September 25

2024 Calendar

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)