November 25

2024 Calendar

November 25 is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 36 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

311 - Pope Peter III of Alexandria
1034 – King Malcolm II of Scotland (b. 980)
1120 - William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England
1185 – Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
1326 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1294)
1374 - Philip II, Prince of Taranto (b. 1329)
1560 – Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466)
1700 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (b. 1643)
1766 - Johann Maria Farina, Italian perfumer and entrepreneur (b. 1685)
1865 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821)
1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
1885 – King Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
1885 – Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)

1901 – 1950

1902 - Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)
1904 – Ba Jin, Chinese writer (d. 2005)
1904 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
1907 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, English racing driver (d. 1938)
1914 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1915 - Chung Ju-young, Korean entrepreneur and founder of Hyundai (d. 2001)
1915 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and dictator (d. 2006)
1915 - Armando Villanueva, Prime Minister of Peru (d. 2013)
1916 - Peg Lynch, American writer and actress (d. 2015)
1917 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (d. 2009)
1919 - Norman Tokar, American director (d. 1979)
1920 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
1920 – Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor (d. 2009)
1920 - Noel Neill, American actress (d. 2016)
1923 – Mauno Koivisto, 9th President of Finland (d. 2017)
1924 - Ante Markovic, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2011)
1924 - Paul Desmond, American jazz musician (d. 1977)
1926 - Poul Anderson, American writer (d. 2001)
1930 - Clarke Scholes, American swimmer (d. 2010)
1931 - Nat Adderley, American jazz musician (d. 2000)
1931 - Hollis L. Harris, American airline executive (d. 2016)
1933 - Kathryn Crosby, American actress and singer
1935 - Robert Berner, American scientist (d. 2015)
1936 - William McIlvanney, Scottish writer (d. 2015)
1938 - Rosanna Schiaffino, Italian actress (d. 2009)
1939 - Martin Feldman, American economist
1940 - Reinhard Furrer, Austrian-German physicist and astronaut (d. 1995)
1940 - Joe Gibbs, American NFL coach and NASCAR team owner
1940 - Karl Offmann, 3rd President of Mauritius
1940 - Shyamal Kumar, Indian politician, 21st Governor of West Bengal
1941 - Percy Sledge, American singer (d. 2015)
1941 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani writer and spiritual leader (d. 2001)
1941 – Philippe Honoré, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
1944 - Paul Copley, British actor
1944 - Maarten 't Hart, Dutch writer
1944 – Ben Stein, American actor
1944 - Michael Kijana Wamalwa, 8th Vice President of Kenya (d. 2003)
1947 - Jonathan Kaplan, American movie maker
1947 - John Larroquette, American actor
1948 - Jacques Dupuis, Canadian politician, 14th Deputy Premier of Quebec
1950 - Jocelyn Brown, American singer
1950 - Gabriele Oriali, Italian footballer
1950 - Giorgio Faletti, Italian author, screenwriter and actor (d. 2014)

1951 – 2000

1953 – For the first time, the England national football team loses against a team from Continental Europe; the Hungary national football team, by 6-3 at Wembley Stadium.
1958 - French Sudan gains autonomy.
1960 - The Mirabal sisters are murdered in the Dominican Republic.
1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1970 - In Japan, Yukio Mishima and one compatriot (someone from the same country) commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
1973 - In Greece, Georgios Papadopoulos is overthrown in a coup led by Dimitrios Ioannidis.
1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
1975 – The dictators of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay form Operation Condor, which aims to track down and kill anyone who expresses left-wing opinions.
1980 - Saye Zerbo, in Burkina Faso, overthrows President Sangoule Lamizana, in a coup.
1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
1986 - The Iran Contra Affair begins as United States Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from secret weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua.
1986 - The King Fahd Causeway opens, linking Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths caused by the storm.
1992 – The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.
1996 - An ice storm affects the central United States, killing 26 people.
1999 - The UN creates the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
2000 - The 2000 Baku earthquake, at magnitude 7, kills 26 people.

From 2001

2001 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani writer and spiritual leader (b. 1941)
2002 - Karel Reisz, Czech-British director (b. 1926)
2005 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
2005 – Richard Burns, English rally driver (b. 1971)
2007 – Kevin DuBrow, American rock music singer (b. 1955)
2011 - Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter (b. 1942)
2012 - Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician (b. 1931)
2012 - Dave Sexton, English footballer and coach (b. 1930)
2013 - Bill Foulkes, English footballer (b. 1932)
2013 - Chico Hamilton, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1921)
2014 - Denham Harman, American scientist (b. 1916)
2014 - Petr Hapka, Czech composer (b. 1944)
2015 - Lennart Hellsing, Swedish author and translator (b. 1919)
2015 - Elmo Williams, American editor, producer, director and executive (b. 1913)
2016 - David Hamilton, English photographer (b. 1933)
2016 - Fidel Castro, President of Cuba (b. 1926)
2017 - Bertha Calloway, American civil rights activist and historian (b. 1925)
2017 - Sotir Ferrara, Italian-Albanian church leader (b. 1937)
2017 - Rosario Green, Mexican economist and politician (b. 1941)
2017 - Rance Howard, American actor (b. 1928)
2017 - Anna Kuzmina, Russian actress (b. 1933)
2017 - Julio Oscar Mechoso, American actor (b. 1955)
2017 - Harry Pregerson, American federal judge (b. 1923)
2018 - Randolph L. Braham, Romanian-born American historian, political scientist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)
2018 - Giuliana Calandra, Italian actress (b. 1936)
2018 - Viktor Kanevskyi, Ukrainian footballer and coach (b. 1936)
2018 - Wright King, American actor (b. 1923)
2018 - C. K. Jaffer Sharief, Indian politician (b. 1933)
2019 - Frank Biondi, American film and television executive (b. 1945)
2019 - George Clements, American Roman Catholic priest and civil rights activist (b. 1932)
2019 - János Horváth, Hungarian economist and politician (b. 1925)
2019 - Nobuaki Kobayashi, Japanese billiards player (b. 1942)
2019 - Jimmy Schulz, German businessman and politician (b. 1968)
2020 - Diego Maradona, Argentine football player (b. 1960)

Births

1951 – 1975

1951 – Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Spanish writer
1951 - Alan Rough, Scottish footballer
1952 – Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer and politician, Prime minister of Pakistan
1952 – John Lynch, 80th Governor of New Hampshire
1953 - Graham Eadie, Australian rugby player
1953 - Jeffrey Skilling, American businessman and fraudster
1955 - Bruno Tonioli, Italian choreographer
1957 – Bob Ehrlich, 60th Governor of Maryland
1957 – Monte Melkonian, Armenian military leader (d. 1993)
1959 - Jim Bett, Scottish footballer
1959 - Steve Rothery, English guitarist
1959 – Charles Kennedy, Scottish politician, former leader of the British Liberal Democrats (d. 2015)
1960 – John F. Kennedy Jr., son of John F. Kennedy (d. 1999)
1960 – Amy Grant, American singer
1962 - Hironobu Sakaguchi, Japanese video game designer
1962 - Blythe Duff, Scottish actress
1963 - Chip Kelly, American football coach
1964 - Bert van Vlaanderen, Dutch long-distance runner
1965 - Dougray Scott, Scottish actor
1966 - Tim Armstrong, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1966 - Billy Burke, American actor
1967 - Kazuya Nakai, Japanese voice actor
1967 – Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer
1968 - Jacqueline Hennessy, Canadian actress and journalist
1968 - Galin Nikov, Bulgarian pole vaulter
1970 – Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (d. 2009)
1971 - Magnus Arvedson, Swedish ice hockey player
1971 – Christina Applegate, American actress
1971 - Dominic Cummings, English political strategist and advisor
1972 - Deepa Marathe, Indian cricketer
1972 - Mark Morton, American guitarist and songwriter
1973 - Steven de Jongh, Dutch cyclist
1973 - Eddie Steeples, American actor

From 1976

1976 - Clint Mathis, American soccer player
1976 - Olena Vitrychenko, Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast
1978 – Ringo Shiina, Japanese singer
1979 - Sandrine Bailly, French biathlete
1980 – Aaron Mokoena, South African footballer
1980 - John-Michael Liles, American ice hockey player
1981 - Lee Bum-Ho, South Korean baseball player
1981 – Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer
1981 – Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush Hager, daughters of George W. Bush and Laura Bush
1981 - Jared Jeffries, American basketball player
1983 - Kirsty Crawford, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
1983 - Jhulen Goswami, Indian cricketer
1984 - Peter Siddle, Australian cricketer
1984 - Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
1985 – Marcus Hellner, Swedish skier
1986 – Katie Cassidy, American actress and singer
1986 - Amber Hagerman, American murder victim (d. 1996)
1986 - Craig Gardner, English footballer
1987 – Dolla, American rapper (d. 2009)
1988 – Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (d. 2010)
1988 – Jay Spearing, English footballer
1989 – Tom Dice, Belgian singer and songwriter
1990 - Eilish McColgan, Scottish athlete
1991 - Luca Tremolada, Italian footballer
1991 - Kevin Woo, American-South Korean singer
1991 - Jamie Grace, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress

Deaths

1901 – 2000

1909 - Edward P. Allen, American politician (b. 1839)
1911 - Paul Lafargue, French journalist, literary critic and activist (b. 1842)
1920 – Gaston Chevrolet, French-American racing driver (b. 1892)
1925 – Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (b. 1881)
1935 - Iyasu V, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1897)
1941 - Pedro Aguirre Cerda, President of Chile (b. 1879)
1944 – Kunio Nakagawa, Japanese military commander (b. 1898)
1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American baseball commissioner (b. 1866)
1948 - Kanbun Uechi, Japanese karate master (b. 1877)
1950 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer (b. 1873)
1956 - Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet movie director (b. 1894)
1957 – Prince George of Greece and Denmark (b. 1869)
1960 - Mirabal sisters:
- Patria Mirabal, Dominican activist (b. 1924)
- Minerva Mirabal, Dominican activist (b. 1926)
- Maria Teresa Mirabal, Dominican activist (b. 1935)
1963 - Alexander Marinesko, Russian navy officer (b. 1913)
1965 – Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
1968 – Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (b. 1878)
1970 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b. 1925)
1972 - Hans Scharoun, German architect (b. 1893)
1974 - Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
1974 – U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
1977 - Manouchehr Eghbal, 65th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1909)
1981 - Jack Albertson, American actor, singer, comedian, musician, and dancer (b. 1907)
1984 - Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian statesman (b. 1913)
1987 - Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)
1990 - Merab Mamardashvili, Georgian philosopher (b. 1930)
1996 – Hastings Banda, President of Malawi (b. c. 1907)
1998 – Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)

Holidays and observances

Bosnia and Herzegovina - National Day (1943)
Suriname – Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975)
Indonesia - Teachers' Day
Thailand - Vajiravudh Memorial Day
New York - Evacuation Day
Christian feast day: Saint Catherine of Alexandria
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women