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June 25
June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1852 - Antoni Gaudi, architect (d. 1926)
- 1858 - Georges Courteline, dramatist (d. 1929)
- 1864 - Walther Nernst, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920 (d. 1941)
- 1865 - Robert Henri, painter (d. 1929)
- 1884 - Henry Kahnweiler, Montparnasse art promoter (d. 1979)
- 1887 - George Abbott, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, actor (d. 1995)
- 1894 - Hermann Oberth, physicist (d. 1989
- 1900 - Louis Mountbatten, First Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Baron Romsey (d. 1979)
- 1903 - George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), writer (d. 1950)
- 1912 - William T. Cahill, governor of New Jersey
- 1913 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
- 1915 - Peter Lind Hayes , actor (d. 1998)
- 1924 - Sidney Lumet, actor, director
- 1925 - June Lockhart, actress (Lassie's "mother")
- 1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann, lyricist, narrator and writer (d. 1973)
- 1930 - Mary Beth Peil, American opera singer and actress
- 1932 - Peter Blake, artist
- 1933 - James Meredith, civil rights activist
- 1945 - Carly Simon, singer
- 1955 - Terry Chimes, musician
- 1956 - Boris Trajkovski, president of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
- 1963 - George Michael, singer
- 1963 - Yann Martel, author
- 1966 - Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player
- 1970 - Lucy Benjamin, British actress
- 1972 - Carlos Delgado, baseball player
- 1974 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
- 1975 - Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
- 1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
- 1982 - Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
- 1983 - Nargis Farahmand , Afghanistani poet
- 1985 - Hanna Perez Moza , Mexican singer, (Ha*Ash)
- 1986 - Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
Deaths
- 1218 - Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Norman Crusader (b. 1160)
- 1579 - Hatano Hideharu, Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1541)
- 1634 - John Marston, playwright
- 1665 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
- 1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann, composer
- 1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, composer
- 1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman sultan
- 1882 - François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
- 1884 - Hans Rott, composer
- 1916 - Thomas Eakins, artist
- 1937 - Colin Clive, British Actor (b. 1900)
- 1948 - William C. Lee, Maj, General United States Army (b. 1895)
- 1976 - Johnny Mercer, composer
- 1988 - Hillel Slovak, guitarist
- 1995 - Warren Burger, United States Supreme Court justice
- 1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, explorer, scientist, inventor
- 2002 - Johnny Stork , dreamer, romantic
- 2003 - Lester Maddox, segregationist governor of the state of Georgia
Holidays and Observances
External links
June 24 - June 26 - May 25 - July 25 -- listing of all days
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