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August 25 is the 237th day of the year (238th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 128 days remain until the end of the year.
766 – Emperor Constantine V humiliates nineteen high-ranking officials, after discovering a plot against him. He executes the leaders, Constantine Podopagouros and his brother Strategios .1248 – The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht .1258 – Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under Michael VIII Palaiologos , paving the way for its leader to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea .1270 – King Louis IX of France dies in Tunis while on the Eighth Crusade .1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company , the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army , and the second most senior, is formed.1543 – António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans to visit Japan.1580 – War of the Portuguese Succession : Spanish victory at the Battle of Alcântara brings about the Iberian Union .1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.1630 – Portuguese forces are defeated by the Kingdom of Kandy at the Battle of Randeniwela in Sri Lanka .1758 – Seven Years' War : Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf .1814 – War of 1812 : On the second day of the Burning of Washington , British troops torch the Library of Congress , United States Treasury , Department of War , and other public buildings.1823 – American fur trapper Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear while on an expedition in South Dakota .1825 – Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil .1830 – The Belgian Revolution begins.1835 – The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun Moon .1875 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.[1] 1883 – France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế , recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.1894 – Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet 1898 – Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion , Greece.1914 – World War I : Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary .1914 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army . Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost. 1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.1920 – Polish–Soviet War : Battle of Warsaw , which began on August 13 , ends with the Red Army 's defeat.1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County , Sichuan , China and kills 9,000 people.1939 – The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.1940 – World War II : The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal Air Force .1942 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons ; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.1944 – World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies .1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender , armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch , regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War .1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss .1950 – President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.1961 – President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964 .1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell , founder of the American Nazi Party , is assassinated by a former member of his group.1980 – Zimbabwe joins the United Nations .1981 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn .1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune , the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time.1991 – Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union .1991 – The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serb paramilitary forces, between August and November 1991 (during the Croatian War of Independence ). 1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux . 1997 – Egon Krenz , the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.2001 – American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport , Bahamas .2006 – Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.2017 – Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane , the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004 . Over the next few days, the storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern Texas, killing 106 people and causing $125 billion in damage.2017 – The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its second large-scale attack at the Bangladesh–Myanmar border , prompting a massive military crackdown on Rohingya people by the Myanmar Army . 1467 – Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 2nd Duke of Alburquerque , Spanish duke (d. 1526)1491 – Innocenzo Cybo , Catholic cardinal (d. 1550)1509 – Ippolito II d'Este , Italian cardinal and statesman (d. 1572)1530 – Ivan the Terrible , Russian ruler (d. 1584)1540 – Lady Catherine Grey , English noblewoman (d. 1568)1561 – Philippe van Lansberge , Dutch astronomer and mathematician (d. 1632)1605 – Philipp Moritz, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg , German noble (d. 1638)1624 – François de la Chaise , French priest (d. 1709)1662 – John Leverett the Younger , American lawyer, academic, and politician (d. 1724)1707 – Louis I of Spain (d. 1724)1724 – George Stubbs , English painter and academic (d. 1806)1741 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt , German theologian and author (d. 1792)1744 – Johann Gottfried Herder , German poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 1803)1758 – Franz Teyber , Austrian organist and composer (d. 1810)1767 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just , French soldier and politician (d. 1794)1776 – Thomas Bladen Capel , English admiral (d. 1853)1786 – Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)1796 – James Lick , American carpenter and piano builder (d. 1876)1802 – Nikolaus Lenau , Romanian-Austrian poet and author (d. 1850)1803 – Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias (d. 1880)1812 – Nikolay Zinin , Russian organic chemist (d. 1880)1817 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus , French nun and saint, founded the Religious of the Assumption (d. 1898)1819 – Allan Pinkerton , Scottish-American detective and spy (d. 1884)1829 – Carlo Acton , Italian pianist and composer (d. 1909)1836 – Bret Harte , American short story writer and poet (d. 1902)1840 – George C. Magoun , American businessman (d. 1893)1841 – Emil Theodor Kocher , Swiss physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)1845 – Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)1850 – Charles Richet , French physiologist and occultist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)1867 – James W. Gerard , American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (d. 1951)1869 – Tom Kiely , British-Irish decathlete (d. 1951)1877 – Joshua Lionel Cowen , American businessman, co-founded the Lionel Corporation (d. 1965)1878 – Ted Birnie , English footballer and manager (d. 1935)1882 – Seán T. O'Kelly , Irish journalist and politician, 2nd President of Ireland (d. 1966)1889 – Alexander Mair , Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1969)1891 – David Shimoni , Belarusian-Israeli poet and translator (d. 1956)1893 – Henry Trendley Dean , American dentist (d. 1962)1898 – Helmut Hasse , German mathematician and academic (d. 1975)1898 – Arthur Wood , English cricketer (d. 1973) 1899 – Paul Herman Buck , American historian and author (d. 1978)1900 – Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie , Scottish architect (d. 1970) [2] 1900 – Hans Adolf Krebs , German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) 1902 – Stefan Wolpe , German-American composer and educator (d. 1972)1903 – Arpad Elo , Hungarian-American chess player, created the Elo rating system (d. 1992)1905 – Faustina Kowalska , Polish nun and saint (d. 1938)1906 – Jim Smith , English cricketer (d. 1979)1909 – Ruby Keeler , Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1993)1909 – Michael Rennie , English actor and producer (d. 1971) 1910 – George Cisar , American baseball player (d. 2010)1910 – Dorothea Tanning , American painter, sculptor, and poet (d. 2012) 1911 – Võ Nguyên Giáp , Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (d. 2013)1912 – Erich Honecker , German soldier and politician (d. 1994)1913 – Don DeFore , American actor (d. 1993)1913 – Walt Kelly , American illustrator and animator (d. 1973) 1916 – Van Johnson , American actor (d. 2008)1916 – Frederick Chapman Robbins , American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003) 1916 – Saburō Sakai , Japanese lieutenant and pilot (d. 2000) 1917 – Mel Ferrer , American actor, director, and producer (d. 2008)1918 – Leonard Bernstein , American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1990)1918 – Richard Greene , English actor (d. 1985) 1919 – William P. Foster , American bandleader and educator (d. 2010)1919 – George Wallace , American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (d. 1998) 1919 – Jaap Rijks , Dutch Olympic medalist (d. 2017) 1921 – Monty Hall , Canadian-American television personality and game show host (d. 2017)1921 – Bryce Mackasey , Canadian businessman and politician, 20th Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 1999) 1921 – Brian Moore , Northern Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (d. 1999) 1923 – Álvaro Mutis , Colombian-Mexican author and poet (d. 2013)1923 – Allyre Sirois , Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2012) 1924 – Zsuzsa Körmöczy , Hungarian tennis player and coach (d. 2006)1925 – Thea Astley , Australian journalist and author (d. 2004)1925 – Hilmar Hoffmann , German film and culture academic (d. 2018) 1925 – Stepas Butautas , Lithuanian basketball player and coach (d. 2001) 1927 – Althea Gibson , American tennis player and golfer (d. 2003)1927 – Des Renford , Australian swimmer (d. 1999) 1928 – John "Kayo" Dottley , American football player (d. 2018)1928 – Darrell Johnson , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2004) 1928 – Karl Korte , American composer and academic 1928 – Herbert Kroemer , German-American physicist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1930 – Sean Connery , Scottish actor and producer1930 – György Enyedi , Hungarian economist and geographer (d. 2012) 1930 – Graham Jarvis , Canadian actor (d. 2003) 1930 – Crispin Tickell , English academic and diplomat, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1931 – Regis Philbin , American actor and television host1933 – Patrick F. McManus , American journalist and author (d. 2018)1933 – Wayne Shorter , American saxophonist and composer 1933 – Tom Skerritt , American actor 1934 – Lise Bacon , Canadian judge and politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec 1934 – Eddie Ilarde , Filipino journalist and politician 1935 – Charles Wright , American poet1936 – Giridharilal Kedia , Indian businessman, founded the Image Institute of Technology & Management (d. 2009)1937 – Jimmy Hannan , Australian television host and singer (d. 2019)1937 – Virginia Euwer Wolff , American author 1938 – David Canary , American actor (d. 2015)1938 – Frederick Forsyth , English journalist and author 1939 – John Badham , English-American actor, director, and producer1940 – Wilhelm von Homburg , German boxer and actor (d. 2004)1941 – Marshall Brickman , Brazilian-American director, producer, and screenwriter1941 – Mario Corso , Italian footballer and coach 1941 – Ludwig Müller , German footballer 1942 – Nathan Deal , American captain, lawyer, and politician, 82nd Governor of Georgia 1944 – Conrad Black , Canadian historian and author1944 – Jacques Demers , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and politician 1944 – Anthony Heald , American actor 1944 – Andrew Longmore , British lawyer and judge 1945 – Daniel Hulet , Belgian cartoonist (d. 2011)1945 – Hannah Louise Shearer , American screenwriter and producer 1946 – Rollie Fingers , American baseball player1946 – Charles Ghigna , American poet and author 1946 – Charlie Sanders , American football player and sportscaster (d. 2015) 1947 – Michael Kaluta , American author and illustrator1947 – Keith Tippett , British jazz pianist and composer 1948 – Ledward Kaapana , American singer and guitarist1948 – Nicholas A. Peppas , Greek chemist and biologist 1949 – Martin Amis , British novelist1949 – Rijkman Groenink , Dutch banker and academic 1949 – John Savage , American actor and producer 1949 – Gene Simmons , Israeli-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor 1950 – Willy DeVille , American singer and songwriter (d. 2009)1950 – Charles Fambrough , American bassist, composer, and producer (d. 2011) 1951 – Rob Halford , English heavy metal singer-songwriter (Judas Priest )1951 – Bill Handel , Brazilian-American lawyer and radio host 1952 – Kurban Berdyev , Turkmen footballer and manager1952 – Geoff Downes , English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer 1952 – Duleep Mendis , Sri Lankan cricketer and coach 1954 – Elvis Costello , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer1954 – Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness , Scottish lawyer and politician, First Minister of Scotland 1955 – John McGeoch , Scottish guitarist (d. 2004)1955 – Gerd Müller , German businessman and politician 1956 – Matt Aitken , English songwriter and record producer (Stock Aitken Waterman )1956 – Takeshi Okada , Japanese footballer, coach, and manager 1956 – Henri Toivonen , Finnish race car driver (d. 1986) 1957 – Sikander Bakht , Pakistani cricketer and sportscaster1957 – Simon McBurney , English actor and director 1957 – Frank Serratore , American ice hockey player and coach 1958 – Tim Burton , American director, producer, and screenwriter1959 – Ian Falconer , American author and illustrator1959 – Steve Levy , American lawyer and politician 1959 – Bernardo Rezende , Brazilian volleyball coach and former player 1959 – Lane Smith , American author and illustrator 1959 – Ruth Ann Swenson , American soprano and actress 1960 – Georg Zellhofer , Austrian footballer and manager1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor1962 – Taslima Nasrin , Bangladeshi author1962 – Theresa Andrews , American former competition swimmer and Olympic champion 1962 – Vivian Campbell , Northern Irish rock guitarist and songwriter 1962 – Michael Zorc , German footballer 1963 – Miro Cerar , Slovenian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Slovenia 1963 – Shock G , American rapper and producer 1963 – Tiina Intelmann , Estonian lawyer and diplomat 1964 – Azmin Ali , Malaysian mathematician and politician1964 – Maxim Kontsevich , Russian-American mathematician and academic 1964 – Blair Underwood , American actor 1964 – Joanne Whalley , English actress 1965 – Cornelius Bennett , American football player1965 – Sanjeev Sharma , Indian cricketer and coach 1966 – Albert Belle , American baseball player1966 – Derek Sherinian , American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer 1966 – Terminator X , American hip-hop DJ (Public Enemy ) 1967 – Jeff Tweedy , American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer1968 – Yuri Mitsui , Japanese actress, model, and race car driver1968 – Stuart Murdoch , Scottish singer-songwriter 1968 – Spider One , American singer-songwriter and producer 1968 – Rachael Ray , American chef, author, and television host 1968 – Takeshi Ueda , Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player 1969 – Olga Konkova , Norwegian-Russian pianist and composer1969 – Cameron Mathison , Canadian actor and television personality 1969 – Catriona Matthew , Scottish golfer 1969 – Vivek Razdan , Indian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster 1970 – Doug Glanville , American baseball player and sportscaster1970 – Debbie Graham , American tennis player 1970 – Robert Horry , American basketball player and sportscaster 1970 – Adrian Lam , Papua New Guinean-Australian rugby league player and coach 1970 – Jo Dee Messina , American singer-songwriter 1970 – Claudia Schiffer , German model and fashion designer 1971 – Jason Death , Australian rugby league player1973 – Fatih Akın , German director, producer, and screenwriter1974 – Pablo Ozuna , Dominican baseball player1975 – Brad Drew , Australian rugby league player1975 – Petria Thomas , Australian swimmer and coach 1976 – Damon Jones , American basketball player and coach1976 – Javed Qadeer , Pakistani cricketer and coach 1976 – Alexander Skarsgård , Swedish actor 1977 – Masumi Asano , Japanese voice actress and producer1977 – Andy McDonald , Canadian ice hockey player 1978 – Kel Mitchell , American actor, producer, and screenwriter1978 – Robert Mohr , German rugby player 1979 – Marlon Harewood , English footballer1979 – Philipp Mißfelder , German historian and politician (d. 2015) 1979 – Deanna Nolan , American basketball player 1981 – Rachel Bilson , American actress1981 – Jan-Berrie Burger , Namibian cricketer 1981 – Camille Pin , French tennis player 1982 – Jung Jung-suk , South Korean footballer (d. 2011)1983 – James Rossiter , English race car driver1984 – Florian Mohr , German footballer1984 – Anya Monzikova , Russian-American model and actress 1986 – Rodney Ferguson , American footballer1987 – Stacey Farber , Canadian actress1987 – Velimir Jovanović , Serbian footballer 1987 – Blake Lively , American model and actress 1987 – Amy Macdonald , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1987 – Justin Upton , American baseball player 1987 – Adam Warren , American baseball player 1987 – James Wesolowski , Australian footballer 1988 – Angela Park , Brazilian-American golfer1989 – Hiram Mier , Mexican footballer1990 – Max Muncy , American baseball player1992 – Miyabi Natsuyaki , Japanese singer and actress1992 – Ricardo Rodriguez , Swiss footballer 1994 – Edmunds Augstkalns , Latvian ice hockey player1998 – China Anne McClain , American actress and singerAD 79 – Pliny the Elder , Roman commander and philosopher (b. 23)AD 79 - Drusilla , Judean princess, daughter of Agrippa (b. 38)274 – Yang Yan , Jin Dynasty empress (b. 238)306 – Saint Maginus , Christian hermit and martyr from Tarragona 383 – Gratian , Roman emperor (b. 359)471 – Gennadius I , patriarch of Constantinople 766 – Constantine Podopagouros , Byzantine official766 – Strategios Podopagouros , Byzantine general 985 – Dietrich of Haldensleben , German margrave [3] 1091 – Sisnando Davides , military leader1192 – Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)1258 – George Mouzalon , regent of the Empire of Nicaea1270 – Louis IX of France (b. 1214)1270 – Alphonso of Brienne (b. c. 1225) 1271 – Joan, Countess of Toulouse (b. 1220)1282 – Thomas de Cantilupe , English bishop and saint (b. 1218)1322 – Beatrice of Silesia , queen consort of Germany (b. c. 1292)1327 – Demasq Kaja , Chobanid1330 – Sir James Douglas , Scottish guerilla leader (b. 1286)1339 – Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham (b. 1260)1368 – Andrea Orcagna , Italian painter, sculptor, and architect1482 – Margaret of Anjou (b. 1429)1485 – William Catesby , supporter of Richard III (b. 1450)1554 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk , English soldier and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1473)1592 – William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (b. 1532)1603 – Ahmad al-Mansur , Sultan of the Saadi dynasty (b. 1549)1631 – Nicholas Hyde , Lord Chief Justice of England (b.c. 1572)1632 – Thomas Dekker , English author and playwright (b. 1572)1688 – Henry Morgan , Welsh admiral and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (b. 1635)1699 – Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)1711 – Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey , English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1656)1742 – Carlos Seixas , Portuguese organist and composer (b. 1704)1774 – Niccolò Jommelli , Italian composer and educator (b. 1714)1776 – David Hume , Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1711)1794 – Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau , Belgian-Austrian diplomat (b. 1727)1797 – Thomas Chittenden , Governor of the Vermont Republic (later 1st Governor of the State of Vermont) (b. 1730)1819 – James Watt , Scottish-English engineer and instrument maker (b. 1736)1822 – William Herschel , German-English astronomer and composer (b. 1738)1867 – Michael Faraday , English physicist and chemist (b. 1791)1882 – Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald , Estonian physician and author (b. 1803)1886 – Zinovios Valvis , Greek lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1791)1892 – William Champ , English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1808)1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche , German philologist, philosopher, and critic (b. 1844)1904 – Henri Fantin-Latour , French painter and lithographer (b. 1836)1908 – Henri Becquerel , French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)1916 – Mary Tappan Wright , American novelist and short story writer (b. 1851)1921 – Nikolay Gumilyov , Russian poet and critic (b. 1886)1924 – Mariano Álvarez , Filipino general and politician (b. 1818)1924 – Velma Caldwell Melville , American editor, and writer of prose and poetry (b. 1858) 1925 – Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf , Austrian field marshal (b. 1852)1930 – Frankie Campbell , American boxer (b. 1904)1931 – Dorothea Fairbridge , South African author and co-founder of Guild of Loyal Women (b. 1862)1938 – Aleksandr Kuprin , Russian pilot, explorer, and author (b. 1870)1939 – Babe Siebert , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1904)1940 – Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (b. 1874)1942 – Prince George, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)1945 – John Birch , American soldier and missionary (b. 1918)1956 – Alfred Kinsey , American biologist and academic (b. 1894)1965 – Moonlight Graham , American baseball player and physician (b. 1879)1967 – Stanley Bruce , Australian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)1967 – Oscar Cabalén , Argentine race car driver (b. 1928) 1967 – Paul Muni , Ukrainian-born American actor (b. 1895) 1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell , American commander, politician, and activist, founded the American Nazi Party (b. 1918) 1968 – Stan McCabe , Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1910)1969 – Robert Cosgrove , Australian politician, 30th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1884)1970 – Tachū Naitō , Japanese architect and engineer, designed the Tokyo Tower (b. 1886)1971 – Ted Lewis , American singer and clarinet player (b. 1890)1973 – Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám , Hungarian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1875)1976 – Eyvind Johnson , Swedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)1977 – Károly Kós , Hungarian architect, ethnologist, and politician (b. 1883)1979 – Stan Kenton , American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1911)1980 – Gower Champion , American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)1981 – Nassos Kedrakas , Greek actor and cinematographer (b. 1915)1982 – Anna German , Polish singer (b. 1936 )1984 – Truman Capote , American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1924)1984 – Viktor Chukarin , Ukrainian gymnast and coach (b. 1921) 1984 – Waite Hoyt , American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1899) 1988 – Art Rooney , American businessman, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers (b. 1901)1990 – Morley Callaghan , Canadian author and playwright (b. 1903)1995 – Doug Stegmeyer , American bass player and producer (b. 1951)1998 – Lewis F. Powell, Jr. , American lawyer and Supreme Court justice (b. 1907)1999 – Rob Fisher , English keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1956)2000 – Carl Barks , American author and illustrator (b. 1901)2000 – Frederick C. Bock , American soldier and pilot (b. 1918) 2000 – Jack Nitzsche , American pianist, composer, and producer (b. 1937) 2000 – Allen Woody , American bass player and songwriter (b. 1955) 2001 – Aaliyah , American singer and actress (b. 1979)2001 – Carl Brewer , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938) 2001 – Üzeyir Garih , Turkish engineer and businessman, co-founded Alarko Holding (b. 1929) 2001 – Ken Tyrrell , English race car driver and businessman, founded Tyrrell Racing (b. 1924) 2002 – Dorothy Hewett , Australian author and poet (b. 1923)2003 – Tom Feelings , American author and illustrator (b. 1933)2005 – Peter Glotz , Czech-German academic and politician (b. 1939)2006 – Noor Hassanali , Trinidadian-Tobagonian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1918)2007 – Benjamin Aaron , American lawyer and scholar (b. 1915)2007 – Ray Jones , English footballer (b. 1988) 2008 – Ahmad Faraz , Pakistani poet (b. 1931)2008 – Kevin Duckworth , American basketball player (b. 1964) 2009 – Ted Kennedy , American politician (b. 1932)2009 – Mandé Sidibé , Malian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1940) 2011 – Lazar Mojsov , Macedonian politician (b. 1920)2012 – Florencio Amarilla , Paraguayan footballer, coach, and actor (b. 1935)2012 – Neil Armstrong , American pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930) 2012 – Roberto González Barrera , Mexican banker and businessman (b. 1930) 2012 – Donald Gorrie , Scottish educator and politician (b. 1933) 2013 – Ciril Bergles , Slovene poet and translator (b. 1934)2013 – António Borges , Portuguese economist and banker (b. 1949) 2013 – William Froug , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1922) 2013 – Liu Fuzhi , Chinese academic and politician, 3rd Minister of Justice for China (b. 1917) 2013 – Raghunath Panigrahi , Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1932) 2013 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves , Brazilian footballer (b. 1930) 2014 – William Greaves , American director and producer (b. 1926)2014 – Marcel Masse , Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1936) 2014 – Nico M. M. Nibbering , Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1938) 2014 – Uziah Thompson , Jamaican-American drummer and producer (b. 1936) 2014 – Enrique Zileri , Peruvian journalist and publisher (b. 1931) 2015 – José María Benegas , Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1948)2015 – Francis Sejersted , Norwegian historian and academic (b. 1936) 2016 – Marvin Kaplan , American actor (b. 1927)2017 – Rich Piana , American bodybuilder (b. 1971)2018 – John McCain , American politician (b. 1936)2019 – Ferdinand Piëch , Austrian business magnate & engineer (b. 1937) [4] Holidays and observances [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ] Wikimedia Commons has media related to August 25
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