Born on Saturday, 25th October – Famous Birthdays

25/10/2001

Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant

Princess Elisabeth of Belgium, Duchess of Brabant, is the heir apparent to the Belgian throne. The eldest child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, she was elevated to the dukedom after her grandfather Albert II abdicated on 21 July 2013. Should she ascend to the throne as expected, she will be Belgium's first-ever queen regnant.

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25/10/2000

Dominik Szoboszlai, Hungarian footballer

Dominik Szoboszlai is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Hungary national team. A versatile player, Szoboszlai can be deployed as a central or attacking midfielder, wide midfielder or right-back.

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Vincent Zhou, American figure skater

Vincent Zhou is an American figure skater. He is a 2022 Olympic gold medalist in the team event, a two-time World bronze medalist, the 2019 Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2021 Skate America champion, and a three-time U.S. national silver medalist. He is also the 2017 World Junior champion and the 2013 U.S. junior national champion.

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25/10/1999

Romeo Langford, American basketball player

Romeo James Langford is an American professional basketball player who last played for BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque of the French LNB Élite. He played college basketball for the Indiana Hoosiers and was ranked as one of the highest prospects in the college class of 2019, as he finished as the fifth overall prospect in the 2018 247sports rankings. A shooting guard, he was drafted by the Boston Celtics 14th overall in the 2019 NBA draft.

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25/10/1998

Juan Soto, Dominican baseball player

Juan José Soto Pacheco is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Washington Nationals, San Diego Padres, and New York Yankees. Soto is a six-time Silver Slugger Award winner and four-time All-Star.

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Lee Know, South Korean singer

Lee Min-ho, better known by his stage name Lee Know (리노), is a South Korean singer and dancer. He is a member of South Korean boy band Stray Kids, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2017.

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25/10/1997

Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer

Federico Chiesa is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward and winger for Premier League club Liverpool and the Italy national team.

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25/10/1996

PJ Dozier, American basketball player

Perry Linnard "PJ" Dozier Jr. is an American professional basketball player for Anadolu Efes of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the South Carolina Gamecocks.

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25/10/1995

Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress

Conchita Elizabeth Campbell is a Canadian actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Maia Rutledge on the USA Network series The 4400.

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Jock Landale, Australian basketball player

Jock Landale is an Australian professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Saint Mary's Gaels. Landale also represents the Australian national team. He was part of the Australian team that won bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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Patrick McCaw, American basketball player

Patrick Andrew McCaw is an American professional basketball player for the Raptors 905 of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the UNLV Runnin' Rebels and earned second-team all-conference honors in the Mountain West Conference (MWC) as a sophomore in 2016. McCaw was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round of the 2016 NBA draft. He won three NBA championships in his first three seasons: two with the Golden State Warriors and one with the Toronto Raptors, the first NBA player to do so while switching teams.

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25/10/1994

Richard Jouve, French cross-country skier

Richard Jouve is a French cross-country skier who has competed since 2015. He won the 2021–22 Sprint World Cup as the first Frenchman to win a discipline globe at the FIS Cross-Country World Cup.

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Jefferson Lerma, Colombian footballer

Jefferson Andrés Lerma Solís is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the Colombia national team.

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Matteo Lodo, Italian rower

Matteo Lodo is an Italian rower. He won the bronze medal in the coxless four at the 2016 Summer Olympics and at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and the gold medal at the 2015 World Rowing Championships and at the 2017 World Rowing Championships, in the coxless four and in the coxless pair respectively.

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Gor Minasyan, Armenian weightlifter

Gor Minasyan is an Armenian-Bahraini weightlifter, and two-time Olympic medalist competing in the super-heavyweight category.

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Ray Robson, American chess Grandmaster

Ray Robson is an American chess grandmaster. He achieved the grandmaster title in 2010, at the time the youngest American player to be awarded the title by FIDE.

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25/10/1993

Isaiah Austin, American basketball player

Isaiah Charles Austin is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach for the Florida Atlantic Owls men's team. He played two years of college basketball for Baylor University and was set to enter the NBA in 2014 until he was diagnosed with a mild form of Marfan syndrome. In 2016, he was cleared to continue playing basketball after a two-year stint away from the game. Between 2017 and 2021, he played professionally overseas.

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Iván Garcia, Mexican diver

Iván Alejandro García Navarro is a Mexican diver. He is nicknamed "Pollo" ("Chicken"). He competes in diving and represented Mexico at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He won a silver medal in the 10m Synchronized Platform with his partner Germán Sánchez with a high score of 468.90. In the individual 10m Platform, García came the 7th with a score of 521.65.

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William Howard, French basketball player

William Howard is a French professional basketball player for Covirán Granada of the Liga ACB. Howard started his basketball career in his home country, France.

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Rachel Matthews, American actress

Rachel Matthews is an American actress. She is known for starring in the film Happy Death Day and its sequel, Happy Death Day 2U.

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25/10/1992

Clarisse Agbegnenou, French judoka

Clarisse Bogdanna Agbegnenou is a French judoka. Competing in the −63 kg weight division she won the European title in 2013, the world title in 2014, an Olympic silver medal at the Rio 2016 Games, an Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Games, and the bronze medal at the 2024 Games in Paris, in her home country.

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Davide Formolo, Italian cyclist

Davide Formolo is an Italian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team. Formolo turned professional in 2014.

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Sergey Ridzik, Russian freestyle skier

Sergey Sergeyevich Ridzik is a Russian freestyle skier. Competing for Independent Olympic Athletes from Russia at the 2018 Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the ski cross. He replicated this success at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

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25/10/1991

Davide Faraoni, Italian footballer

Marco Davide Faraoni is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a right back for Serie B club Pescara.

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Isabella Shinikova, Bulgarian tennis player

Isabella Shinikova is a Bulgarian tennis player.

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25/10/1990

Mattia Cattaneo, Italian cyclist

Mattia Cattaneo is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step. As an amateur, Cattaneo won the Girobio in 2011 for the U.C. Trevigiani–Dynamon–Bottoli team. Professional since 2013, he took his first pro win on stage 3 of the 2017 Tour La Provence. In 2019, he won the Giro dell'Appennino one-day race. A strong time trialist, he won the stage four time trial of the 2021 Tour de Luxembourg and the six time trial of the 2023 Tour de Pologne.

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Sara Chafak, Finnish beauty pageant winner

Sara Chafak is a Finnish beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Finland 2012 and represented Finland in Miss Universe 2012.

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Asha Philip, British athlete

Asha Solette Philip is an English sprinter and former junior gymnast specialising in double mini-trampoline. She was the first British woman to achieve a global 100 metres title at any age-group, winning gold at the 2007 World Youth Championships aged 16. Following a serious knee injury in gymnastics in a championship in Quebec at 17, and a rehabilitation period of several years, she returned to athletics full-time in 2014, winning gold at the European Athletics Championships in the 4 × 100 metres relay for Great Britain, and bronze in the same event at the Commonwealth Games for England.

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Milena Rašić, Serbian volleyball player

Milena Rašić is a Serbian former professional volleyball player. She played for the Serbia women's national volleyball team. She won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She won a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She is 1.93 m tall.

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Dzina Sazanavets, Belarusian weightlifter

Dzina Sazanavets is a weightlifter representing Belarus. She was placed fourth at the 2012 Summer Olympics at the women's 69 kg event, just after her country-mate Maryna Shkermankova. In October 2016, the IOC disqualified her from the 2012 Olympics and annulled her result after her Olympic doping sample was retested and failed.

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25/10/1989

Filip Grgić, Croatian taekwondo practitioner

Filip Grgić is a taekwondo practitioner from Croatia.

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Sten Grytebust, Norwegian footballer

Sten Michael Grytebust is a Norwegian professional former footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

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David Hala, Australian rugby league player

David Hala is a Tonga international rugby league footballer who plays for the Redcliffe Dolphins in the Queensland Cup. He previously played for the Brisbane Broncos and the Gold Coast Titans in the NRL. He made his NRL debut in round 21 of the 2009 NRL season.

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Ivan Marconi, Italian footballer

Ivan Marconi is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie B club Virtus Entella.

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Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress

Mia Wasikowska is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut on the Australian television drama All Saints in 2004, followed by her feature film debut in Suburban Mayhem (2006). She first became known to a wider audience following her critically acclaimed work on the HBO television series In Treatment (2008). She was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for the film That Evening Sun (2009).

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25/10/1988

Robson Conceição, Brazilian boxer

Robson Donato Conceição is a Brazilian professional boxer who has held the World Boxing Council (WBC) super featherweight title in 2024. As an amateur, he became the first Brazilian boxer to win an Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Olympics.

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Lewis McGugan, English professional footballer

Lewis Shay McGugan is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. A player with excellent natural stamina, technical skills and mental attributes, he represented England at under-17 and under-19 levels.

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Chandler Parsons, American basketball player

Chandler Evan Parsons is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Florida Gators and was drafted by the Houston Rockets with the 38th overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft. Between 2011 and 2020, Parsons played in the NBA for the Rockets, Dallas Mavericks, Memphis Grizzlies, and Atlanta Hawks before injuries caused by a drunk driver forced him into retirement. Post-retirement, he became a sports commentator, including currently as the co-host of FanDuel online show Run It Back.

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Kaz Patafta, Australian footballer

Kaz Phonesak Patafta is an Australian sports administrator and former professional footballer. He has been the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Brisbane Roar FC since July 2023. Prior to this, he worked as a lawyer specialising in corporate law. He also founded his own legal firm, McDonald Patafta & Associates Lawyers, with offices in Singapore, Laos and Belgium.

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Karim Yoda, French footballer

Abdoul Karim Yoda is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Al-Raed.

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25/10/1987

Bill Amis, American basketball player

Wilburn Davis "Bill" Amis IV is a former American professional basketball player who last played for Crelan Okapi Aalstar of the Euromillions Basketball League in Belgium.

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Darron Gibson, Irish footballer

Darron Thomas Daniel Gibson is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for the Republic of Ireland national team.

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Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast

Fabian Hambüchen is a retired German gymnast who was an Olympic champion on horizontal bar in Rio 2016, World champion in Stuttgart 2007 on the same apparatus, as well as six times European champion on various other occasions and on different apparatus, including high bar, his most successful discipline. Apart from that, Fabian also won gold medals at European Games and at 2015 Summer Universiade. He has a full set of Olympics medals, one in each color, as he is the 2016 Olympic champion, 2012 Olympic silver medalist and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist on the individual horizontal bar event. Since the end of his active career, he has appeared in various television productions and advertising partnerships.

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25/10/1986

Tweety Carter, American basketball player

Demond "Tweety" Carter is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach for the Baylor Bears. He played college basketball for Baylor from 2006 to 2010. Carter played professionally in the NBA Development League, Latvia, Israel, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Lithuania, Poland, Greece and Portugal. He returned to Baylor in 2022 as director of player development and was promoted to assistant coach in 2024.

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Roger Espinoza, Honduran footballer

Roger Aníbal Espinoza Ramírez is a Honduran former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or defender. Espinoza currently serves as a youth coach for Major League Soccer club Sporting Kansas City. A former Honduras international, Espinoza represented his country at two World Cups and the 2012 Summer Olympics. He is currently a youth soccer coach for Sporting Kansas City.

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Eddie Gaven, American soccer player

Eddie Gaven is an American former soccer player who played 11 seasons in Major League Soccer, primarily with the Columbus Crew. In July 2012, Gaven became the youngest player to play in 250 MLS matches at 25 years and 257 days old.

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Kristian Sarkies, Australian footballer

Kristian Ronald Sarkies is an Australian footballer who plays for Sandringham SC in the Victorian Metropolitan League 1. He grew up in Dingley Village, a suburb in Melbourne's South-East 10 kilometres from his current club in Beaumaris. His previous spells include at A-League clubs Melbourne Victory, Adelaide United and Melbourne Heart. More recently he has played in the NPL.

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Ekaterina Shumilova, Russian biathlete

Ekaterina Yevgenyevna Shumilova is a Russian biathlete. She competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nové Město na Moravě, where she placed fourth in the relay with the Russian team. She competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi in sprint, pursuit, and relay. She initially won a silver medal in the relay; however, the team was disqualified when a teammate tested positive for doping, and the medal was stripped.

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25/10/1985

Ciara, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

Ciara Princess Wilson is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. She was discovered by record producer Jazze Pha in the early 2000s, and rose to prominence with her debut studio album, Goodies (2004). Its namesake lead single peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100, while the follow-ups, "1, 2 Step" and "Oh", both peaked at number 2 on the chart. The album received quadruple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and received two nominations at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards. Ciara also guest appeared on the 2005 singles "Lose Control" by Missy Elliott and "Like You" by Bow Wow, both of which peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Óscar Granados, Costa Rican footballer

Óscar Esteban Granados Maroto is a Costa Rican former footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder.

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Kara Lynn Joyce, American swimmer

Kara Lynn Joyce, is an American former competition swimmer and four-time Olympic silver medalist. She competed as a member of the United States Olympic Team at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

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Daniele Padelli, Italian footballer

Daniele Padelli is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Udinese.

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25/10/1984

Nicolas Besch, French ice hockey player

Nicolas Besch is a professional French ice hockey defenceman of Polish descent who currently plays for Boxers de Bordeaux of the Ligue Magnus. Outside of France, he has also played professional hockey in the Swedish Allsvenskan, the Finnish Mestis, and the Polish PHL.

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Ticia Gara, Hungarian chess player

Tícia Gara is a Hungarian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She was the Hungarian women's champion in 2006, 2007 and 2019. In the 2009 edition she and her sister Anita were tied for first place, with Anita receiving the title on tie-break. Gara has played for the Hungarian team in the Women's Chess Olympiad, the Women's European Team Chess Championship, the European Youth Girls Team Championship and the Women's Mitropa Cup. Her team won the gold medal in the 2015 Women's Mitropa Cup in Mayrhofen, Austria. She contributed to the victory scoring six wins from six games playing board two.

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Sara Lumholdt, Swedish singer and dancer

Sara Helena Lumholdt is a Swedish pop singer and champion pole dancer. She was a member of the Swedish quartet A-Teens, and briefly pursued a solo recording career after the band dissolved.

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Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. Known for her influence on pop music and her camp style, she has been dubbed the "Queen of Camp" by Vogue and Rolling Stone.

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Iván Ramis, Spanish footballer

Iván Andrés Ramis Barrios is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central defender.

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Karolina Šprem, Croatian tennis player

Karolina Šprem Baghdatis is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. She won eleven titles, all at the ITF level. Her highest ranking is world No. 17, achieved in October 2004.

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25/10/1983

Hotaru Akane, Japanese actress and activist (died 2016)

Hotaru Akane also known as Anna Akizuki and Hotaru (ほたる) was a Japanese actress, HIV/AIDS activist, and pornographic actress. She was active in many media formats in Japan including mainstream theatrical film, and was a popular blogger. Her adeptness at female ejaculation in adult videos (AV) earned Akane the title, "Shiofuki Queen". She retired from AV work in 2008.

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Stanislav Bohush, Ukrainian footballer

Stanislav Oleksandrovych Bogush is a Ukrainian retired professional football goalkeeper.

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Daniele Mannini, Italian footballer

Daniele Mannini is an Italian footballer who plays as a winger. Appearing for clubs such as Pisa, Brescia, Napoli and Sampdoria over the course of a near two decade long professional career, he made over 150 appearances in Serie A, also playing for several seasons in Serie B and Serie C. Following his professional retirement in 2020 he moved to England, where he came out of retirement in July 2022 to play for Northern Counties East Football League Division One club Beverley Town.

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Princess Yōko of Mikasa

Princess Yōko of Mikasa is a member of the Imperial House of Japan, paternal second cousin of Emperor Naruhito and the second daughter of Prince Tomohito of Mikasa and Princess Tomohito of Mikasa (Nobuko). She is also the niece of Japan's 92nd prime minister Tarō Asō, great-niece of author and literary critic Ken'ichi Yoshida, and great-granddaughter of Japan's 45th prime minister Shigeru Yoshida.

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Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress

Han Yeo-reum (Korean: 한여름) is a South Korean actress.

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25/10/1982

Victoria Francés, Spanish illustrator

Victoria Francés is a Spanish illustrator.

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Devin Green, American basketball player

Devin Green is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Hampton Pirates, finishing in 2005. After his tenure at Hampton University, he joined the Los Angeles Lakers for the 2005–2006 season.

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Guido Grünheid, German basketball player

Guido Grünheid is a German former professional basketball player.

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Camilla Jensen, Danish curler

Camilla Louise Skaarberg Jensen is a Danish curler. She currently plays on a team skipped by sister Angelina Jensen.

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Michael Sweetney, American basketball player

Michael Damien Sweetney is an American former professional basketball player. He is now the assistant coach of the Yeshiva University Men's basketball team and head coach of the girls varsity basketball team at New York's Ramaz School.

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Mickaël Tavares, Senegalese footballer

Mickaël Zidro Tavares is a former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Born in France, he made eleven appearances for the Senegal national team from 2009 to 2011.

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25/10/1981

Hiroshi Aoyama, Japanese motorcycle racer

Hiroshi Aoyama is a Japanese retired Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, and current team principal of Honda Team Asia. Aoyama is best known for winning the 2009 250cc World Championship title. He is the older brother of former 250cc and World Superbike rider, Shuhei Aoyama.

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Josh Henderson, American actor and singer

Joshua Baret Henderson is an American actor, model, and singer. Henderson is best known for his lead role as John Ross Ewing III in the TNT revival of Dallas (2012–2014). He played Austin McCann on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives (2006–2007), and appeared in films like Step Up. He became widely known after his appearance on The WB singing competition show Popstars 2, where he was one of the winners selected to be a member of the pop group Scene 23.

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Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer

Shaun Cameron Wright-Phillips is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger. He played in the Premier League and Football League for Manchester City, Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers, in Major League Soccer for the New York Red Bulls, in the United Soccer League for the New York Red Bulls II and Phoenix Rising FC, and at senior international level for the England national team.

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25/10/1980

Mehcad Brooks, American model and actor

Mehcad Jason McKinley Brooks is an American actor and former fashion model. He is known for his roles as Matthew Applewhite in the second season of ABC's series Desperate Housewives (2005–2006), Jerome in The Game, "Eggs" Benedict Talley in the first and second seasons of HBO's series True Blood, his leading role as Terrance "TK" King in the USA series Necessary Roughness (2011–2013) and James Olsen in the CBS/The CW series Supergirl. From 2022 to 2025, he portrayed one of the lead roles, that of NYPD Detective Jalen Shaw, on the NBC police procedural drama Law & Order.

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Félicien Singbo, Beninois footballer

Félicien Houenou Singbo is a Beninese former professional footballer who played as a defender. Between 2002 and he made 19 appearances for the Benin national team. In 2003, he received French nationality.

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25/10/1979

Bat for Lashes, English singer

Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat for Lashes, is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. She has released six studio albums: Fur and Gold (2006), Two Suns (2009), The Haunted Man (2012), The Bride (2016), Lost Girls (2019), and The Dream of Delphi (2024). She has received three Mercury Prize nominations. Khan is also the vocalist for Sexwitch, a collaboration with the rock band Toy and producer Dan Carey.

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Rob Hulse, English footballer

Robert William Hulse is an English former footballer who played as a striker.

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Mariana Klaveno, American actress

Mariana Klaveno is an American actress best known for her television roles as Lorena Ball (Krasiki) in the HBO series True Blood, as the psychopath Abby in the Lifetime movie While the Children Sleep, and as movie actress Peri Westmore in the Lifetime comedy-drama Devious Maids. In 2014, she starred as Detective Janice Lawrence in the CBS crime drama series Stalker.

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João Lucas, Portuguese footballer (died 2015)

João Nuno Silva Cardoso Lucas was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

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Rosa Mendes, Canadian-American wrestler and model

Milena Leticia Roucka is a Canadian retired professional wrestler, valet and model. She was known for her time in WWE under the ring name Rosa Mendes. She managed former WWE Tag Team Champions Primo & Epico from 2011 to 2013. She was also a main cast member on the E! reality series Total Divas.

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25/10/1978

Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer

Russell Anderson is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He played in the Scottish Premier League for Aberdeen, the Premier League for Sunderland, and the Football League for Plymouth Argyle, Burnley and Derby County. Anderson won 11 caps for Scotland at full international level between 2002 and 2008.

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Zachary Knighton, American actor

Zachary Andrew Knighton is an American actor, best known for starring as Dave Rose on the ABC comedy series Happy Endings from 2011 to 2013 and as Orville "Rick" Wright in the rebooted version of Magnum P.I. from 2018 to 2024. Other notable roles on television include starring roles on ABC's science fiction series FlashForward and in the FOX sitcoms Life on a Stick and Weird Loners.

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Bobby Madden, Scottish football referee

Robert Adam Madden is a Scottish former football referee.

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Robert Mambo Mumba, Kenyan footballer

Robert Mambo George Randu Mumba is a Kenyan former footballer. He is a former player of Swedish club GIF Sundsvall.

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Markus Pöyhönen, Finnish sprinter

Markus Pöyhönen is a Finnish former track and field athlete, who specialised in the 100m sprint. Pöyhönen's trainer during his active career was Atte Pettinen.

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An Yong-hak, North Korean footballer

An Yong-Hak is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in Japan, he represented North Korea internationally.

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25/10/1977

The Alchemist, American rapper, DJ, and producer

Alan Daniel Maman, known professionally as the Alchemist, is an American record producer, DJ and rapper. Critically acclaimed for his sample-heavy production style, he is regarded as one of the most influential producers in modern hip-hop and underground rap. His frequent collaborators include Mobb Deep, Larry June, Action Bronson, Freddie Gibbs, Roc Marciano, Schoolboy Q, Griselda, Boldy James, and Earl Sweatshirt.

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Rodolfo Bodipo, Equatoguinean retired footballer

Rodolfo Bodipo Díaz is a former professional footballer who played as a striker, and is a current manager and politician. Born in Spain, he played for the Equatorial Guinea national team.

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Mitică Pricop, Romanian sprint canoer

Mitică Pricop is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Sydney in 2000 with a gold in the C-2 1000 m and a bronze in the C-2 500 m events with Florin Popescu. The following year, they were double European champions over 500 m and 1000 m.

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Birgit Prinz, German footballer and psychologist

Birgit Prinz is a German former footballer, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and three-time FIFA World Player of the Year. In addition to the German national team, Prinz played for 1. FFC Frankfurt in the Frauen-Bundesliga as well as the Carolina Courage in the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the first professional women's league in the United States. Prinz remains one of the game's most prolific strikers and is the second FIFA Women's World Cup all-time leading scorer with 14 goals. In 2011, she announced the end of her active career. She is regarded as one of the greatest female players of all time. She currently works as a sport psychologist for the men's and women's teams of Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

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Rakan Rushaidat, Croatian actor

Rakan Rushaidat is a Jordanian-born Croatian actor. He has starred in numerous commercially and critically acclaimed Croatian films, including Sex, Drink and Bloodshed (2003), The One Who Will Stay Unnoticed (2004), Metastases (2009), Vegetarian Cannibal (2012), A Stranger (2013) and Mali (2018).

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Kateryna Serebrianska, Ukrainian gymnast

Kateryna Serebrianska[a] is a Ukrainian former individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 1996 Olympics gold medalist, the 1995 World All-around champion, the 1996 European All-around champion, and three time Grand Prix Final All-around champion.

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Mihai Tararache, Romanian footballer

Mihai Tararache is a retired Romanian footballer who last played as a midfielder for Gloria Bistriţa, Dinamo București, Grasshoppers, FC Zürich, and MSV Duisburg.

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Yeho, Israeli singer and actor

Yeho, real name Yoni Getreuer, is an Israeli singer and actor. He has performed under the stage names Gatro and Yehonathan. He has had a long collaboration with Israeli music producer Lyrik.

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25/10/1976

Deon Burton, Jamaican footballer

Deon John Burton is a football coach and former professional footballer who played as a striker and who is the manager of EFL Championship club West Bromwich Albion's under-23 team. His numerous clubs in English football included Portsmouth, Derby County and Sheffield Wednesday. He represented Jamaica internationally, including at the 1998 World Cup, and was named Jamaican Sportsman of the Year in 1997.

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Ahmed Dokhi, Saudi Arabian footballer

Ahmad Al-Dokhi Al-Dossary is a former Saudi Arabian footballer who last played as a defender for Al-Nassr.

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Akihisa Ikeda, Japanese manga artist

Akihisa Ikeda is a Japanese manga artist known for the manga Rosario + Vampire.

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Steve Jones, Northern Irish footballer

Stephen Graham Jones is a Northern Irish footballer who plays for Sandbach United football club. He has been capped 29 times by Northern Ireland and played for 20 clubs in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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Brett Kirk, Australian footballer and coach

Brett Kirk is a former Australian rules football player who was the captain of the Sydney Swans. He currently serves as an assistant coach with the Swans.

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Anton Sikharulidze, Russian pair skater

Anton Tarielyevich Sikharulidze is a Georgian-Russian former pair skater. With Elena Berezhnaya, he is the 1998 and 1999 World champion, 1998 Olympic silver medalist and 2002 Olympic champion.

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25/10/1975

Eirik Glambek Bøe, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Eirik Glambek Bøe is a Norwegian musician, writer and vocalist, best known for being part of the indie folk duo Kings of Convenience with Erlend Øye. He has a degree in psychology from the University of Bergen. Although his native language is Norwegian, many of his writings are in English.

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Ryan Clement, American football player

Ryan Clement is an American former football quarterback. He played college for the Miami Hurricanes and professionally in NFL Europe, XFL, United Indoor Football and the Indoor Football League.

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Agustín Julio, Colombian footballer

Agustín Julio Castro is a Colombian Association football former player, who played as a goalkeeper.

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Zadie Smith, English author and academic

Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, published in 2000, was an immediate best-seller and won a number of awards. Smith became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.

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Antony Starr, New Zealand actor

Antony Starr is a New Zealand actor. He is best known for portraying Homelander in Amazon Prime Video's superhero streaming television series The Boys and its spin-offs (2019–present), as well as the dual roles of Jethro and Van West in the series Outrageous Fortune (2005–10) and Lucas Hood in the Cinemax series Banshee (2013–16).

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25/10/1974

Lee Byung-kyu, South Korean baseball player

Lee Byung-kyu is a South Korean retired baseball player who played 17 seasons for the LG Twins of the KBO League, as well as three seasons with the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball. He also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics. He played as an outfielder.

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Yoo Yong-sung, South Korean badminton player

Yoo Yong-sung is a retired badminton player from South Korea. He is two time Olympic silver medalist.

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25/10/1973

Fırat Aydınus, Turkish football referee

Fırat Aydınus is a former Turkish international football referee. He studied and practiced geophysical engineering. In January 2012, he was promoted from UEFA Category 1 to the Elite Development category.

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Lamont Bentley, American actor and rapper (died 2005)

Lamont Bentley was an American actor and rapper best known for his role as Hakeem Campbell on the UPN sitcom Moesha. Bentley was also known for his role as Crazy K in the 1995 horror film Tales from the Hood and C-Money in the 2001 film The Wash featuring Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

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Michael Weston, American actor

Michael Weston is an American television and film actor. His best-known roles are the private detective Lucas on House, the deranged and sadistic kidnapper Jake in the HBO serial drama Six Feet Under, and Private Dancer on Scrubs, as well as Harry Houdini in Houdini & Doyle.

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25/10/1972

Cristian Dulca, Romanian footballer

Cristian Alexandru Dulca is a Romanian professional football coach and former player, who played as a defender.

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Rodolfo Falcón, Cuban swimmer

Rodolfo A. Falcón Cabrera is a 3-time Olympic swimmer from Cuba, and has been called the country's best swimmer ever. Since 2006, he has been the country's National Commissioner for swimming.

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Maxi Mounds, American nude big-bust model and pornographic actress

Maxi Mounds is an American nude big-bust model, stripper and occasional pornographic actress originally from the Long Island, New York area. Mounds is known for her extremely large breast implants. Mounds' implants are polypropylene string breast implants, which irritate the breast tissue, causing the breasts to grow continuously as they fill with fluid. According to her official website, Mounds' breasts each weigh twenty-eight pounds. She is 6 feet 0 inches in height. Mounds has polypropylene string breast implants which are also used by fellow big-bust entertainers Chelsea Charms, and Minka, to achieve very large bust sizes.

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Jonathan Torrens, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter

Jonathan Ormond Torrens is a Canadian actor and television personality best known for his co-hosting of Street Cents, his talk show Jonovision, and his role as "J-Roc" in the popular Canadian mockumentary Trailer Park Boys. In October 2009, Torrens began hosting TV with TV's Jonathan Torrens, a comedic newsmagazine program broadcast on the TVtropolis network. In January 2014, he teamed up with fellow Canadian Jeremy Taggart to create the Taggart and Torrens Podcast. They discuss everything from sports to politics and offer a unique perspective on current issues.

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Persia White, American actress, singer, and musician

Persia White (born October 25, 1972) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Lynn Searcy on the UPN/CW sitcom Girlfriends. She is also known for her role as Abby Bennett Wilson in The Vampire Diaries (2012–2017). White is also a singer, and released a solo album, Mecca, in 2009.

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25/10/1971

Simon Charlton, English footballer and manager

Simon Thomas Charlton is an English football coach, former player and radio summariser.

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Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer

Athena Chu is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Zixia Fairy in A Chinese Odyssey (1995).

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Neil Fallon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Neil Fallon is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Clutch. He is also the lead singer for The Company Band and Dunsmuir, and joined The Bakerton Group on guitar starting with their El Rojo album.

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Leslie Grossman, American actress

Leslie Erin Grossman is an American actress. She is known for her role as Lauren on The WB sitcom What I Like About You, and for her frequent collaborations with Ryan Murphy, appearing as Mary Cherry on The WB's comedy-drama series Popular (1999–2001), and as various characters on the FX anthology series American Horror Story since 2017. Grossman also had a recurring role on the television series 10 Things I Hate About You, a reboot of the original cult classic movie of the same name.

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Rosie Ledet, American singer-songwriter and accordion player

Rosie Ledet, also known as Rosie Bellard, is an American Creole Zydeco accordion player and singer.

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Pedro Martínez, Dominican-American baseball player and sportscaster

Pedro Jaime Martínez is a Dominican-American former professional baseball starting pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1992 to 2009 for five teams—most notably the Boston Red Sox from 1998 to 2004.

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Midori, Japanese-American violinist and educator

Midori Goto , who performs under the mononym Midori, is a Japanese-born American violinist. She made her debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 11 as a surprise guest soloist at the New Year's Eve Gala in 1982. In 1986 her performance at the Tanglewood Music Festival with Leonard Bernstein conducting his own composition made the front-page headlines in The New York Times. Midori became a celebrated child prodigy, and one of the world's preeminent violinists as an adult.

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Craig Robinson, American actor and singer

Craig Phillip Robinson is an American actor, comedian, and musician. The accolades he has received include nominations for five Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Independent Spirit Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award.

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Elif Şafak, French-Turkish journalist, author, and academic

Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist, and activist.

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25/10/1970

J. A. Adande, American journalist and academic

J. A. Adande is an American sportswriter, commentator and educator, who currently serves as the Director of Sports Journalism at Northwestern University.

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Peter Aerts, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist

Peter Aerts is a Dutch retired kickboxer. Known for his devastating high kicks, which earned him the nickname "The Dutch Lumberjack", he is widely considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight kickboxers of all time.

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Adam Goldberg, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Adam Goldberg is an American actor. Known for his supporting roles in film and television, Goldberg has appeared in films such as Dazed and Confused, Saving Private Ryan, A Beautiful Mind and Zodiac. He has also played leading roles in independent films such as The Hebrew Hammer and 2 Days in Paris. His TV appearances include the shows Law & Order: Criminal Intent, My Name Is Earl, Friends, Joey, Entourage, The Jim Gaffigan Show, The Unusuals and his role as hitman Grady Numbers in the first season of Fargo. From 2021 until 2025 he has starred opposite Queen Latifah on CBS' The Equalizer.

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Damir Mršić, Bosnian basketball player

Damir Mršić is a retired Bosnian professional basketball player. He also holds Turkish citizenship, under the name Demir Kaan, since 2003. He is one of Fenerbahçe's legendary club players, and was mostly known for his supreme three-point shooting ability.

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Adam Pascal, American actor and singer

Adam Pascal is an American actor, known for his performance as Roger Davis in the original Broadway and West End productions of Jonathan Larson's musical Rent, the 2005 movie version of the musical, and the Broadway tour of Rent in 2009. He is also known for originating the role of Radames in Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida, for playing the Emcee in the 1998 revival of Cabaret, for playing Freddie Trumper in Chess at the New Amsterdam Theatre and Royal Albert Hall, and for playing Huey Calhoun in the Broadway company of Memphis. More recently, he played William Shakespeare in the Tony Award-winning musical Something Rotten!

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Rafa, Spanish footballer

Rafael González Robles, commonly known as Rafa, is a Spanish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Ed Robertson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Lloyd Edward Elwyn Robertson is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the band Barenaked Ladies. He, along with former member Steven Page, founded the group in 1988. Following Page's departure in 2009, Robertson, bassist Jim Creeggan, and drummer Tyler Stewart remain the only members from the band's first studio album still active in the group. Kevin Hearn, who joined later, is also part of the current lineup.

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Daniel Scheinhardt, German footballer

Daniel Scheinhardt is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender.

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Chely Wright, American singer-songwriter and actress

Chely Wright is an American country music artist, activist, author, and corporate executive. She initially rose to fame as a commercial country recording artist with several charting singles, including the number one hit, "Single White Female." She later became known for her role in LGBTQ activism after publicly coming out as a gay woman in 2010. She has sold over 1,500,000 copies and 10,000,000 digital impressions to date in the United States.

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25/10/1969

Samantha Bee, Canadian-American comedian and television host

Samantha Anne Bee is a Canadian-American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actress, and television host.

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Josef Beránek, Czech ice hockey player and coach

Josef Beránek is a Czech former professional ice hockey player and coach. He was selected in the fourth round of the 1989 NHL Entry Draft, 78th overall, by the Edmonton Oilers. He has extensive professional playing experience, in the Czech Republic, the AHL, and the NHL. At the NHL level, he has played for the Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, Vancouver Canucks, and Pittsburgh Penguins. He ended his playing career with HC Slavia Praha in the Czech Republic. In 1998, Beránek was part of the Czech Republic's gold-medal winning Olympic ice hockey team.

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Slavko Cicak, Swedish chess Grandmaster

Slavko Cicak is a Swedish chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001.

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Nika Futterman, American voice actress, comedian and singer

Nika Futterman is an American actress and singer. She is known for her many roles in various animated series, including Mike in Mike, Lu & Og, Asajj Ventress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Stretch and Squeeze in Handy Manny, Cuckoo-Loca in Minnie's Bow-Toons, Miguel in Maya & Miguel, and Adam Lyon in My Gym Partner's a Monkey. She has voiced many characters for Nickelodeon, including Omnia in the Nickelodeon version of Winx Club, Chum Chum in Fanboy and Chum Chum, Olga Pataki in Hey Arnold!, Belle Pepper in Sanjay and Craig, and Luna Loud in The Loud House.

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Ibragim Gasanbekov, Azerbaijani footballer

Ibragim Gasanbekovich Gasanbekov was an Azerbaijani professional football player. He also held Russian citizenship.

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Oleg Salenko, Russian footballer

Oleg Anatolyevich Salenko is a Russian-Ukrainian former footballer who played as a forward. He scored a record five goals in a group-stage match in the 1994 World Cup, helping him earn the Golden Boot as joint-top tournament goalscorer.

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Alex Webster, American bass player

Alex Webster is an American musician who is the bassist and a co-founder of the death metal band Cannibal Corpse. He is one of two original remaining members, alongside drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz. He is also the bassist of Blotted Science and the supergroup Conquering Dystopia. Before Cannibal Corpse was formed, he was a member of Beyond Death.

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25/10/1968

Doris Fitschen, German footballer

Doris Fitschen was a German footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Christopher McQuarrie, American filmmaker

Christopher McQuarrie is an American filmmaker. He received the BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the neo-noir mystery film The Usual Suspects (1995). He made his directorial debut with the crime thriller film The Way of the Gun (2000).

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Speech, American rapper

Todd Thomas, better known by the stage name Speech, is an American rapper. He is a member of the progressive hip hop group Arrested Development and has released a number of solo albums.

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25/10/1967

Martin Marinov, Australian canoeist

Martin Marinov is a Bulgarian-born Australian flatwater canoeist who competed from the late 1980s and the mid-2000s (decade). A former "Mr Bulgaria" he won two Olympic medals for that country in the Canadian canoeing 500 m events. Married for Darina Marinova from 07.05.1989. Kids: Georgi Marinov 08.05.1992 and Maria-Veronika Marinova 14.04.1997. Grandkids: Martin Marinov 27.01.2020

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Taiyō Matsumoto, Japanese manga artist

Taiyō Matsumoto is a Japanese manga artist. Active as a professional manga artist since the 1980s, he is known for his experimental style and genre-blending works such as Tekkonkinkreet, Ping Pong, and No. 5. Influenced by Katsuhiro Otomo and French bande dessinée, his art combines psychological depth with rough, expressive lines. Matsumoto has won multiple awards, including the Eisner Award and Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

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Gary Sundgren, Swedish footballer

Kari Juhani "Gary" Sundgren is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as either a right back or a central defender. He played professionally with AIK and Zaragoza between 1988 and 2003. A Swedish international for nearly a decade, he won a total of 30 caps and represented his country at UEFA Euro 2000.

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25/10/1966

Zana Briski, British photographer and filmmaker

Zana Briski is a British photographer and filmmaker, best known for Born into Brothels, the 2004 Oscar winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, which she directed. She founded Kids with Cameras, a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities throughout the world. Her interest in photography began at age 10.

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Lionel Charbonnier, French footballer

Lionel André Michel Charbonnier is a French football manager and former professional player who played as a goalkeeper. After retiring, he became a football manager and managed Aceh United of the Liga Primer Indonesia in the season before they folded along with their independent league.

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Wendel Clark, Canadian ice hockey player

Wendel Lee Clark is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. His professional career lasted from 1985 until 2000, during which time he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Quebec Nordiques, New York Islanders, Tampa Bay Lightning, Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks. He was chosen first overall in the 1985 NHL entry draft by the Maple Leafs, the team he played with on three occasions, captaining the team from 1991 to 1994. Clark is a fan favourite in Toronto, continuing to represent the Maple Leafs at public events.

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Perry Saturn, American wrestler

Perry Arthur Satullo is an American retired professional wrestler known by his ring name, Perry Saturn. Since debuting in 1990, Saturn wrestled for promotions including Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He is a former ECW World Tag Team Champion, WCW World Tag Team Champion, WCW World Television Champion, WWF European Champion and WWF Hardcore Champion.

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25/10/1965

2 Cold Scorpio, American wrestler

Charles Bernard Scaggs is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name 2 Cold Scorpio. He gained fame for his performances in professional wrestling promotions such as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Pro Wrestling Noah, and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Over the course of his career, Scorpio held championships including the ECW World Tag Team Championship, ECW World Television Championship, GHC Tag Team Championship, and WCW World Tag Team Championship.

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Mathieu Amalric, French actor and director

Mathieu Amalric is a French actor and filmmaker. He has won several César Awards and the Lumière Awards.

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Valdir Benedito, Brazilian footballer

Valdir Benedito is a retired Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder for Atlético Paranaense (Brazil), Atlético Mineiro (Brazil), Cruzeiro (Brazil), Internacional (Brazil) and Kashiwa Reysol (Japan).

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Claire Colebrook, Australian philosopher, theorist, and academic

Claire Colebrook, is an Australian cultural theorist, currently appointed Cecile Parrish Memorial Chair of English Literature, Monash University and was formerly the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She has published numerous works on Gilles Deleuze, visual art, poetry, queer theory, film studies, contemporary literature, theory, cultural studies and visual culture. She is the editor of the Critical Climate Change Book Series at Open Humanities Press and the Critical Climate Change book series at Columbia University Press.

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Dominique Herr, Swiss footballer

Dominique Herr is a Swiss former football defensive midfielder who played throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

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Derrick Rostagno, American tennis player

Derrick John Rostagno is an American former professional tennis player.

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Rainer Strecker, German actor

Rainer Strecker is a German actor. He is best known as the voice of the audiobooks of the Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke.

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Karl Malin, Austrian politician

Karl Malin is an Austrian politician and engineer serving as mayor of Balzers, Liechtenstein since 2023.

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25/10/1964

Michael Boatman, American actor

Michael Patrick Boatman is an American actor and writer. He is known for his roles as New York City mayoral aide Carter Heywood in the ABC sitcom Spin City, as U.S. Army Specialist Samuel Beckett in the ABC drama series China Beach, as 101st Airborne soldier Motown in the Vietnam War movie Hamburger Hill, and as sports agent Stanley Babson in the HBO sitcom Arli$$. He also starred in The Good Fight, the Paramount+ spin-off of The Good Wife.

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Johan de Kock, Dutch footballer

Johan de Kock is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He earned 13 caps for the Netherlands national team, in which he scored one goal. He was a member of the Dutch team at UEFA Euro 1996 in England.

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Nicole, German singer

Nicole Seibert, known professionally as Nicole, is a German singer, songwriter, musician and producer. In 1982, she became the first German representative to win the Eurovision Song Contest. She has released more than 25 studio albums and 80 singles, some of which she performed and recorded in, among other languages, English, Dutch, and French. She wrote the music and lyrics for some of her recordings.

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Kevin Michael Richardson, American voice actor and singer

Kevin Michael Richardson is an American actor. Known for his distinctively deep voice, he has mostly voiced villainous characters in animation and video games. In film, Richardson voiced Goro in Mortal Kombat (1995) and Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020), Captain Gantu in the Lilo & Stitch franchise, Mr. Gus from Uncle Grandpa and Deus Ex Machina in The Matrix Revolutions (2003). He has also voiced characters on Seth MacFarlane's shows Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, and American Dad!, as well as several characters on Matt Groening's shows The Simpsons and Futurama.

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25/10/1963

John Levén, Swedish bassist

John Gunnar Levén is a Swedish bassist in the rock band Europe. Levén and vocalist Joey Tempest are the only band members who have performed on all of Europe's studio albums.

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Michael Lynagh, Australian rugby union footballer

Michael Patrick Thomas Lynagh, is an Australian former rugby union player who played 66 tests at fly-half and six tests at inside centre between 1984 and 1995. Lynagh was capped 72 times for Australia, and was captain from 1993 to 1995.

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Melinda McGraw, American actress

Melinda McGraw is an American actress. She has appeared in movies such as The Dark Knight (2008), Wrongfully Accused (1998), and Skateland (2010), and is also known for her television performances on Mad Men, Men of a Certain Age, The X-Files, The West Wing, and NCIS.

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Tracy Nelson, American actress

Tracy Kristine Nelson is an American actress. From a long line of entertainers, she is the daughter of musician Ricky Nelson and actress and painter Kristin Nelson.

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José Ortiz, Puerto Rican basketball player

José Rafael "Piculín" Ortiz Rijos is a Puerto Rican former professional basketball player. He played in the NBA, various European teams, and in Puerto Rico's Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). Ortiz played college basketball for the Oregon State Beavers.

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25/10/1962

David Furnish, Canadian filmmaker

David James Furnish is a Canadian CEO, artist manager, filmmaker and former advertising executive. He is the husband of British singer, songwriter, and pianist Elton John.

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Steve Gainer, American cinematographer and director

Steve Gainer, ASC ASK is an Emmy Award winning American cinematographer, director, and producer. He is a member and museum curator of the American Society of Cinematographers, a member of the Directors Guild of America, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Steve Hodge, English footballer and manager

Stephen Brian Hodge is an English retired footballer who played as a midfielder. He enjoyed a high-profile club and international career in the 1980s and 1990s. One high point of his career was playing in the 1986 World Cup, another was winning two League Cups with Nottingham Forest. He was also part of Leeds United's 1992 title-winning team though his starting appearances at Leeds were limited.

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John Stollmeyer, American soccer player

John Michael Stollmeyer is an American former soccer player. He played two seasons in Major Indoor Soccer League and one each in both the American Soccer League and the American Professional Soccer League. He also earned thirty-one caps with the U.S. national team from 1986 to 1990 and was a member of the U.S. team at the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

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25/10/1961

John Sivebæk, Danish footballer

John Sivebæk is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He won the 1984 Danish championship with Vejle Boldklub and played for English club Manchester United. He scored one goal in 87 appearances for the Denmark national team, and represented his country at the 1986 World Cup as well as three European Championships, including the triumphant 1992 European Championship tournament.

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Chad Smith, American drummer

Chad Smith is an American musician who is the drummer of the rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Smith has played with the Chili Peppers since 1988, appearing on ten of the band's studio albums and becoming the band's longest-serving drummer in its history. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Smith is also the drummer of the hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot, formed in 2008, and of the all-instrumental outfit Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, formed in 2007. He worked with the Chicks on Taking the Long Way, an album that won five Grammy Awards in 2007.

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25/10/1960

Hong Sang-soo, South Korean director and screenwriter

Hong Sang-soo is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He is one of the most prominent exponents of slow cinema, often dealing in love affairs and everyday dilemmas in contemporary South Korea. His work has been widely-acclaimed and received numerous international accolades.

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25/10/1959

Óscar Aguirregaray, Uruguayan footballer

Óscar Osvaldo Aguirregaray Acosta is a former Uruguayan footballer who played as a defender for Uruguay national team.

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Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (died 2013)

Christine Joy Amphlett was an Australian singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the frontwoman of the rock band Divinyls. She was notable for her brash, overtly sexual persona and subversive humour in lyrics, performances and media interviews.

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25/10/1958

Kornelia Ender, East German swimmer

Kornelia Ender is a former East German swimmer who at the 1976 Summer Olympics became the first woman swimmer to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games, all in world record times. It was later proven that the East German team doctors had systematically administered steroids to their athletes. As she had exhibited symptoms of steroid use in 1976, strong suspicion was cast on the validity of Ender's accomplishments.

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Kjell Inge Røkke, Norwegian businessman and philanthropist

Kjell Inge Røkke is a Norwegian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of the Norwegian-based company Aker ASA, and holds directorships in Aker BP, Kværner, Ocean Yield, Aker BioMarine and Aker Energy. As of December 31st 2018, Røkke owned 68.2% of the shares in Aker ASA through his investment company, TRG AS, and its subsidiaries.

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25/10/1957

Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress

Nancy Jean Cartwright is an American actress. She has served as the long-time voice of Bart Simpson on The Simpsons, which won her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance and an Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in the Field of Animation. Cartwright also voices other characters for the show, including Maggie Simpson, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and Nelson Muntz. She is also the voice of Chuckie Finster in the Nickelodeon series Rugrats and its spin-off All Grown Up!, succeeding Christine Cavanaugh.

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Enrique López Zarza, Mexican footballer

Enrique López Zarza is a Mexican former football forward and manager.

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Robbie McIntosh, English guitarist

Robbie McIntosh is an English guitarist. McIntosh is best known as a session guitarist and member of the Pretenders from 1982 until 1987. In 1988 he began doing session guitar work for Paul McCartney, joining his band full-time until early 1994. He continues to play sessions and has performed both with his own band and as a sideman with John Mayer.

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Piet Wildschut, Dutch footballer

Pieter "Piet" Wildschut is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a defender. He obtained 11 international caps for the Netherlands national team.

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25/10/1956

Stephen Leather, British author

Stephen Leather is a British thriller author whose works are published by Hodder & Stoughton. He has written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock, and the BBC's Murder in Mind series. He is one of the top selling Amazon Kindle authors, the second bestselling UK author worldwide on Kindle in 2011.

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25/10/1955

Glynis Barber, South African-English actress

Glynis Barber is a South African-British actress. She is known for her portrayals of Sgt. Harriet Makepeace in the British police drama Dempsey and Makepeace, Glenda Mitchell in EastEnders, DCI Grace Barraclough in Emmerdale, Norma Crow in Hollyoaks, Fiona Brake in Night and Day, and Soolin in Blake's 7.

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Robin Eubanks, American trombonist and educator

Robin Eubanks is an American jazz and jazz fusion slide trombonist, the brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks and trumpeter Duane Eubanks. Younger brother Shane Eubanks, twin to Duane Eubanks, is a DJ. His uncles are jazz pianist Ray Bryant and bassist Tommy Bryant. His mother, Vera Eubanks, was famed pianist Kenny Barron's first piano teacher.

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Gale Anne Hurd, American producer

Gale Anne Hurd is an American film and television producer, the founder of Valhalla Entertainment, and a former recording secretary for the Producers Guild of America. Her notable works include The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Armageddon (1998), Mankiller (2017) and The Walking Dead (2010–2022).

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Matthias Jabs, German guitarist and songwriter

Matthias Jabs is a German musician, best known as the lead/rhythm guitarist of the hard rock band Scorpions. He has played on all but the first five Scorpions studio albums, starting with Lovedrive (1979). He owns a music store, MJ Guitars, in Munich.

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Leena Lander, Finnish author

Leena Lander is a Finnish author. She grew up in Turku, in a boys' home that her father ran. In 1992, she won the Thanks for the Book Award for Tummien perhosten koti, which was made into a successful Finnish film in 2008. Her work is known for its concern with the treatment of children and tensions involving authority and conscience. She also won the Pro Finlandia medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland in 2000.

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Lito Lapid, Filipino actor

Manuel "Lito" Mercado Lapid is a Filipino actor, director and politician serving as a Senator since 2019, and previously from 2004 to 2016. He started his political career in Pampanga, serving as vice governor from 1992 to 1995, and governor from 1995 to 2004.

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25/10/1954

Mike Eruzione, American ice hockey player and coach

Michael Anthony "Rizzo" Eruzione is an American former ice hockey player. He is best known as the captain of the 1980 Winter Olympics United States national team that defeated the Soviet Union in the famous "Miracle on Ice" game, in which he scored the game-winning goal. He is the author, with Neal E. Boudette, of the national bestseller, The Making of a Miracle: The Untold Story of the Captain of The Gold Medal-Winning 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, published by HarperCollins.

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Ed Powers, American founder of Ed Powers Productions

Mark Arnold Krinsky, better known as Ed Powers, is an American pornographic film director, producer, actor, and radio host. He is the owner of the porn production company Ed Powers Productions.

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25/10/1953

Daniele Bagnoli, Italian volleyball coach

Daniele Bagnoli was an Italian volleyball coach.

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Jasem Yaqoub, Kuwaiti footballer

Jasem Yaqoub Sultan Al-Besara is a Kuwaiti former professional footballer. He represented the Kuwait national team at both the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1982 FIFA World Cup.

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25/10/1952

Samir Geagea, Lebanese commander and politician

Samir Farid Geagea is a Lebanese politician and former militia commander who has been the leader of the Lebanese Forces political party and former militia since 1986.

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Wendy Hall, English computer scientist, mathematician, and academic

Dame Wendy Hall is a British computer scientist. She is Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.

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Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (died 2004)

Giannis Kyrastas was a Greek footballer and a later manager.

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Tove Nilsen, Norwegian author

Tove Nilsen is a Norwegian novelist, children's writer and literary critic.

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25/10/1951

Richard Lloyd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Richard Lloyd is an American guitarist and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the rock band Television.

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25/10/1950

Anne Alvaro, French actress

Anne Alvaro is a French actress whose work spans from the early 1970s through to 2012. She is probably best known for her role as Eleonore in the 1983 biopic Danton. She won one César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Taste of Others in 2001 and another for The Clink of Ice in 2011.

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Fernando Arêas Rifan, Brazilian bishop

Fernando Arêas Rifan is a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church from Campos, Brazil. Since December 2002 he has been the Apostolic Administrator of the Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney, also known as the Priestly Union of Saint Jean-Marie Vianney. For some years before 2001 he was allied with Priestly Union when it defied the Holy See by routinely using unauthorized liturgical forms and associated with the Society of St. Pius X. He helped negotiate the reconciliation of the Priestly Union with the Holy See in 2001.

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Roger Davies, English footballer

Roger Davies is an English retired football forward who played professionally in England, Belgium and the United States. He was capped by England at under-23 level. He also provided radio commentary for Derby County games.

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John Matuszak, American footballer (died 1989)

John Daniel Matuszak, nicknamed "Tooz", was an American professional football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) who later became an actor.

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Francisco Oscar Lamolina, Argentine football referee

Francisco Oscar "Pancho" Lamolina is an Argentine former football (soccer) referee.

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Chris Norman, English singer-songwriter

Christopher Ward Norman is an English soft rock singer. Norman was the original lead singer of the English rock band Smokie (1964–1986), which found success in Europe in the 1970s. "Stumblin' In", a 1978 duet with Suzi Quatro, became a big hit in the United States and Europe. The single "Midnight Lady" also became an international hit. In the 1990-2000s, he toured the countries of Eastern Europe; he is most popular in the Baltic countries.

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25/10/1949

Réjean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player and manager

Réjean Houle is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He played in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens from 1969 to 1973 and again from 1976 to 1983, and in the World Hockey Association with the Quebec Nordiques from 1973 to 1976. After his playing career he served as the general manager of the Canadiens from 1995 to 2000, and is notable for trading goaltender Patrick Roy early in his tenure. Selected first overall in the 1969 NHL Amateur Draft by Montreal, Houle won the Stanley Cup with the team five times during his career.

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Walter Hyatt, American singer-songwriter (died 1996)

Walter Hyatt was an American singer and songwriter. His group, Uncle Walt's Band, was involved in the alternative music scene in Austin, Texas.

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Brian Kerwin, American actor

Brian Kerwin is an American actor who has starred in feature films, Broadway shows, and television series and movies.

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Wilfried Louis, Haitian footballer

Wilfried Louis is a Haitian football defender who played for Haiti in the 1974 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Don Bosco FC.

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25/10/1948

Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach

David William Cowens is an American former professional basketball player and NBA head coach. At 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m), he played the center position and occasionally played power forward. Cowens spent most of his playing career with the Boston Celtics. He was the 1971 NBA Rookie of the Year and the 1973 NBA Most Valuable Player. Cowens won NBA championships as a member of the Celtics in 1974 and 1976. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991. Throughout his career Cowens was known for being an undersized center, however he made up for his height with hustle and athleticism. Cowens has also held coaching positions in the NBA, CBA, and WNBA.

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Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach

Danny Mack Gable is an American former folkstyle and freestyle wrestler and coach. Considered to be one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, Gable is a two-time NCAA Division I national champion, a World Wrestling Championships gold medalist, and an Olympic gold medalist. Gable was only the third wrestler to be inducted into the United World Wrestling's Hall of Fame in the Legend category. In 2014, Gable was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020.

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Dan Issel, American basketball player and coach

Daniel Paul Issel is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats, earning All-American twice en route to a school-record 25.7 points per game for his career. The American Basketball Association Rookie of the Year in 1971, he was a six-time ABA All-Star and a one-time NBA All-Star.

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Sigleif Johansen, Norwegian biathlete

Sigleif Johansen is a former Norwegian biathlete. He won a silver medal in the 20 km individual at the World Championships in 1977 in Lillehammer, and a bronze medal in Ruhpolding in 1979. He received a silver medal in the 4 × 7.5 km relay in 1978.

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25/10/1947

Requena Nozal, Spanish artist

José Requena Nozal is a self-taught artist-painter who uses different techniques. His works are scattered both Spain, Europe and the United States. He has held various exhibitions open both to the public and also to specialised art critics.

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Glenn Tipton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Glenn Raymond Tipton is an English guitarist. Often noted for his complex playing style and classically influenced solos, he is best known as one of the lead guitarists for the heavy metal band Judas Priest. He is the second longest-serving member of the band, after bassist Ian Hill. Tipton and Hill are the only two members of the band who have appeared on every studio album.

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25/10/1946

Elías Figueroa, Chilean footballer

Elías Ricardo Figueroa Brander is a Chilean former footballer who played for several clubs during his career, notably his hometown club Santiago Wanderers, Brazilian club Internacional and Uruguayan club Peñarol. He also represented Chile 47 times, appearing in three FIFA World Cups, in 1966, 1974, and 1982.

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Peter Lieberson, American composer (died 2011)

Peter Goddard Lieberson was an American composer of contemporary classical music. His song cycles include two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Music: Rilke Songs and Neruda Songs; the latter won the 2008 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition and both were written for his wife, the mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. His three piano concertos were each premiered by the pianist Peter Serkin, with the 1st and 3rd also being Pulitzer finalists.

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25/10/1945

Peter Ledger, Australian-American painter and illustrator (died 1994)

Peter Ledger was an Australian cartoonist, comic book artist, commercial airbrush artist, and illustrator.

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Yuriy Meshkov, Ukrainian politician and Russian separatist (died 2019)

Yuri Aleksandrovich Meshkov was a Ukrainian politician and leader of the pro-Russian movement in Crimea. He served as the only President of Crimea from 1994 to 1995.

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Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Polish lawyer, screenwriter and politician

Krzysztof Marek Piesiewicz is a Polish lawyer, politician and screenwriter for film. From 1991 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2011 he was a member of Polish Senate. He was the head of the Social Movement (RS) or Social Movement Party.

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Francisco Sá, Argentine footballer

Francisco Pedro Manuel Sá is a retired Argentine football defender.

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Phil Volk, American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer

Phillip Edward Volk is an American musician. As the bassist of Paul Revere & the Raiders from 1965 to 1967, Volk appeared in over 750 television shows, 520 of which were episodes of the Dick Clark production, Where the Action Is, which aired daily from 1965 to 1967. The band themselves had 23 charted hits and 14 gold albums and Volk was a member of the band during the period of its greatest success. Volk's bass lines, as heard in songs such as "Hungry", "Just Like Me" and "Kicks", helped to revolutionize how the bass guitar was used in rock music. Volk was seen frequently in such fan magazines as 16 Magazine, popular during the 1960s.

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David S. Ward, American director and screenwriter

David Schad Ward is an American screenwriter and film director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for his screenplays for the films The Sting (1973) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993), winning for the former. He was also nominated for a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Writers Guild of America Awards.

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Keaton Yamada, Japanese voice actor

Keaton Yamada is a Japanese former actor, voice actor and narrator from Mikasa, Hokkaidō. He switched from going by his real name, Shunji Yamada, to going by Keaton Yamada in the 1980s. He is currently represented by Remax.

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25/10/1944

Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician, 10th Menteri Besar of Kedah (died 2013)

Azizan bin Abdul Razak was a Malaysian politician who served as the 10th Menteri Besar of the state of Kedah from 2008 to 2013. A member of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), he was the first Chief Minister of Kedah from a party other than the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). He held the seat of Sungai Limau in the Kedah state assembly from 2004 until his death in 2013. He was also the state commissioner for PAS in Kedah and a member of the central committee of the national party.

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Jon Anderson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Jon Anderson is an English singer, songwriter, and musician who co-founded the progressive rock band Yes with bassist Chris Squire in 1968 and rose to prominence as their lead vocalist. The band pioneered progressive rock in the 1970s, particularly with their critically-acclaimed albums The Yes Album, Fragile and Close to the Edge (1972) which display Anderson's role in crafting the group's sound as one of the main songwriters and lyricists. Known for his high tenor vocal style, Anderson was a member of Yes across three tenures until 2004.

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James Carville, American lawyer and political consultant

Chester James Carville Jr. is an American political consultant, author and occasional actor who has strategized for candidates for public office in the United States and in at least 23 nations abroad. A Democrat, he is a pundit in U.S. elections who appears frequently on cable news programs, podcasts, and public speeches.

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Donald Ford, Scottish footballer

Donald Campbell Clark Ford is a Scottish former footballer who played as a striker, spending 11 years with Heart of Midlothian. He made three appearances for the Scotland national team.

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Fred Housego, Scottish-English taxi driver and game show host

Fred Housego is a former London taxi driver and tour guide who became a television and radio personality and presenter after winning the BBC television quiz Mastermind in 1980. Notwithstanding his fame and success, he retained his taxi licence upon commencing his media career and continued his taxi-driving career as late as 2007.

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Kati Kovács, Hungarian singer-songwriter and actress

Kati Kovács, is a Ferenc Liszt and Kossuth Award-winning Hungarian pop and rock singer, performer, lyricist and actress.

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Ren Zhengfei, Chinese businessman

Ren Zhengfei is a Chinese entrepreneur and engineer who is the founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies, which is located in Shenzhen, China, and is the world's largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and second largest manufacturer of smartphones and Huawei Chinese Electric Cars.

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25/10/1943

Orso Maria Guerrini, Italian actor

Orso Maria Guerrini is an Italian film, television and stage actor and voice actor.

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Roy Lynes, English keyboardist and singer

Status Quo are a British rock band formed in London in 1962. Beginning with "Pictures of Matchstick Men" in 1968, they have had over 60 chart hits in the UK – more than any other band – with further hits including "Caroline", "Down Down", "Rain", "Rockin' All Over the World", "Whatever You Want" and "What You're Proposing". 22 of these reached the Top 10 in the UK singles chart, and 57 reached the Top 40. They have released over 100 singles and 33 studio albums. Since reaching number five on the UK albums chart in 1972 with Piledriver, Status Quo have placed 29 consecutive studio albums on the UK charts, including 20 Top 10 studio albums. In 2012, they were announced as the tenth best-selling group of all time on the UK singles chart with 7.2 million singles sales in their homeland alone. As of 2015, they were one of only 50 artists to have achieved more than 500 total weeks on the UK Albums Chart.

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25/10/1942

Terumasa Hino, Japanese jazz trumpeter

Terumasa Hino is a Japanese jazz trumpeter. He is considered one of Japan's finest jazz musicians. His instruments include the trumpet, cornet, and flügelhorn.

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Gloria Katz, American screenwriter and producer (died 2018)

Gloria Katz was an American screenwriter and film producer, best known for her association with George Lucas. Along with her husband Willard Huyck, Katz's credited screenplays include American Graffiti, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Howard the Duck, and Night Ride Down (unproduced). Katz was Jewish.

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Franklin Loufrani, French President of the Smiley Company

SmileyWorld Limited, trading as The Smiley Company, is a brand licensing company based in London, United Kingdom. It claims to hold the rights to the smiley face in over 100 countries. The company licenses products including textiles, puzzles, party goods, stationery, automobile accessories, and toys for licensed brand partners and retailers.

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25/10/1941

Lynda Benglis, American sculptor and painter

Lynda Benglis is an American sculptor and visual artist known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. She maintains residences in New York City, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Kastellorizo, Greece, and Ahmedabad, India.

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Helen Reddy, Australian-American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2020)

Helen Maxine Reddy was an Australian and American singer, actress, television host, and activist. Born in Melbourne to a show business family, Reddy started her career as an entertainer at age four. She sang on radio and television and won a talent contest on the television program Bandstand in 1966; her prize was a ticket to New York City and a record audition, which was unsuccessful. After a short and unsuccessful singing career in New York, she eventually moved to Chicago, and subsequently, Los Angeles, where she made her debut singles "One Way Ticket" and "I Believe in Music" in 1968 and 1970, respectively. The B-side of the latter single, "I Don't Know How to Love Him", reached number eight on the pop chart of the Canadian magazine RPM. She was signed to Capitol Records a year later.

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Gordon Tootoosis, Aboriginal Canadian actor (died 2011)

Gordon Tootoosis, was a First Nations actor of Cree and Stoney descent. Tootoosis was a descendant of Yellow Mud Blanket, brother of the famous Cree leader Poundmaker. He was acclaimed for his commitment to preserving his culture and to telling his people's stories. He once said, "Leadership is about submission to duty, not elevation to power." He served as a founding member of the board of directors of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company. Tootoosis offered encouragement, support and training to aspiring Aboriginal actors. He served as a leading Cree activist both as a social worker and as a band chief. In Open Season and Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run, Tootoosis was the voice of Sheriff Gordy.

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Anne Tyler, American author and critic

Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.

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Dave Weill, American discus thrower

David Lawson Weill is an American former athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw.

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25/10/1940

Jimmy Herman, Canadian actor (died 2013)

Jimmy Herman was an Indigenous Canadian actor who appeared in several films, including Dances with Wolves.

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Bob Knight, American basketball player and coach (died 2023)

Robert Montgomery Knight was an American men's college basketball coach. Nicknamed "the General", he won 902 NCAA Division I men's basketball games, a record at the time of his retirement and sixth all-time record at the time of his death.

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25/10/1939

Zelmo Beaty, American basketball player and coach (died 2013)

Zelmo "Big Z" Beaty was an American basketball player. He played eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and four in the rival American Basketball Association (ABA). Beaty excelled in both high school and college basketball before being selected as a first round draft pick by the St. Louis Hawks in 1962. He was a two-time All-Star for the team in seven years before deciding to jump to the Utah Stars in 1970. In four seasons with the Stars, he was an ABA All-Star three times while being a key figure in the team's run to the 1971 ABA championship, where he recorded 36 points and 16 rebounds in the decisive Game 7 on his way to being named Playoffs MVP; it is still the only professional basketball championship for the state of Utah. Beaty's career soon drew to a close due to knee injuries due to his physical play of the years that saw him retire in 1975 at the age of 36. A three-time ABA All-Star and two-time NBA All-Star to go along with being selected to the ABA All-Time Team, Beaty was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 2016.

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Sara Dylan, American actress and model

Sara Dylan is an American former actress and model who was the first wife of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. In 1959, Noznisky married magazine photographer Hans Lownds; during their marriage, she was known as Sara Lownds.

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Nikolay Kiselyov, Soviet Nordic combined athlete (died 2005)

Nikolay Fyodorovich Kiselyov was a Soviet Nordic combined athlete, Master of Sports of the USSR, International Class. He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Leningrad. His best finish was a silver medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck in the individual event.

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Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2007)

Nikos Georgiou Nikolaidis was a Greek film director, screenwriter, film producer, writer, theatre director, assistant director, record producer, television director, and commercial director. He is usually considered a representative of European avant-garde and experimental art film.

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Dave Simmonds, British motorcycle racer (died 1972)

Dave Simmonds was a British professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He competed in the Grand Prix world championships from 1963 to 1972. Simmonds is notable for winning the 1969 125 cc FIM road racing world championship.

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Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2005)

Robin Spry was a Canadian film director, producer and writer. He was perhaps best known for his documentary films Action: The October Crisis of 1970 and Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis about Quebec's October Crisis. His 1969 film Prologue won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.

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25/10/1938

Bob Webster, American diver

Robert David "Bob" Webster is a retired American diver who won the 10 m platform event at every competition he entered between 1960 and 1964, including the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and 1963 Pan American Games. He later became a diving coach at the University of Minnesota, Princeton University, and the University of Alabama. He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1970 and the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1989.

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25/10/1937

Vendramino Bariviera, Italian cyclist (died 2001)

Vendramino Bariviera was an Italian racing cyclist who competed in the individual road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics. After the Olympics he turned professional and won several stages of the Giro d'Italia in 1963, 1964 and 1966. He rode the 1964 Tour de France and retired in 1967. His younger brother Renzo was an Olympic basketball player.

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Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, Spanish prelate

Ignacio Carrasco de Paula is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been a bishop since 2010. He was the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life from 2010 to 2016.

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Roberto Menescal, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Roberto Menescal is a Brazilian composer, record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and pioneer of bossa nova. In many of his songs there are references to the sea, including his best-known composition "O Barquinho". He is also known for work with Carlos Lyra, Nara Leão, Wanda Sá, Ale Vanzella, and many others. Menescal has performed in Latin music genres such as bossa nova, samba and MPB. He was nominated for a Latin Grammy for his work with his son's bossa group Bossacucanova in 2002 and received the 2013 Latin Recording Academy Special Awards in Las Vegas in November 2013.

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25/10/1936

Martin Gilbert, English historian, author, and academic (died 2015)

Sir Martin John Gilbert was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was the author of 88 books, including works on Winston Churchill, the 20th century, and Jewish history including the Holocaust. He was a member of the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq War.

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Arnfinn Nesset, Norwegian nurse and convicted serial killer

Arnfinn Nesset was a Norwegian nurse and nursing home manager who was a convicted serial killer. His crimes include the murders of at least 22 people, as well as attempted murder, document forgery, and embezzlement. He may have murdered up to 138 people. In 1983, he was convicted of poisoning 22 patients and sentenced to 21 years in prison. He served 12 years and 10 years of supervision and was thought to be living under an assumed name.

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Masako Nozawa, Japanese actress and singer

Masako Nozawa is a Japanese actress. Beginning work as a child actress at the age of three, by the time she became an adult, voice acting had inadvertently become her main occupation. Throughout her career, Nozawa has been affiliated with Production Baobab, 81 Produce, the self-owned Office Nozawa and Aoni Production. She is best known as the voice of Son Goku in the Dragon Ball franchise, beginning with its first animated adaptation in 1986. She also voices most of the character's male relatives, namely Son Gohan, Son Goten, and Bardock. Nozawa's other roles include Kitarō and Medama-oyaji in GeGeGe no Kitarō, Doraemon in the 1973 anime, and Tetsurō Hoshino in Galaxy Express 999 (1978).

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25/10/1935

Rusty Schweickart, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut

Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart is an American aeronautical engineer and former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, business executive, and government executive.

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25/10/1934

Carlos Sherman, Belarusian–Spanish translator, writer, activist (died 2005)

Carlos Sherman was a Uruguay-born Belarusian–Spanish translator, writer, human rights activist and honorary vice-president of the Belarusian PEN Center. He translated from Spanish into Belarusian and Russian.

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25/10/1933

René Brodmann, Swiss footballer (died 2000)

René Brodmann was a Swiss football defender who played for Switzerland in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Grasshopper Club Zürich, FC Zürich, and FC St. Gallen. He died during a car crash in August 2000, aged 66.

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Martti Mansikka, Finnish gymnast (died 2024)

Martti Mansikka was a Finnish gymnast. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a team bronze medal. His best individual result was tenth place on floor. His team placed fourth at the 1958 World Championships. Domestically Mansikka won the Finnish titles on floor, pommel horse and vault in 1957.

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25/10/1932

Vitold Fokin, Ukrainian first deputy prime minister (died 2025)

Vitold Pavlovych Fokin was a Ukrainian politician who served as the first Prime Minister of Ukraine from the country's declaration of independence on 24 August 1991 until 1 October 1992. He had earlier served as the prime minister of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 23 October 1990 to 24 August 1991.

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Jerzy Pawłowski, Polish fencer and double agent (died 2005)

Jerzy Władysław Pawłowski was a Polish fencer and double agent. He is regarded among the most successful Polish fencers in history having won 5 Olympic medals as well as seven gold medals at the World Fencing Championships. He was awarded the Polish Sports Personality of the Year title twice, in 1957 and 1968.

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Theodor Pištěk, Czech costume designer

Theodor Pištěk was a Czech painter, costume designer, set designer, and racing driver. His costume designs and film sets are internationally acclaimed. He won an Oscar for his costumes for Amadeus, directed by Miloš Forman. For Forman's next film, Valmont, Pištěk won a César Award and was nominated for a second Oscar. In 2003, he received the Czech Lion Award for Unique Contribution to Czech Film, in 2013, he was awarded the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema, and in 2017, he received the Golden Slipper for Outstanding Contribution to Films for Children and Young People.

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25/10/1931

Annie Girardot, French actress and singer (died 2011)

Annie Suzanne Girardot was a French actress. She often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her to women undergoing similar daily struggles.

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Jimmy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and manager (died 2018)

James McIlroy was a Northern Ireland international footballer, who played for Glentoran, Burnley, Stoke City and Oldham Athletic. He was regarded as one of Burnley's greatest players, having played 497 matches and scoring 131 goals. McIlroy also managed Oldham Athletic and Bolton Wanderers.

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25/10/1930

Harold Brodkey, American author and academic (died 1996)

Harold Brodkey, born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American short-story writer and novelist.

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Karoly Honfi, Hungarian chess player (died 1996)

Károly Honfi was a Hungarian chess player who held the chess title of International Master. Honfi was posthumously awarded the title of Honorary Grandmaster.

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25/10/1929

Michel Knuysen, Belgian rower (died 2013)

Michel Jules Lodewijk Knuysen was a Belgian rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was born in Wijnegem. In 1952 he won the silver medal with his partner Bob Baetens in the coxless pairs event. Four years later he was eliminated with his partner Bob Baetens in the repêchage of the coxless pair competition.

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Zdravko Milev, Bulgarian chess player (died 1984)

Zdravko Milev Milev was a Bulgarian chess International Master.

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Claude Rouer, French cyclist (died 2021)

Claude Rouer was a road cyclist from France, who at the 1952 Summer Olympics won the bronze medal in the men's team road race, alongside Jacques Anquetil and Alfred Tonello. He was a professional rider from 1953 to 1955. In 1953, he was the lanterne rouge of the Tour de France.

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Peter Rühmkorf, German writer (died 2008)

Peter Rühmkorf was a German writer who significantly influenced German post-war literature.

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25/10/1928

Jeanne Cooper, American actress (died 2013)

Wilma Jeanne Cooper was an American actress, best known for her role as Katherine Chancellor on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless (1973–2013). At the time of her death, she had played Katherine for nearly 40 years, and her name appears on the list of longest-serving soap opera actors in the United States.

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Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect (died 2021)

Paulo Mendes da Rocha was a Brazilian architect.

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Anthony Franciosa, American actor (died 2006)

Anthony George Franciosa was an American actor most often billed as Tony Franciosa at the height of his career. He began his career on stage and made a breakthrough portraying the brother of the drug addict in the play A Hatful of Rain, which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He reprised his role in its subsequent film adaptation, for which he won the 1957 Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

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Adolphe Gesché, Belgian Catholic priest and theologian (died 2003)

Adolphe Gesché was a Belgian Catholic priest and theologian. He was professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Louvain and author of several works in the field of Theological studies.

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Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist, astronomer, and academic (died 2016)

Peter Naur was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing Award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages. He also contributed to creating the language ALGOL 60.

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Marion Ross, American actress

Marion Ross is an American retired actress. Her best-known role is that of Marion Cunningham on the ABC television sitcom Happy Days, on which she starred from 1974 to 1984 and for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Before her success on Happy Days, Ross appeared in a variety of film roles, appearing in The Glenn Miller Story (1954), Sabrina (1954), Lust for Life (1956), Teacher's Pet (1958), Some Came Running (1958), Operation Petticoat (1959), and Honky (1971), as well as several minor television roles, one of which was on television's The Lone Ranger (1954). She was also twice nominated successively in 1992 and 1993 for the Primetime Emmy Award for her performance on the CBS television comedy-drama Brooklyn Bridge and later netted another Emmy nomination in 1999 for a two-episode appearance on the CBS drama Touched by an Angel. Ross also co-starred in a sequel to the film Terms of Endearment (1983) called The Evening Star (1996), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was also nominated and won a Lone Star Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Yakov Rylsky, Soviet sabre fencer (died 1999)

Yakov Anufrievich Rylsky was an Olympic champion and three-time world champion Russian sabre fencer who competed for the Soviet Union. He took part in three Olympic Games and won two medals in the team events.

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25/10/1927

Barbara Cook, American singer and actress (died 2017)

Barbara Cook was an American actress and singer who first came to prominence in the 1950s as the lead in the original Broadway musicals Plain and Fancy (1955), Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the last. She continued performing mostly in theatre until the mid-1970s, when she began a second career as a cabaret and concert singer. She also made numerous recordings.

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Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Uruguay (died 2016)

Jorge Luis Batlle Ibáñez was an Uruguayan politician and lawyer, who served as the 38th president of Uruguay from 2000 to 2005. A member of the Colorado Party, he previously served as National Representative from 1959 to 1967, and as Senator of the Republic from 1985 to 1990 and from 1990 to 1999. Batlle is, to date, the last president from the Colorado Party.

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Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist and author (died 1987)

Lawrence Kohlberg was an American psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development.

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Lauretta Masiero, Italian actress and singer (died 2010)

Lauretta Masiero was an Italian actress and singer.

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25/10/1926

Bo Carpelan, Finnish poet and author (died 2011)

Baron Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan was a Finland-Swedish poet and author. He published his first book of poems, Som en dunkel värme, in 1946, and received his PhD in 1960. Carpelan, who wrote in Swedish, composed numerous books of verse, as well as several novels and short stories.

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Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and composer (died 2020)

James Edward Heath, nicknamed Little Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader. He was the brother of bassist Percy Heath and drummer Albert Heath.

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Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian-American soprano and actress (died 2012)

Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. She was the wife of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and mother to their two daughters, Olga and Elena Rostropovich.

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25/10/1925

Oralia Dominguez, Mexican operatic mezzo-soprano singer (died 2013)

Oralia Dominguez was a Mexican operatic mezzo soprano, or contralto, who performed at many of the world's leading opera houses.

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Joseph Michel, Belgian politician (died 2016)

Joseph Michel was a Christian-Democrat Belgian politician, member of the PSC, who was President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (1980–81) and who twice served as Minister of the Interior.

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25/10/1924

Billy Barty, American actor (died 2000)

Billy Barty was an American actor and activist. In adult life, he stood 3 ft 9 in (1.14 m) tall because of cartilage–hair hypoplasia dwarfism and so was often cast in films opposite taller performers for comic effect. He specialized in outspoken or wisecracking characters. During the 1950s, he became a television actor, appearing regularly in the Spike Jones ensemble. In the early 1970s, he appeared often in a variety of roles in children's TV programs produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. As an activist for people with dwarfism, he founded the Little People of America organization in 1957.

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Earl Palmer, American Hall of Fame drummer (died 2008)

Earl Cyril Palmer was an American drummer. Considered one of the inventors of rock and roll, he is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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25/10/1923

Achille Silvestrini, Italian prelate (died 2019)

Achille Silvestrini was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served in the Vatican diplomatic corps, either in Rome or abroad, from 1953 to 1990, and later as Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches from 1991 to 2000.

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Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (died 2012)

Beate Sirota Gordon was an Austrian and American performing arts presenter and women's rights advocate. Born in Vienna, Austria, she moved to the Empire of Japan in 1929 with her father, the pianist Leo Sirota. After graduating from the American School in Japan, she moved to Oakland, California, where she enrolled at Mills College. Being one of the few people not of Japanese descent who was fluent in Japanese, she obtained work at the Office of War Information in the Foreign Broadcast Information Service of the Federal Communications Commission.

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Bobby Thomson, Scottish-American baseball player (died 2010)

Robert Brown Thomson was an American professional baseball player, nicknamed "the Staten Island Scot". He was an outfielder and right-handed batter for the New York Giants, Milwaukee Braves (1954–57), Chicago Cubs (1958–59), Boston Red Sox (1960), and Baltimore Orioles (1960). His pennant-winning three-run home run for the Giants in 1951 is popularly known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", and is one of the most famous moments in baseball history. It overshadowed his other accomplishments, including eight 20-home-run seasons and three All-Star selections. "It was the best thing that ever happened to me", he said. "It may have been the best thing that ever happened to anybody."

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25/10/1922

Gloria Lasso, Spanish singer (died 2005)

Rosa Vicenta Montserrat Coscolín Figueras known professionally as Gloria Lasso was a Spanish-born canción melódica singer, long based in France. In the 1950s, she was one of the major competitors to Dalida.

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25/10/1921

Michael I of Romania (died 2017)

Michael I was the last king of Romania, reigning from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930 and again from 6 September 1940 until his forced abdication on 30 December 1947.

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25/10/1920

Megan Taylor, British figure skater (died 1993)

Megan Olwen Devenish Taylor was a British figure skater competitive in the 1930s. She won the World Championships in 1938 and 1939. Her father was Phil Taylor, a speed skater.

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25/10/1919

Beate Uhse-Rotermund, German pilot and entrepreneur (died 2001)

Beate Uhse-Rotermund was a German pilot, entrepreneur and sex shop pioneer. She was one of the very few female stunt pilots in Germany in the 1930s. During World War II she ferried planes for the German Luftwaffe and after World War II she started a sex shop. The company she started, Beate Uhse AG, is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

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Raoul Remy, French cyclist (died 2002)

Raoul Rémy was a French professional road bicycle racer.

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25/10/1918

David Ausubel, American psychologist (died 2008)

David Paul Ausubel was an American psychologist. His most significant contribution to the fields of educational psychology, cognitive science, and science education learning was on the development and research on "advance organizers" since 1960.

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25/10/1917

Carl Forssell, Swedish fencer (died 2005)

Carl Forssell was a Swedish fencer. Competing in the team épée he won a bronze medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics, a silver at the 1952 Summer Olympics, as well as four silver and two bronze medals at the world championships of 1938–1951. Individually he won a silver at the 1950 World Championships and finished eighth at the 1952 Olympics. He was a medical doctor by profession.

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Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (died 2001)

Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky was a Soviet bureaucrat who was First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1965 to 1973. From 1958 to 1962 he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR, equivalent to a Premier in of one of the 15 Soviet Socialist Republics that comprised the Soviet Union.

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25/10/1916

Helge Larsson, Swedish canoeist (died 1971)

Helge Larsson was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1930s. He won the bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

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25/10/1915

Ivan M. Niven, Canadian-American mathematician and academic (died 1999)

Ivan Morton Niven was a Canadian-American number theorist best remembered for his work on Waring's problem. He worked for many years as a professor at the University of Oregon, and was president of the Mathematical Association of America. He wrote several books on mathematics.

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25/10/1914

John Berryman, American poet and scholar (died 1972)

John Allyn McAlpin Berryman was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry. His 77 Dream Songs (1964) won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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25/10/1913

Klaus Barbie, German SS captain (died 1991)

Niklaus Barbie was a German officer of the Schutzstaffel and Sicherheitsdienst who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners—primarily Jews and members of the French Resistance—as the head of the Gestapo in Lyon.

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Larry Itliong, Filipino-American union organizer (died 1977)

Modesto "Larry" Dulay Itliong, also known as "Seven Fingers", was a Filipino-American union organizer. He organized West Coast agricultural workers starting in the 1930s, and rose to national prominence in 1965, when he, Philip Vera Cruz, Benjamin Gines and Pete Velasco walked off the farms of area table-grape growers, demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage, in what became known as the Delano grape strike. He has been described as "one of the fathers of the West Coast labor movement".

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Anton Kochinyan, Soviet-Armenian politician (died 1990)

Anton Yervandi Kochinyan was a Soviet Armenian politician. He served as Chairman of the Armenian Council of Ministers from 1952 to 1966, and as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1966 until his retirement in 1974.

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25/10/1912

Abdelkader Ben Bouali, French footballer (died 1997)

Abdelkader Ben Bouali was a professional French footballer, the first of North African descent to play on the national team.

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Alfred Klingler, German field handballer

Alfred Klingler was a German field handball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Klingler was part of the German field handball team, which won the gold medal. He played three matches. He was also on the team, who won the 1936 World Cup in field handball. With his club Polizei-SV Magdeburg he won the German Championship in 1935.

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Minnie Pearl, American entertainer and philanthropist (died 1996)

Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, known professionally as her stage character Minnie Pearl, was an American comedian and country singer who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (1940–1991) and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991.

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Luigi Raimondi, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1975)

Luigi Raimondi was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints from his elevation to the cardinalate by Pope Paul VI in 1973 until his death two years later.

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25/10/1910

William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer (died 1994)

William Alfred Higinbotham was an American physicist. A member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement. He also has a place in the history of video games for his 1958 creation of Tennis for Two, the first interactive analog computer game and one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display.

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Johnny Mauro, American race car driver (died 2003)

Johnny Mauro was an American racecar driver. He was born in Denver Colorado on October 25, 1910. Mauro and his family owned several car dealerships, leading him to being the only Ferrari importer in Denver for many years. He raced in Indy cars for Ferrari in the 1940s and 1950s, and was the mastermind behind the United States Truck Driving School (USTDS), a company still owned by his daughter Arlene and her husband Dick Lammers. When Mauro died in January 2003 in an auto accident, he owned a large collection of cars he had acquired, all of them restored, including a Ford Model A, an Alfa Romeo, a Fiat, a few Mercedes, a quarter midget race car, a Buick, and his prized possession, a red 1984 Ferrari GTO with only a few thousand original miles.

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Tyrus Wong, Chinese-American artist (died 2016)

Tyrus Wong was a Chinese-born American artist. He was a painter, animator, calligrapher, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer and kite maker, as well as a set designer and storyboard artist. One of the most-influential and celebrated Asian-American artists of the 20th century, Wong was also a film production illustrator, who worked for Disney and Warner Bros. He was a muralist for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), as well as a greeting card artist for Hallmark Cards. Most notably, he was the lead production illustrator on Disney's 1942 film Bambi, taking inspiration from Song dynasty art. He also served in the art department of many films, either as a set designer or storyboard artist, such as Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Rio Bravo (1959), The Music Man (1962), PT 109 (1963), The Great Race (1965), Harper (1966), The Green Berets (1968), and The Wild Bunch (1969), among others.

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25/10/1909

Whit Bissell, American actor (died 1996)

Whitner Nutting Bissell was an American character actor.

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Ken Domon, Japanese photographer (died 1990)

Ken Domon was a celebrated Japanese photographer known for his work as a photojournalist and as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary.

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Edward Flynn, American boxer (died 1976)

Edward Loring Flynn was an American boxer who won the gold medal in the 1932 Summer Olympics as a welterweight. He was also a member of the Loyola Wolf Pack boxing team.

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Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, director and screenwriter (died 1985)

Jean-Paul Étienne Dreyfus, better known as Jean-Paul Le Chanois, was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. His film ...Sans laisser d'adresse won the Golden Bear (Comedies) award at the 1st Berlin International Film Festival.

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25/10/1908

Carmen Dillon, English film and production designer (died 2000)

Carmen Dillon was an English film art director and production designer who won an Oscar for the Olivier version of Hamlet (1948).

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Gotthard Handrick, German fighter pilot and Olympic athlete (died 1978)

Gotthard Handrick was a German Olympic athlete and German fighter pilot during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

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Polly Ann Young, American actress (died 1997)

Polly Ann Young was an American actress.

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25/10/1906

Karl Humenberger, Austrian footballer (died 1989)

Karl Humenberger was an Austrian association football player and manager, the brother of fellow player Ferdinand Humenberger.

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25/10/1905

Bob McPhail, Scottish footballer (died 2000)

Robert Lowe McPhail was a Scottish footballer who played as an inside-left for Airdrieonians, Rangers and the Scotland national team.

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25/10/1904

Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1985)

Cemal Reşit Rey was a Turkish composer, pianist, script writer and conductor. He was well known for a string of successful and popular Turkish-language operettas for which his brother Ekrem Reşit Rey (1900–1959) wrote the librettos.

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Denny Shute, American golfer (died 1974)

Herman Densmore "Denny" Shute was an American professional golfer who won three major championships in the 1930s.

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Bill Tytla, Ukrainian-American animator (died 1968)

Vladimir Peter "Bill" Tytla was a Ukrainian-American animator known for his work during the Golden Age of American animation, in the Walt Disney Productions animation unit, Paramount's Famous Studios, and Terrytoons. In his Disney career, Tytla is particularly noted for the animation in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia and Dumbo. He was inducted as a Disney Legend in 1998.

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25/10/1903

Piet van der Horst, Dutch cyclist (died 1983)

Petrus "Piet" Michaelis van der Horst was a Dutch racing cyclist who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal as part of the Dutch pursuit team.

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25/10/1902

Henry Steele Commager, American historian and author (died 1998)

Henry Steele Commager was an American historian. As one of the most active and prolific liberal intellectuals of his time, with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, he helped define modern liberalism in the United States.

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Carlo Gnocchi, Italian priest, educator and writer (died 1956)

Carlo Gnocchi was an Italian priest, educator and writer. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

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Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (died 1933)

Eddie Lang was an American musician who is credited as the father of jazz guitar. During the 1920s, he gave the guitar a prominence it previously lacked as a solo instrument, as part of a band or orchestra, and as accompaniment for vocalists. He recorded duets with guitarists Lonnie Johnson and Carl Kress and jazz violinist Joe Venuti, and played rhythm guitar in the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and was the favoured accompanist of Bing Crosby.

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25/10/1901

Roy Fox, British dance bandleader (died 1982)

Roy Clifton Fox was an American-born British dance bandleader who was popular in Britain during the British dance band era of the 1930s.

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25/10/1900

Johan Greter, Dutch equestrian (died 1975)

Johan Jacob Greter was a Dutch equestrian who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he and his horse Ernica won the silver medal as part of the Dutch show jumping team, after finishing sixth in the individual jumping competition.

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Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and activist (died 1978)

Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, also known as Funmilayo Aníkúlápó-Kuti, was a Nigerian educator, political organizer, and women's rights advocate who intellectually engaged with anti-imperialist, Pan-Africanist, and feminist ideologies. Ransome-Kuti also identified herself as an African Socialist.

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William Stevenson, American track and fielder (died 1985)

William Edwards Stevenson was an American track and field athlete, lawyer and diplomat, who won the gold medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics, and later served as the president of Oberlin College.

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25/10/1899

Armand Thirard, French cinematographer (died 1973)

Armand Thirard was a French cinematographer. He worked on more than a hundred and twenty films during his career.

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25/10/1898

Karl Anton, German director, screenwriter and producer (died 1979)

Karl Anton or Karel Anton was a Bohemian-born German film director, screenwriter, and film producer.

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25/10/1897

Erwin von Lahousen, German Abwehr official (died 1955)

Erwin Heinrich René Lahousen, Edler von Vivremont was a German military office who was a high-ranking Abwehr official during the Second World War, as well as a member of the German Resistance and a key player in attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 13 March 1943 and 20 July 1944.

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Karl Olivecrona, Swedish lawyer and philosopher (died 1980)

Karl Olivecrona was a Swedish lawyer and legal philosopher. He studied law at Uppsala from 1915 to 1920 and was a pupil of Axel Hägerström, the spiritual father of Scandinavian legal realism. One of the internationally best-known Swedish legal theorists, Olivecrona was a professor of procedural law and legal philosophy at Lund University. His writings emphasise the psychological significance of legal ideas. His most striking work on legal theory, the first edition of his book Law as Fact, stressed the importance of a monopoly of force as the basis of law. The book's second edition, published in 1971, was changed considerably due to Germany's defeat in World War II. Olivecrona's view on politics during the war was in fact a pure Nazi ideology; he emphasized a need for overwhelming coercive power to guarantee order in international relations. He became convinced that Europe required an unchallengeable controlling force to ensure its peace and unity, and that Germany alone could provide this. His pamphlet England eller Tyskland, published in 1940, the darkest days of the war, argued that Britain had lost its claim to exert leadership in Europe and that the future required an acceptance of German hegemony.

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Luigi Pavese, Italian actor (died 1969)

Luigi Pavese was an Italian actor and voice actor.

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25/10/1896

Nils Backlund, Swedish water polo player (died 1964)

Nils Robert Backlund was a Swedish water polo player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he was part of the Swedish team, which was able to win the bronze medal. In the 1924 water polo competition his team finished in fourth place.

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25/10/1895

Levi Eshkol, Ukrainian-Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (died 1969)

Levi Eshkol, born Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik, was the prime minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. A founder of the Israeli Labor Party, he served in numerous senior roles, including Minister of Defense (1963–1967) and Minister of Finance (1952–1963).

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Vsevolod Merkulov, Russian head of the NKGB (died 1953)

Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov was the head of NKGB from February to July 1941, and again from April 1943 to March 1946. He was a leading member of what was later derisively described as the "Beria gang".

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Arthur Schmidt, German officer (died 1987)

Arthur Schmidt was an officer in the German military from 1914 to 1943. He attained the rank of Generalleutnant during World War II, and is best known for his role as the Sixth Army's chief of staff in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942–43, during the final stages of which he became its de facto commander, playing a large role in executing Hitler's order that it stand firm despite being encircled by the Red Army. He was a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union for twelve years, and was released following West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer's visit to Moscow in 1955.

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25/10/1894

Claude Cahun, French photographer and sculptor (died 1954)

Claude Cahun was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer.

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Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu, Turkish poet and songwriter (died 1973)

Âşık Veysel was a Turkish Alevi ashik, bağlama virtuoso, and folk poet. He was born and died in the village of Sivrialan, Sivas Province, in the Ottoman Empire. Blind since the age of 7, Veysel's songs were typically melancholic, and dealt with a range of themes revolving around morality, love, faith, life and death, patriotism, nature, and his own perception of the world as a blind man.

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Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Prime Minister of Finland (died 1982)

Johan Wilhelm (Jukka) Rangell was the Prime Minister of Finland from 1941 to 1943.

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25/10/1892

Nell Shipman, Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, and producer (died 1970)

Nell Shipman was a Canadian actress, writer, and director who was active in silent film in the 1910s and 1920s. She used "the girl from God's country" as her sobriquet after starring in God's Country and the Woman.

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25/10/1891

Charles Coughlin, Canadian-American priest and radio host (died 1979)

Charles Edward Coughlin, commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a Canadian-American Catholic priest based near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower. Dubbed "The Radio Priest " and considered a leading demagogue, he was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience. During the 1930s, when the U.S. population was about 120 million, an estimated 30 million listeners tuned in to his weekly broadcasts.

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Karl Elmendorff, German conductor (died 1962)

Karl Eduard Maria Elmendorff was a German opera conductor.

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25/10/1890

Floyd Bennett, American aviator (died 1928)

Floyd Bennett was a United States Naval Aviator who, along with then USN Commander Richard E. Byrd, made the first flight to the North Pole in May 1926. However, their claim to have reached the pole is disputed.

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Kōtarō Tanaka, Japanese jurist and politician (died 1974)

Kōtarō Tanaka was a Japanese jurist, professor of law and politician who served as the last Minister of Education of the Empire of Japan and the second postwar Chief Justice of Japan.

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25/10/1889

Abel Gance, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1981)

Abel Gance was a French film director, producer, writer, and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927).

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25/10/1888

Richard E. Byrd, American admiral and pilot (died 1957)

Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. was an American naval officer, and pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. He is also known for discovering Mount Sidley, the largest dormant volcano in Antarctica.

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Nils Dardel, Swedish-American painter (died 1943)

Nils Elias Kristofer von Dardel, sometimes known as Nils de Dardel, was a 20th-century Swedish Post-Impressionist painter and grandson of the famous Swedish painter Fritz von Dardel.

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Jan Palouš, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (died 1971)

Jan Leopold Alois "Koza" Palouš was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Winter Olympics. He was born in Budweis, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary and died in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

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Léon Tom, Belgian fencer and bobsledder

Léon Tom was a Belgian épée, foil and sabre fencer and bobsledder. He won two silver medals in the team épée competition at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the bobsleigh event at the 1928 Winter Olympics.

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25/10/1887

Alexander McCulloch, British rower (died 1951)

Alexander McCulloch was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

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25/10/1886

Leo G. Carroll, English-American actor (died 1972)

Leo Grattan Carroll was an English actor. In a career of more than 40 years, he appeared in six Hitchcock films including Spellbound, Strangers on a Train and North by Northwest and in three television series, Topper, Going My Way, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

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Karl Polanyi, Austro-Hungarian economist and historian (died 1964)

Karl Paul Polanyi was an Austro-Hungarian economic historian, economic sociologist, and politician, best known for his book The Great Transformation, which questions the conceptual validity of self-regulating markets.

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25/10/1885

Sam M. Lewis, American singer and lyricist (died 1959)

Sam M. Lewis was an American singer and lyricist.

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Xavier Lesage, French equestrian (died 1968)

François Xavier Edmond Marie Lesage was a French horse rider who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born in Moret-sur-Loing and died in Gisors.

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25/10/1884

Maria Czaplicka, Polish cultural anthropologist (died 1921)

Maria Antonina Czaplicka, also referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism. Czaplicka's research survives in three major works: her studies in Aboriginal Siberia (1914); a travelogue published as My Siberian Year (1916); and a set of lectures published as The Turks of Central Asia (1918). Curzon Press republished all three volumes, plus a fourth volume of articles and letters, in 1999.

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25/10/1883

Nikolay Krestinsky, Russian revolutionary and politician (died 1938)

Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky was a Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and politician who served as the Responsible Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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25/10/1882

John T. Flynn, American journalist and author (died 1964)

John Thomas Flynn was an American journalist best known for his opposition to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and to American entry into World War II. In September 1940, Flynn helped establish the America First Committee (AFC), which he abandoned when Pearl Harbor was attacked a year later, switching to support of the war effort. In his intense opposition to Roosevelt, Flynn later went on to advance the Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory.

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Tony Jackson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1921)

Antonio Junius "Tony" Jackson was an American pianist, singer, and composer.

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André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien, French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1964)

André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien, P.S.S. was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Dean of the Roman Rota in the Roman Curia from 1944 to 1958, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958.

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Theodora Agnes Peck, American author and poet (died 1964)

Theodora Agnes Peck was an American author and poet from Vermont. She published several historical novels when she was in her twenties and thirties, and her poems were published in magazines, newspapers, and literary journals throughout her life.

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25/10/1881

Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1973)

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. His career spanned more than 76 years, from his late teens to his death in 1973.

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25/10/1880

Bohumír Šmeral, Czech politician (died 1941)

Bohumír Šmeral was a Czech politician, leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party, and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

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25/10/1879

Fritz Haarmann, German serial killer (died 1925)

Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann was a German serial rapist and serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover, the Vampire of Hanover and the Wolf Man, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemberment of at least twenty-four young men and boys in the city of Hanover between 1918 and 1924.

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25/10/1877

Adolf Moller, German rower (died 1968)

Adolf Möller was a German rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the German crew who won the bronze medal in the coxed fours final A.

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Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (died 1957)

Henry Norris Russell ForMemRS HFRSE FRAS was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910). In 1923, working with Frederick Saunders, he developed Russell–Saunders coupling, which is also known as LS coupling.

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25/10/1875

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, American author and educator (died 1961)

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey was an American children's author.

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Arthur Birkett, British cricketer (died 1941)

A cricket match was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, which took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes between teams representing Great Britain and France.

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25/10/1874

Emma Gramatica, Italian actress (died 1965)

Emma Gramatica was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in 29 films between 1919 and 1962. She was born in Borgo San Donnino, today Fidenza, province of Parma and died in Ostia. Her sisters Irma and Anna were also actresses.

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Victor Sonnemans, Belgian water polo player (died 1962)

Victor Jean Marie Sonnemans was a Belgian water polo player and won silver medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

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Huang Xing, Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman (died 1916)

Huang Xing or Huang Hsing was a Chinese revolutionary leader and politician, and the first commander-in-chief of the Republic of China. As one of the founders of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Republic of China, his position was second only to Sun Yat-sen. Together they were known as Sun-Huang during the Xinhai Revolution. He was also known as the "Eight Fingered General" because of wounds sustained during war. His tomb is on Mount Yuelu, in Changsha, Hunan, China.

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25/10/1870

Elsa Reger, German writer (died 1951)

Margarete Ulrike Augusta Marie Karoline Elsa Reger was a German writer, the wife of the pianist and composer Max Reger, whose memory she kept alive by founding an archive, the Max-Reger-Institute, and a foundation, all dedicated to him and his work.

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25/10/1868

Dan Burke, American baseball player (died 1933)

Daniel L. Burke was an American reserve catcher/outfielder in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Rochester Broncos and the Syracuse Stars in 1890, and with the Boston Beaneaters in 1892. Listed at 5' 10", 190 lb., Burke batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Abington, Massachusetts.

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Oskar Kallas, Estonian linguist and diplomat (died 1946)

Oskar Kallas was an Estonian diplomat, linguist and folklorist. He was the husband of the Finnish writer Aino Kallas.

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25/10/1867

Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (died 1937)

Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki was a Polish general, serving with the Imperial Russian and then Polish armies. He was also the military commander of the Greater Poland Uprising.

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25/10/1866

Thomas Armat, American mechanic and inventor (died 1948)

Thomas J. Armat was an American mechanic and inventor, a pioneer of cinema best known through the co-invention of the Edison Vita

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Norbert Klein, Bishop of Brno (died 1933)

Norbert Klein was Bishop of Brno from 1916 to 1926 and 59th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1923 to 1933.

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Georg Schumann, German composer (died 1952)

Georg Alfred Schumann was a German composer and director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin.

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25/10/1864

John Francis Dodge, American businessman, co-founded the Dodge Company (died 1920)

John Francis Dodge was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.

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Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian-American pianist and composer (died 1956)

Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov was a Russian Romantic composer.

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Toktogul Satylganov, Kyrgyz Akyn, poet and singer (died 1933)

Toktogul Satylganov was a Kyrgyz akyn. The Kyrgyz town of Toktogul in the Jalal-Abad Region is named in his honour. Toktogul was born in Kushchusu, a village now submerged in the Toktogul Reservoir.

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25/10/1858

Take Ionescu, Romanian politician, diplomat, journalist and lawyer (died 1922)

Take or Tache Ionescu was a Romanian centrist politician, journalist, lawyer and diplomat, who also enjoyed reputation as a short story author. Starting his political career as a radical member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), he joined the Conservative Party in 1891, and became noted as a social conservative expressing support for several progressive and nationalist tenets. Ionescu is generally viewed as embodying the rise of middle-class politics inside the early 20th century Kingdom of Romania, and, throughout the period, promoted a project of Balkan alliances while calling for measures to incorporate the Romanian-inhabited Austro-Hungarian regions of Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina. Representing his own faction inside the Conservative Party, he clashed with the group's leadership in 1907–1908, and consequently created and led his own Conservative-Democratic Party.

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25/10/1856

Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, Croatian geologist, paleontologist, and archaeologist (died 1936)

Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger was a Croatian geologist, paleontologist, and archeologist.

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25/10/1853

Karl August Otto Hoffmann, German botanist (died 1909)

Karl August Otto Hoffmann was a German botanist and a high school teacher in Berlin. Author of Sertum plantarum madagascariensium, the genus Hoffmanniella in the family Asteraceae was named after him by Rudolf Schlechter. The plant genus of Hoffmannanthus (also in the family of Asteraceae was named after him in 2014.

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25/10/1852

Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Russian author (died 1912)

Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak was a Russian writer. He is most well known for his novels and short stories about life in the Ural Mountains.

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25/10/1848

Carlo Emery, Italian entomologist (died 1925)

Carlo Emery was an Italian entomologist. He is remembered for Emery's rule, which states that insect social parasites are often closely related to their hosts.

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Karl Emil Franzos, Austrian novelist (died 1904)

Karl Emil Franzos was a popular Austrian novelist of the late 19th century. His works, both reportage and fiction, concentrate on the multi-ethnic corner of Galicia, Podolia and Bukovina, now largely in western Ukraine, where the Habsburg and Russian empires met. This area became so closely associated with his name that one critic called it "Franzos country". A number of his books were translated into English, and Gladstone is said to have been among his admirers.

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25/10/1844

Philip Wicksteed, English economist (died 1927)

Philip Henry Wicksteed was an English scholar and Unitarian theologian known for his contributions to classics, medieval studies and economics. He was also a Georgist and literary critic.

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25/10/1838

Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (died 1875)

Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.

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James Maybrick, English cotton merchant, victim of the "Aigburth Poisoning" (died 1889)

James Maybrick was a Liverpool cotton merchant. After his death, his wife, Florence Maybrick, was convicted of murdering him by poisoning in a sensational trial. The "Aigburth Poisoning" case was widely reported in the press on both sides of the Atlantic.

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25/10/1832

Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (died 1909)

Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia was a Russian field marshal, the fourth son and seventh child of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia. He was the first owner of the New Michael Palace on the Palace Quay in Saint Petersburg.

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25/10/1827

Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (died 1907)

Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot was a French chemist and Republican politician noted for the Thomsen–Berthelot principle of thermochemistry. He synthesized many organic compounds from inorganic substances, providing a large amount of counter-evidence to the theory of Jöns Jakob Berzelius that organic compounds required organisms in their synthesis. Berthelot was convinced that chemical synthesis would revolutionize the food industry by the year 2000, and that synthesized foods would replace farms and pastures. "Why not", he asked, "if it proved cheaper and better to make the same materials than to grow them?"

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25/10/1825

Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (died 1899)

Johann Baptist Strauss II, also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas, as well as a violinist. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet.

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Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, German astronomer and geophysicist (died 1884)

Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt was a German astronomer and geophysicist. He was the director of the National Observatory of Athens in Greece from 1858 to 1884. Julius Schmidt was tireless in his work, it was suggested by William Henry Pickering that he perhaps devoted more of his life than any other man to the study of the Moon. During his lifetime, he made some of the most complete lunar maps of the 19th century.

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25/10/1821

Antonio Ciseri, Swiss-Italian painter (died 1891)

Antonio Ciseri was a Swiss-Italian painter of religious subjects. Ciseri's paintings are Raphaelesque in their compositional outlines and their polished surfaces, but are nearly photographic in effect. Among his pupils were the painters Oreste Costa, Giuseppe Guzzardi, Alcide Segoni, Andrea Landini, Raffaello Sorbi, Niccolò Cannicci, Emanuele Trionfi, Juan Manuel Blanes and Girolamo Nerli.

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25/10/1819

Christian August Friedrich Garcke, German botanist (died 1904)

Christian August Friedrich Garcke was a German botanist who was a native of Bräunrode, Saxony-Anhalt.

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25/10/1815

Camillo Sivori, Italian virtuoso violinist and composer (died 1894)

Ernesto Camillo Sivori was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer.

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25/10/1814

Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours (died 1896)

Prince Louis of Orléans, Duke of Nemours was the second son of King Louis-Philippe I of France and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily.

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25/10/1811

Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (died 1832)

Évariste Galois was a French mathematician and political activist. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem that had been open for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra.

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25/10/1806

Max Stirner, German philosopher and author (died 1856)

Johann Caspar Schmidt, known by the pen name Max Stirner, was a German philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism, individualist anarchism, and egoism.

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25/10/1803

Maria Doolaeghe, Flemish novelist (died 1884)

Maria Doolaeghe was a Flemish writer.

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25/10/1802

Richard Parkes Bonington, English painter (died 1828)

Richard Parkes Bonington was an English Romantic landscape painter. He moved to France at the age of 14 and can also be considered as a French artist, and an intermediary bringing aspects of English style to France. Becoming, after his early death, one of the most influential British artists of his time, the facility of his style was inspired by the old masters, yet was entirely modern in its application. His landscapes were mostly of coastal scenes, with a low horizon and large sky, showing a brilliant handling of light and atmosphere. He also painted small historical cabinet paintings in a freely-handled version of the troubadour style.

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Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (died 1864)

Joseph "Jos" Montferrand was a French-Canadian logger, strongman, and folk hero of the working man and was the inspiration for the legendary Ottawa Valley figure Big Joe Mufferaw.

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25/10/1800

Maria Jane Jewsbury, English writer, poet, literary reviewer (died 1833)

Maria Jane Jewsbury was an English writer, poet and reviewer. In 1821, while bringing up brothers and sisters, she wrote for the Manchester Gazette. Her Phantasmagoria of poetry and prose (1825), The Three Histories (1830) and Letters to the Young (1837) were highly popular.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, English poet, historian, and politician, Secretary at War (died 1859)

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, was a British historian, poet and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848. He is best known for his The History of England, a seminal example of Whig history which expressed Macaulay's belief in the inevitability of sociopolitical progress and has been widely commended for its prose style. Macaulay also played a substantial role in determining India's education policy.

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Jacques Paul Migne, French priest (died 1875)

Jacques Paul Migne was a French priest who published inexpensive and widely distributed editions of theological works, encyclopedias, and the texts of the Church Fathers, with the goal of providing a universal library for the Catholic priesthood.

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Julius von Mohl, German orientalist (died 1876)

Julius von Mohl was a German Orientalist.

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25/10/1795

John P. Kennedy, American novelist and Whig politician (died 1870)

John Pendleton Kennedy was an American novelist, lawyer and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from July 26, 1852, to March 4, 1853, during the administration of President Millard Fillmore, and as a U.S. representative from Maryland's 4th congressional district, during which he encouraged the United States government's study, adoption and implementation of the telegraph. A lawyer who became a lobbyist for and director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Kennedy also served several terms in the Maryland General Assembly and became its speaker in 1847.

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25/10/1792

Jeanne Jugan, French nun (died 1879)

Jeanne Jugan, LSP, in religion Mary of the Cross, was a French Catholic religious sister who became known for the dedication of her life to the neediest of the elderly poor. Her service resulted in the establishment of the Little Sisters of the Poor, who care for the elderly throughout the world. She was canonized in 2009.

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25/10/1790

Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor (died 1878)

Robert Stirling was a Scottish clergyman and engineer. He invented the Stirling engine and was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame in 2014.

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25/10/1789

Carlos María de Alvear, Argentine soldier and statesman (died 1852)

Carlos María de Alvear was an Argentine soldier, statesman and diplomat who served as the second Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata from 9 January to 15 April 1815. He played a leading role in the capitulation of royalist-held Montevideo in June 1814 and later commanded the republican army in the Cisplatine War, winning the Battle of Ituzaingó.

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Heinrich Schwabe, German astronomer (died 1875)

Samuel Heinrich Schwabe was a German amateur astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. He observed sunspots and made drawings of them from 1825 to 1867 and suggested in 1838 that there may be a ten-year cycle of sunspot activity. He also took an interest in botany and was a founding member of a natural history society in Dessau.

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25/10/1782

Levi Lincoln Jr., American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1868)

Levi Lincoln Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the 13th governor of Massachusetts (1825–1834) and represented the state in the U.S. Congress (1834–1841). Lincoln's nine-year tenure as governor is the longest consecutive service in state history; only Michael Dukakis, John Hancock and Caleb Strong served more years, but they were not consecutive.

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25/10/1781

Friedrich von Berchtold, Bohemian physician and botanist (died 1876)

Count Friedrich Carl Eugen Vsemir von Berchtold, baron von Ungarschitz, was a German-speaking Bohemian physician and botanist of Austrian descent.

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25/10/1779

Pedro Velarde y Santillán, Spanish artillery captain (died 1808)

Captain Pedro Velarde y Santiyán was a Spanish Army officer best known for his participation in the Dos de Mayo Uprising against the French occupation of Madrid. Dying during the uprising, he became a hero and martyr in Spain during and after the Peninsular War.

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25/10/1772

Victoire de Donnissan de La Rochejaquelein, French memoirist (died 1857)

Marie Louise Victoire de Donnissan de La Rochejaquelein née marquise de Lescure, was a French memoirist. She is known for her memoirs, depicting her misfortunes and her part in the Vendée wars.

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Géraud Duroc, French general and diplomat (died 1813)

Géraud Christophe Michel Duroc, Duke of Frioul, was a French general and diplomat who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was noted for his friendship with Napoleon Bonaparte, who appointed him as the first Grand marshal of the palace, the head of the Emperor's military household. He is sometimes referred to as ‘Napoleon's shadow’.

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25/10/1768

Frederick William, ruler of Nassau-Weilburg (died 1816)

Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg was a ruler of Nassau-Weilburg. He was created Prince of Nassau and reigned jointly with his cousin, Prince Frederick Augustus of Nassau-Usingen, who became Duke of Nassau. Frederick William died in January 1816, only two months before his cousin. Both men were succeeded by Frederick William's son, William.

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25/10/1767

Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and politician (died 1830)

Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss and French political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion.

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25/10/1760

Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, German historian (died 1842)

Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren was a German historian. He was a member of the Göttingen school of history.

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25/10/1759

Maria Feodorovna, Russian wife of Paul I of Russia (died 1828)

Maria Feodorovna, born Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg, became Empress of Russia as the second wife of Emperor Paul I. She founded the Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria.

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William Grenville, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1834)

William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville was a British Pittite Tory politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1807, but was a supporter of the Whigs for the duration of the Napoleonic Wars. As prime minister, his most significant achievement was the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. However, his government failed to either make peace with France or to accomplish Catholic emancipation and it was dismissed in the same year.

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25/10/1757

Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman (died 1831)

Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, commonly known as Baron vom Stein, was a Prussian statesman who introduced the Prussian reforms, which paved the way for the unification of Germany. He promoted the abolition of serfdom, with indemnification to territorial lords; subjection of the nobles to manorial imposts; and the establishment of a modern municipal system.

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25/10/1755

François Joseph Lefebvre, French military commander (died 1820)

François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig was a French military commander of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, and one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon.

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25/10/1754

Richard Howell, 3rd Governor of New Jersey (died 1802)

Richard Howell was the third governor of New Jersey from 1793 to 1801.

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25/10/1749

Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, Swedish chamberlain (died 1802)

Baron Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, was a Swedish diplomat, soldier and courtier best known for being Sweden's Ambassador to France during the end of the Ancien Regime and the early years of the French Revolution, as well as being the husband of Madame de Staël. Erik Magnus assisted Gustav III during the Swedish Revolution of 1772 and was later named Chamberlain to Queen Sophia Magdalena. In 1783, he was appointed chargé d'affaires to the Court of France, and in 1785 he was named Ambassador. On 21 January 1786, he married the daughter of the French Minister of Finance, Jacques Necker, mademoiselle Anne Louise Germaine Necker, who was to achieve fame as "Madame de Staël".

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25/10/1743

Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (died 1812)

Friedrich Karl August was Prince of Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont from 1763 to 1812.

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25/10/1736

Thomas Mullins, 1st Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (died 1824)

Thomas Mullins, 1st Baron Ventry was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.

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25/10/1714

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (died 1799)

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo was a Scottish judge, scholar of linguistic evolution, philosopher and deist. He is most famous today as a founder of modern comparative historical linguistics. In 1767, he became a judge in the Court of Session.

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25/10/1709

Georg Gebel, German organist and composer (died 1753)

Georg Gebel was a German musician and composer.

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25/10/1692

Elisabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain (died 1766)

Elisabeth Farnese was Queen of Spain by marriage to King Philip V. She was the de facto ruler of Spain from 1714 until 1746, since she managed the affairs of state with the approval of her spouse. She is particularly known for her great influence over Spain's foreign policy. From 1759 to 1760, she governed as regent.

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25/10/1683

Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English-Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1757)

Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton was a British peer and politician.

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25/10/1667

Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (died 1718)

Louis Frederick I of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was the ruling prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Count of Hohenstein, Lord of Rudolstadt, Blankenburg and Sondershausen from 1710 until his death.

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25/10/1612

James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier (died 1650)

James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose was a Scottish nobleman, poet, soldier and later viceroy and captain general of Scotland. Montrose initially joined the Covenanters in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, but subsequently supported King Charles I as the English Civil War developed. From 1644 to 1646, and again in 1650, he fought in the civil war in Scotland on behalf of the King. He is referred to as the Great Montrose.

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25/10/1589

Jan Stanisław Sapieha, Polish-Lithuanian noble (died 1635)

Jan Stanisław Sapieha was a Polish–Lithuanian noble, starost of Słonim, Court Marshal of Lithuania from 1617, Great Lithuanian Marshal from 1621.

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25/10/1574

François de Sourdis, French Catholic prelate (died 1628)

François d'Escoubleau de Sourdis was a French Catholic prelate, the Archbishop of Bordeaux and founder of the Irish College in Bordeaux in 1603.

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25/10/1510

Renée of France (died 1574)

Renée of France, was Duchess of Ferrara from 31 October 1534 until 3 October 1559 by marriage to Ercole II d'Este, grandson of Pope Alexander VI. She was the younger surviving child of Louis XII of France and the duchess regnant Anne of Brittany. In her later life, she became an important supporter of the Protestant Reformation and ally of John Calvin.

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25/10/1453

Giuliano de' Medici (died 1478)

Giuliano de' Medici was the second son of Piero de' Medici and Lucrezia Tornabuoni. As co-ruler of the Florentine Republic, with his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent, he complemented his brother's image as the "patron of the arts" with his own image as the handsome, sporting "golden boy". He was killed in a plot known as the Pazzi conspiracy in 1478.

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25/10/1330

Louis II, Count of Flanders, (died 1384)

Louis II, also known as Louis of Male, a member of the House of Dampierre, was the count of Flanders, Nevers, and Rethel from 1346 to 1384, and also of Artois and Burgundy from 1382 until his death. He was the son and successor of Count Louis I of Flanders and Countess Margaret I of Burgundy, a daughter of King Philip V of France.

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25/10/1102

William Clito, French son of Sybilla of Conversano (died 1128)

William Clito was a member of the House of Normandy who ruled the County of Flanders from 1127 until his death and unsuccessfully claimed the Duchy of Normandy. As the son of Robert Curthose, the eldest son of William the Conqueror, William Clito was seen as a candidate to succeed his uncle King Henry I of England. Henry viewed him as a rival, however, and William allied himself with King Louis VI of France. Louis installed him as the new count of Flanders upon the assassination of Charles the Good, but the Flemings soon revolted and William died in the struggle against another claimant to Flanders, Thierry of Alsace.

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25/10/0840

Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar, founder of the Saffarid dynasty (died 879)

Ya'qub ibn al-Layth Saffar was a coppersmith and the founder of the Saffarid dynasty of Sistan, with its capital at Zarang. Under his military leadership, he conquered much of the eastern portions of Greater Iran consisting of modern-day Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan as well as portions of western Pakistan and a small part of Iraq. He was succeeded by his brother, Amr ibn al-Layth.

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