Famous people born on 25 August

• Sean ConneryScottish actor · 1930–2020
  90 yrs
• Johann Gottfried HerderGerman philosopher, theologian, poet · 1744–1803
  59 yrs
• Erich HoneckerFormer leader of East Germany, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party · 1912–1994
  81 yrs
• Võ Nguyên GiápVietnamese general and communist politician · 1911–2013
  102 yrs
• Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniIranian politician · 1934–2017
  82 yrs
• Leonard BernsteinAmerican conductor and composer · 1918–1990
  72 yrs
• Ludwig II of BavariaKing of Bavaria · 1845–1886
  40 yrs
• Hans KrebsGerman-British biochemist · 1900–1981
  81 yrs
• Louis Antoine de Saint-Just ↗Philosopher, military and political leader · 1767–1794
  26 yrs
• Emil Theodor Kocher ↗Surgeon, laureate of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine · 1841–1917
  75 yrs
• Herbert Kroemer ↗German-American physics · 1928–2024
  95 yrs
• Santa Faustina Kowalska ↗Nun and saint from Poland · 1905–1938
  33 yrs
• Louis I of Spain ↗King of Spain · 1707–1724
  17 yrs
• Martin Amis ↗British novelist · 1949–2023
  73 yrs
• Ludwig I of Bavaria ↗King of Bavaria · 1786–1868
  81 yrs
• Frederick Chapman Robbins ↗American doctor · 1916–2003
  86 yrs
• Frederick Forsyth ↗English novelist · 1938–2025
  86 yrs
• Georgiy Daneliya ↗Soviet film director and screenwriter · 1930–2019
  88 yrs
• Althea Gibson ↗American tennis player · 1927–2003
  76 yrs
• Bret Harte ↗American writer and poet · 1836–1902
  65 yrs
• Louis Barthou ↗French politician · 1862–1934
  72 yrs
• Tomohiko Ikoma ↗Japanese association football player · 1932–2009
  76 yrs
• Mel Ferrer ↗American actor, director and producer · 1917–2008
  90 yrs
• George Wallace ↗45th Governor of Alabama · 1919–1998
  79 yrs
• Wayne Shorter ↗American jazz saxophonist and composer · 1933–2023
  89 yrs
• Arpad Elo ↗Hungarian American physicists, developer of the Elo rating · 1903–1992
  89 yrs
• Álvaro Mutis ↗Colombian novelist · 1923–2013
  90 yrs
• Regis Philbin ↗American television personality · 1931–2020
  88 yrs
• Zilda Arns ↗Brazilian pediatrician · 1934–2010
  75 yrs

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