September 25
(Redirected from 25 September)
September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 97 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 303 – Saint Fermin of Pamplona
- 1066 – Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria (b. 1020)
- 1066 – King Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)
- 1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
- 1333 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
- 1496 – Pietro Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
- 1506 – Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
- 1534 – Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
- 1602 – Caspar Peucer, German physician, scholar and reformer (b. 1525)
- 1617 – Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1572)
- 1617 – Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (b. 1548)
- 1630 – Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbeses, Italian general and politician (b. 1569)
- 1665 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (b. 1610)
- 1777 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer (b. 1728)
- 1792 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
- 1794 – Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
- 1849 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (b. 1804)
- 1900 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, 11th Premier of Quebec (b. 1832)
- 1900 – John N. Palmer, 15th Governor of Illinois (b. 1817)
1901 – 2000
- 1901 – Arthur Fremantle, English general (b. 1835)
- 1918 – Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev, Russian general (b. 1857)
- 1928 – Richard F. Outcault, American cartoonist (b. 1863)
- 1931 – Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, German classical philologist (b. 1848)
- 1933 – Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
- 1940 – Marguerite Clark, American actress (b. 1883)
- 1941 – Foxall P. Keane, American polo player, golfer and racing driver (b. 1867)
- 1944 – Walter Breisky, Austrian politician (b. 1871)
- 1958 – John B. Watson, American psychologist (b. 1878)
- 1960 – Emily Post, American author (b. 1873)
- 1970 – Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (b. 1898)
- 1971 – Hugo Black, American politician and jurist (b. 1886)
- 1979 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish javelin thrower, actor and singer (b. 1915)
- 1980 – John Bonham, British musician (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
- 1980 – Lewis Milestone, Russian-American director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1895)
- 1983 – King Leopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
- 1983 – Gunnar Thoroddsen, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1910)
- 1984 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
- 1986 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist (b. 1896)
- 1987 – Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)
- 1990 – Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1897)
- 1991 – Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
- 1992 – Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Ghanaian politician (b. 1947)
- 1995 – Annie Elizabeth Delany, American dentist and author (b. 1891)
- 1996 – Nicu Ceausescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
From 2001
- 2003 – Franco Modigliani, Italian economist (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Edward Said, Palestinian-American critic (b. 1935)
- 2005 – Don Adams, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2005 – George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
- 2007 – Nobuo Matsunaga, Japanese footballer (b. 1921)
- 2008 – Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician (b. 1931)
- 2009 – Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (b. 1923)
- 2010 – Art Gilmore, American voice actor (b. 1912)
- 2011 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmental and political activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Andy Williams, American singer and entertainer (b. 1927)
- 2014 – Sulejman Tihic, Bosnian politician (b. 1951)
- 2014 – Ulrick Chérubin, Canadian politician (b. 1943)
- 2014 – Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English athlete (b. 1920)
- 2015 – Moti Kirschenbaum, Israeli television personality (b. 1939)
- 2015 – Claudio Baggini, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1936)
- 2015 – John Galvin, American general (b. 1929)
- 2016 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer (b. 1929)
- 2016 – David Padilla, President of Bolivia (b. 1927)
- 2017 – M. Cherif Bassiouni, Egyptian-American lawyer and human rights activist (b. 1937)
- 2017 – Antony Booth, English actor (b. 1931)
- 2017 – Nora Marks Dauenhauer, American author, poet and scholar (b. 1927)
- 2017 – Elizabeth Dawn, English actress (b. 1939)
- 2017 – Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, Egyptian world's second-heaviest woman (b. 1980)
- 2017 – Helga Grebing, German historian (b. 1930)
- 2017 – Anatoly Gromyko, Soviet-Russian scientist and diplomat (b. 1932)
- 2017 – Bobby Knutt, English actor (b. 1945)
- 2018 – Helena Almeida, Portuguese photographer and painter (b. 1934)
- 2018 – Marie Colton, American politician (b. 1922)
- 2018 – Ivan Kapitanets, Soviet-Russian military officer (b. 1928)
- 2018 – Danny Lewicki, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
- 2019 – Jesper Hoffmeyer, Danish biologist (b. 1942)
- 2019 – Donald Nicholls, Baron Nicholls of Birkenhead, British peer (b. 1933)
- 2019 – Arne Weise, Swedish journalist and television personality (b. 1930)
- 2019 – Michael D. Coe, American archaeologist, anthropologist and author (b. 1929)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1901 – Robert Bresson, French director (d. 1999)
- 1903 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter (d. 1970)
- 1906 – José Figueres Ferrer, Costa Rican politician (d. 1990)
- 1906 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
- 1908 – Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (d. 1977)
- 1911 – Eric Williams, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
- 1914 – Elena Lucena, Argentine actress (d. 2015)
- 1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, American executed for espionage (d. 1953)
- 1917 – Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
- 1920 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)
- 1921 – Robert Muldoon, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
- 1922 – Hammer DeRoburt, 1st President of Nauru (d. 1992)
- 1922 – Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal (d. 2019)
- 1923 – Sam Rivers, American musician (d. 2011)
- 1924 – Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian activist and politician (d. 2016)
- 1925 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (d. 2016)
- 1927 – Colin Davis, British conductor (d. 2013)
- 1929 – Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
- 1930 – Nino Cerruti, Italian fashion designer
- 1930 – Shel Silverstein, American humorist, singer-songwriter and writer (d. 1999)
- 1932 – Jerry Medwin, Welsh footballer
- 1932 – Adolfo Suárez, former Prime Minister of Spain (d. 2014)
- 1932 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (d. 1982)
- 1934 – Jean Sorel, French actor
- 1935 – Maj Sjöwall, Swedish writer
- 1936 – Juliet Prowse, South African actress and dancer (d. 1996)
- 1936 – Moussa Traoré, former President of Mali
- 1938 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (d. 2010)
- 1939 – Feroz Khan, Indian actor (d. 2009)
- 1939 – Harald Ringstorff, German politician
- 1939 – Gianfranco Leoncini, Italian footballer (d. 2019)
- 1939 – Leon Brittan, English politician (d. 2015)
- 1940 – Takao Sakurai, Japanese boxer
- 1942 – John Taylor, American jazz musician (d. 2015)
- 1942 – Henri Pescarolo, French Formula One driver
- 1943 – Massimo Mattioli, Italian cartoonist (d. 2019)
- 1943 – Robert Walden, American actor
- 1943 – Robert Gates, American politician
- 1944 – Michael Douglas, American actor
- 1944 – José Sacal, Mexican sculptor (d. 2018)
- 1945 – Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
- 1945 – Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (d. 2008)
- 1946 – Felicity Kendal, British actress
- 1947 – Cheryl Tiegs, American model and actress
- 1949 – Steve Mackay, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
- 1949 – Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Mark Hamill, American actor
- 1952 – Bell hooks, American author, feminist and social activist
- 1952 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1954 – Sakis Boulas, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
- 1954 – Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (d. 2014)
- 1954 – Juande Ramos, Spanish football manager
- 1955 – Zucchero Fornaciari, Italian singer-songwriter and musician
- 1955 – Steven Severin, English musician, songwriter and producer
- 1955 – Peter Müller, German politician
- 1955 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
- 1956 – Salvatore Bagni, Italian footballer
- 1957 – Vladimir Popovkin, Russian politician (d. 2014)
- 1957 – Michael Madsen, American actor and producer
- 1960 – Ihor Belanov, Soviet-Ukrainian footballer
- 1960 – Shinji Tanaka, Japanese footballer
- 1961 – Heather Locklear, American actress
- 1961 – Mark Gil, Filipino actor (d. 2014)
- 1962 – Aida Turturro, American actress
- 1962 – Dariusz Wdowczyk, Polish footballer and coach
- 1963 – Tate Donovan, American actor
- 1963 – Mikael Persbrandt, Swedish actor
- 1964 – Barbara Dennerlein, German jazz musician
- 1965 – Kenta Hasegawa, Japanese footballer
- 1965 – Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
- 1966 – Jason Flemyng, British actor
- 1968 – Will Smith, American actor and rapper
- 1968 – Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, Prince of the Netherlands (d. 2013)
- 1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
- 1969 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
- 1969 – Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, American guitarist, songwriter and producer
- 1971 – Jessie Wallace, English actress
- 1974 – Richie Edwards, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1974 – Víctor Pacheco, Colombian footballer
- 1975 – Declan Donnelly, English actor, television presenter and musician (Ant and Dec)
From 1976
- 1976 – Petit, Portuguese footballer
- 1976 – Charlotte Ayanne, Puerto Rican actress and model
- 1978 – Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
- 1978 – Jodie Kidd, English model
- 1978 – Ryan Leslie, American music producer and singer-songwriter
- 1979 – Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer
- 1980 – Nikola Zigic, Serbian footballer
- 1983 – Donald Glover, American actor, rapper, producer and screenwriter
- 1983 – Yuhei Tokunaga, Japanese footballer
- 1983 – Glenn Murray, English footballer
- 1984 – Siphiwe Tshabalala, South African footballer
- 1984 – Matías Silvestre, Argentine footballer
- 1986 – John Barclay, Scottish rugby union player
- 1988 – Joe Prospero, English actor
- 1989 – Samantha Murray, English athlete
- 1990 – Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
- 1991 – Emmy Clarke, American actress
- 1992 – Keauna McLaughlin, American figure skater
- 1994 – Jansen Panettiere, American actor
- 1995 – Ryan Beatty, American singer
- 1995 – Caitlin Fields, American figure skater
- 1997 – Suzanne Schulting, Dutch short-track speed skater
Deaths
Observances
- Armed Forces/Revolution Day (Mozambique)