History of Today 25 September: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 25 September in History

25 Sep 2018: Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault. Read more
25 Sep 2003: The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan. Read more
25 Sep 1998: PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people. Read more
25 Sep 1997: NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station. Read more
25 Sep 1992: NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion. Read more
25 Sep 1987: Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka. Read more
25 Sep 1985: 3 civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings. Read more
25 Sep 1983: Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison. Read more
25 Sep 1981: Belize joins the United Nations. Read more
25 Sep 1978: PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing all 135 aboard Flight 182, both occupants of the Cessna, as well as seven people on the ground. Read more
25 Sep 1977: About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon. Read more
25 Sep 1974: Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John. Read more
25 Sep 1969: The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed. Read more
25 Sep 1964: The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins. Read more
25 Sep 1963: Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair. Read more
25 Sep 1962: The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government. Read more
25 Sep 1962: The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency. Read more
25 Sep 1959: S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, is mortally shot by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day. Read more
25 Sep 1957: Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops. Read more
25 Sep 1956: TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated. Read more
25 Sep 1955: The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. Read more
25 Sep 1944: World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek. Read more
25 Sep 1937: Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan. Read more
25 Sep 1926: The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed. Read more
25 Sep 1918: World War I: The end of the Battle of Megiddo, the climax of the British Army's Sinai and Palestine campaign under General Edmund Allenby. Read more
25 Sep 1915: World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins. Read more
25 Sep 1912: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City. Read more
25 Sep 1911: An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship. Read more
25 Sep 1906: Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino in the Bilbao Abra (Spain), guiding an electric boat from the shore with people on board, which was controlled at a distance over 2 km (1.2 mi), in what is considered to be the origin of modern wireless remote-control operation principles. Read more
25 Sep 1890: The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park. Read more
25 Sep 1868: The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia. Read more
25 Sep 1804: The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver. Read more

Famous Births on 25 September

25 Sep 2009: Leah Jeffries, American actress Leah Sava Jeffries is an American actress. Jeffries made her acting debut on the American musical drama, Empire (2015) and later her feature film debut in the action-thriller Beast (2022). In 2022, Jeffries was cast as Annabeth Chase in the television adaptation of Rick Riordan's fantasy novel series, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, which earned her three NAACP Image Awards, along with a nomination for the Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Performer. Read more
25 Sep 2003: Bella Ramsey, English actor Isabella May Ramsey is an English actor. They are known for their breakthrough roles as young noblewoman Lyanna Mormont in the fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2016–2019) and as Ellie in the post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023–present). For the latter, they received nominations for a BAFTA Television Award, two Critics' Choice Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Ramsey was featured on the Time 100 Next list of rising stars in 2023 and on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in 2024. Read more
25 Sep 2001: Cade Cunningham, American basketball player Cade Parker Cunningham is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He attended Bowie High School in his hometown of Arlington, Texas, before transferring to Montverde Academy in Florida, where he was rated a consensus five-star recruit and among the top players in the 2020 class by major recruiting services. As a senior, he led one of the best high school teams in history and received national player of the year recognition. Read more
25 Sep 2000: Lilas Ikuta, Japanese singer and songwriter Lilas Ikuta , known mononymously as Lilas, is a Japanese singer and songwriter. She is best known as the vocalist of the duo Yoasobi with producer Ayase, under the stage name Ikura, and a former member of the cover group Plusonica. Following numerous singles and extended play releases, Ikuta released her debut studio album Sketch in March 2023, which peaked at number four on the Oricon Albums Chart. Read more
25 Sep 1997: Antonia Gentry, American actress Antonia Bonea Gentry is an American actress. After early roles in short film and television announcements, she made her feature film debut in the Netflix romance Candy Jar (2018). Read more
25 Sep 1995: Todd Hazelwood, Australian race car driver Todd Matthew Hazelwood is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Repco Supercars Championship for Dick Johnson Racing as a co-driver in the Shell V-Power Racing Ford Mustang. Read more
25 Sep 1993: Brandin Cooks, American football player Brandin Tawan Cooks is an American professional football wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon State Beavers, receiving the Fred Biletnikoff Award and consensus All-American honors in 2013 after leading the NCAA in receiving yards. Cooks was selected by the New Orleans Saints in the first round of the 2014 NFL draft and has also played for the New England Patriots, Los Angeles Rams, Houston Texans, Dallas Cowboys, and Buffalo Bills. Read more
25 Sep 1993: Toby Greene, Australian footballer Toby Greene is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Geelong Cats in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the 2011 AFL draft and made his debut in the club's inaugural AFL season in 2012. In 2026, Greene announced that he would move to Victoria to play for the Geelong Cats in the following 2027 season. Read more
25 Sep 1992: Zoël Amberg, Swiss race car driver Zoël Amberg is a Swiss former professional racing driver. Read more
25 Sep 1992: Massimo Luongo, Australian footballer Massimo Corey Luongo is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a defensive midfielder for EFL Championship club Millwall. Read more
25 Sep 1992: Keauna McLaughlin, American figure skater Keauna Inaba McLaughlin is an American former competitive pair skater. With partner Rockne Brubaker, she is the 2008 & 2009 U.S. National Champion, the 2010 Four Continents silver medalist, and the 2007 World Junior Champion. Read more
25 Sep 1992: Rosalía, Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalia Vila Tobella, known mononymously as Rosalía, is a Spanish singer-songwriter and actress. She has been described as an "atypical pop star" due to her genre-bending musical style. After being enthralled by Spanish folk music at age 14, she studied musicology at the Catalonia College of Music and graduated in 2017. Read more
25 Sep 1992: Ruslan Zhiganshin, Russian ice dancer Ruslan Nailevich Zhiganshin is a retired Russian ice dancer. With partner Elena Ilinykh, he is the 2015 Russian national champion. Read more
25 Sep 1992: Teddy Swims, American singer and songwriter Jaten Collin Dimsdale, known professionally as Teddy Swims, is an American singer and songwriter. Known for creating genre-blending music that includes elements of R&B, soul, hip-hop, and contemporary pop, Swims originally began to attract fans by posting song covers on YouTube during 2019 and 2020. Swims' third extended play, Tough Love (2022), became his first entry on the Billboard 200. Read more
25 Sep 1991: Calle Järnkrok, Swedish ice hockey player Calle Järnkrok, nicknamed "Ironhook", is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a centre playing for Brynäs IF in the Swedish Hockey League. Järnkrok was drafted 51st overall by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2010 NHL entry draft. He has also previously played for the Nashville Predators, Seattle Kraken, Calgary Flames, and Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL. Read more
25 Sep 1990: Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater Mao Asada is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She is the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World champion, a three-time Four Continents champion, and a four-time Grand Prix Final champion. She is the first female figure skater who has landed three triple Axel jumps in one competition, which she achieved at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Read more
25 Sep 1989: Jordan Gavaris, Canadian actor Jordan James Gavaris is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Felix Dawkins in the BBC America and Space television series Orphan Black (2013–2017). He is the lead actor in The Lake (2022–2023) opposite Julia Stiles. Read more
25 Sep 1989: Cuco Martina, Curaçaoan footballer Rhu-endly Aurelio Jean-Carlo "Cuco" Martina is a professional footballer who plays primarily as a centre-back, but also as a right-back or defensive midfielder. Born in the Netherlands, he represents Curaçao national team. Read more
25 Sep 1989: Aldon Smith, American football player Aldon Jacarus Ramon Smith was an American professional football player who was an outside linebacker and defensive end for six seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Missouri Tigers and was selected by the San Francisco 49ers with the seventh overall pick in the 2011 NFL draft. Smith was a first-team All-Pro and a Pro Bowl selection with the 49ers in 2012. He was also a member of the Oakland Raiders, Dallas Cowboys, and Seattle Seahawks. Read more
25 Sep 1987: Monica Niculescu, Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the WTA as high as No. 28 in singles and No. 11 in doubles. She has won three singles and ten doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as 19 singles and 22 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Read more
25 Sep 1986: Heidi El Tabakh, Egyptian-Canadian tennis player Heidi El Tabakh is an Egyptian and Canadian former professional tennis player. Read more
25 Sep 1986: Jamie O'Hara, English footballer Jamie Darryl O'Hara is an English former football player and manager. He currently works as a radio co-host for Talksport's The Sports Bar with Jason Cundy. Read more
25 Sep 1986: Choi Yoon-young, South Korean actress Choi Yoon-young is a South Korean actress. She has notable roles in Seoyoung, My Daughter, Passionate Love, My Dear Cat and Designated Survivor: 60 Days among other works. Read more
25 Sep 1984: Cherine Anderson, Jamaican singer-songwriter and actress Cherine Tanya Anderson is a Jamaican dancehall/reggae vocalist and actress. Read more
25 Sep 1984: Matt Carle, American ice hockey player Matthew Carle is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. Carle played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the San Jose Sharks, Tampa Bay Lightning, Philadelphia Flyers and Nashville Predators. He was originally drafted by the San Jose Sharks in the second round, 47th overall, in 2003. Read more
25 Sep 1984: Ivory Latta, American basketball player Ivory Latta is an American former professional basketball player. She was drafted 11th overall by the Detroit Shock in the 2007 WNBA Draft. A 5-foot-6-inch (1.68 m) guard noted for her three-point shooting and on-court enthusiasm, she played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels. She is the all-time leading scorer in South Carolina high school basketball history with a total of 4,319 career points. Read more
25 Sep 1984: Matías Silvestre, Argentinian footballer Matías Agustín Silvestre is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Read more
25 Sep 1984: Zach Woods, American actor and comedian Zach Woods is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director. He is best known for his roles as a series regular for three seasons as Gabe Lewis on the NBC sitcom The Office, as Jared Dunn on the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley, as Zach Harper on the USA Network sitcom Playing House, and as Matt Spencer on the HBO comedy show Avenue 5. He also recurred on the HBO series Veep as Ed Webster, and starred as billionaire Edgar D. Minnows in the Apple TV+ murder mystery series The Afterparty. Read more
25 Sep 1983: Donald Glover (also known as Childish Gambino), American actor, rapper, producer, and screenwriter Donald McKinley Glover Jr., also known by his musical stage name Childish Gambino, is an American actor, rapper, singer, comedian, and filmmaker. While he studied at New York University and after working in Derrick Comedy, a comedy group, Glover was hired by Tina Fey to write for the NBC sitcom 30 Rock at age 23. He gained fame for portraying college student Troy Barnes on the NBC sitcom Community from 2009 to 2014. He created the FX series Atlanta (2016–2022), which he starred in and occasionally directed. For his work on Atlanta, he won various accolades including two Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as two Golden Globe Awards. Read more
25 Sep 1982: Hyun Bin, South Korean actor Kim Tae-pyung, better known by his stage name Hyun Bin (현빈), is a South Korean actor. Hyun gained recognition for the romantic comedy My Lovely Sam Soon (2005). His other notable works include television series Secret Garden (2010–2011), Memories of the Alhambra (2018–2019), Crash Landing on You (2019–2020); films The Fatal Encounter (2014), Confidential Assignment (2017) and its 2022 sequel, and The Swindlers (2017). Hyun won the Grand Prize for Television at the 47th Baeksang Arts Awards and the Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Actor in 2025. He was named Gallup Korea's Television Actor of the Year in 2011. Read more
25 Sep 1981: Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player and manager Rocco Daniel Baldelli is an American former professional baseball outfielder, coach and manager, who is currently an executive in the baseball operations department of the Los Angeles Dodgers. As a player, Baldelli quickly progressed through the minor leagues and made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on opening day in 2003. Baldelli quickly established himself as an excellent hitter and outfielder, and placed third in voting for American League (AL) Rookie of the Year. He also played in MLB for the Boston Red Sox. Read more
25 Sep 1981: Jason Bergmann, American baseball player Jason Christopher Bergmann is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He was born in Neptune Township, New Jersey, and grew up in Manalapan Township, New Jersey where he played high school baseball at Manalapan High School. In college, he played for Rutgers University. Read more
25 Sep 1981: Lee Norris, American actor Lee Michael Norris is an American actor, best known for his roles as Stuart Minkus on Boy Meets World and its spin-off Girl Meets World, as well as Marvin "Mouth" McFadden on One Tree Hill. Read more
25 Sep 1980: Chris Owen, American actor Chris Owen is an American actor. He is best known for his supporting role as Chuck "Sherminator" Sherman in the American Pie franchise (1999–2012), appearing in American Pie, American Pie 2, American Pie Presents: Band Camp and American Reunion. Owen has also appeared in multiple National Lampoon films, including starring as the co-lead in National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2003). Read more
25 Sep 1980: T.I., American rapper, songwriter, producer, and actor Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., known professionally as T.I. or Tip, is an American rapper and actor. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Harris is credited as a pioneer of the hip-hop subgenre trap music, along with fellow Georgia-based rappers Jeezy and Gucci Mane. He met local music executive Kawan "KP" Prather in the late 1990s, joining his company Ghet-O-Vision Entertainment — an imprint of Arista and LaFace Records — by 1999. The lukewarm critical and commercial response of his debut studio album, I'm Serious (2001), led him to part ways the label. He then signed with Atlantic Records and found mainstream success with his subsequent releases, co-founding his record label imprint, Grand Hustle Records, in 2003. Read more
25 Sep 1979: Kyle Bennett, American BMX rider (died 2012) Kyle Bennett was an American professional Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer and Dirt Jumper whose prime competitive years were from 1999 to 2012. He earned the moniker "Butter" for his smooth riding style. On May 10, 2008 he won an automatic spot on the first US BMX Olympic team, a sport that made its debut in the 2008 Summer Olympics. He made it to the finals and finished sixth of the UCI World Cup in Copenhagen, Denmark after winning USA Cycling's year-long series of races as the highest ranking American. and becoming the first member of the BMX Olympic team. Read more
25 Sep 1979: Rashad Evans, American mixed martial artist and wrestler Rashad Evans is an American former mixed martial artist who competed in the Light Heavyweight division. Evans started his professional MMA career in 2003, and was the Heavyweight winner of The Ultimate Fighter 2 in 2005. In 2008, Evans won the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship, and in 2019, was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame. Read more
25 Sep 1979: Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer Jason Koumas is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Tranmere Rovers, Cardiff City, West Bromwich Albion and Wigan Athletic, as well as the Wales national team. Read more
25 Sep 1978: Joe Cotton, Canadian-New Zealand singer Joanne Monique "Joe" Cotton, is a Canadian-born New Zealand pop singer who gained recognition as a member of the girl group TrueBliss, formed in 1999 on Popstars. Cotton has since joined a cover band, The Mermaids Danceband. She has also worked as a radio presenter, for More FM and The Edge. Read more
25 Sep 1978: Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer Roudolphe Douala M'bela, known as Douala, is a Cameroonian former professional footballer. Read more
25 Sep 1978: Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer Ricardo Wayne Gardner is a Jamaican former professional footballer. He works as assistant coach at Portmore United. A left winger, he could also play in the centre of midfield or at left wing-back. He last played for Bolton Wanderers in May 2012, completing a 14-year spell at the club, of which 11 were spent in the Premier League. Gardner earned 111 caps for the Jamaica national football team, scoring 9 goals and playing at four CONCACAF Gold Cups and the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Read more
25 Sep 1978: Jodie Kidd, English model and actress Jodie Elizabeth Kidd is an English fashion model and television personality. Read more
25 Sep 1978: Ryan Leslie, American singer-songwriter and producer Ryan Leslie is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and businessman. Working predominantly in contemporary R&B and hip-hop, he has released six studio albums and written songs for artists including Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Chris Brown, Diddy, Fabolous, LL Cool J, Kanye West and Usher, among others. Read more
25 Sep 1978: Joel Piñeiro, Puerto Rican baseball player Joel Alberto Piñeiro is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He officially retired after appearing on the 2017 World Baseball Classic roster for Puerto Rico. Read more
25 Sep 1977: Clea DuVall, American actress Clea Helen D'Etienne DuVall is an American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. She rose to prominence in the late 1990s with supporting roles in The Faculty (1998), But I'm a Cheerleader, and Girl, Interrupted. Subsequent film credits include Ghosts of Mars (2001), Identity, 21 Grams, The Grudge (2004), Zodiac (2007), and Argo (2012). Read more
25 Sep 1977: Robbie Jones, American actor Robert Lee Jones III is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Quentin Fields in One Tree Hill. In 2009, Jones starred in the film Hurricane Season with Forest Whitaker. In 2010, he starred in the series Hellcats. He appeared in Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor alongside Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Lance Gross. Read more
25 Sep 1977: Mike Krahulik, American illustrator Michael Krahulik is an American artist for the webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder with Jerry Holkins of Child's Play, a charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals. He goes by the online moniker "Jonathan Gabriel" or "Gabe". Krahulik does not physically resemble his comic strip counterpart, as the character was not originally meant to represent him. He is from Spokane, Washington. Read more
25 Sep 1977: Toni Lydman, Finnish ice hockey player Toni Petteri Lydman is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman. He first played competitively in his native Finland with Tappara, and HIFK of the SM-liiga before enjoying a lengthy career in the National Hockey League with the Calgary Flames, Buffalo Sabres and the Anaheim Ducks. Read more
25 Sep 1977: Joel David Moore, American actor Joel David Moore is an American character actor and director. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Moore studied acting in college before relocating to Los Angeles to pursue a film career. His first major role was as Owen Dittman in the 2004 comedy Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, followed by roles in the comedy Grandma's Boy (2006), Terry Zwigoff's Art School Confidential (2006), and the independent slasher film Hatchet (2006). Read more
25 Sep 1977: Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican-American baseball player Wilbert Nieves is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball catcher and current minor league coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, Washington Nationals, Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Philadelphia Phillies. Read more
25 Sep 1976: Santigold, American singer-songwriter and producer Santi White, known professionally as Santigold, is an American singer and songwriter. Her debut studio album, Santogold (2008), was released by Atlantic Records and met with widespread critical praise for its cross-genre blending of dub, new wave, and hip hop music. Its second single, "L.E.S. Artistes", peaked within the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. Read more
25 Sep 1976: Chauncey Billups, American basketball player Chauncey Ray Billups is an American professional basketball coach and former player who last served as the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Read more
25 Sep 1976: Charlotte Ayanna, Puerto Rican-American actress Charlotte Ayanna is an American actress, author and former beauty queen who was Miss Teen USA 1993. Read more
25 Sep 1975: Daniela Ceccarelli, Italian skier Daniela Ceccarelli is an Italian alpine skiing coach and former World Cup ski racer. Read more
25 Sep 1975: Declan Donnelly, English entertainer Declan Joseph Oliver Donnelly is an English television presenter, television producer, comedian, former singer, rapper and actor. He is best known for working alongside Ant McPartlin as part of the presenting duo Ant & Dec. Read more
25 Sep 1975: Matt Hasselbeck, American football player Matthew Michael Hasselbeck is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons, primarily with the Seattle Seahawks. He played college football for the Boston College Eagles and was selected in the sixth round of the 1998 NFL draft by the Green Bay Packers. After a season on the practice squad and two seasons backing up Brett Favre, he was traded to the Seattle Seahawks in 2001, where he spent the majority of his career. Hasselbeck led Seattle to six playoff appearances, including the franchise's first Super Bowl appearance during the 2005 season. He was selected to three Pro Bowls in his career. Hasselbeck also played for the Tennessee Titans and Indianapolis Colts. He is a former analyst for ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown. Read more
25 Sep 1975: Dat Nguyen, American football player and coach Dat Tan Nguyen is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for seven seasons with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies, earning unanimous All-American honors. He is the first Vietnamese-American to be drafted, play, and be recognized as an All-Pro in the NFL. Read more
25 Sep 1974: Bill Bowler, Canadian ice hockey player and coach William J. Bowler is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He played nine games in the National Hockey League with the Columbus Blue Jackets during the 2000–01 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1995 to 2003, was spent in the minor leagues. He is currently the General Manager of the Windsor Spitfires in the Ontario Hockey League. Read more
25 Sep 1974: Olivier Dacourt, French footballer Olivier Yohan Dacourt is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Read more
25 Sep 1974: John Granville, American scholar and diplomat (died 2008) John M. Granville was an American diplomat who worked in Southern Sudan. On January 1, 2008, he was assassinated in a shooting in Khartoum, Sudan. Read more
25 Sep 1974: Paul Hurst, English footballer and manager Paul Michael Hurst is an English football manager and former player who is currently manager of National League club Boston United. Read more
25 Sep 1974: Daniel Kessler, English-American singer and guitarist Daniel Alexander Kessler is an English-born American musician who is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the New York City-based band Interpol. Read more
25 Sep 1974: Frank Leder, German fashion designer Frank Leder is a German fashion designer. His work focuses on his German cultural heritage. Read more
25 Sep 1974: Robbie Mears, Australian rugby league player and coach Robert Mears is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. His usual position was as a hooker. Read more
25 Sep 1974: Eric Moss, American football player (died 2019) Eric Moss was an American professional football player. Read more
25 Sep 1974: Joel Prpic, Canadian ice hockey player Joel Melvin Prpic is a Canadian-born Croatian former professional ice hockey player of who played in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins and the Colorado Avalanche before ending his career with Croatian team, KHL Medveščak Zagreb, in the Austrian Hockey League. Read more
25 Sep 1974: Javier Rosas, Mexican triathlete Javier Rosas Sierra is a male athlete from Mexico. He competes in the triathlon. Read more
25 Sep 1974: Kemel Thompson, Jamaican hurdler Kemel Thompson is a former Jamaican athlete who competes in the 400 metres hurdles. Read more
25 Sep 1973: Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer Tijani Babangida is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a winger. Known for his pace, his playing style was sometimes compared to that of Marc Overmars. Babangida spent the majority of his playing career at Ajax. Overall, he played in five countries on three continents. At club level, Babangida spent nine years in the Netherlands, playing for Roda JC, VVV-Venlo, Ajax, and Vitesse. winning the Eredivisie plus KNVB Cup double with the last side. Read more
25 Sep 1973: Jenny Chapman, English politician Jennifer Chapman, Baroness Chapman of Darlington is a British politician and life peer who served as Minister of State for International Development, Latin America and Caribbean from February 2025 to July 2026. She previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Latin America and Caribbean from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Labour Party, she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington from 2010 to 2019. Read more
25 Sep 1973: Bridgette Wilson, American actress, singer, model, and beauty queen Bridgette LeAnn Wilson Sampras is an American former actress, singer, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Teen USA 1990. She began her career in acting, playing the character of Lisa Fenimore on the soap opera Santa Barbara from April 1992 to January 1993. Read more
25 Sep 1972: Douglas September, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Douglas September is a Canadian musician. He is known for his poetic lyrics, as well as his innovative musical style that blends folk and blues with a caustic modern commentary. As a composer, musician, producer and engineer, September's passion for arranging music from the ordinary every day into a unique auditory experience has evolved into a singular style. His music has been likened to Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley, and Tom Waits. Read more
25 Sep 1971: Nikos Boudouris, Greek basketball player and manager Nikolaos "Nikos" Boudouris is a former Greek professional basketball player and coach. During his pro playing career, Boudouris won what were at the time, all three of the major European-wide club championships, as he won the top-tier level FIBA EuroLeague championship in 2000, the second-tier level FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup championship in 1991, and the third tier level FIBA Korać Cup championship in 1994. Read more
25 Sep 1971: John Lynch, American football player and sportscaster John Terrence Lynch Jr. is an American professional football executive and former safety who is the general manager of the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal and was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the third round of the 1993 NFL draft, later winning Super Bowl XXXVII with them. Lynch also spent four seasons with the Denver Broncos before retiring in 2008 and working as a color commentator for NFL on Fox games until being named general manager of the 49ers in 2017. He made nine Pro Bowls during his career and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2021. Read more
25 Sep 1971: Seb Sanders, English jockey Seb Sanders is a former flat race jockey. Sanders was British Champion Flat Jockey in 2007, a title he shared with Jamie Spencer. Read more
25 Sep 1970: Curtis Buckley, American football player and psychiatrist Curtis LaDonn Buckley is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants, and Washington Redskins. He played college football at Kilgore College for two years and then East Texas State University, where he was a two-time All-American and two-time first-team all-conference selection. Read more
25 Sep 1970: Aja Kong, Japanese professional wrestler Erika Shishido is a Japanese professional wrestler better known by her ring name Aja Kong . She currently makes appearances on the Japanese independent circuit and for Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling (TJPW). She is the founder of the Arsion all-women professional wrestling promotion and has won several championships in both singles and tag-team divisions throughout her career, primarily while with All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. Read more
25 Sep 1970: Paul Pope, American cartoonist, writer and artist Paul Pope is an American alternative cartoonist. Pope's work combines the precision and romance of European comics artists with the energy and page design of the manga tradition. Pope's two protagonist types are the silent, lanky outsider male of The One Trick Rip-Off, Escapo, and Heavy Liquid; or the resourceful, aggressive, humorous young teenage girls of THB. He has self-published some of his work, most notably THB, through his own Horse Press, with other work for such publishers as DC Comics/Vertigo and First Second Books. Read more
25 Sep 1970: Dean Ween, American musician Michael "Mickey" Melchiondo Jr., better known by his stage name Dean Ween, is an American guitarist, singer and a founding member of the alternative rock group Ween. He is currently active in the groups Ween, Moistboyz and The Dean Ween Group. Read more
25 Sep 1969: Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (died 2002) Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje was a South African international cricketer and captain of the South Africa national cricket team in the 1990s. A right-handed all-rounder, as captain Cronje led his team to victory in 27 Test matches and 99 One Day Internationals. Cronje also led South Africa to win the 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy, the first major ICC title the country has won in international cricket. In the 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy Final, Cronje played a major role with the bat with his 61 not out, leading the team to victory by 4 wickets. He was voted the 11th-greatest South African in 2004 despite having been banned from cricket for life due to his role in a match-fixing scandal. In 2002, he died in a plane crash while travelling in a commercial plane from Johannesburg to George. Read more
25 Sep 1969: Bill Simmons, American journalist and author William John Simmons III is an American sports podcaster, sportswriter, and cultural critic. He is the founder of the sports and pop culture website The Ringer. Read more
25 Sep 1969: Hal Sparks, American actor, comedian, musician and political commentator Hal Harry Magee Sparks III is an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, political commentator, television and radio host and television personality. He made contributions to VH1, hosting E!'s Talk Soup, and played the roles of Michael Novotny on the American television series Queer as Folk, Donald Davenport in Lab Rats and the voice of Tak in Tak and the Power of Juju television series and video games. Read more
25 Sep 1969: Tony Womack, American baseball player Anthony Darrell Womack is an American former professional baseball player. He played in 13 seasons of Major League Baseball (MLB), with most of his career spent with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Arizona Diamondbacks, then with several other teams during his last four years. A middle infielder, Womack was recognized for his speed, his base-stealing prowess, and his key hits in the 2001 playoffs, which led to the Diamondbacks' 2001 World Series win over the New York Yankees. Read more
25 Sep 1969: David Weathers, American baseball player John David Weathers is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was a part of the New York Yankees' 1996 World Series championship over the Atlanta Braves. Read more
25 Sep 1969: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Welsh actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. In 2010, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her film and humanitarian work. Read more
25 Sep 1968: John A. List, American economist and academic John August List is an American economist known for his work in establishing field experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis. Since 2016, he has served as the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he was Chairman of the Department of Economics from 2012 to 2018, and Director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics since 2025. Since 2016, he has also served as Visiting Robert F. Hartsook Chair in Fundraising at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. In 2011, List was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2011, he was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society. In 2024, Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international honor society for economics, gave List the biennial John R. Commons Award. Read more
25 Sep 1968: Will Smith, American actor, producer, and rapper Willard Carroll Smith II is an American actor, rapper, and film producer. Known for his work in both the screen and music industries, his accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and four Grammy Awards. His films as a leading man have grossed over $10 billion worldwide, making him one of Hollywood's most bankable stars. Read more
25 Sep 1968: John Worsfold, Australian footballer and coach John Richard Worsfold is a former Australian rules football coach and player. He had a long association with the West Coast Eagles as player (1987–1998) and coach (2002–2013), captaining the club to premierships in 1992 and 1994 and coaching the club to a premiership in 2006. He was also the senior coach of the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) between October 2015 and September 2020. Worsfold is a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame. Read more
25 Sep 1967: Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player Kim D. Issel is a former professional ice hockey right wing. Issel was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and spent his junior career with the Prince Albert Raiders of the WHL. He was selected in the first round of the 1986 NHL entry draft, 21st overall, by the Edmonton Oilers. Issel played four games for the Oilers, and was briefly part of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Vancouver Canucks minor league systems, but spent the majority of his career in Europe. He officially announced his retirement on July 1, 1999, and has worked as a constable for the Prince Albert Police Department since then. Read more
25 Sep 1967: Ashwin Sood, English-Canadian drummer and producer Ashwin Sood is an English–born Canadian musician and drummer. He is best known for his musical association with his ex-wife Sarah McLachlan. Read more
25 Sep 1966: Stanislav Bunin, Russian pianist and educator Stanislav Stanislavovich Bunin is a Russian-born concert pianist. Read more
25 Sep 1966: Jason Flemyng, English actor Jason Iain Flemyng is an English actor. He is known for his work with British filmmakers Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn appearing in the Ritchie films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), and appearing in Vaughn's films Layer Cake (2004), Kick-Ass (2010), and X-Men: First Class (2011). Read more
25 Sep 1966: Todd Philcox, American football player Todd Philcox is a former NFL quarterback. Read more
25 Sep 1965: Matt Battaglia, American football player, actor, and producer Matteo Martin "Matt" Battaglia is an American producer, actor and former American football linebacker. Read more
25 Sep 1965: Saffron Henderson, Canadian voice actress and singer Saffron Henderson is a Canadian voice actress, actress and singer. She has often worked with Ocean Productions in numerous anime dubs. Read more
25 Sep 1965: Scottie Pippen, American basketball player and sportscaster Scotty Maurice Pippen Sr., commonly known as Scottie Pippen, is an American former professional basketball player who played 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. Considered one of the greatest small forwards of all time, Pippen played an important role in transforming the Bulls into a championship team and popularizing the NBA around the world during the 1990s. Read more
25 Sep 1965: Anne Roumanoff, French actress and screenwriter Anne Roumanoff is a French comedian and actress. Read more
25 Sep 1965: Dave Rundle, South African cricketer David Bryan Rundle is a former South African cricketer who played two One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1994. Read more
25 Sep 1965: Rob Schmidt, American director and screenwriter Rob Schmidt Barracano is an American filmmaker. His film credits include Wrong Turn and Crime and Punishment in Suburbia. He also created a pilot called American Town for Twentieth Century Fox. Read more
25 Sep 1965: Rafael Martín Vázquez, Spanish footballer and coach Rafael Martín Vázquez is a Spanish former professional footballer who played mostly as an attacking midfielder. Read more
25 Sep 1965: Nicky Winmar, Australian footballer Neil Elvis "Nicky" Winmar is a former Australian rules footballer best known for his career for St Kilda and the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL), as well as South Fremantle in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Read more
25 Sep 1964: Gary Ayles, English race car driver Gary Patrick Ayles is a British racing driver. Read more
25 Sep 1964: Barbara Dennerlein, German organist Barbara Dennerlein is a German jazz organist. She has achieved critical acclaim for using the bass pedalboard on a Hammond organ and for integrating synthesizer sounds onto the instrument, and was described by critic Ron Wynn as "the most interesting jazz organist to emerge during the 1980s". Read more
25 Sep 1964: Maria Doyle Kennedy, Irish actress and singer Maria Josephine Doyle Kennedy is an Irish singer and actress. With a singing and acting career that has spanned more than 30 years, she has established herself as one of Ireland's most prolific artists and entertainers. As an actress, she is best known for her extensive television roles as Patsy in Father Ted (1998), Catherine of Aragon in The Tudors (2007–2010), Vera Bates in Downton Abbey (2011), Siobhán Sadler in Orphan Black (2013–2017), and Jocasta Cameron in Outlander (2018–2022). More recently in 2022, she starred as the Scottish journalist Tannie Maria in the series Recipes for Love and Murder, set in the Karoo in South Africa and adapted for the screen from the book of the same name by Sally Andrew. Read more
25 Sep 1964: Rebecca Gablé, German novelist Rebecca Gablé is a German author of historical fiction. Gablé is best known for her medieval chivalry novels. She also works as a literary translator from English. Her work includes Settlers of Catan based on the board game. Read more
25 Sep 1964: Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress Kikuko Inoue is a Japanese voice actress, singer and narrator. She has been part of the singing groups DoCo and Goddess Family Club. She is also the founder and manager of her voice-acting company, Office Anemone. Inoue tends to play the "perfect girlfriend" or "motherly" role in many series, but has also played more sultry and provocative roles. Read more
25 Sep 1964: Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman Giuseppe "Joey" Saputo is a Canadian businessman, the president of CF Montréal soccer team he founded in 1992, and owner of Saputo Stadium, named for his family's dairy products company Saputo Inc. He is also the chairman of the Italian football club Bologna. Read more
25 Sep 1963: Tate Donovan, American actor Tate Buckley Donovan is an American actor, comedian and television director. He is known for portraying Tom Shayes in Damages, and Jimmy Cooper in The O.C., as well as providing the voice of the title character in the 1997 Disney animated film Hercules and related projects. He starred opposite Sandra Bullock in the 1992 film Love Potion No. 9. Read more
25 Sep 1963: Keely Shaye Smith, American journalist and author Keely Shаye Smith Brosnan, also known as Keely Shaye Brosnan, is an American journalist, author, television host, actress, producer, and director. Read more
25 Sep 1962: Kalthoum Sarrai, Tunisian-French psychologist and journalist (died 2010) Kalthoum Sarrai, best known as Cathy Sarrai, was a Tunisian-born French television presenter, anchorwoman and television personality. She was known to many French and Belgian television viewers for her role in the French version of Super Nanny, which began airing on M6 on 1 February 2005. Read more
25 Sep 1962: Aida Turturro, American actress Aida Turturro is an American actress. Her career spans nearly forty years in film, television, and theatre, including recurring roles on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and The Blacklist. She is best known for her portrayal of Janice Soprano on the HBO drama series The Sopranos. She is active as a spokesperson for medical disorders, including diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. Read more
25 Sep 1962: Dariusz Wdowczyk, Polish footballer and coach Dariusz Wdowczyk is a Polish former professional football manager and player. He played for Gwardia Warsaw, Legia Warsaw, Celtic, Reading, and Polonia Warsaw. He has subsequently carved out a career in football management. Read more
25 Sep 1961: Mehmet Aslantuğ, Turkish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Mehmet Aslantuğ is a Turkish actor, director, producer and screenwriter of Circassian origin. He has received a Golden Boll Award, a Golden Objective Award, three Golden Orange Awards, and four Golden Butterfly Awards. Read more
25 Sep 1961: Heather Locklear, American actress Heather Deen Locklear is an American actress known for her role as Amanda Woodward on Melrose Place (1993–1999), for which she received four consecutive Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. She is also known for her role as Sammy Jo Carrington on Dynasty from 1981 to 1989, her first major television role, which began a longtime collaboration with producer Aaron Spelling. Read more
25 Sep 1961: Steve Scott, British journalist and presenter Stephen James Young Scott is a British journalist and presenter employed by ITN as the sports editor and newscaster for ITV News. Read more
25 Sep 1961: Tim Zoehrer, Australian cricketer Timothy Joseph Zoehrer is a former Australian cricket player. He played as a wicket-keeper and is of Austrian descent. Read more
25 Sep 1960: Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer and manager Igor Ivanovich Belanov or Ihor Ivanovych Bielanov is a Soviet and Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a striker. Read more
25 Sep 1959: Jeon Soo-il, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter Jeon Soo-il is a South Korean film director, film producer and screenwriter. After graduating from the Department of Theatre & Film of Kyungsung University in Busan, he studied Film Direction at Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (E.S.R.A) in France from 1988 to 1992. He completed his master and doctorate degrees in Film Science at the Paris Diderot University in Paris, France. He is currently an associate professor of the Department of Theatre & Film of Kyungsung University and the president of Dongnyuk Film. Read more
25 Sep 1958: Randy Kerber, American keyboard player, composer, and conductor Randy Kerber is an American pianist, composer, orchestrator, who has had a prolific career in the world of cinema. Read more
25 Sep 1957: Michael Madsen, American actor and producer (died 2025) Michael Søren Madsen was an American actor. He was widely known for starring in Quentin Tarantino's films such as Reservoir Dogs (1992), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), and The Hateful Eight (2015). His other film roles included WarGames (1983), The Natural (1984),Our family honour The Doors (1991), Thelma & Louise (1991), Free Willy (1993), Species (1995), Donnie Brasco (1997), Die Another Day (2002), Sin City (2005), and Scary Movie 4 (2006). Madsen also voiced characters in video games such as Grand Theft Auto III (2001), Narc (2005), the Dishonored series (2012–2017), The Walking Dead: Season Two (2014), and Crime Boss: Rockay City (2023). Madsen had six children, including actor Christian Madsen. Read more
25 Sep 1957: Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general (died 2014) Vladimir Aleksandrovich Popovkin was a Russian statesman and military figure. He was a commander of the Russian Space Forces, then First Deputy Defense Minister of Russia, then General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency. He had the military rank of General of the Army and the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. Read more
25 Sep 1957: Glenn Hubbard, American baseball player and coach Glenn Dee Hubbard is an American professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a second baseman for the Atlanta Braves and Oakland Athletics from 1978 to 1989. He was an MLB All-Star in 1983. Hubbard coached for the Braves from 1999 to 2010. Read more
25 Sep 1956: W. Daniel Hillis, American computer scientist, engineer, and author, founded the Thinking Machines Corporation William Daniel Hillis is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, who pioneered parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence. He founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a parallel supercomputer manufacturer, and subsequently was Vice President of Research and Disney Fellow at Walt Disney Imagineering. Read more
25 Sep 1956: Jamie Hyneman, American special effects designer and television host, founded M5 Industries James Franklin Hyneman is an American special effects expert who was co-host of the television series MythBusters alongside Adam Savage, where he became known for his distinctive beret, rimless glasses and walrus moustache. He is also the owner of M5 Industries, the special effects workshop where MythBusters was filmed. Read more
25 Sep 1956: Miroslav Volf, Croatian Protestant theologian and public intellectual Miroslav Volf is a Croatian Protestant theologian and public intellectual and Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology and director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture at Yale University. He previously taught at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in his native Osijek, Croatia and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California (1990–1998). Read more
25 Sep 1955: Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (died 1985) Ludo Coeck was a Belgian footballer who played as left winger or central midfielder. His clubs included Berchem Sport, Anderlecht, Inter Milan and Ascoli Calcio. Read more
25 Sep 1955: Zucchero Fornaciari, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist Adelmo Fornaciari, known professionally as Zucchero Fornaciari or simply Zucchero, is an Italian singer, musician and songwriter. His stage name is the Italian word for "sugar", as his primary school teacher used to call him. His music is largely inspired by gospel, soul, blues and rock music, and alternates between Italian ballads and more rhythmic R&B-boogie-like pieces. He is credited as the "father of Italian blues", introducing blues to the big stage in Italy. He is one of the few European blues artists who still enjoys great international success. Read more
25 Sep 1955: Amyr Klink, Brazilian sailor and explorer Amyr Klink is a Brazilian explorer, sailor and writer. One of his projects, "Antarctica 360", was circumnavigating the Antarctic continent on his own, in 88 days between 1998 and 1999. Read more
25 Sep 1955: Luanne Rice, American author and activist Luanne Rice is an American novelist. Her 36 novels have been translated into 26 languages. She often writes about nature and the sea, and many of her novels deal with love and family. She is the author of The Lemon Orchard, Little Night, The Silver Boat and Beach Girls. Read more
25 Sep 1955: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer and manager Karl-Heinz "Kalle" Rummenigge is a German football executive and former professional footballer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest German footballers of all time, he also served as the Chairman of Executive Board of FC Bayern München AG, a daughter company of German Bundesliga team Bayern Munich. Read more
25 Sep 1955: Steven Severin, English bass player, songwriter, and producer Steven John Bailey, known as Steven Severin, is an English songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He was the bassist of the rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees which he co-founded in 1976. He was also the co-founder of the short-lived band the Glove in 1983. He took the name "Severin" from the Leopold von Sacher-Masoch character who is mentioned in the Velvet Underground song "Venus in Furs". After the split of Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1996, Severin created his own label RE: and released several instrumental albums via his official website. In the late 2000s and the early 2010s, he performed live in solo, playing music over footage of silent films. Read more
25 Sep 1954: Sylvester Croom, American football player and coach Sylvester Croom Jr. is an American former football player and coach. He was the head coach at Mississippi State University from 2004 to 2008, and the first African American head football coach in the Southeastern Conference. His father, Sylvester Croom Sr., was himself an All-American football player at Alabama A&M, later the team chaplain at the University of Alabama, and has been recognized by that school as one of the state's 40 pioneers of civil rights. After his time at Mississippi State, Croom Jr. served as running backs coach for three teams in the National Football League (NFL). Read more
25 Sep 1954: Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (died 2014) Joseph Marie Albert "Joep" Lange was a Dutch clinical researcher specialising in HIV therapy. He served as the president of the International AIDS Society from 2002 to 2004. He was a passenger on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down on 17 July 2014 over Ukraine. Read more
25 Sep 1954: Juande Ramos, Spanish footballer and manager Juan de la Cruz "Juande" Ramos Cano is a former Spanish footballer and manager. Read more
25 Sep 1953: Richard Harvey, English mandolin player, keyboard player, and composer Richard Allen Harvey is an English composer and musician. Originally a member of the mediaevalist progressive rock group Gryphon, he is best known now for his film and television soundtracks. He is also known for his guitar concerto Concerto Antico, which was composed for the guitarist John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra. Read more
25 Sep 1953: Ron Rash, American novelist, short story writer, poet Ron Rash is an American poet, short story writer and novelist and the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University. Read more
25 Sep 1952: Colin Friels, Scottish-Australian actor Colin Friels is an Australian actor of stage, film and television. He has received numerous accolades, including AACTA/AFI Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, two Helpmann Awards for Best Male Actor in a Play, and two Logie Awards. Read more
25 Sep 1952: Jimmy Garvin, American wrestler and manager James Williams is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Jimmy Garvin. A member of the Fabulous Freebirds, Garvin is best known for his appearances with promotions including the American Wrestling Association, World Class Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling. Read more
25 Sep 1952: bell hooks, American author and activist (died 2021) Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American philosopher, educator, author, and social critic; she was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College in Kentucky. Professor hooks wrote about race, feminism, and social class. Her work explored the intersections of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she described as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. Her work served as foundational to the modern idea of intersectionality. She published numerous scholarly articles and nearly 40 books, in styles ranging from essays and poetry to children's literature, with a body of work that addressed love, gender, art, history, sexuality, and mass media. Read more
25 Sep 1952: Cherríe Moraga, American poet, playwright, and activist Cherríe L. Moraga is an influential Chicana feminist writer, activist, poet, essayist, and playwright. A prominent figure in Chicana literature and feminist theory, Moraga's work explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class, with particular emphasis on the experiences of Chicana and Indigenous women. She currently serves as distinguished professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Read more
25 Sep 1952: Tommy Norden, American actor Tommy Norden is an American businessman and retired actor, most widely-known as Bud Ricks, the red-haired, younger brother of Sandy Ricks on the television series Flipper. Read more
25 Sep 1952: Chris Pond, English politician Christopher Richard Pond is a former Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Gravesham in Kent, from 1997 to 2005. Read more
25 Sep 1952: Christopher Reeve, American actor, producer, and activist (died 2004) Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, activist, director, and author. He amassed many stage and screen credits in his 34-year career, including playing the title character in the Superman film series (1978–1987). He won a British Academy Film Award, an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He was also known for his activism. Read more
25 Sep 1951: Yardena Arazi, Israeli singer Yardena Shulamit Arazi is an Israeli singer and entertainer. In 2008 Arazi was named the most popular Israeli singer of all time at the 60th Independence Day celebration. Read more
25 Sep 1951: Burleigh Drummond, American drummer and songwriter Burleigh Drummond is an American drummer, percussionist, producer, songwriter, and singer. He is a founding member and the only drummer/percussionist for the five-time Grammy Award nominated band Ambrosia. He performs onstage in the band with his wife and fellow band member Mary Harris, and the couple are also both active members of Bill Champlin’s Wunderground and their own band Tin Drum. Read more
25 Sep 1951: Graeme Knowles, English bishop Graeme Paul Knowles is a retired Anglican bishop who
served as Acting Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in 2025. He served latterly as the Acting Dean of St Edmundsbury, having previously served as Bishop of Sodor and Man and as Dean of St Paul's. Read more
25 Sep 1951: Mark Hamill, American actor, singer, and producer Mark Richard Hamill is an American actor. He rose to fame as Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy (1977–1983), leading to further lead parts in films like Corvette Summer (1978) and Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One (1980). Read more
25 Sep 1951: Bob McAdoo, American basketball player and coach Robert Allen McAdoo Jr. is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he was a five-time NBA All-Star and named the NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 1975. He won two NBA championships in four consecutive trips to the Finals in four years with the Showtime Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s. In 2000, McAdoo was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. He was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021. Read more
25 Sep 1950: E. C. Coleman, American basketball player E.C. Coleman Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1973 to 1978 and was considered as one of the league's premier defensive forwards during his career. Coleman played college basketball for the Houston Baptist Huskies and was selected by the Houston Rockets in the 1973 NBA draft. He was chosen in the 1974 NBA expansion draft by the New Orleans Jazz where he gained prominence for his defensive abilities and was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team in 1977. Coleman played for the Golden State Warriors during the 1977–78 season and earned a nomination to the All-Defensive Second Team. He finished his playing career with the Rockets in 1978. Read more
25 Sep 1950: Stanisław Szozda, Polish cyclist and trainer (died 2013) Stanisław Szozda was an elite Polish cyclist. He had his best achievements in the 100 km team time trial. In this event he won two silver medals at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, as well as two gold and two bronze medals at the world championships in 1971, 1973, 1975 and 1977. He was less successful in the individual road race, finishing in 76th and 11th place at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics, respectively, and winning a silver medal at the 1973 UCI Road World Championships. Read more
25 Sep 1949: Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and author. His films are distinguished by melodrama, irreverent humour, bold colour, glossy décor, quotations from popular culture, and complex narratives. Desire, LGBTQ issues, passion, family, motherhood, and identity are among Almodóvar's most frequently explored subjects. As one of the most internationally successful Spanish filmmakers, Almodóvar and his films have developed a cult following. Read more
25 Sep 1949: Jeff Borowiak, American tennis player Jeff Borowiak is a former professional tennis player from the United States, who won five singles and three doubles titles during his professional career, reaching a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 20 in August 1977. Read more
25 Sep 1949: Steve Mackay, American saxophonist and composer (died 2015) Steve Mackay was an American tenor saxophonist best known for his membership in the Stooges. His performances are showcased on three songs on the band's second album, Fun House (1970). Read more
25 Sep 1949: Anson Williams, American actor, singer, and director Anson Williams is an American actor. He is best known for his role as gullible, well-intentioned singer Warren "Potsie" Weber on the television series Happy Days (1974–1984), a role for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. Read more
25 Sep 1948: Mimi Kennedy, American actress and screenwriter Mary Claire "Mimi" Kennedy is an American actress, author and activist. Best known for her roles in television sitcoms, Kennedy co-starred in numerous short-lived sitcoms before her role as Ruth Sloan on Homefront (1991–93). She received wider recognition with her roles in the Chuck Lorre-created sitcoms Dharma & Greg (1997–2002) and Mom (2013–2021). For her performance in the latter, Kennedy received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series. Kennedy has also appeared in various films, including Pump Up the Volume (1990), Erin Brockovich (2000), In the Loop (2009), Due Date (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011) and The Five-Year Engagement (2012). Read more
25 Sep 1948: Vasile Șirli, Romanian musical composer and producer Vasile Șirli is a Romanian musical composer and producer. A pianist, Șirli specialises in easy listening, film, incidental and classical music. He studied at the National University of Music Bucharest, was an editor at Editura Muzicală and became director at Electrecord and at Disneyland Paris. Șirli is a Megleno-Romanian. Read more
25 Sep 1948: Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Russian businessman Vladimir Petrovich Yevtushenkov is a Russian billionaire business oligarch. He is the majority owner (49.2%) and former сhairman of Sistema. As a member of the Russian-Saudi Economic Council and as chairman since 2002 of the Russian side of both the Russian-Saudi and Russian-Arab Business Councils which are part of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), he maintains very close ties to both Saudi Arabia and the Arab world. Read more
25 Sep 1947: Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek politician and diplomat (died 1999) Giannos Kranidiotis was a Greek diplomat and politician. Read more
25 Sep 1947: Cheryl Tiegs, American model and actress Cheryl Rae Tiegs is an American model and fashion designer. Frequently described as America's first supermodel, Tiegs made multiple appearances on the covers of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and Time magazine. Read more
25 Sep 1947: Cecil Womack, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2013) Cecil Dale Womack was an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He was one of the musical Womack brothers, and had success both as a songwriter and recording artist, notably with his second wife Linda as Womack & Womack. In later years he took the name Zekkariyas. Read more
25 Sep 1946: Bishan Singh Bedi, Indian cricketer and coach (died 2023) Bishan Singh Bedi was an Indian cricketer who was primarily a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He played Test cricket for India from 1966 to 1979 and formed part of the famous Indian spin quartet. He played a total of 67 Tests and took 266 wickets. He also captained the national side in 22 Test matches. Bedi wore a colourful patka and was always known for his outspoken and forthright views on cricketing matters. He was awarded the Padma Shri award in 1970 and the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. Read more
25 Sep 1946: Felicity Kendal, English actress Felicity Ann Kendal is an English actress, working principally in television and theatre. She has appeared in numerous stage and screen roles over a more than 70-year career, including Barbara Good in the television series The Good Life from 1975 to 1978. Kendal was born in England, but moved to India with her family aged seven. Her father was an English actor-manager who led his own repertory company on tours of India, and Kendal appeared in roles for the company both before and after leaving England. She appeared in the film Shakespeare Wallah (1965), which was inspired by her family. Read more
25 Sep 1946: Bryan MacLean, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1998) Bryan Andrew MacLean was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with the influential rock band Love. His famous compositions for Love include "Alone Again Or", "Old Man" and "Orange Skies". Read more
25 Sep 1946: Janusz Majer, Polish mountaineer Janusz Majer is a Polish alpinist, himalayanist and traveler. He is co-founder and co-owner of ADD Company, the owner of Alpinus brand (1993–2001), co-founder of Mount Company, the owner of the HiMountain brand which produces outdoor clothing and equipment and co-owner of the large chain of HiMountain shops in Poland. Since 23 November 2013 he's been the head of the program "Polish Himalayas". Read more
25 Sep 1946: Gil Morgan, American golfer Gilmer Bryan Morgan II, OD is an American professional golfer. Read more
25 Sep 1946: Ali Parvin, Iranian footballer Ali Parvin is a retired Iranian football player and coach. He is among the most prominent Iranian footballers. He played for the Iran national football team. During his career, he played as an attacking midfielder or forward, and was associated mainly with Persepolis, playing for the team for eighteen years, managing the club on three occasions, for a combined total of for seventeen years, and also serving as the club's president. Read more
25 Sep 1946: Jerry Penrod, American bass player Jerry "The Bear" Penrod is an American bass player. He was a member of Iron Butterfly and Rhinoceros. He was nicknamed "The Bear" due to long hair and beard. He played on Iron Butterfly's first album, Heavy, which released after he left the band to form Rhinoceros, who he played on two albums with before leaving the band in 1969. After battling drug addiction he quit music and worked as a bus driver in San Diego. Read more
25 Sep 1945: Kathleen Brown, American lawyer and politician, 29th California State Treasurer Kathleen Lynn Brown is an American attorney and politician who served as the 29th treasurer of California from 1991 to 1995. Brown unsuccessfully ran for governor of California in the 1994 election. Read more
25 Sep 1945: Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2014) Carol Marcel Vadnais was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 17 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1966–67 until 1982–83. Vadnais won the Stanley Cup twice during his career, in 1968 with the Montreal Canadiens and again in 1972 with the Boston Bruins. Read more
25 Sep 1944: Michael Douglas, American actor and producer Michael Kirk Douglas is an American actor and film producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Honorary Palme d'Or and the AFI Life Achievement Award. Read more
25 Sep 1944: Doris Matsui, American politician Doris Kazue Matsui is an American politician who has served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 7th congressional district since 2005. She succeeded her husband, Bob Matsui. The district, numbered as the 5th from 2005 to 2013 and the 6th from 2013 to 2023, is based in Sacramento. Read more
25 Sep 1944: Grayson Shillingford, Dominican cricketer (died 2009) Grayson Cleophas Shillingford SAH was a West Indian cricketer who played in seven Test matches from 1969 to 1972. Read more
25 Sep 1943: Robert Gates, American lieutenant, academic, and politician, 22nd United States Secretary of Defense Robert Michael Gates is an American intelligence analyst who served as the 22nd United States secretary of defense from 2006 to 2011 and as the 15th director of central intelligence from 1991 to 1993 as a member of the Republican Party. He has been the 24th chancellor of the College of William and Mary since 2012. Read more
25 Sep 1943: John Locke, American keyboard player (died 2006) John Tilden Locke was an American keyboardist and a member of the rock group Spirit. In the early 1980s, he was a member of the band Nazareth. Read more
25 Sep 1943: Aram Saroyan, American poet and novelist Aram Saroyan is an American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright, who is especially known for his minimalist poetry, famous examples of which include the one-word poem "lighght" and a one-letter poem comprising a four-legged version of the letter "m". Read more
25 Sep 1943: Robert Walden, American actor, director, and screenwriter Robert Walden is an American television and motion picture actor. He is best known for his role as Joe Rossi on Lou Grant, which earned him three nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series; for his role as Joe Waters on Brothers; and as Glenn Newman on Happily Divorced. Walden also had roles in the films Blue Sunshine, The Hospital, All the President's Men, Audrey Rose, and Capricorn One. Read more
25 Sep 1942: Oscar Bonavena, Argentinian boxer (died 1976) Oscar Natalio "Ringo" Bonavena was an Argentine heavyweight professional boxer with a career record of 58 wins, 9 losses and 1 draw. A rugged, wild-swinging puncher, he was nicknamed "Ringo" because of his Beatles haircut, and enjoyed professional success in both Argentina and the United States. Bonavena was shot dead at the age of 33 in Reno, Nevada. He is remembered for giving Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali hard-fought bouts. Read more
25 Sep 1942: Robert Miano, American actor and producer Robert Miano is an American actor. Read more
25 Sep 1942: Henri Pescarolo, French race car driver Henri Jacques William Pescarolo is a French former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1968 to 1976. In endurance racing, Pescarolo is a four-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1991 with Joest. Read more
25 Sep 1942: John Taylor, English pianist and educator (died 2015) John Taylor was a British jazz pianist, born in Manchester, England, who occasionally performed on the organ and the synthesizer. In his obituary, The Guardian described him as "one of the great jazz pianists and composers of his generation" and at a musical level comparable to Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner and Brad Meldhau. Read more
25 Sep 1942: Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (died 2008) Delia Juanita Warrick, known professionally as Dee Dee Warwick, was an American soul singer. Born in East Orange, New Jersey, she was the sister of singer Dionne Warwick, the niece of Cissy Houston, and a first cousin of singers Whitney Houston and Leontyne Price. Read more
25 Sep 1941: Vivien Stern, Baroness Stern, English academic and politician Vivien Helen Stern, Baroness Stern is a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Read more
25 Sep 1940: Tim Severin, Indian-English explorer, historian, and author (died 2020) Timothy Severin was a British explorer, historian, and writer. Severin was noted for his work in retracing the legendary journeys of historical figures. Severin was awarded both the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and the Livingstone Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. He received the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for his 1982 book The Sindbad Voyage. Read more
25 Sep 1939: Leon Brittan, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (died 2015) Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne, was a British Conservative politician and barrister who served as a European Commissioner from 1989 to 1999. As a member of Parliament from 1974 to 1988, he served several ministerial roles in Margaret Thatcher's government, including Home Secretary from 1983 to 1985. Read more
25 Sep 1939: Feroz Khan, Indian actor, director, and producer (died 2009) Feroz Khan was an Indian actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor, best known for his work in Indian cinema. He appeared in over 60 films throughout his career and became one of Bollywood's popular style icons. Feroz Khan rose to prominence with Phani Majumdar's drama film Oonche Log (1965), and starred in successful Hindi films, such as Arzoo (1965), Aag (1967), Safar (1970), Mela (1971), Apradh (1972), Geeta Mera Naam (1974), Khotte Sikkay (1974), Kaala Sona (1975), Dharmatma (1975), Nagin (1976), Shankar Shambhu (1976) and Qurbani (1980). The 2007 superhit Welcome (2007), was his final film. Read more
25 Sep 1939: David S. Mann, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Cincinnati David Scott Mann is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the United States representative for Ohio's 1st congressional district from 1993 to 1995. He also served as a member of the Cincinnati City Council from 2013 to 2022 and from 1974 to 1992, during which time he served as mayor of Cincinnati from 1980 to 1982 and again in 1991. Mann ran in the 2021 Cincinnati mayoral election, but lost to Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Aftab Pureval. Read more
25 Sep 1938: Ron Hill, English runner and businessman (died 2021) Ronald Hill MBE was a British runner and clothing entrepreneur. He was the second man to break 2:10 in the marathon; he set world records at four other distances, and laid claim to the marathon world record. He ran two Olympic Marathons, and achieved a personal marathon record of 2:09:28. In 1970, Hill won the 74th Boston Marathon in a course record 2:10:30. He also won gold medals for the marathon at the European Championships in 1969 and the Commonwealth Games in 1970. Hill laid claim to the longest streak of consecutive days running – every day for 52 years and 39 days from 1964 to 2017. Read more
25 Sep 1938: Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic priest and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (died 2010) Jonathan Jakob Jørgen Otto Motzfeldt was a Greenlandic priest and politician. He is considered one of the leading figures in the establishment of Greenland Home Rule. Jonathan Motzfeldt was the first prime minister of Greenland. He was Greenland's prime minister from 1979 until 1991 and 1997 until 2002. He is Greenland's longest-serving prime minister and won the most elections of any Greenlandic prime minister. He is considered a centre-left politician and Greenland became a recognized country during his tenure. Read more
25 Sep 1938: Enn Tarto, Estonian politician (died 2021) Enn Tarto was an Estonian politician who was a leading dissident during the Soviet occupation of Estonia. He was imprisoned from 1956 to 1960, 1962 to 1967, and again from 1983 to 1988 for anti-Soviet activity. Read more
25 Sep 1937: Mary Allen Wilkes, American computer scientist and lawyer Mary Allen Wilkes is a lawyer, former computer programmer and logic designer. She is known for her work with the LINC computer, now recognised by many as the world's first personal computer (PC). Read more
25 Sep 1936: Ken Forsse, American toy creator and author, created Teddy Ruxpin (died 2014) Earl Kenneth Forsse was an American inventor, toymaker, and former Disney Imagineer. He was best known as the creator of the animatronic talking bear Teddy Ruxpin, which became the best-selling toy in the United States in 1985. Earlier in his career, Forsse worked for Walt Disney Productions on the development of several theme park attractions before founding Alchemy II, the company that produced Teddy Ruxpin and related projects, including the animated series The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin. Read more
25 Sep 1936: Juliet Prowse, South African-American actress, singer, and dancer (died 1996) Juliet Anne Prowse was a British-American dancer and actress whose four-decade career included stage, television, and film. She was born in Bombay then part of British India, and raised in South Africa. Known for her attractive legs, she was described after her death as having "arguably the best legs since Betty Grable". Read more
25 Sep 1936: Moussa Traoré, Malian general and politician 2nd President of Mali (died 2020) Moussa Traoré was a Malian military officer, politician, and dictator who served as the second President of Mali from 1968 to 1991. As a lieutenant, he led the military ousting of President Modibo Keïta in 1968. Thereafter he served as head of state until March 1991, when he was overthrown by popular protests and a military coup. Read more
25 Sep 1933: Hubie Brown, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster Hubert Jude Brown is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and analyst. Brown is a two-time NBA Coach of the Year, the honors separated by 26 years. Brown was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005. Read more
25 Sep 1933: Ian Tyson, Canadian folk singer-songwriter and musician (died 2022) Ian Dawson Tyson was a Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote many folk and cowboy songs, including "Four Strong Winds" and "Someday Soon", and performed with partner Sylvia Tyson as the duo Ian & Sylvia. as well as a solo act after the duo split up in 1975. Read more
25 Sep 1932: Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (died 1982) Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist and broadcaster. Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, he was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and a capacity to articulate the contrapuntal texture of Bach's music. Read more
25 Sep 1932: Terry Medwin, Welsh footballer and manager (died 2024) Terence Cameron Medwin was a Welsh footballer who played as an outside right for Swansea Town and Tottenham Hotspur. At international level, he made 30 appearances for the Wales national team scoring six goals. Read more
25 Sep 1932: Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (died 2014) Adolfo Suárez González, 1st Duke of Suárez, was a Spanish lawyer and politician who was Prime Minister of Spain from 1976 to 1981. He was the country's first democratically elected prime minister since the Second Spanish Republic and a key figure in the country's transition to democracy after the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Read more
25 Sep 1931: Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian journalist and poet (died 2005) Manouchehr Atashi was a Persian poet, writer, and journalist of Kurdish descent. Read more
25 Sep 1931: Bryan John Birch, English mathematician and scholar Bryan John Birch FRS is a British mathematician. His name has been given to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. Read more
25 Sep 1930: Nino Cerruti, Italian fashion designer, founded Cerruti (died 2022) Nino Cerruti was an Italian businessman and stylist. He founded his own haute couture house, Cerruti 1881, in 1967 in Paris. He managed the Italian family business Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti, which was founded in 1881 by his grandfather. Read more
25 Sep 1930: Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter (died 1999) Sheldon Allan Silverstein was an American writer, cartoonist, songwriter, and musician. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Silverstein briefly attended college before being drafted into the United States Army. During his rise to prominence in the 1950s, his illustrations were published in various newspapers and magazines, including the adult-oriented Playboy. He also wrote a satirical, adult-oriented alphabet coloring book, Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book. Read more
25 Sep 1929: Ronnie Barker, English actor and screenwriter (died 2005) Ronald William George Barker was an English actor, comedian and writer. He was known for roles in British comedy television series such as The Frost Report, The Two Ronnies, Porridge, and Open All Hours. Read more
25 Sep 1929: Delia Scala, Italian ballerina and actress (died 2004) Delia Scala was an Italian ballerina, actress and singer who played a leading role in the nascent commedia musicale. Read more
25 Sep 1929: Barbara Walters, American journalist, producer, and author (died 2022) Barbara Jill Walters was an American broadcast journalist and television personality. Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, she appeared as a host of numerous television programs, including Today, the ABC Evening News, 20/20, and The View. Walters was a working journalist from 1951 until her retirement in 2014. Walters was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1989, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NATAS in 2000 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007. Read more
25 Sep 1927: Carl Braun, American basketball player and coach (died 2010) Carl August Braun Jr. was an American professional basketball and baseball player and professional basketball coach. Read more
25 Sep 1927: Colin Davis, English conductor and educator (died 2013) Sir Colin Rex Davis was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959. His repertoire was broad, but among the composers with whom he was particularly associated were Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett. Read more
25 Sep 1926: Jack Hyles, American pastor and author (died 2001) Jack Frasure Hyles was a leading figure in the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement, having pastored the First Baptist Church of Hammond in Hammond, Indiana, from August 1959 until his death. He was well known for being an innovator of the church bus ministry that brought thousands of people each week from surrounding towns to Hammond for services. Hyles built First Baptist up from fewer than a thousand members to a membership of 100,000. In 1993 and again in 1994, it was reported that 20,000 people attended First Baptist every Sunday, making it the most attended Baptist church in the United States. In 2001, at the time of Hyles's death, 20,000 people were attending church services and Sunday school each week. Read more
25 Sep 1926: Aldo Ray, American actor (died 1991) Aldo Ray was an American actor of film and television. He began his career as a contract player for Columbia Pictures before achieving stardom through his roles in The Marrying Kind, Pat and Mike, Let's Do It Again, and Battle Cry. His athletic build and gruff, raspy voice saw him frequently typecast in "tough guy" roles throughout his career, which lasted well into the late 1980s. Read more
25 Sep 1925: Silvana Pampanini, Italian model, actress, and director, Miss Italy 1946 (died 2016) Silvana Pampanini was an Italian film actress, director and singer. She was also the niece of the soprano of the golden era of opera, Dame Rosetta Pampanini. Silvana Pampanini caused a sensation when she took part in the 1946 Miss Italia contest and the following year she started her movie career. Madame Pampanini was born into a well-off family, she was educated, and studied opera and ballet since her childhood. According to interviews, Pampanini was a contralto with notable voice extension. However, she also said many times over the years that she preferred to pursue a career in cinema as it required less training and it was much less demanding than a career as an opera singer. Read more
25 Sep 1924: Norman Ayrton, English actor and director (died 2017) Norman Ayrton was an actor, director, and theatre instructor. Read more
25 Sep 1924: Red Webb, American baseball player (died 1996) Samuel Henry "Red" Webb was an American professional baseball player. A 6 ft (1.8 m), 175 lb (79 kg) right-handed pitcher, he appeared in 25 Major League games, 22 in relief, for the 1948–1949 New York Giants. Read more
25 Sep 1923: Robert Laxalt, American author and academic (died 2001) Robert Laxalt was an American writer from Nevada. Read more
25 Sep 1923: Sam Rivers, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (died 2011) Samuel Carthorne Rivers was an American jazz musician and composer. Though most famously a tenor saxophonist, he also performed on soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica, piano and viola. Read more
25 Sep 1922: Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruian educator and politician, 1st President of Nauru (died 1992) Hammer DeRoburt was a Nauruan politician and independence leader. He led negotiations for independence from Australia and the end of the country's status as a United Nations trust territory. He was subsequently elected as the inaugural president of Nauru, serving four terms in office. Prior to independence he was head chief of Nauru and chair of the Nauru Local Government Council. Read more
25 Sep 1921: Rob Muldoon, New Zealand sergeant, accountant, and politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1992) Sir Robert David Muldoon was a New Zealand politician who served as the 31st prime minister of New Zealand, from 1975 to 1984, while leader of the National Party. Departing from National Party convention, Muldoon was a right-wing populist and economic nationalist, with a distinctive public persona described as reactionary, aggressive, and abrasive. Read more
25 Sep 1920: Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1994) Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk was a Soviet and Russian actor and filmmaker, born in Ukraine, who was one of the leading figures of Soviet cinema in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He is known for his sweeping period dramas, including War and Peace (1966-67), his internationally acclaimed four-part film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel, and for Waterloo (1970), a Napoleonic War epic. Read more
25 Sep 1920: Satish Dhawan, Indian engineer (died 2002) Satish Dhawan was an Indian mathematician and aerospace engineer. He served as the chairman of ISRO from 1972 to 1984 and is often regarded as the father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India. Read more
25 Sep 1917: Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2007) Philip Francis Rizzuto, nicknamed "the Scooter", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop. He spent his entire 13-year baseball career with the New York Yankees (1941–1956), and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994. Read more
25 Sep 1916: Jessica Anderson, Australian author and playwright (died 2010) Jessica Margaret Anderson was an Australian novelist and short story writer. Born in Gayndah, Anderson lived the bulk of her life in Sydney apart from a few years in London. She began her career writing short stories for newspapers and drama scripts for radio, especially adaptations of well-known novels. Embarking on her career as a novelist relatively late in life – her first novel was published when she was 47 – her early novels attracted little attention. She rose to prominence upon the publication of her fourth novel, Tirra Lirra by the River, published in 1978. Although she remains best known for this work, several of her novels have garnered high acclaim, most notably The Impersonators (1980) and Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories (1987), both of which have won awards. She won the Miles Franklin Literary Award twice, and has been published in Britain and the United States. Jessica Anderson died at Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales in 2010, following a stroke. She was the mother of Australian screenwriter Laura Jones, her only child. Read more
25 Sep 1916: Deendayal Upadhyaya, Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist (died 1968) Deendayal Upadhyaya, was an Indian politician, a proponent of integral humanism ideology and leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Upadhyaya started the monthly publication Rashtra Dharma, broadly meaning 'National Duties', in the 1940s to spread the ideals of Hindutva revival. Upadhyaya is known for drafting Jan Sangh's official political doctrine, Integral humanism, by including some cultural-nationalism values and his agreement with several Gandhian socialist principles such as sarvodaya and swadeshi (self-sufficiency). Read more
25 Sep 1914: John Manners, English naval officer and cricketer (died 2020) John Errol Manners was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer. He served in the Second World War and held several commands, earning the Distinguished Service Cross for his role in the sinking of the German submarine U-1274 in April 1945 while commanding the destroyer HMS Viceroy. Read more
25 Sep 1911: Eric Williams, Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (died 1981) Eric Eustace Williams was a Trinidadian politician, who has been dubbed the "Father of the Nation" having led the then-British Colony of Trinidad and Tobago to majority rule on 28 October 1956, to independence on 31 August 1962, and republic status, on 1 August 1976, leading an unbroken string of general election victories with his political party, the People's National Movement, until his death in 1981. He represented Port of Spain South in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. Read more
25 Sep 1910: Ralph Jordan, American football player and coach (died 1980) James Ralph "Shug" Jordan was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the head football coach at Auburn University from 1951 to 1975, where he compiled a record of 176–83–6. He has the most wins of any coach in Auburn Tigers football history. Jordan's 1957 Auburn squad went undefeated with a record of 10–0 and was named the national champion by the Associated Press. Jordan was also the head men's basketball coach at Auburn and at the University of Georgia (1946–1950), tallying a career college basketball record of 136–103. During his time coaching basketball, he also served as an assistant football coach at the two schools. Auburn's Jordan–Hare Stadium was renamed in Jordan's honor in 1973. Jordan was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1982. Read more
25 Sep 1908: Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (died 1977) Jacqueline Audry was a French film director who began making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations that centered women. She was the first commercially successful female director of post-war France. Read more
25 Sep 1906: Volfgangs Dārziņš, Latvian composer, pianist, and music critic (died 1962) Volfgangs Dārziņš was a Latvian composer, pianist and music critic. Read more
25 Sep 1906: Phyllis Pearsall, English painter, cartographer, and author (died 1996) Phyllis Isobella Pearsall was a British painter, publisher, artist and writer who founded the Geographers' A–Z Map Company, for which she is regarded as one of the most successful business people of the twentieth century. She has erroneously been credited with creating London's first popular indexed street map. Read more
25 Sep 1906: Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (died 1975) Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Read more
25 Sep 1903: Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter and educator (died 1970) Mark Rothko was a Latvian-born American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970. Although Rothko did not personally subscribe to any one school, he is associated with the American abstract expressionism movement of modern art. Read more
25 Sep 1901: Robert Bresson, French director and screenwriter (died 1999) Robert Bresson was a French filmmaker. Known for his ascetic approach, Bresson made a notable contribution to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, ellipses, and sparse use of scoring have led his works to be regarded as preeminent examples of minimalist film. Much of his work is known for being tragic in story and nature. Read more
25 Sep 1901: Gordon Coventry, Australian footballer (died 1968) Gordon Richard James Coventry was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Read more
25 Sep 1900: Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 1937) Artur Sirk was an Estonian political and military figure. A veteran of the country's struggle for independence, Sirk later became a leading figure within the right-wing Vaps Movement and an outspoken opponent of the government. Read more
25 Sep 1899: Udumalai Narayana Kavi, Indian poet and songwriter (died 1981) Udumalai Narayana Kavi was an Indian poet and lyricist known for his work in Tamil films. Read more
25 Sep 1898: Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-American painter and educator (died 1980) Robert Brackman was an American artist and teacher, best known for large figural works, portraits, and still lifes. Read more
25 Sep 1897: William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962) William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Read more
25 Sep 1896: Sandro Pertini, Italian journalist and politician, 7th President of Italy (died 1990) Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio "Sandro" Pertini was an Italian journalist, socialist politician, partisan and statesman who served as the
president of Italy from 1978 to 1985. Read more
25 Sep 1893: Harald Cramér, Swedish mathematician and statistician (died 1985) Harald Cramér was a Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory. John Kingman described him as "one of the giants of statistical theory". Read more
25 Sep 1889: Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, Scottish author and translator (died 1930) Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff was a Scottish writer and translator, most famous for his English translation of most of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, which he published under the Shakespearean title Remembrance of Things Past. He translated six out of the seven volumes of Proust's masterpiece including, Swann's Way (1922), Within a Budding Grove (1924), The Guermantes Way (1925), Cities of the Plain (1928), The Captive (1929), and The Sweet Cheat Gone (1930). Read more
25 Sep 1888: Hanna Ralph, German actress (died 1978) Hanna Ralph was a German stage and film actress whose career began on the stage and in silent film in the 1910s and continued through the early 1950s. Read more
25 Sep 1884: Adolf Bolm, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (died 1951) Adolph Rudolphovich Bolm was a Russian-born American ballet dancer and choreographer, of German descent. Read more
25 Sep 1881: Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (died 1936) Lu Xun, pen name of Zhou Shuren, born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer. A leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in both vernacular and literary Chinese as a novelist, literary critic, essayist, poet, translator and political commentator, known for his sharp, satirical style and critical reflections on Chinese history and culture. Read more
25 Sep 1879: Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Rizal (died 1963) Lope K. Santos was a Filipino Tagalog-language writer and former senator of the Philippines. He is best known for his 1906 socialist novel, Banaag at Sikat and for his contributions to the development of Filipino grammar and Tagalog orthography. Read more
25 Sep 1877: Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and President (died 1945) Plutarco Elías Calles was a Mexican politician and military officer who served as the 47th president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928. After the assassination of Álvaro Obregón, Calles founded the Institutional Revolutionary Party and held unofficial power as Mexico's de facto leader from 1929 to 1934, a period known as the Maximato. Previously, he served as a general in the Constitutional Army, as Governor of Sonora, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Interior. During the Maximato, he served as Secretariat of Public Education, Secretary of War again, and Secretary of the Economy. During his presidency, he implemented many left-wing populist and secularist reforms, opposition to which sparked the Cristero War. Read more
25 Sep 1867: Yevgeny Miller, Russian general (died 1938) Yevgeny-Ludvig Karlovich Miller was a Russian general of Baltic German descent and one of the leaders of the anti-Communist White Army during the Russian Civil War. After the civil war, he lived in exile in France. Kidnapped by Soviet intelligence operatives in Paris in 1937, he was smuggled to the Soviet Union and executed in Moscow in 1939. Read more
25 Sep 1866: Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1945) Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and embryologist. In 1933, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on the role of chromosomes in heredity. Read more
25 Sep 1865: Henri Lebasque, French artist (died 1937) Henri Lebasque was a French Post-Impressionist painter. He was born at Champigné (Maine-et-Loire). His work is represented in French museums, notably Angers, Geneva, Lille, Nantes, and Paris. Read more
25 Sep 1862: Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (died 1897) Léon Boëllmann was a French composer, known for a small number of compositions for organ. His best-known composition is Suite gothique (1895), which is a staple of the organ repertoire, especially its concluding Toccata. Read more
25 Sep 1862: Billy Hughes, English-Australian carpenter and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1952) William Morris Hughes was the seventh prime minister of Australia, serving from 1915 to 1923. He led the nation during World War I, and his influence on national politics spanned several decades. He was a member of the federal parliament from the Federation of Australia in 1901 until his death in 1952, and is the only person to have served as a parliamentarian for more than 50 years. He represented six political parties during his career, leading five, outlasting four, and being expelled from three. Read more
25 Sep 1839: Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist and geologist (died 1904) Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel was a German palaeontologist best known for his Handbuch der Palaeontologie (1876–1893). Read more
25 Sep 1825: William Pitt Ballinger, American lawyer and politician (died 1888) William Pitt Ballinger was an American politician and lawyer. He had a significant impact on the development of Texas realty and railroad law. He originally supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. Following the war, he was instrumental in the reconstruction in Texas, the emancipation of black slaves, and the industrial development of the South. Read more
25 Sep 1825: Joachim Heer, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the National Council (died 1879) Joachim Heer was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1875–1878). Read more
25 Sep 1816: Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (died 1893) Georg August Rudolph was a German politician and from 4 December 1856 until 2 August 1884 mayor of Marburg. Read more

Notable Deaths on 25 September

25 Sep 2023: David McCallum, Scottish actor (born 1933) David Keith McCallum was a Scottish actor and musician. After varied film roles in his native Britain, he gained wide recognition in the 1960s for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin on the American television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1968), a role that earned him nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Read more
25 Sep 2017: Jan Tříska, Czech actor (born 1936) Jan Tříska was a Czech actor who played over 160 roles across stage, film, and television. He worked in the United States after emigrating there in the 1970s, but later returned to his native country following the Velvet Revolution. He was a three-time Czech Lion Award nominee, for Best Actor in Leading Role, and twice for Best Supporting Actor. Read more
25 Sep 2016: José Fernández, Cuban-American baseball player (born 1992) José Delfín Fernández Gómez was a Cuban-born American professional baseball right-handed pitcher who played four seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was a member of the Miami Marlins from 2013 until his death in 2016. He stood 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and weighed 243 pounds (110 kg) during his playing career. He was affectionately known as "Niño" to his teammates and fans due to the youthful exuberance with which he played the game. Read more
25 Sep 2016: Arnold Palmer, American golfer (born 1929) Arnold Daniel Palmer was an American professional golfer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most charismatic players in the sport's history. Since embarking on a professional career in 1955, he won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and the circuit now known as PGA Tour Champions. Nicknamed "the King", Palmer was one of golf's most popular stars and seen as a trailblazer, the first superstar of the sport's television age, which began in the 1950s. Read more
25 Sep 2016: Nahid Hattar, Jordanian writer and political activist (born 1960) Nahed Hattar was a Jordanian writer and political activist. Read more
25 Sep 2015: Claudio Baggini, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (born 1936) Claudio Baggini was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop. Read more
25 Sep 2015: John Galvin, American general (born 1929) John Rogers Galvin was an American general whose last post was concurrently as NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander-in-Chief of the United States European Command from 1987 to 1992. After his retirement from the United States Army, he was the dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University from 1995 to 2000, and a member of the Commission on National Security/21st Century. Read more
25 Sep 2015: Tom Kelley, American baseball player and manager (born 1944) Thomas Henry Kelley was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians and the Atlanta Braves in parts of seven seasons spanning 1964–1973. Listed at 6' 0" [1.80 m], 185 lb. [84 kg], Kelley batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Manchester, Connecticut. Read more
25 Sep 2015: Moti Kirschenbaum, Israeli journalist (born 1939) Mordechai (Moti) Kirschenbaum was an Israeli media personality and documentarian. Read more
25 Sep 2014: Ulrick Chérubin, Haitian-Canadian educator and politician (born 1943) Ulrick Chérubin was a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Amos, Quebec, from 2002 until his death in 2014. He was one of the first Black Canadians to be elected a mayor in Quebec. Read more
25 Sep 2014: Sulejman Tihić, Bosnian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1951) Sulejman Tihić was a Bosnian politician who served as the 4th Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006. He also served as the second president of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) from 2001 until his death in 2014. From 2007 until his death, Tihić served as member of the national House of Peoples. Read more
25 Sep 2014: Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English high jumper (born 1920) Dorothy Jennifer Beatrice Tyler, MBE was a British athlete who competed mainly in the high jump. Read more
25 Sep 2013: Ron Fenton, English footballer, coach, and manager (born 1940) Ronald Fenton was an English football player, coach and manager. He played as an inside forward and made nearly 200 appearances in the Football League. Read more
25 Sep 2013: Choi In-ho, South Korean author and screenwriter (born 1945) Choe Inho was a South Korean writer. Read more
25 Sep 2013: José Montoya, American poet and academic (born 1932) José Montoya was a poet and an artist from Sacramento, California. He was one of the most influential Chicano bilingual poets. He has published many well-known poems in anthologies and magazines, and served as Sacramento's poet laureate. Read more
25 Sep 2013: Billy Mure, American guitarist and composer (born 1915) Sebastian "Billy" Mure was an American session musician, guitarist, and songwriter who recorded several albums in the 1950s and 1960s in a variety of styles, including surf, Hawaiian, swing, pop, twist, garage rock, pioneered early arena rock and use of power chords, as well as lounge music. He pioneered proto hard rock in the 1950s. Read more
25 Sep 2013: Pablo Verani, Italian-Argentinian lawyer and politician (born 1938) Pablo Federico Verani was an Italian-born Argentine politician, formerly of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) who served as Governor of Río Negro from 1995 to 2003. Read more
25 Sep 2013: Bennet Wong, Canadian psychiatrist and academic, co-founded Haven Institute (Gabriola Island, Canada) (born 1930) Bennet Randall Wong, was a Canadian psychiatrist, author and lecturer who co-founded the Haven Institute, a residential experiential learning centre on the west coast of Canada, with Jock McKeen. His writings focused on mental illness, group psychotherapy, humanistic psychology and personal growth. Read more
25 Sep 2012: Billy Barnes, American composer and songwriter (born 1927) Billy Barnes was a composer, lyricist and actor from Los Angeles, California. Barnes may be best known for his theatrical revues and his recurring role as Mr. Edlin on the television series Mad About You. Read more
25 Sep 2012: John Bond, English footballer and manager (born 1932) John Frederick Bond was an English professional football player and manager. He played from 1950 until 1966 for West Ham United, making 444 appearances in all competitions and scoring 37 goals. He was a member of the West Ham side which won the 1957–58 Second Division and the 1964 FA Cup. He also played for Torquay United until 1969. He managed seven different Football League clubs, and was the manager of the Norwich City side which made the 1975 Football League Cup Final and the Manchester City side which made the 1981 FA Cup Final. He is the father of Kevin Bond, a former footballer and coach. Read more
25 Sep 2012: Eric Ives, English historian and academic (born 1931) Eric William Ives was a British historian who was an expert on the Tudor period, and a university administrator. He was emeritus Professor of English History at the University of Birmingham. Read more
25 Sep 2012: Alonso Lujambio, Mexican academic and politician (born 1962) Alonso José Ricardo Lujambio Irazábal was a Mexican academic and politician who served as Secretary of Public Education in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón. Read more
25 Sep 2012: Andy Williams, American singer (born 1927) Howard Andrew Williams was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold certified and three platinum certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971, along with numerous TV specials. The Andy Williams Show won three Emmy Awards. He sold more than 45 million records worldwide, including more than 10 million certified units in the United States. Read more
25 Sep 2011: Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1940) Wangarĩ Maathai was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on planting trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 2004, she became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Read more
25 Sep 2009: Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (born 1923) Alicia de Larrocha y de la Calle was a Spanish pianist and composer. She was considered one of the great piano legends of the 20th century. Reuters called her "the greatest Spanish pianist in history", Time "one of the world's most outstanding pianists", and The Guardian "the leading Spanish pianist of her time". Read more
25 Sep 2009: Pierre Falardeau, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1946) Pierre Falardeau was a Québécois film and documentary director, pamphleteer and noted activist for Quebec independence. Read more
25 Sep 2008: Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (born 1932) Derog Gioura was a Nauruan political figure. He was President of the Republic of Nauru (acting) in 2003. Read more
25 Sep 2007: Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician and politician (born 1919) Haidar Abdel-Shafi was a Palestinian physician, community leader and political leader. He was the head of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Conference of 1991 and served in the Palestinian Legislative Council for Gaza Governorate from 1996 to 1998. Read more
25 Sep 2007: André Emmerich, German-American art dealer (born 1924) André Emmerich was a German-born American gallerist who specialized in the color field school and pre-Columbian art while also taking on artists such as David Hockney and John D. Graham. Read more
25 Sep 2006: Jeff Cooper, American target shooter and author (born 1920) John Dean "Jeff" Cooper was a United States Marine Corps officer and firearms instructor. He was the creator of the "modern technique" of handgun shooting, and an expert on the use and history of small arms. Read more
25 Sep 2006: John M. Ford, American author and poet (born 1957) John Milo "Mike" Ford was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet. Read more
25 Sep 2005: Don Adams, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1923) Donald James Yarmy, known professionally as Don Adams, was an American actor. In his five decades on television, he was best known as bumbling Maxwell Smart in the television situation comedy Get Smart, which he also sometimes directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his performance in the series (1967–1969). Adams also provided voices for the animated series Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (1963–1966) and Inspector Gadget (1983–1986) as well as several revivals and spinoffs of the latter in the 1990s. Read more
25 Sep 2005: Madeline-Ann Aksich, Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1956) Madeline-Ann Aksich, was a Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist, artist and founder of the International Children's Institute. On May 1, 2001 she was appointed to the Order of Canada for her humanitarian work. After her death, she was remembered in the House of Commons by MP Francis Scarpaleggia. The Madeline-Ann Aksich Visual Arts Studio at Marianopolis College is named in her honour. Read more
25 Sep 2005: George Archer, American golfer (born 1939) George William Archer was an American professional golfer who won 13 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the Masters in 1969. Read more
25 Sep 2005: Urie Bronfenbrenner, Russian-American psychologist and ecologist (born 1917) Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian-born American psychologist best known for using a contextual framework to better understand human development. This framework, broadly referred to as 'ecological systems theory', was formalized in an article published in American Psychologist, articulated in a series of propositions and hypotheses in his most cited book, The Ecology of Human Development and further developed in The Bioecological Model of Human Development and later writings. He argued that natural experiments and applied developmental interventions provide valuable scientific opportunities. These beliefs were exemplified in his involvement in developing the US Head Start program in 1965. Bronfenbrenner's writings about the limitations of understanding child development solely from experimental laboratory research and the potential for using contextual variability to provide insight into developmental processes was important in changing the focus of developmental psychology. Read more
25 Sep 2005: Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani linguist and critic (born 1912) Ghulam Mustafa Khan, SI was a Pakistani researcher, literary critic, linguist, author, scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics, educationist and religious and spiritual leader belonging to the Naqshbandi order of Sufism. Read more
25 Sep 2005: M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and author (born 1936) Morgan Scott Peck (1936–2005) was an American psychiatrist and best-selling author who wrote the book The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978. Read more
25 Sep 2005: Friedrich Peter, Austrian lawyer and politician (born 1921) Friedrich Peter was an Austrian politician who served as chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria from 1958 to 1978. He was an active Nazi between 1938 and 1945 and an SS-Obersturmführer of the Waffen-SS. Read more
25 Sep 2003: Aqila al-Hashimi, Iraqi translator and politician (born 1953) Aqila al-Hashimi was an Iraqi politician who served on the Iraqi Governing Council. Read more
25 Sep 2003: Herb Gardner, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1934) Herbert George Gardner was an American commercial artist, cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter. Read more
25 Sep 2003: Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918) Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT Sloan School of Management. Read more
25 Sep 2003: George Plimpton, American writer and literary editor (born 1927) George Ames Plimpton was an American writer. He is known for his sports writing, for helping found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician accent. He was known for "participatory journalism," including accounts of his active involvement in professional sporting events, acting in a Western, performing a comedy act at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur. Read more
25 Sep 1999: Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (born 1930) Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. She was noted for the female perspective in her writing, something before little-seen in sword and sorcery fantasy. Read more
25 Sep 1997: Hélène Baillargeon, Canadian singer and actress (born 1916) Hélène Baillargeon (1916–1997) was a Canadian singer, actor, and folklorist probably best known as the host of the CBC Television show Chez Hélène from 1959 to 1973. Read more
25 Sep 1997: Jean Françaix, French pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1912) Jean René Désiré Françaix was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator known for his prolific output and vibrant style. Françaix composed for various genres, and is particularly known for his chamber works for piano as well as wind instruments. Read more
25 Sep 1995: Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer and manager (born 1928) David Lloyd Bowen was a Welsh football player and manager, who captained his country to their first ever World Cup finals, in 1958. Read more
25 Sep 1995: Annie Elizabeth Delany, American dentist and author (born 1891) Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany was an American dentist and civil rights pioneer. She was the subject, along with her elder sister, Sadie, of the oral history, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1993), written by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Delany had earned a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree from Columbia University in 1923, and was the second black woman licensed to practice dentistry in New York state. With the publication of the book, she became famous at the age of 101. Read more
25 Sep 1992: Ivan Vdović, Serbian musician (born 1961) Ivan "Ivica" Vdović, also known as Vd, was a Serbian musician, drummer of Yugoslav rock bands such as Suncokret, Šarlo Akrobata and Katarina II. Read more
25 Sep 1991: Klaus Barbie, German SS captain, known as the "Butcher of Lyon" (born 1913) 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. Read more
25 Sep 1991: Viviane Romance, French actress and producer (born 1912) Viviane Romance was a French actress. Read more
25 Sep 1990: Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian accountant and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1897) Prafulla Chandra Sen was an Indian politician and independence activist who was Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1962 to 1967. Read more
25 Sep 1988: Billy Carter, American farmer and businessman (born 1937) William Alton Carter was an American farmer, businessman and brewer. The younger brother of U.S. President Jimmy Carter, he promoted Billy Beer and Peanut Lolita; and he was a candidate for mayor of Plains, Georgia. Read more
25 Sep 1988: Arthur Võõbus, Estonian-American orientalist and scholar (born 1909) Arthur Võõbus was an Estonian theologian, orientalist, scholar, author, professor, and church historian. Read more
25 Sep 1987: Mary Astor, American actress (born 1906) Mary Astor was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941). Read more
25 Sep 1987: Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor and playwright (born 1905) George Emlyn Williams was a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor. Read more
25 Sep 1986: Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian-Canadian trade union leader and activist (born 1917) Darshan Singh Canadian was a Sikh trade union activist and communist organizer in Canada and India. Read more
25 Sep 1986: Donald MacDonald, Canadian union leader and politician (born 1909) Donald MacDonald was a Canadian social democratic politician and trade unionist who led the Nova Scotia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and was elected as a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1941. In 1968 he was elected President of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). Read more
25 Sep 1986: Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896) Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , sometimes Semenov, Semionov or Semenoff was a Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation. Read more
25 Sep 1986: Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist and academic (born 1909) Hans Kamstrup Vogt was a Norwegian linguist who specialized in the Caucasian languages, especially Georgian. He also did significant early work on the Kalispel language and produced an interesting dictionary of the Ubykh language. Read more
25 Sep 1984: Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-American actor (born 1897) Walter Davis Pidgeon was a Canadian-American actor. A major leading man during the Golden Age of Hollywood, known for his "portrayals of men who prove both sturdy and wise," Pidgeon earned two Academy Award nominations for Best Actor for his roles in Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Madame Curie (1943). Read more
25 Sep 1983: Leopold III of Belgium (born 1901) Leopold III was King of the Belgians from 23 February 1934 until his abdication on 16 July 1951. At the outbreak of World War II, Leopold tried to maintain Belgian neutrality, but after the German invasion in May 1940, he surrendered his country, earning him much hostility, both at home and abroad. Read more
25 Sep 1980: John Bonham, English drummer and songwriter (born 1948) John Henry Bonham was an English musician who was the drummer of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Noted for his speed, power, fast single-footed kick drumming, distinctive sound, and feel for groove, he is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential drummers in history. Read more
25 Sep 1980: Lewis Milestone, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1895) Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He twice won the Academy Award for Best Director, for Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), with a third nomination for The Front Page (1931). Read more
25 Sep 1980: Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (born 1883) Marie Under was an Estonian poet. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 16 times in 15 separate years. Read more
25 Sep 1972: Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentine poet (born 1936) Flora Alejandra Pizarnik was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered "one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature", and has been recognized and celebrated for its fixation on "the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, the nature of intimacy, madness, [and] death". Read more
25 Sep 1971: Hugo Black, American captain, jurist, and politician, Associate Supreme Court Justice (born 1886) Hugo Lafayette Black was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as a U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1927 to 1937 and as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1937 to 1971. A member of the Democratic Party and a devoted New Dealer, Black endorsed Franklin D. Roosevelt in both the 1932 and 1936 presidential elections. Read more
25 Sep 1970: Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss author and translator (born 1898) Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist. His 1928 landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front, which was based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World War I, was an international bestseller which created a new literary genre of veterans writing about conflict. The book was adapted to film several times. Remarque's anti-war themes led to his condemnation by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as "unpatriotic". He was able to use his literary success and fame to relocate to Switzerland as a refugee, and to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. Read more
25 Sep 1968: Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (born 1891) Hans Friedrich Karl Günther, popularly known as Hans F. K. Günther, was a German writer, advocate of scientific racism and eugenicist in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. He was also known as "Rassengünther" or "Rassenpapst". He is considered to have been a major influence on Nazi racialist thought. Read more
25 Sep 1968: Cornell Woolrich, American author and screenwriter (born 1903) Cornell George Hopley Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer, also known under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler. Read more
25 Sep 1961: Frank Fay, American actor and singer (born 1897) Frank Fay was an American vaudeville comedian, film actor, and stage actor. Considered an important pioneer in comedy, he has been referred to as "the first stand-up". For a time he was a well known and influential star, vaudeville's highest-paid headliner, earning $17,500 a week in the 1920s, but he later fell into obscurity, in part because of his abrasive personality and rightwing political views. He played the role of Elwood P. Dowd in the 1944 Broadway play Harvey by the American playwright Mary Coyle Chase. He is best known as the first husband of actress Barbara Stanwyck. Read more
25 Sep 1960: Emily Post, American author and educator (born 1873) Emily Post was an American author, novelist, and socialite who wrote about etiquette. Read more
25 Sep 1958: John B. Watson, American psychologist and academic (born 1878) John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school. Watson advanced this change in the psychological discipline through his 1913 address at Columbia University, titled Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It. Through his behaviorist approach, Watson conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising, as well as conducting the controversial "Little Albert" experiment and the Kerplunk experiment. He was also the editor of Psychological Review from 1910 to 1915. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Watson as the 17th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. Read more
25 Sep 1955: Martha Norelius Swedish-born American swimmer (born 1909) Martha Maria Norelius was a Swedish-born American competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder in five different freestyle swimming events. Read more
25 Sep 1946: Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (born 1879) Hans Eppinger Jr. was an Austrian physician of part-Jewish descent who performed experiments upon Nazi concentration camp prisoners. Read more
25 Sep 1943: Alexander Hall, Scottish-Canadian soccer player (born 1880) Alexander Noble Hall, sometimes known as Sandy Hall, was a professional soccer player who played as a centre forward in the Scottish League for Dunfermline Athletic, Dundee, Motherwell, and St Bernard's. Born in Scotland, he was a part of Canada's gold medal-winning 1904 Olympic team and finished the tournament as joint-top scorer, with three goals. The goals came in the form of a hat-trick in a 7–0 win over the United States, represented by Christian Brothers College. Read more
25 Sep 1941: Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player, golfer, and race car driver (born 1867) Foxhall Parker Keene was an American thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder, a world and Olympic gold medallist in polo, and an amateur tennis player. He was rated the best all-around polo player in the United States for eight consecutive years, a golfer who competed in the U.S. Open, and a pioneer racecar driver who vied for the Gordon Bennett Cup. In addition to his substantial involvement in flat racing, he was also a founding member of the National Steeplechase Association. Read more
25 Sep 1939: Ali Saip Ursavaş, Turkish soldier and politician (born 1885) Ali Saip Ursavaş, also known as Ali Saib Bey was an Ottoman officer of Kurdish origin, having served in the Ottoman and Turkish armies, and one of the early key members of CHP. Read more
25 Sep 1938: Lev Zadov, Ukrainian intelligence agent (born 1893) Lev Mykolaiovych Zadov, also known by his nom de guerre Lev Zinkovskyi, was chief of military intelligence of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (RIAU) and later an operative of the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU). Read more
25 Sep 1933: Ring Lardner, American journalist and author (born 1885) Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. Notable contemporaries such as Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald expressed strong admiration for his work, and author John O'Hara credited Lardner with shaping his understanding of dialogue. Read more
25 Sep 1929: Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (born 1879) Miller James Huggins was an American professional baseball player and manager. Huggins played second base for the Cincinnati Reds (1904–1909) and St. Louis Cardinals (1910–1916). He managed the Cardinals (1913–1917) and New York Yankees (1918–1929), including the Murderers' Row teams of the 1920s that won six American League (AL) pennants and three World Series championships. Read more
25 Sep 1928: Richard F. Outcault, American cartoonist, created The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown (born 1863) Richard Felton Outcault was an American cartoonist. He was the creator of the series The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown and is considered a key pioneer of the modern comic strip. Read more
25 Sep 1926: Herbert Booth, English songwriter and bandleader (born 1862) Herbert Henry Howard Booth was a Salvation Army officer, the third son of five children to William and Catherine Booth (Mumford), who later went on to serve as an independent evangelist. He oversaw the Limelight Department's development and he was the writer and director for Soldiers of the Cross. Read more
25 Sep 1918: Mikhail Alekseyev, Russian general (born 1857) Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev was an Imperial Russian Army general during World War I and the Russian Civil War. Between 1915 and 1917, he served as Tsar Nicholas II's Chief of Staff of the Stavka, and after the February Revolution, was its commander-in-chief under the Russian Provisional Government from March to May 1917. He later played a principal role in founding the Volunteer Army in the Russian Civil War and died in 1918 of heart failure while fighting the Bolsheviks in the Volga region. Read more
25 Sep 1917: Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary, rebel commander, died on hunger strike (born 1885) Thomas Patrick Ashe was an Irish revolutionary and politician. He was a member of the Gaelic League, the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers. Read more
25 Sep 1905: Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French educator and politician (born 1853) Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, known as Godefroy Cavaignac, was a French politician. Read more
25 Sep 1901: Arthur Fremantle, English general and politician, Governor of Malta (born 1835) General Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle was a British Army officer best known for his travels through the United States during the American Civil War. Whilst holding the rank of "Captain and Lieutenant Colonel" he spent three months, from 2 April to 16 July 1863, in a tour of North America, travelling through parts of the Confederate and Union territories. Contrary to popular belief, Fremantle was not an official representative of the British government, instead being merely a war tourist. Read more
25 Sep 1900: Félix-Gabriel Marchand, Canadian journalist and politician, 11th Premier of Québec (born 1832) Félix-Gabriel Marchand was a journalist, author, notary and politician in Quebec, Canada. He was the 11th premier of Quebec from May 24, 1897, to September 25, 1900. Read more
25 Sep 1900: John M. Palmer, American general and politician, 15th Governor of Illinois (born 1817) John McAuley Palmer was an American politician. He was an Illinois resident, a general who fought for the Union during the American Civil War, the 15th governor of Illinois, and presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party in the 1896 election on a platform to defend the gold standard, free trade, and limited government. Read more
25 Sep 1893: Louise von François, German author (born 1817) Marie Louise von François was a German writer, best known for her historical novel Die letzte Reckenburgerin (1871). She was a friend and correspondent of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. Read more
25 Sep 1867: Oliver Loving, American rancher, co-developed the Goodnight–Loving Trail (born 1812) Oliver Loving was an American rancher and cattle driver. Together with Charles Goodnight, he developed the Goodnight–Loving Trail. He was mortally wounded by Comanches while on a cattle drive. Read more
25 Sep 1849: Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (born 1804) Johann Baptist Strauss I, also known as Johann Strauss Sr., the Elder or the Father, was an Austrian composer of the Romantic Period. He was famous for his light music, namely waltzes, polkas, and galops, which he popularized alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons—Johann II, Josef and Eduard—to carry on his musical dynasty. He is best known for his composition of the Radetzky March. Read more
25 Sep 1828: Charlotta Seuerling, Swedish singer, harpsichord player, and composer (born 1783) Charlotta Antonia "Charlotte Antoinette" Seuerling, was a blind Swedish concert singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet, known as "The Blind Song-Maiden". She was active in Sweden, Finland and Russia. Her last name is also spelled as Seijerling and Seyerling. Her first name was Charlotta Antoinetta, but in the French fashion of the time, she was often called Charlotte Antoinette. She was the author of the popular song "Sång i en melankolisk stund". Read more

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