Birthdays In History 1925

1925 Matthew Beard American child actor (d. 1981)

1925 Paul Bomani Tanzanian politician and diplomat 1st Tanzanian Minister of Finance (d. 2005)

1925 Jill Balcon English actress (d. 2009)

1925 Veikko Hakulinen Finnish skier and technician (d. 2003)

1925 John DeLorean American engineer and businessman founded the DeLorean Motor Company (d. 2005)

1925 Gerald Durrell Indian-English zookeeper conservationist and author founded Durrell Wildlife Park (d. 1995)

1925 Mohan Rakesh Indian author and playwright (d. 1972)

1925 Len Quested English footballer and manager (d. 2012)

1925 Lee Van Cleef American actor (d. 1989)

1925 Billie Sol Estes American financier and businessman (d. 2013)

1925 Grant Tinker American television producer co-founded MTM Enterprises (d. 2016)

1925 Bill Burrud American television host producer and actor (d. 1990)

1925 Rosemary Murphy American actress (d. 2014)

1925 Vanita Smythe American singer and actress (d. 1994)

1925 Ron Tauranac Australian engineer and businessman (d. 2020)

1925 Gwen Verdon American actress and dancer (d. 2000)

1925 Jean-Claude Beton Algerian-French engineer and businessman founded Orangina (d. 2013)

1925 Moscelyne Larkin American ballerina (d. 2012)

1925 Yukio Mishima Japanese author poet and playwright (d. 1970)

1925 Ruth Slenczynska American pianist and composer

1925 Ignacio López Tarso Mexican actor (d. 2023)

1925 Peter Hirsch German-English metallurgist and academic

1925 James Robinson Risner American general and pilot (d. 2013)

1925 Gunnar Birkerts Latvian-American architect (d. 2017)

1925 Robert Cormier American author and journalist (d. 2000)

1925 Abdul Hafeez Kardar Pakistani cricketer and author (d. 1996)

1925 Gilles Deleuze French metaphysician and philosopher (d. 1995)

1925 John V. Evans American soldier and politician 27th Governor of Idaho (d. 2014)

1925 Sol Yurick American soldier and author (d. 2013)

1925 Nina Bawden English author (d. 2012)

1925 Jamiluddin Aali Pakistani poet playwright and critic (d. 2015)

1925 Ernesto Cardenal Nicaraguan priest poet and politician (d. 2020)

1925 Charles Aidman American actor (d. 1993)

1925 Alex Forbes Scottish footballer (d. 2014)

1925 Eva Ibbotson Austrian-English author (d. 2010)

1925 Arnold Skaaland American wrestler and manager (d. 2007)

1925 Johnny Bucha American baseball player (d. 1996)

1925 Bobby Young American baseball player (d. 1985)

1925 Marty Paich American pianist composer producer and conductor (d. 1995)

1925 Gus Mortson Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)

1925 Gordy Soltau American football player and sportscaster (d. 2014)

1925 Giorgos Zampetas Greek bouzouki player and songwriter (d. 1992)

1925 David Jenkins English bishop and theologian (d. 2016)

1925 Joan Leslie American actress (d. 2015)

1925 Ben Pucci American football player and sportscaster (d. 2013)

1925 Claude Ryan Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2004)

1925 Benjamin Hooks American minister lawyer and activist (d. 2010)

1925 Elaine Stritch American actress and singer (d. 2014)

1925 Shelley Berman American actor and comedian (d. 2017)

1925 John Fiedler American actor (d. 2005)

1925 Russell Hoban American author and illustrator (d. 2011)

1925 Stanley Karnow American journalist and historian (d. 2013)

1925 Christopher Zeeman English mathematician and academic (d. 2016)

1925 Hans Schmidt Canadian wrestler (d. 2012)

1925 John B. Cobb American philosopher and theologian

1925 Burkhard Heim German physicist and academic (d. 2001)

1925 Pierre Mondy French actor and director (d. 2012)

1925 Virginia E. Johnson American psychologist and academic (d. 2013)

1925 Kim Stanley American actress (d. 2001)

1925 Angella D. Ferguson American pediatrician

1925 Ron Goodwin English composer and conductor (d. 2003)

1925 Hal Holbrook American actor and director (d. 2021)

1925 George Kennedy American actor (d. 2016)

1925 Tochinishiki Kiyotaka Japanese sumo wrestler the 44th Yokozuna (d. 1990)

1925 Sam Peckinpah American director and screenwriter (d. 1984)

1925 Jack Ramsay American basketball player coach and sportscaster (d. 2014)

1925 Edward Gorey American illustrator and poet (d. 2000)

1925 Gerald Stern American poet and academic (d. 2022)

1925 Louis Stokes American lawyer and politician (d. 2015)

1925 Bud Day American colonel and pilot Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013)

1925 Shehu Shagari former President of Nigeria (d. 2019)

1925 Lisa Kirk American actress and singer (d. 1990)

1925 Pia Sebastiani Argentine pianist and composer (d. 2015)

1925 Kenneth Koch American poet playwright and professor (d. 2002)

1925 Harry H. Corbett Burmese-English actor (d. 1982)

1925 Alan R. Battersby English chemist and academic (d. 2018)

1925 Paul Mauriat French conductor and composer (d. 2006)

1925 Rene Gagnon American soldier (d. 1979)

1925 Richard Vernon British actor (d. 1997)

1925 Warren Bennis American scholar author and academic (d. 2014)

1925 Bob Lanier American lawyer banker and politician Mayor of Houston (d. 2014)

1925 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff American biochemist and academic (d. 1983)

1925 Leo Esaki Japanese physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate

1925 Harry Harrison American author and illustrator (d. 2012)

1925 Roy Haynes American drummer and composer

1925 William Clay Ford Sr. American businessman (d. 2014)

1925 Joseph A. Unanue American sergeant and businessman (d. 2013)

1925 Cornell Borchers Lithuanian-German actress and singer (d. 2014)

1925 Mary Hinkson American dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)

1925 Ervin Kassai Hungarian basketball player and referee (d. 2012)

1925 Luis E. Miramontes Mexican chemist and engineer (d. 2004)

1925 Gabriele Ferzetti Italian actor (d. 2015)

1925 Alessandro Alessandroni Italian musician (d. 2017)

1925 James Pickles English journalist lawyer and judge (d. 2010)

1925 Brent Scowcroft American general and diplomat 9th United States National Security Advisor (d. 2020)

1925 John Ehrlichman American lawyer 12th White House Counsel (d. 1999)

1925 Harold Ashby American saxophonist (d. 2003)

1925 Peter Brook English-French director and producer (d. 2022)

1925 Hugo Koblet Swiss cyclist (d. 1964)

1925 David Watkin English cinematographer (d. 2008)

1925 Flannery O'Connor American short story writer and novelist (d. 1964)

1925 Anthony Quinton Baron Quinton English physician and philosopher (d. 2010)

1925 Kishori Sinha Indian politician social activist and advocate (d. 2016)

1925 Maqsood Ahmed Pakistani cricketer (d. 1999)

1925 Pierre Boulez French pianist composer and conductor (d. 2016)

1925 Vesta Roy American politician Governor of New Hampshire (d. 2002)

1925 Edward Graham Baron Graham of Edmonton English soldier and politician (d. 2020)

1925 Ben Mondor Canadian-American businessman (d. 2010)

1925 James Moody American saxophonist and composer (d. 2010)

1925 Innokenty Smoktunovsky Russian actor (d. 1994)

1925 Dorothy DeBorba American child actress (d. 2010)

1925 Jean Coutu Canadian actor and director (d. 1999)

1925 George MacDonald Fraser Scottish author and screenwriter (d. 2008)

1925 Hans Rosenthal German radio and television host (d. 1987)

1925 Tony Benn English pilot and politician Secretary of State for Industry (d. 2014)

1925 Dettmar Cramer German footballer and manager (d. 2015)

1925 Frank Truitt American basketball player and coach (d. 2014)

1925 Claude Wagner Canadian lawyer judge and politician (d. 1979)

1925 Emmett Williams American poet and author (d. 2007)

1925 Janet Rowley American human geneticist (d. 2013)

1925 Pierre Nihant Belgian cyclist (d. 1993)

1925 Chaturanan Mishra Indian trade union leader and politician (d. 2011)

1925 Jan van Roessel Dutch footballer (d. 2011)

1925 Virginia Gibson American actress singer and dancer (d. 2013)

1925 Art Kane American photographer (d. 1995)

1925 Yuriy Lituyev Russian hurdler and commander (d. 2000)

1925 Viola Liuzzo American civil rights activist (d. 1965)

1925 Viktor Masing Estonian botanist and ecologist (d. 2001)

1925 Pierre Péladeau Canadian businessman founded Quebecor (d. 1997)

1925 Evelyn Berezin American computer scientist and engineer (d. 2018)

1925 Ned Miller American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2016)

1925 Oliver Postgate English animator puppeteer and screenwriter (d. 2008)

1925 Marcus Schmuck Austrian mountaineer and author (d. 2005)

1925 John Kraaijkamp Sr. Dutch actor (d. 2011)

1925 Hugh O'Brian American actor (d. 2016)

1925 Anthony Mason Australian soldier and judge 9th Chief Justice of Australia

1925 John Swinton of Kimmerghame English general and politician Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire (d. 2018)

1925 Franco Leccese Italian sprinter (d. 1992)

1925 Tony Christopher Baron Christopher English trade union leader and businessman

1925 Sammy Drechsel German comedian and journalist (d. 1986)

1925 Louis O'Neil Canadian academic and politician (d. 2018)

1925 Vladimir Boltyansky Russian mathematician educator and author (d. 2019)

1925 Gerard Cafesjian American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)

1925 Michele Ferrero Italian entrepreneur (d. 2015)

1925 Frank Hahn British economist (d. 2013)

1925 Derek Chinnery English broadcaster (d. 2015)

1925 T. John Lesinski American judge and politician 51st Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (d. 1996)

1925 John Leonard Thorn English lieutenant author and academic

1925 John Compton Saint Lucian lawyer and politician 1st Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2007)

1925 Iwao Takamoto American animator director and producer (d. 2007)

1925 Corinne Calvet French actress (d. 2001)

1925 Johnny Horton American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1960)

1925 Chuck Bednarik American lieutenant and football player (d. 2015)

1925 Sardar Fazlul Karim Bangladeshi philosopher scholar and academic (d. 2014)

1925 John Neville English-Canadian actor (d. 2011)

1925 Jean Séguy French sociologist and author (d. 2007)

1925 Jenő Buzánszky Hungarian footballer and coach (d. 2015)

1925 Maurice R. Greenberg American businessman and philanthropist

1925 Leo Ryan American soldier educator and politician (d. 1978)

1925 Lauri Vaska Estonian-American chemist and academic (d. 2015)

1925 Ali Hassan Mwinyi Tanzanian politician 2nd President of Tanzania

1925 Edward J. King American football player and politician 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)

1925 Sophie Kurys American baseball player (d. 2013)

1925 Patrice Munsel American soprano and actress (d. 2016)

1925 Boris Parsadanian Armenian-Estonian violinist and composer (d. 1997)

1925 Al Porcino American trumpet player (d. 2013)

1925 Ninian Sanderson Scottish race car driver (d. 1985)

1925 Andrei Eshpai Russian pianist and composer (d. 2015)

1925 Mary F. Lyon English geneticist and biologist (d. 2014)

1925 Carl Sanders American soldier pilot and politician 74th Governor of Georgia (d. 2014)

1925 Roy Stewart Jamaican-English actor and stuntman (d. 2008)

1925 Nancy Roman American astronomer (d. 2018)

1925 Ola Vincent Nigerian banker and economist (d. 2012)

1925 Nílton Santos Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)

1925 Alexei Tupolev Russian engineer designed the Tupolev Tu-144 (d. 2001)

1925 Jean Tinguely Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1991)

1925 Joshua Lederberg American biologist and geneticist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)

1925 Carmine Infantino American illustrator and educator (d. 2013)

1925 Mai Zetterling Swedish actress and director (d. 1994)

1925 Rosario Castellanos Mexican poet and author (d. 1974)

1925 Jeanne Crain American actress (d. 2003)

1925 Eldon Griffiths English journalist and politician (d. 2014)

1925 Don Liddle American baseball player (d. 2000)

1925 Claude Pinoteau French film director and screenwriter (d. 2012)

1925 Carmen Montejo Cuban-Mexican actress (d. 2013)

1925 Alec McCowen English actor (d. 2017)

1925 Tony Hillerman American journalist and author (d. 2008)

1925 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau German opera singer and conductor (d. 2012)

1925 John Henry Marks English physician and author (d. 2022)

1925 Julian Beck American actor and director (d. 1986)

1925 Antonio Puchades Spanish footballer (d. 2013)

1925 Maxine Kumin American poet and author (d. 2014)

1925 Frank Chee Willeto American soldier and politician 4th Vice President of the Navajo Nation and a noted code talker during World War II (d. 2013)

1925 Ernestina Herrera de Noble Argentine publisher and executive (d. 2017)

1925 Keith Laumer American soldier and author (d. 1993)

1925 Herman Sarkowsky German-American businessman and philanthropist co-founded the Seattle Seahawks (d. 2014)

1925 Leo Gravelle Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)

1925 Nat Hentoff American historian author and journalist (d. 2017)

1925 James Salter American novelist and short-story writer (d. 2015)

1925 Johnny Esaw Canadian sportscaster (d. 2013)

1925 William Styron American novelist and essayist (d. 2006)

1925 Kristine Miller American actress (d. 2015)

1925 Pierre Salinger American journalist and politician 11th White House Press Secretary (d. 2004)

1925 Richard Baker English journalist and author (d. 2018)

1925 Attilâ İlhan Turkish poet author and critic (d. 2005)

1925 Jean d'Ormesson French journalist and author (d. 2017)

1925 Otto Muehl Austrian-Portuguese painter and director (d. 2013)

1925 Alexander Shulgin American pharmacologist and chemist (d. 2014)

1925 Robert Beadell American composer and educator (d. 1994)

1925 Audie Murphy American lieutenant and actor Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1971)

1925 Larisa Avdeyeva Russian mezzo-soprano (d. 2013)

1925 Stanley Moss American poet publisher and art dealer

1925 Giovanni Spadolini Italian journalist and politician 45th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1994)

1925 Maureen Stapleton American actress (d. 2006)

1925 Miriam Karlin English actress (d. 2011)

1925 Anna Chennault Chinese widow of Lieutenant General Claire Lee Chennault (d. 2018)

1925 Ogden Reid American politician (d. 2019)

1925 June Lockhart American actress

1925 Robert Venturi American architect and academic (d. 2018)

1925 Virginia Patton American actress and businesswoman (d. 2022)

1925 Pavel Belyayev Soviet soldier pilot and cosmonaut (d. 1970)

1925 Wolfgang Unzicker German chess player (d. 2006)

1925 Jean Frydman French resistant and businessman (d. 2021)

1925 Leonard Lerman American geneticist and biologist (d. 2012)

1925 Doc Pomus American singer-songwriter (d. 1991)

1925 Wayne Terwilliger American second baseman coach and manager (d. 2021)

1925 Francis S. Currey American World War II Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2019)

1925 Giorgio Napolitano Italian journalist and politician 11th President of Italy

1925 Chan Parker American dancer and author (d. 1999)

1925 Jackie Lynn Taylor American actress (d. 2014)

1925 Cara Williams American actress (d. 2021)

1925 Fred Schaus American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)

1925 Ebrahim Amini Iranian politician (d. 2020)

1925 Farley Granger American actor (d. 2011)

1925 Art McNally American football referee (d. 2023)

1925 Marvin Rainwater American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)

1925 Terry Moriarty Australian rules footballer (d. 2011)

1925 Danny Nardico American professional boxer (d. 2010)

1925 Philip Jamison American artist (d. 2021)

1925 Ciril Zlobec Slovene poet writer translator journalist and politician (d. 2018)

1925 Dorothy Head Knode American tennis player (d. 2015)

1925 Fernando de Szyszlo Peruvian painter and sculptor (d. 2017)

1925 Jean Raspail French author and explorer (d. 2020)

1925 Merv Griffin American actor singer and producer created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! (d. 2007)

1925 Gazi Yaşargil Turkish neurosurgeon and academic

1925 Wally Phillips American radio host (d. 2008)

1925 Marco Cé Italian cardinal (d. 2014)

1925 Arthur Imperatore Sr. Italian-American businessman (d. 2020)

1925 Bill Mackrides American football quarterback (d. 2019)

1925 Dominique Nohain French actor screenwriter and director (d. 2017)

1925 Guru Dutt Indian actor director and producer (d. 1964)

1925 Charles E. Wicks American engineer author and academic (d. 2010)

1925 Ronald I. Spiers American ambassador (d. 2021)

1925 Mahathir Mohamad Malaysian physician and politician 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia

1925 Ernest Bertrand Boland American Roman Catholic bishop

1925 Charles Chaynes French composer (d. 2016)

1925 Nicolai Gedda Swedish operatic tenor (d. 2017)

1925 Peter Kyros American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)

1925 Sid Smith Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2004)

1925 Suzanne Zimmerman American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist (d. 2021)

1925 Huang Zongying Chinese actress and writer (d. 2020)

1925 Bruce L. Douglas American politician

1925 Philip Carey American actor (d. 2009)

1925 Taylor Hardwick American architect designed Haydon Burns Library and Friendship Fountain Park (d. 2014)

1925 D. A. Pennebaker American documentary filmmaker (d. 2019)

1925 Evan Hultman American politician

1925 Antony Carbone American actor (d. 2020)

1925 Pandel Savic American football player (d. 2018)

1925 Jimmy Scott American singer and actor (d. 2014)

1925 Mohammad Hasan Sharq Afghan politician

1925 Shirley Strickland Australian runner and hurdler (d. 2004)

1925 Friedrich Zimmermann German lawyer and politician German Federal Minister of the Interior (d. 2012)

1925 Raymond Jones Australian Modernist architect (d. 2022)

1925 Windy McCall American baseball relief pitcher (d. 2015)

1925 Sue Thompson American singer (d. 2021)

1925 Jacques Delors French economist and politician 8th President of the European Commission

1925 Frantz Fanon French–Algerian psychiatrist and philosopher (d. 1961)

1925 Johnny Peirson Canadian hockey player (d. 2021)

1925 Jack Matthews American author playwright and academic (d. 2013)

1925 Joseph Sargent American actor director and producer (d. 2014)

1925 Tajuddin Ahmad Bangladeshi politician 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)

1925 Quett Masire Botswana politician the former Vice-President of Botswana (d. 2017)

1925 Alain Decaux French historian and author (d. 2016)

1925 Gloria DeHaven American actress and singer (d. 2016)

1925 Benny Benjamin American R&B drummer (d. 1969)

1925 Jerry Paris American actor and director (d. 1986)

1925 Dick Passwater American race car driver (d. 2020)

1925 Jutta Zilliacus Finnish journalist and politician

1925 Jerzy Einhorn Polish-Swedish physician and politician (d. 2000)

1925 Joseph Engelberger American physicist and engineer (d. 2015)

1925 Gene Gutowski Polish-American film producer (d. 2016)

1925 Ana María Matute Spanish author and academic (d. 2014)

1925 Baruch Samuel Blumberg American physician and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)

1925 Harold W. Kuhn American mathematician and academic (d. 2014)

1925 Mikis Theodorakis Greek composer (d. 2021)

1925 Stan Stennett Welsh actor and trumpet player (d. 2013)

1925 Alexander Trocchi Scottish author and poet (d. 1984)

1925 Carmel Quinn Irish singer actress and writer (d. 2021)

1925 John Swainson Canadian-American jurist and politician 42nd Governor of Michigan (d. 1994)

1925 Ernst Jandl Austrian poet and author (d. 2000)

1925 K. Arulanandan Ceylon-American engineer and academic (d. 2004)

1925 John Dexter English director and producer (d. 1990)

1925 John McCormack Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)

1925 Marv Levy American-Canadian football player coach and manager

1925 Lewis Rowland American neurologist (d. 2017)

1925 Felice Bryant American songwriter (d. 2003)

1925 Alija Izetbegović Bosnian lawyer and politician 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (d. 2003)

1925 Aziz Sattar Malaysian actor comedian singer and director (d. 2014)

1925 David A. Huffman American computer scientist developed Huffman coding (d. 1999)

1925 George Cooper English general (d. 2020)

1925 Floyd Curry Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2006)

1925 Arlene Dahl American actress businesswoman and writer (d. 2021)

1925 Dale Bumpers American soldier lawyer and politician 38th Governor of Arkansas (d. 2016)

1925 Guillermo Cano Isaza Colombian journalist (d. 1986)

1925 Donald Justice American poet and writing teacher (d. 2004)

1925 Norris McWhirter Scottish publisher and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (d. 2004)

1925 Ross McWhirter Scottish publisher and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (d. 1975)

1925 George Wetherill American physicist and academic (d. 2006)

1925 Benny Bailey American trumpet player songwriter and producer (d. 2005)

1925 José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz Argentine executive and policy maker (d. 2013)

1925 Russell Baker American critic and essayist (d. 2019)

1925 Mike Connors American actor and producer (d. 2017)

1925 Rose Maddox American singer-songwriter and fiddle player (d. 1998)

1925 Bill Pinkney American singer (d. 2007)

1925 Erik Schmidt Swedish-Estonian painter and author (d. 2014)

1925 Willie Jones American baseball player (d. 1983)

1925 Mal Waldron American pianist and composer (d. 2002)

1925 Brian Aldiss English author and critic (d. 2017)

1925 Pierre Grondin Canadian surgeon and academic (d. 2006)

1925 Anis Mansour Egyptian journalist and author (d. 2011)

1925 Claude Gauvreau Canadian poet and playwright (d. 1971)

1925 Honor Blackman English actress and republican (d. 2020)

1925 Robert Mulligan American director and producer (d. 2008)

1925 Thea Astley Australian journalist and author (d. 2004)

1925 Hilmar Hoffmann German film and culture academic (d. 2018)

1925 Stepas Butautas Lithuanian basketball player and coach (d. 2001)

1925 Jack Hirshleifer American economist and academic (d. 2005)

1925 Alain Peyrefitte French scholar and politician Minister of Justice for France (d. 1999)

1925 Pyotr Todorovsky Ukrainian-Russian director screenwriter and cinematographer (d. 2013)

1925 Etelka Keserű Hungarian economist and politician (d. 2018)

1925 Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt Chilean composer (d. 2010)

1925 Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo Italian cardinal (d. 2017)

1925 Nat Lofthouse English footballer and manager (d. 2011)

1925 Saiichi Maruya Japanese author and critic (d. 2012)

1925 Bill Neilson Australian politician 34th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1989)

1925 Jaswant Singh Neki Indian poet and academic (d. 2015)

1925 Carter Stanley American bluegrass singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)

1925 Billy Grammer American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)

1925 Donald O'Connor American actor singer and dancer (d. 2003)

1925 Philip Purser English author and critic (d. 2022)

1925 Laurent de Brunhoff French author and illustrator

1925 Donald Symington American actor (d. 2013)

1925 Moran Campbell English-Canadian physician and academic invented the venturi mask (d. 2004)

1925 Maurice Pialat French actor and director (d. 2003)

1925 Arvonne Fraser American activist (d. 2018)

1925 Art Pepper American saxophonist clarinet player and composer (d. 1982)

1925 Hugo Montenegro American composer and conductor (d. 1981)

1925 Anne Jackson American actress (d. 2016)

1925 Bengt Lindström Swedish painter and sculptor (d. 2008)

1925 Hank Thompson American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2007)

1925 Asa Earl Carter American Ku Klux Klan leader and author (d. 1979)

1925 Justin Kaplan American author (d. 2014)

1925 Andrea Camilleri Italian author screenwriter and director (d. 2019)

1925 Jimmy Reed American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)

1925 Laura Ashley Welsh-English fashion designer founded Laura Ashley plc (d. 1985)

1925 Allan Blakeney Canadian lawyer and politician 10th Premier of Saskatchewan (d. 2011)

1925 Bhanumathi Ramakrishna Indian actress singer director and producer (d. 2005)

1925 Jacqueline Ceballos American activist founded the Veteran Feminists of America

1925 Roy Brown American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)

1925 Dick Lucas English minister and cleric

1925 Boris Tchaikovsky Russian pianist and composer (d. 1996)

1925 Harry Somers Canadian soldier and composer (d. 1999)

1925 Stan Lopata American baseball player (d. 2013)

1925 Dickie Moore American actor (d. 2015)

1925 Mel Tormé American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)

1925 Stanley Chapman English architect and author (d. 2009)

1925 Erika Köth German soprano (d. 1981)

1925 Carlo Rambaldi Italian special effects artist (d. 2012)

1925 Helle Virkner Danish actress and singer (d. 2009)

1925 Charlie Byrd American singer and guitarist (d. 1999)

1925 Charles Haughey Irish accountant lawyer and politician 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2006)

1925 Dorothy Loudon American actress and singer (d. 2003)

1925 John List American murderer (d. 2008)

1925 Harvey Haddix American baseball player and coach (d. 1994)

1925 Dorothy Wedderburn English economist and academic (d. 2012)

1925 W. Reece Smith Jr. American lawyer and academic (d. 2013)

1925 James Bernard English composer and screenwriter (d. 2001)

1925 Ananda Mahidol King Rama VIII of Thailand (d. 1946)

1925 Virginia Capers American actress and singer (d. 2004)

1925 Leila Hadley American author (d. 2009)

1925 Denis C. Twitchett English historian and scholar (d. 2006)

1925 Autar Singh Paintal Indian physiologist and academic (d. 2004)

1925 Silvana Pampanini Italian model actress and director Miss Italy 1946 (d. 2016)

1925 Norm Dussault American-Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2012)

1925 Marty Robbins American singer-songwriter guitarist actor and race car driver (d. 1982)

1925 Robert Edwards English physiologist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)

1925 George Gladir American author (d. 2013)

1925 Seymour Cray American computer scientist founded the CRAY Computer Company (d. 1996)

1925 Cromwell Everson South African composer (d. 1991)

1925 Martin David Kruskal American physicist and mathematician (d. 2006)

1925 Steve Forrest American actor (d. 2013)

1925 Paul MacCready American engineer founded AeroVironment (d. 2007)

1925 Arkady Ostashev Russian engineer and educator (d. 1998)

1925 Wren Blair Canadian ice hockey player coach and manager (d. 2013)

1925 Simone Segouin (also known as Nicole Minet) French Resistance fighter and partisan (d. 2023)

1925 Gore Vidal American novelist screenwriter and critic (d. 2012)

1925 George Wein American pianist and producer co-founded the Newport Folk Festival (d. 2021)

1925 Roger Wood Belgian-American journalist (d. 2012)

1925 Gail Davis American actress (d. 1997)

1925 Herbert Kretzmer South African-English journalist and songwriter (d. 2020)

1925 Walter Dale Miller American lawyer and politician 29th Governor of South Dakota (d. 2015)

1925 Shana Alexander American journalist and author (d. 2005)

1925 Álvaro Magaña Salvadoran economist and politician President of El Salvador (d. 2001)

1925 Elmore Leonard American novelist short story writer and screenwriter (d. 2013)

1925 Denis Lazure Canadian psychiatrist and politician (d. 2008)

1925 Lenny Bruce American comedian and actor (d. 1966)

1925 Armand Mouyal Algerian-French fencer and police officer (d. 1988)

1925 Gustav Winckler Danish singer-songwriter (d. 1979)

1925 Mickey Baker American-French guitarist (d. 2012)

1925 Aurora Bautista Spanish actress (d. 2012)

1925 Tony Hart English painter and television host (d. 2009)

1925 Daniel J. Evans American politician 16th Governor of Washington

1925 Harry Carpenter English sportscaster (d. 2010)

1925 Ramiz Alia Albanian politician 1st President of Albania (d. 2011)

1925 Bernard Hepton English actor and producer (d. 2018)

1925 Czesław Kiszczak Polish general and politician 11th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (d. 2015)

1925 Emilio Eduardo Massera Argentinian admiral (d. 2010)

1925 Art Buchwald American soldier and journalist (d. 2007)

1925 Tom Dowd American record producer and engineer (d. 2002)

1925 Roger Hanin Algerian-French actor director and screenwriter (d. 2015)

1925 Celia Cruz Cuban-American singer (d. 2003)

1925 Virginia Zeani Romanian soprano and educator

1925 Slater Martin American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)

1925 Edith Kawelohea McKinzie Hawaiian genealogist author and hula expert (d. 2014)

1925 Robert Rauschenberg American painter and illustrator (d. 2008)

1925 Manos Hatzidakis Greek composer and theorist (d. 1994)

1925 Fred Shero Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1990)

1925 Luciano Berio Italian composer and educator (d. 2003)

1925 Al Feldstein American author and illustrator (d. 2014)

1925 Willie Mabon American-French singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1985)

1925 Ken Mackay Australian cricketer (d. 1982)

1925 Ieng Sary Vietnamese-Cambodian politician co-founded the Khmer Rouge (d. 2013)

1925 Paul Vaughan English journalist and radio host (d. 2014)

1925 Jan Wolkers Dutch sculptor painter and author (d. 2007)

1925 Warren Christopher American soldier lawyer and politician 63rd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)

1925 Jane Connell American actress and singer (d. 2013)

1925 Paul Fox English broadcaster

1925 Monica Sims English radio host and producer (d. 2018)

1925 Ian Hamilton Finlay Bahamian-Scottish poet sculptor and gardener (d. 2006)

1925 Dominick Dunne American journalist and author (d. 2009)

1925 Robert Hardy English actor (d. 2017)

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