and scout, brother of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1848)
- 1876 – James C. Calhoun, American Army Lieutenant, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1845)
- 1876 – Myles Keogh, Irish soldier of fortune, veteran of the American Civil War (b. 1840)
- 1882 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
- 1884 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)
- 1916 – Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
- 1918 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player (b. 1867)
- 1937 – Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
- 1944 – Lucha Reyes, Mexican mariachi singer (b. 1906)
- 1948 – William C. Lee, U.S. Army general, known as the "father of the U.S. Airborne" (b. 1895)
- 1949 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)
- 1959 – Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (b. 1938)
- 1960 – Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
- 1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
- 1972 – Jan Matulka, American painter (b. 1890)
- 1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
- 1976 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
- 1979 – Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)
- 1983 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
- 1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
- 1985 – Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
- 1987 – Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)
- 1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born American guitarist (Anthym, What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
- 1990 – Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer (b. 1940)
- 1992 – Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
- 1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Sir Arthur Snelling, British ambassador (b. 1914)
- 1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
- 1998 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian Berber Kabyle singer (b. 1956)
- 1999 – Fred Feast, English actor (b. 1929)
- 2002 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
- 2003 – Lester Maddox, American politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
- 2005 – John Fiedler, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2006 – Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect (b. 1918)
- 2007 – Mahasti, Iranian singer (b. 1946)
- 2007 – J. Fred Duckett, American sports announcer and teacher (b. 1933)
- 2008 – Lyall Watson, South African anthropologist and writer (b.1939)
- 2009 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
- 2009 – Michael Jackson, American singer and pop icon (b. 1958)
- 2009 – Sky Saxon, American singer (The Seeds) (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Anil Wilson, Indian educationist (b. 1947)
- 2009 – Yasmine, Belgian singer (b. 1972)
- 2010 – Alan Plater, English playwright (b. 1935)
- 2010 – Richard B. Sellars, American business executive (b. 1915)
Holidays and observances
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