August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 129 days remaining.
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1900-1999 1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs , scientist1902 - Stefan Wolpe , composer (d. 1972 )1909 - Ruby Keeler , singer, actress (d. 1993 )1909 - Michael Rennie , actor (d. 1971 ) 1912 - Erich Honecker , head of state of East Germany (d. 1994 )1913 - Walt Kelly , cartoonist (d. 1973 )1916 - Van Johnson , actor1917 - Mel Ferrer, actor1918 - Leonard Bernstein , conductor, composer (d. 1990 )1918 - Richard Greene , actor 1919 - George Wallace , Governor of Alabama (d. 1998 )1921 - Monty Hall , game show host1927 - Althea Gibson , tennis champion (d. 2003 )1929 - Gordon Sherwood, composer1930 - Sir Sean Connery , actor1933 - Regis Philbin , television host1933 - Wayne Shorter , jazz musician 1933 - Tom Skerritt , actor 1935 - Charles Wright , American poet1938 - David Canary , actor1938 - Frederick Forsyth , author 1939 - John Badham , film director1940 - José Van Dam , baritone singer1941 - Marshall Brickman, screenwriter1944 - Anthony Heald, actor1946 - Rollie Fingers , baseball pitcher1947 - Anne Archer , actress1949 - Martin Amis , novelist1949 - John Savage , actor 1949 - Gene Simmons , bassist 1951 - Robert Joseph Glass, artist1952 - Peter Wolf , singer, composer1954 - Elvis Costello , songwriter, musician1958 - Tim Burton , film director, producer, screenwriter1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus , singer1962 - Viv Campbell, Def Leppard guitarist1964 - Maxim Kontsevich , Russian mathematician1964 - Blair Underwood , actor 1968 - Rafet El Roman , singer, composer1968 - Rachael Ray , cook, television host 1970 - Claudia Schiffer , supermodel 1972 - Marvin Harrison , American football player
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1900-1999 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher1900 - Kuroda Kiyotaka , Japanese politician and prime minister (b. 1840 ) 1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf , Austro_Hungarian Chief of Staff, WWI 1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor , Duke of Kent 1945 - John Birch , soldier, missionary, first casualty of the Cold War 1967 - Stanley Bruce , eighth Prime Minister of Australia 1967 - Paul Muni , Academy Award winning actor 1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell , American Nazi Party leader 1971 - Ted Lewis , jazz musician, entertainer (b. 1890 )1979 - Stan Kenton , jazz musician, big band leader1979 - Ray Eberle, jazz musician, big band leader 1980 - Gower Champion , dancer, actor, choreographer1984 - Truman Capote , author1984 - Waite Hoyt , Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1899 ) 1985 - Samantha Smith , U.S. social activist, actress1990 - Morley Callaghan , Canadian writer
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Holidays and observances August 24 - August 26 - July 25 - September 25 -- listing of all days
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Remember: 25th August This Week In History (219 words)
Below are some interesting facts from this week in History starting August 25th we have picked just one from each day in the week check each day for further interesting facts. August 25, 1992: The Sun Newspaper published a recorded telephone conversation with an unknown woman who may or may not be Diana the Princess of Wales August 30, 1951 : A native American soldier killed in the war in Korea is refused a burial in a cemetery in Winnebago, Nebraska on the grounds of race.
August 25th - August 29th 1940 (6465 words)
RAF Casualty Records state that Sgt E.Manton was killed on August 28, 1940 which is incorrect. The last two days of the month of August were to stretch Fighter Command to the limit, and although it was not known then, but this was to be the shape of things to come. For not only was the RAF going to be hit hard on the ground and in the air, the night air raids were to begin in earnest and for the first time, the people of London were going to wage war on their own.
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