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{{Short description|Events on calendar date 25 February}} {{pp-move}} {{pp-pc}} {{calendar}} {{This date in recent years}} {{Day}} ==Events== ===Pre-1600=== *[[AD 138|138]] – [[Roman emperor]] [[Hadrian]] adopts [[Antoninus Pius]] as his son, effectively making him his successor.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Journal of Roman Studies |year=1930 |publisher=Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies |location=London |page=82 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YFs8AAAAMAAJ |access-date=2019-02-25 |archive-date=2020-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801120519/https://books.google.com/books?id=YFs8AAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[628]] – [[Khosrow II]], the last great Shah of the [[Sasanian Empire]] (Iran), is overthrown by his son [[Kavadh II]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Morony |first=Michael G. |title=Iraq After the Muslim Conquest |year=2005 |publisher=Gorgias Press |location=Piscataway, New Jersey |page=92 |isbn=978-15-93333-15-7}}</ref> *[[1336]] – Four thousand defenders of [[Pilenai]] commit [[mass suicide]] rather than be taken captive by the [[Teutonic Knights]]. ===1601–1900=== *[[1705]] – [[George Frideric Handel]]'s opera ''[[Handel's lost Hamburg operas#Nero|Nero]]'' premiered in [[Hamburg]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Lang |first= Paul Henry |title= George Frideric Handel |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=9aK8AQAAQBAJ |publisher= Dover Publications |location= New York |year= 1996 |page=35 |isbn= 0-486-29227-4}}</ref> *[[1836]] – [[Samuel Colt]] is granted a United States [[patent]] for his [[revolver]] firearm.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.edn.com/samuel-colt-receives-patent-for-his-revolver-february-25-1836/ |title=Samuel Colt receives patent for his revolver, February 25, 1836 |publisher=Electrical Design News (EDN) |location=Englewood, Colorado |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=6 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706043402/https://www.edn.com/samuel-colt-receives-patent-for-his-revolver-february-25-1836/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1843]] – [[Lord George Paulet]] occupies the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]] in the name of Great Britain in the [[Paulet affair]].<ref>{{cite book |title=British and Foreign State Papers, Volume 31 |year=1858 |publisher=Foreign Office |location=London |chapter=Correspondence relating to the Provisional Cession of the Sandwich Islands to great Britain. February 1843 |pages=1023–1029 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qADAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1023 |access-date=2020-09-23 |archive-date=2020-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200901140337/https://books.google.com/books?id=1qADAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1023 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1870]] – [[Hiram Rhodes Revels]], a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] from [[Mississippi]], is sworn into the [[United States Senate]], becoming the first [[African American]] ever to sit in [[United States Congress|Congress]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=R000166 |title=Revels, Hiram Rhodes (1827–1901) |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |publisher=Office of the House Historian, United States Congress |location=Washington, DC |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=29 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629155153/https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=R000166 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1875]] – [[Guangxu Emperor]] of [[Qing dynasty]] China begins his reign, under [[Empress Dowager Cixi]]'s regency.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Guangxu |title=Guangxu |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=10 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310180333/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Guangxu |url-status=live }}</ref> ===1901–present=== *[[1912]] – [[Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg|Marie-Adélaïde]], the eldest of six daughters of [[Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Guillaume IV]], becomes the first reigning [[Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Grand Duchess]] of [[Luxembourg]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=S.A.R. la Grande-Duchesse Marie-Adélaïde {{!}} Cour grand-ducale|url=https://www.monarchie.lu/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=www.monarchie.lu|language=fr|archive-date=2007-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070523094915/http://www.monarchie.lu/|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1916]] – [[World War I]]: In the [[Battle of Verdun]], a German unit captures [[Fort Douaumont]], keystone of the French defences, without a fight.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-battle-of-verdun |last=Wakefield |first=Alan |title=What was the Battle of Verdun? |publisher=Imperial War Museum |location=London |access-date=6 July 2020 |archive-date=6 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706160534/https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-battle-of-verdun |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1918]] – World War I: German forces capture [[Tallinn]] to virtually complete the [[German occupation of Estonia during World War I|occupation of Estonia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baltdefcol.org/files/docs/bdreview/bdr-2002-8-11.pdf |last=Parrott |first=Andrew |title=The Baltic States from 1914 to 1923: The First World War and the Wars of Independence |page=139 |work=Baltic Defence Review |issue=8 |volume=2 |year=2002 |publisher=Baltic Defence College |location=Tartu, Estonia |access-date=2020-07-06 |archive-date=2020-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706144933/https://www.baltdefcol.org/files/docs/bdreview/bdr-2002-8-11.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1921]] – [[Democratic Republic of Georgia|Georgian]] capital [[Tbilisi]] falls to the [[Red Army invasion of Georgia|invading Russian forces]] after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the [[Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Lang |first=David Marshall |author-link=David Marshall Lang |title=A Modern History of Soviet Georgia |year=1962 |publisher=Grove Press |location=New York City |pages=234–236 |asin=B000WAJSKG}}</ref> *[[1932]] – [[Adolf Hitler]], having been [[Statelessness|stateless]] for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a [[Free State of Brunswick|Brunswick]] state official by [[Dietrich Klagges]], a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for [[President of Germany (1919–1945)|Reichspräsident]] in the 1932 election.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/revoking-the-fuehrer-s-passport-hitler-may-be-stripped-of-german-citizenship-a-471168.html |last=Hinrichs |first=Per |title=Hitler May Be Stripped of German Citizenship |date=12 March 2007 |work=Spiegel International |publisher=Spiegel Gruppe |location=Hamburg |access-date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042637/https://www.spiegel.de/international/revoking-the-fuehrer-s-passport-hitler-may-be-stripped-of-german-citizenship-a-471168.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1933]] – Launch of the {{USS|Ranger|CV-4|6}} at [[Newport News, Virginia]]. It is the first purpose-built [[aircraft carrier]] to be commissioned by the [[US Navy]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Cressman |first=Robert J. |title=USS Ranger: The Navy's First Flattop from Keel to Mast, 1934–1946 |year=2003 |publisher=Potomac Books |location=Dulles, Virginia |pages=3–6 |isbn=978-15-74887-20-4}}</ref> *[[1939]] – As part of [[Air Raid Precautions|British air raid precautions]], the first of 2.5 million [[Air raid shelter|Anderson shelters]] is constructed in a garden in [[Islington]], north London.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.andersonshelters.org.uk/history.html |last=Stanley |first=Martin |title=History |work=Anderson Shelters |access-date=6 July 2020 |archive-date=25 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725011018/https://www.andersonshelters.org.uk/history.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1941]] – The outlawed [[Communist Party of the Netherlands]] organises a [[February strike|general strike]] in German-occupied [[Amsterdam]] to protest against Nazi persecution of [[History of the Jews in the Netherlands|Dutch Jews]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/amp/jewish/1941-dutch-strike-against-nazi-abuses-of-jews-1.5408917 |last=Green |first=David B. |title=The Dutch Strike Against Nazi Abuses of Jews |date=25 February 2016 |publisher=Haaretz |location=Tel Aviv |access-date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=25 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225095351/https://www.haaretz.com/amp/jewish/1941-dutch-strike-against-nazi-abuses-of-jews-1.5408917 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1947]] – The formal [[abolition of Prussia]] is proclaimed by the [[Allied Control Council]], the Prussian government having already been abolished by the ''[[Preußenschlag]]'' of 1932.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1947v02/d327 |title=The Acting Political Adviser for Germany (Muccio) to the Secretary of State |work=Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, Council of Foreign Ministers; Germany and Austria, Volume II |publisher=Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, United States Department of State |location=Washington, DC |year=1947 |access-date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=9 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709100915/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1947v02/d327 |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1947 – Soviet [[NKVD]] forces in [[Second Hungarian Republic|Hungary]] abduct [[Béla Kovács (politician, 1908)|Béla Kovács]]—secretary-general of the majority [[Independent Smallholders' Party]]—and deport him to the USSR in defiance of Parliament. His arrest is an important turning point in the [[Hungarian Communist Party|Communist]] takeover of Hungary.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rev.hu/history_of_56/szerviz/kislex/biograf/kovacs.htm |title=Béla Kovács |work=The History of the 1956 Revolution |publisher=The Institute for the History of the 1956 Revolution |location=Budapest |access-date=2021-02-25 |archive-date=2022-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102175441/http://www.rev.hu/history_of_56/szerviz/kislex/biograf/kovacs.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1948]] – In a [[1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état|coup d'état]] led by [[Klement Gottwald]], the [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]] takes control of government in [[Prague]] to end the [[Third Czechoslovak Republic]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/who-lost-czechoslovakia |last=Steil |first=Benn |title=Who Lost Czechoslovakia? |publisher=History Today Ltd |location=London |date=9 May 2018 |access-date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=7 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707214733/https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/who-lost-czechoslovakia |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1951]] – The first [[Pan American Games]] are officially opened in [[Buenos Aires]] by Argentine President [[Juan Perón]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://la84.org/the-spirit-of-friendship-through-sports-poster-images-from-the-pan-american-games-1951-1999/ |title=The Spirit of Friendship Through Sports: Poster Images from the Pan-American Games, 1951–1999 |publisher=LA84 Foundation |location=Los Angeles |access-date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=7 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707183929/https://la84.org/the-spirit-of-friendship-through-sports-poster-images-from-the-pan-american-games-1951-1999/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1956]] – In his speech ''[[On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences]]'', [[Nikita Khrushchev]], leader of the [[Soviet Union]], denounces [[Stalin]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Medvedev |first1=Roy |last2=Medvedev |first2=Zhores |editor-last=Dahrendorf |editor-first=Ellen |title=The Unknown Stalin: His Life, Death and Legacy |year=2004 |publisher=Overlook Press |location=Woodstock, New York |page=102 |isbn=978-15-85676-44-6}}</ref> *[[1980]] – The government of [[Suriname]] is [[1980 Surinamese coup d'état|overthrown by a military coup]] led by [[Dési Bouterse]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Suriname83eng/intro.htm |title=Human Rights in Suriname |publisher=Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |location=Washington, DC |date=5 October 1983 |access-date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924213204/http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Suriname83eng/intro.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1986]] – [[People Power Revolution]]: President of the Philippines [[Ferdinand Marcos]] flees the nation after 20 years of rule; [[Corazon Aquino]] becomes the [[Philippines]]' first female president.<ref>{{cite book |last=Crisostomo |first=Isabelo T. |title=Cory, Profile of a President: The Historic Rise to Power of Corazon |year=1987 |publisher=Branden Books |location=Wellesley, Massachusetts |page=257 |isbn=978-08-28319-13-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iW_ddLowBYkC&q=Cory+Aquino+in+Club+Filipino&pg=PA257 |access-date=2020-11-11 |archive-date=2021-02-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204034104/https://books.google.com/books?id=iW_ddLowBYkC&q=Cory+Aquino+in+Club+Filipino&pg=PA257 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1991]] – Disbandment of the [[Warsaw Pact]] at a meeting of its members in [[Budapest]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0226/odate.html |title=Warsaw Pact and Comecon To Dissolve This Week |publisher=The Christian Science Monitor |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=26 February 1991 |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731122514/https://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0226/odate.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1994]] – American-Israeli extremist [[Baruch Goldstein]] commits [[Cave of the Patriarchs massacre|a mass shooting]] at the [[Cave of the Patriarchs]] mausoleum, leaving 29 dead and over 100 injured before he was disarmed and beaten to death by survivors.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.haaretz.com/2010-02-28/ty-article/settlers-remember-gunman-goldstein-hebron-riots-continue/0000017f-e5dd-df5f-a17f-ffdf176c0000 | title=Settlers Remember Gunman Goldstein; Hebron Riots Continue | newspaper=Haaretz }}</ref> *[[1999]] – [[Minerva Airlines Flight 1553|Alitalia Flight 1553]] crashes at [[Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport]] in [[Genoa]], Italy, killing four.<ref name="asn">{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Dornier 328-110 D-CPRR Genoa-Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19990225-0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309092453/http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19990225-0 |archive-date=2012-03-09 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=[[Flight Safety Foundation]]}}</ref> *[[2009]] – Soldiers of the [[Border Guard Bangladesh|Bangladesh Rifles]] [[Bangladesh Rifles revolt|mutiny]] at their headquarters in [[Pilkhana, Bangladesh|Pilkhana]], [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including 57 army officials.<ref name="CNN1">{{cite news |author=Ahmed |first=Saeed |date=26 February 2009 |title=Dozens feared dead in Bangladesh mutiny |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/25/bangladesh.gunbattle/index.html |work=CNN}}</ref> *2009 – [[Turkish Airlines Flight 1951]] crashed during landing at the [[Amsterdam Airport Schiphol|Amsterdam Schiphol Airport]], Netherlands, primarily due to a faulty [[Radar altimeter|radio altimeter]], resulting in the death of nine passengers and crew including all three pilots.<ref name="Fiorino">{{cite news |author=Fiorino |first=Frances |date=5 March 2009 |title=Boeing warns of possible 737 altimeter fault |url=http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=comm&id=news/ALT030509.xml&headline=Boeing%20Warns%20of%20Possible%20737%20Altimeter%20Fault |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322020140/http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=comm&id=news%2FALT030509.xml&headline=Boeing%20Warns%20of%20Possible%20737%20Altimeter%20Fault |archive-date=22 March 2012 |publisher=Aviation Week |df=dmy-all}}</ref> *[[2015]] – At least 310 people are killed in [[2015 Afghanistan avalanches|avalanches]] in northeastern [[Afghanistan]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 February 2015 |title=Afghan avalanche death toll passes 220 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghanistan-avalanches-leave-more-than-220-dead/ |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=CBS News}}</ref> *[[2016]] – Three people are killed and fourteen others injured in [[Hesston shootings|a series of shootings in the small Kansas cities of Newton and Hesston]].<ref name="nbc">{{cite web |date=February 25, 2016 |title=Four Dead, Including Gunman, 14 Injured in Kansas Shooting Rampage |url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Hesston-Kansas-Active-Shooter-Shelter-in-Place-370193601.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand |accessdate=February 25, 2016 |work=NBC New York}}</ref> ==Births== <!-- Please do not add yourself or anyone else without a biography in Wikipedia to this list.--> ===Pre-1600=== *[[1259]] – [[Blanche of Portugal (1259–1321)|Infanta Branca of Portugal]], daughter of King [[Afonso III of Portugal]] and [[Urraca of Castile]] (d. 1321)<ref>{{cite book |last=Rodrigues Oliveira |first=Ana |title=Rainhas medievais de Portugal. Dezassete mulheres, duas dinastias, quatro séculos de História |year=2010 |publisher=A esfera dos livros |location=Lisbon |page=138 |language=PT |isbn=978-98-96262-61-7}}</ref> *[[1337]] – [[Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg]] (d. 1383)<ref>{{cite book |editor-first1=Barbara Drake |editor-last1=Boehm |editor-first2=Jiri |editor-last2=Fajt |title=Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347–1437 |year=2005 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven, Connecticut |page=xvi |isbn=978-03-00111-38-5}}</ref> *[[1475]] – [[Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick]], last male member of the House of York (d. 1499)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_25.html |title=Edward, Earl of Warwick |publisher=English Monarchs |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=16 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200516162546/http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_25.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1540]] – [[Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton]], English aristocrat and courtier (d. 1614)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Howard-earl-of-Northampton |title=Henry Howard, earl of Northampton |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617060511/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Howard-earl-of-Northampton |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1543]] – [[Sharaf Khan Bidlisi]], Emir of Bitlis (d. 1603)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bedlisi-saraf-al-din-khan-b |last=Glassen |first=Erika |title=Bedlisi, Sharaf-al-Din Khan |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=4 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504201354/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bedlisi-saraf-al-din-khan-b |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1591]] – [[Friedrich Spee]], German poet and author (d. 1635)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Spee-Friedrich.htm |title=Friedrich Spee (Hymn-Writer) |publisher=Bach Cantatas Website |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617100515/http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Spee-Friedrich.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1643]] – [[Ahmed II]], Ottoman sultan (d. 1695)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Naima |first=Mustafa |author-link=Mustafa Naima |title=Ahmad II |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition |volume=1 |year=1986 |page=268}}</ref> *[[1663]] – [[Peter Anthony Motteux]], French-English author, playwright and translator (d. 1718)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last=Hopkins |first=David |orig-year=23 September 2004 |date=25 May 2006 |title=Motteux, Peter Anthony [formerly Pierre-Antoine Le Motteux] |id=19423 }}</ref> *[[1670]] – [[Maria Margarethe Kirch]], German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1720)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Kirch |title=Maria Kirch |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=28 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028202452/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Kirch |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1682]] – [[Giovanni Battista Morgagni]], Italian anatomist and pathologist (d. 1771)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Battista-Morgagni |title=Giovanni Battista Morgagni |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063115/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Battista-Morgagni |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1707]] – [[Carlo Goldoni]], Italian playwright and composer (d. 1793)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlo-Goldoni |title=Carlo Goldoni |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617205134/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlo-Goldoni |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1714]] – [[René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou]], French lawyer and politician, [[Lord Chancellor of France]] (d. 1792)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rene-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin-de-Maupeou |title=René-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin de Maupeou |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=8 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608082529/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rene-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin-de-Maupeou |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1728]] – [[John Wood, the Younger]], English architect, designed the [[Royal Crescent]] (d. 1782)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wood-the-Younger |title=John Wood the Younger |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731065500/https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wood-the-Younger |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1752]] – [[John Graves Simcoe]], English-Canadian general and politician, 1st [[Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada]] (d. 1806)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Graves-Simcoe |title=John Graves Simcoe |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731081659/https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Graves-Simcoe |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1755]] – [[François René Mallarmé]], French lawyer and politician (d. 1835)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francois-Rene-Auguste-Mallarme |title=François-René-Auguste Mallarmé |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=27 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727194219/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francois-Rene-Auguste-Mallarme |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1778]] – [[José de San Martín]], Argentinian general and politician, 1st [[President of Peru]] (d. 1850)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-de-San-Martin |title=José de San Martín |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=22 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222043007/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-de-San-Martin |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1806]] – [[Emma Catherine Embury]], American author and poet (d. 1863)<ref>{{cite book |last=Spooner |first=Walter Whipple |title=Historic Families of America: Comprehending the Genealogical Records and Representative Biography of Selected Families of Early American Ancestry, Recognized Social Standing, and Special Distinction |volume=2 |year=1907 |publisher=Historic Families Publishing Association |location=Madison, Wisconsin |page=158 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F1Pw_lHJMRgC |access-date=2018-09-15 |archive-date=2020-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801130928/https://books.google.com/books?id=F1Pw_lHJMRgC |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1809]] – [[John Hart (South Australian colonist)|John Hart]], English-Australian politician, 10th [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. 1873)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hart-john-3729/text5861 |last=O'Neill |first=Sally |title=Hart, John (1809–1873) |chapter=John Hart (1809–1873) |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617084911/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hart-john-3729/text5861 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1812]] – [[Carl Christian Hall]], Danish lawyer and politician, 6th [[List of Prime Ministers of Denmark|Prime Minister of Denmark]] (d. 1888)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Christian-Hall |title=Carl Christian Hall |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731064605/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Christian-Hall |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1816]] – [[Giovanni Morelli]], Italian historian and critic (d. 1891)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Morelli |title=Giovanni Morelli |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731054028/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Morelli |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1833]] – [[John St. John (Governor of Kansas)|John St. John]], American lawyer and politician, 8th [[Governor of Kansas]] (d. 1916)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Pierce-Saint-John |title=John Saint John |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731050736/https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Pierce-Saint-John |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1841]] – [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], French painter and sculptor (d. 1919)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Auguste-Renoir |title=Pierre-Auguste Renoir |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=27 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527124424/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Auguste-Renoir |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1842]] – [[Karl May]], German author, poet, and playwright (d. 1912)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-May |title=Karl May |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063202/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-May |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1845]] – [[George Reid]], Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. 1918)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Houston-Reid |title=Sir George Houston Reid |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063353/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Houston-Reid |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1855]] – [[Cesário Verde]], Portuguese poet and author (d. 1886)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cesario-Verde |title=Cesário Verde |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606201152/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cesario-Verde |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1856]] – [[Karl Gotthard Lamprecht]], German historian and academic (d. 1915)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Gotthard-Lamprecht |title=Karl Gotthard Lamprecht |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731052402/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Gotthard-Lamprecht |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1856 – [[Mathias Zdarsky]], Czech-Austrian skier, painter, and sculptor (d. 1940)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Matthias-Zdarsky |title=Mathias Zdarsky |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606201150/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Matthias-Zdarsky |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1857]] – [[Robert Bond]], Canadian politician; first [[Prime Minister of Newfoundland]] (d. 1927)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Bond |title=Sir Robert Bond |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606201154/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Bond |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1860]] – [[William Ashley (economic historian)|William Ashley]], English historian and academic (d. 1927)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/640305/sir-william-ashley-phd-a-george-v-black-leather-cloth-despatch-box/ |title=Sir William Ashley Ph.D. A |publisher=Sellingantiques Ltd |location=Gatwick |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606201149/https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/640305/sir-william-ashley-phd-a-george-v-black-leather-cloth-despatch-box/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1865]] – [[Andranik]], Armenian general (d. 1927)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C7kpDwAAQBAJ&q=andranik+25+february&pg=PA1897 |title=Andranik. Armenian Hero |date=10 February 2018 |publisher=Aegitas |location=Moscow |isbn=9785040624676 |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=26 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226152455/https://books.google.com/books?id=C7kpDwAAQBAJ&q=andranik+25+february&pg=PA1897 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1866]] – [[Benedetto Croce]], Italian philosopher and politician (d. 1952)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benedetto-Croce |title=Benedetto Croce |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=27 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200427175510/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benedetto-Croce |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1869]] – [[Phoebus Levene]], Russian-American biochemist and physician (d. 1940)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Phoebus-Levene |title=Phoebus Levene |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731082145/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Phoebus-Levene |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1871]] – [[Lesya Ukrainka]], Ukrainian poet and playwright (d.1913)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/oop/d_qfullhit.htw?CiBold=true&CiHiliteColor=blue&CiWebHitsFile=%2Fpages%2Fu%2Fk%2Fukrainkalesia%2Ehtm&CiRestriction=%40contents+%22lesya+ukrainka%22&CiUserParam3=%2Fquery%2Easp&CiUserParam2=%22lesya+ukrainka%22&CiUserParam1=Ukrainka%2C+Lesia&CiLocale=NEUTRAL&CiHiliteType=Full|title= Ukrainka, Lesia – Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine }}</ref> *[[1873]] – [[Enrico Caruso]], Italian-American tenor; the most popular operatic tenor of the early 20th century and the first great recording star. (d. 1921)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Enrico-Caruso |title=Enrico Caruso |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=19 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619133644/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Enrico-Caruso |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1877]] – [[Erich von Hornbostel]], Austrian musicologist and scholar (d. 1935)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Erich-Moritz-von-Hornbostel |title=Erich Moritz von Hornbostel |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=24 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724170116/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Erich-Moritz-von-Hornbostel |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1881]] – [[William Z. Foster]], American union leader and politician (d. 1961)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Z-Foster |title=William Z. Foster |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729140435/https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Z-Foster |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1881 – [[Alexei Rykov]], Russian politician, [[List of heads of government of Russia|Premier of Russia]] (d. 1938)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aleksey-Ivanovich-Rykov |title=Aleksey Ivanovich Rykov |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=28 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528000806/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aleksey-Ivanovich-Rykov |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1883]] – [[Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone]] (d. 1981)<ref name="Bio-NT">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/04/obituaries/princess-alice-at-london-home-a-grandchild-of-queen-victoria.html |title=Princess Alice, at London Home; A Grandchild of Queen Victoria |newspaper=The New York Times |date=4 January 1981 |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=12 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180812195937/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/04/obituaries/princess-alice-at-london-home-a-grandchild-of-queen-victoria.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1885]] – [[Princess Alice of Battenberg]], mother of [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]] (d. 1969)<ref>{{cite book |last=Vickers |first=Hugo |author-link=Hugo Vickers |title=Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece |year=2000 |publisher=Hamish Hamilton |location=London |page=2 |isbn=978-02-41136-86-7}}</ref> *[[1888]] – [[John Foster Dulles]], American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd [[United States Secretary of State]] (d. 1959)<ref>{{cite book |last=Immerman |first=Richard H. |title=John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War |year=1992 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |page=4 |isbn=978-06-91006-22-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bmHZN_JPxIC&pg=PA4 |access-date=2019-12-23 |archive-date=2020-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801132424/https://books.google.com/books?id=8bmHZN_JPxIC&pg=PA4 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1890]] – [[Myra Hess]], English pianist and educator (d. 1965)<ref>{{cite book |last=Norris |first=Gerald |title=A Musical Gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland |year=1981 |publisher=David & Charles |location=Newton Abbot, Devon |page=103 |isbn=978-07-15378-45-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KcMXAQAAIAAJ |access-date=2019-12-23 |archive-date=2020-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801124834/https://books.google.com/books?id=KcMXAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1894]] – [[Meher Baba]], Indian spiritual master (d. 1969)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Meher-Baba |title=Meher Baba |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=14 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190714122148/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Meher-Baba |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1896]] – [[Ida Noddack]], German chemist and physicist (d. 1978)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marshall |first1=James L. |title=Ida Noddack: Foreteller of Nuclear Fission |journal=ACS Symposium Series |date=January 2018 |volume=1311 |pages=105–149 |doi=10.1021/bk-2018-1311.ch005|isbn=978-0-8412-3391-1 }}</ref> *[[1898]] – [[William Astbury]], physicist and molecular biologist (d. 1961)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/people/summary/Astbury |title=Professor William Astbury |publisher=What is biotechnology? |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731050636/https://www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/people/summary/Astbury |url-status=live }}</ref> ===1901–present=== *[[1901]] – [[Vince Gair]], Australian politician, 27th [[Premier of Queensland]] (d. 1980)<ref>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |id2=gair-vincent-clare-vince-10267 |last=Costar |first=B. J. |title=Vincent Clare (Vince) Gair (1901–1980) |year=1996 |volume=14 |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=14 February 2014 |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gair-vincent-clare-vince-10267 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140214165132/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gair-vincent-clare-vince-10267 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 1901 – [[Zeppo Marx]], American comedian and theatrical agent (d. 1979)<ref>{{cite book |last=Gehring |first=Wes D. |title=The Marx Brothers: A Bio-bibliography |year=1987 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |location=Westport, Connecticut |pages=229 |isbn=978-03-13245-47-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWfp8LsM8_gC&pg=PA229 |access-date=2019-12-23 |archive-date=2020-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801130908/https://books.google.com/books?id=xWfp8LsM8_gC&pg=PA229 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1903]] – [[King Clancy]], Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and coach (d. 1986)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/king-clancy-8445471 |title=King Clancy |publisher=National Hockey League |location=New York City |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606050850/https://www.nhl.com/player/king-clancy-8445471 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1905]] – [[Perry Miller]], American historian, author, and academic (d. 1963)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.poemhunter.com/perry-miller/biography/ |title=Biography of Perry Miller |publisher=Poem Hunter |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606050749/https://www.poemhunter.com/perry-miller/biography/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> *[[1906]] – [[Mary Chase (playwright)|Mary Coyle Chase]], American journalist and playwright (d. 1981)<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1601928 |title=Mary Coyle Chase |journal =American National Biography |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1601928 |isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |last1=Makowsky |first1=Veronica |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731040044/https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1601928 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1907]] – [[Sabahattin Ali]], Turkish journalist, author, and poet (d. 1948)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/116623.Sabahattin_Ali |title=Sabahattin Ali |publisher=GoodReads, Inc. |location=San Francisco |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=28 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928071311/https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/116623.Sabahattin_Ali |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1908]] – [[Mary Locke Petermann]], American cellular biochemist (d. 1975)<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of World Scientists |last=Oakes |first=Elizabeth H. |date=2007 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |location=New York City |page=585 |isbn=978-14-38118-82-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uPRB-OED1bcC&q=mary+petermann+++chemist&pg=PA585 |access-date=2020-11-11 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226152456/https://books.google.com/books?id=uPRB-OED1bcC&q=mary+petermann+++chemist&pg=PA585 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L–Z |last1=Ogilvie |first1=Marilyn Bailey |last2=Harvey |first2=Joy Dorothy |author-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie |author2-link=Joy Harvey |date=2000 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire |isbn=978-04-15920-40-7 |page=1010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA1010 |access-date=2018-12-18 |archive-date=2020-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801123559/https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA1010 |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1908 – [[Frank G. Slaughter]], American physician and author (d. 2001)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL17969A/Frank_G._Slaughter |title=Frank G. Slaughter |work=Open Library |publisher=Internet Archive |location=San Francisco |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606060207/https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL17969A/Frank_G._Slaughter |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1910]] – [[Millicent Fenwick]], American journalist and politician (d. 1992)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/F/FENWICK,-Millicent-Hammond-(F000078)/ |title=Millicent Fenwick |work=History, Art & Archives |publisher=US House of Representatives |location=Washington, DC |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=27 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200827190146/https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/F/FENWICK,-Millicent-Hammond-(F000078)/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1913]] – [[Jim Backus]], American actor and screenwriter (d. 1989)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://walkoffame.com/jim-backus/ |title=Jim Backus |work=Hollywood Walk of Fame |date=25 October 2019 |publisher=Hollywood Chamber of Commerce |location=Los Angeles |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605160148/https://walkoffame.com/jim-backus/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1913 – [[Gert Fröbe]], German actor (d. 1988)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gert-Frobe |title=Gert Fröbe |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605161004/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gert-Frobe |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1915]] – [[S. Rajaratnam]], Singaporean politician, 1st [[Senior Minister of Singapore]] (d. 2006)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.roots.sg/learn/stories/sinnathamby-rajaratnam/story |title=Sinnathamby Rajaratnam |work=Roots |publisher=National Heritage Board |location=Singapore |access-date=26 July 2020 |archive-date=26 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726101737/https://www.roots.sg/learn/stories/sinnathamby-rajaratnam/story |url-status=dead }}</ref> *[[1917]] – [[Anthony Burgess]], English author, playwright, and critic (d. 1993)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last=Ratcliffe |first=Michael |orig-year=23 September 2004 |date=23 September 2010 |title=Wilson, John Burgess [pseud. Anthony Burgess] (1917–1993) |id=51526}}</ref> *[[1918]] – [[Bobby Riggs]], American tennis player (d. 1995)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Riggs |title=Bobby Riggs |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042432/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Riggs |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1919]] – [[Monte Irvin]], American baseball player and executive (d. 2016)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/monte-irvin-hall-of-fame-baseball-star-who-began-in-negro-leagues-dies-at-96/2016/01/12/f7a16e44-b968-11e5-b682-4bb4dd403c7d_story.html |last=Schudel |first=Matt |title=Monte Irvin, Hall of Fame baseball star who began in Negro leagues, dies at 96 |newspaper=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286 |date=12 January 2016 |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=5 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405213217/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/monte-irvin-hall-of-fame-baseball-star-who-began-in-negro-leagues-dies-at-96/2016/01/12/f7a16e44-b968-11e5-b682-4bb4dd403c7d_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1920]] – [[Philip Habib]], American academic and diplomat, [[Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs]] (d. 1992)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-Charles-Habib |title=Philip Charles Habib |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731124615/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-Charles-Habib |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1921]] – [[Pierre Laporte]], Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, [[Deputy Premier of Quebec]] (d. 1970)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pierre-laporte |title=Pierre Laporte |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |publisher=Historica Canada |location=Toronto |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=16 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200516095501/https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pierre-laporte |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1921 – [[Andy Pafko]], American baseball player and manager (d. 2013)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/5016ac7c |title=Andy Pafko |publisher=Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) |location=Phoenix, Arizona |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=2 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402003733/https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/5016ac7c |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1922]] – [[Molly Reilly]], Canadian aviator (d. 1980)<ref>{{cite book |last=Welch |first=Rosanne |title=Encyclopedia of women in aviation and space |year=1998 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Barbara, California |chapter=Reilly, Molly Beall |pages=180–181 |oclc=39209984 |isbn=0-87436-958-4 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo00rosa/page/180}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cahf.ca/CUSTOMPAGES/907/MemberList.cfm?firstLetter=R#175 |title=Moretta Fenton Beall Reilly |publisher=Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame |location=Wetaskiwin, Alberta |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=26 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626085920/https://www.cahf.ca/CUSTOMPAGES/907/MemberList.cfm?firstLetter=R#175 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *[[1924]] – [[Hugh Huxley]], English-American biologist and academic (d. 2013)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hugh-Esmor-Huxley |title=Hugh Esmor Huxley |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731071415/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hugh-Esmor-Huxley |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1925]] – [[Lisa Kirk]], American actress and singer (d. 1990)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/69e00c80-1709-471e-92f1-baf774a9dc22 |title=Lisa Kirk |work=BBC Music |publisher=BBC |location=London |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606072406/https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/69e00c80-1709-471e-92f1-baf774a9dc22 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 1925 – [[Shehu Shagari]], Nigerian politician, 6th [[President of Nigeria]] (d. 2018)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/09/shehu-shagari-obituary |title=Shehu Shagari obituary |newspaper=The Guardian |date=9 January 2019 |location=London |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063325/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/09/shehu-shagari-obituary |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1926]] – [[Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda]], Japanese-Turkish mathematician and academic (d. 2003)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ikeda/ |title=Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews |location=St Andrews |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605135056/https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ikeda/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1927]] – [[Ralph Stanley]], American singer and banjo player (d. 2016)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ralph-Stanley |title=Ralph Stanley |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063118/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ralph-Stanley |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1928]] – [[Paul Elvstrøm]], Danish yachtsman (d. 2016)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/paul-elvstrom |title=Paul Elvstrøm |publisher=International Olympic Committee |location=Lausanne |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=7 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607074500/https://www.olympic.org/paul-elvstrom |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1928 – [[Larry Gelbart]], American author and screenwriter (d. 2009)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Larry-Simon-Gelbart |title=Larry Gelbart |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731081702/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Larry-Simon-Gelbart |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1928 – [[A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.]], American civil rights advocate, historian, and judge (d. 1998)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aloysius-Leon-Higginbotham-Jr |title=A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605143722/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aloysius-Leon-Higginbotham-Jr |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1928 – [[Richard G. Stern]], American author and academic (d. 2013)<ref> {{cite news|last=Weber|first=Bruce|title=Richard G. Stern, Writers' Writer, Dies at 84|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/books/richard-g-stern-a-writers-writer-is-dead-at-84.html?pagewanted=all|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 24, 2013|accessdate=August 7, 2024}}</ref> *[[1930]] – [[Wendy Beckett]], British nun and art critic (d. 2018)<ref> {{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46687275|work=[[BBC News]]|title=Sister Wendy Beckett, TV art historian, dies at 88|date=26 December 2018|accessdate=August 7, 2024}} </ref> *[[1932]] – [[Tony Brooks (racing driver)|Tony Brooks]], English racing driver (d. 2022)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://database.motorsportmagazine.com/database/drivers/tony-brooks |title=Tony Brooks |date=28 February 2020 |publisher=Motor Sport Magazine |location=London |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=14 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614171903/https://database.motorsportmagazine.com/database/drivers/tony-brooks |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1932 – [[Faron Young]], American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Faron-Young |title=Faron Young |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=13 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413065933/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Faron-Young |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1934]] – [[Tony Lema]], American golfer (d. 1966)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theopen.com/latest/2019/02/tony-lema-profile |title=Tony Lema – 85th birthday profile |work=The Open |publisher=R&A Championships Limited |location=St Andrews, Fife |date=25 February 2019 |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605154317/https://www.theopen.com/latest/2019/02/tony-lema-profile |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1935]] – [[Tony Campolo]], American sociologist and pastor (d. 2024)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gryboski |first=Michael |date=November 20, 2024 |title=Tony Campolo, bestselling author, teacher and evangelist, dies at 89 |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/tony-campolo-bestselling-author-and-evangelist-dies-at-89.html |access-date=November 23, 2024 |website=[[The Christian Post]] |language=en}}</ref> *1935 – [[Oktay Sinanoglu]], Turkish physical chemist and molecular biophysicist (d. 2015)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.yale.edu/2015/04/20/memoriam-oktay-sinano-lu-renowned-theoretical-chemist |title=Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda |work=Yale News |date=20 April 2015 |publisher=Yale University |location=New Haven, Connecticut |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731052748/https://news.yale.edu/2015/04/20/memoriam-oktay-sinano-lu-renowned-theoretical-chemist |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1937]] – [[Tom Courtenay]], English actor<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/facts/Tom-Courtenay |title=Tom Courtenay |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731050738/https://www.britannica.com/facts/Tom-Courtenay |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1937 – [[Bob Schieffer]], American political author, journalist and TV interviewer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bob-schieffer-08-07-1998/ |title=Bob Schieffer |work=CBS News |date=8 July 1998 |location=Los Angeles |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731075856/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bob-schieffer-08-07-1998/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1938]] – [[Diane Baker]], American actress and producer<ref name="AP"/> * 1938 – [[Herb Elliott]], Australian athlete<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herb-Elliott |title=Herb Elliott |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=14 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514053644/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herb-Elliott |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1938 – [[Farokh Engineer]], Indian cricketer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/28624.html |title=Farokh Engineer |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd |location=London |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=9 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509064414/https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/28624.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1940]] – [[Ron Santo]], American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2010)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ron-Santo |title=Ron Santo |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604162858/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ron-Santo |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1941]] – [[David Puttnam]], English film producer and academic<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Terence-Puttnam |title=David Puttnam |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=14 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814072700/https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Terence-Puttnam |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1942]] – [[Karen Grassle]], American actress<ref name="AP"/> *[[1943]] – [[George Harrison]], English singer-songwriter, guitarist and film producer (d. 2001)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Harrison-British-musician |title=George Harrison |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=13 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413063800/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Harrison-British-musician |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1944]] – [[François Cevert]], French racing driver (d. 1973)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://database.motorsportmagazine.com/database/drivers/francois-cevert |title=François Cevert |publisher=Motor Sport Magazine |location=London |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604165248/https://database.motorsportmagazine.com/database/drivers/francois-cevert |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1946]] – [[Jean Todt]], French racing driver and team manager<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fia.com/profile/jean-todt |title=Jean Todt |date=28 March 2012 |publisher=Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) |location=Paris |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604080144/https://www.fia.com/profile/jean-todt |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1947]] – [[Lee Evans (sprinter)|Lee Evans]], American sprinter and athletics coach (d. 2021)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Evans |title=Lee Evans |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=17 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717212137/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Evans |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1949]] – [[Ric Flair]], American professional wrestler<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shifferaw |first1=Abel |title=Ric Flair Gets Emotional at Surprise Birthday Party Attended by Triple H, Charles Barkley, and Others |url=https://www.complex.com/sports/2019/02/ric-flair-gets-emotional-at-surprise-70th-birthday-party |publisher=[[Complex Networks|Complex]] |access-date=14 February 2023 |date=22 February 2019}}</ref> * 1949 – [[Amin Maalouf]], Lebanese-French journalist and author<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2002/nov/16/classicalmusicandopera.fiction |title=A son of the road |newspaper=The Guardian |date=16 November 2002 |location=London |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604154735/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2002/nov/16/classicalmusicandopera.fiction |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1950]] – [[Francisco Fernández Ochoa]], Spanish skier (d. 2006)<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://skiracing.com/stories/spanish-gold-medalist-fernandez-ochoa-dies-56/ |last=Lang |first=Patrick |title=Spanish gold medalist Fernandez Ochoa dies at 56 |magazine=Ski Racing |publisher=Ski Racing Media |issue=1170 |date=6 November 2006 |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=1 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901223622/https://www.skiracing.com/stories/spanish-gold-medalist-fernandez-ochoa-dies-56 |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1950 – [[Neil Jordan]], Irish film director, screenwriter and author<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Neil-Jordan |title=Neil Jordan |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731044008/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Neil-Jordan |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1950 – [[Néstor Kirchner]], Argentine politician; 51st [[President of Argentina]] (d. 2010)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nestor-Kirchner |title=Néstor Kirchner |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=17 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917040751/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nestor-Kirchner |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1951]] – [[Don Quarrie]], Jamaican sprinter and coach<ref>{{cite web |url=http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=5421&Gender=M |title=Don Quarrie |publisher=Track and Field Statistics |access-date=2 June 2020 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224112430/http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=5421&Gender=M |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1952]] – [[Joey Dunlop]], Northern Irish motorcyclist (d. 2000)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/1823 |last=Froggatt |first=Richard |title=Joey Dunlop (1952–2000): Motorcycle racing champion; humanitarian aid worker |work=Dictionary of Ulster Biography |publisher=Ulster History Circle |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=14 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714115633/http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/1823 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1953]] – [[José María Aznar]], Spanish politician; [[Prime Minister of Spain]], 1996–2004<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Maria-Aznar |title=José María Aznar |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731065208/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Maria-Aznar |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1953 – [[John Doe (musician)|John Doe]], American musician, singer-songwriter, actor, and poet<ref name="AP"/> *[[1957]] – [[Raymond McCreesh]], [[Irish Republican]], hunger striker (d. 1981)<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.bobbysandstrust.com/hungerstrikers/Raymond%20McCreesh/| title = Raymond McCreesh {{!}} Bobby Sands Trust| access-date = 2021-06-15| archive-date = 2022-02-26| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220226152509/https://www.bobbysandstrust.com/hungerstrikers/Raymond%20McCreesh/| url-status = live}}</ref> *[[1957]] – [[Tharman Shanmugaratnam]], Singaporean economist and politician; 5th [[Senior Minister of Singapore|Senior Minister]] and 9th [[President of Singapore]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://successstory.com/people/tharman-shanmugaratnam |title=A Glimpse Into One of Singapore's Highly Respected Politicians: Tharman Shanmugaratnam Story |publisher=SuccessStory |location=Hyderabad |access-date=26 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731121808/https://successstory.com/people/tharman-shanmugaratnam |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1958]] – [[Kurt Rambis]], Greek-American basketball player, coach, and executive<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/rambiku01.html |title=Kurt Rambis |work=Basketball Reference |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |location=Philadelphia |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=1 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101170047/https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/rambiku01.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1962]] – [[Birgit Fischer]], German kayaker<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/birgit-fischer |title=Birgit Fischer |publisher=International Olympic Committee |location=Lausanne |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731075920/https://www.olympic.org/birgit-fischer |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1963]] – [[Paul O'Neill (baseball)|Paul O'Neill]], American baseball player and sportscaster<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/o'neipa01.shtml |title=Paul O'Neill |work=Baseball Reference |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |location=Philadelphia |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=2 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200602190912/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/o%27neipa01.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1965]] – [[Carrot Top]], American comedian<ref>{{cite web |last1=Greeson |first1=Jay |title=5-at-10: Rose's injury, bubble games, Love in L.A. and Ric Flair's birthday |url=https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2015/feb/25/5--10-roses-injury-bubble-games-love-la-and-ric-fl/ |publisher=[[Chattanooga Times Free Press]] |access-date=14 February 2023 |date=25 February 2015}}</ref> * 1965 – [[Veronica Webb]], American model, actress, and writer<ref name="AP"/> *[[1966]] – [[Alexis Denisof]], American actor<ref name="AP"/> * 1966 – [[Téa Leoni]], American actress<ref>{{cite web |last1=Moore |first1=Frazier |title=Tea Leoni in a happy state as 'Madam Secretary' |url=https://apnews.com/article/4f8b92d3720144e29f1db130db22ee1d |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=14 February 2023 |date=26 February 2015}}</ref> *[[1967]] – [[Ed Balls]], English politician; [[Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ed-Balls |title=Ed Balls |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731082202/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ed-Balls |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1968]] – [[Lesley Boone]], American actress and producer<ref name="AP"/> * 1968 – [[Oumou Sangaré]], Malian musician<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oumou-Sangare |title=Oumou Sangaré |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604094046/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oumou-Sangare |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1971]] – [[Sean Astin]], American actor, director and producer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/facts/Sean-Astin |title=Sean Astin |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604090605/https://www.britannica.com/facts/Sean-Astin |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1971 – [[Daniel Powter]], Canadian singer-songwriter and musician<ref name="AP"/> *[[1973]] – [[Anson Mount]], American actor<ref name="AP">{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Mike |title=Today's famous birthdays list for February 25, 2023 includes celebrities Ric Flair, Jameela Jamil |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/02/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-february-25-2023-includes-celebrities-ric-flair-jameela-jamil.html |website=[[The Plain Dealer]] |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=24 February 2024 |date=25 February 2023}}</ref> *[[1974]] – [[Dominic Raab]], English politician; [[First Secretary of State]] and [[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52064637 |title=Who is Dominic Raab? |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |location=London |date=24 April 2020 |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=17 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917181210/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52064637 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1975]] – [[Chelsea Handler]], American comedian, actress, author, and television host<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jackson |first1=Dory |title=Chelsea Handler Skis Topless While Celebrating Her 47th Birthday: 'Doing All the Things I Love' |url=https://people.com/tv/chelsea-handler-skis-topless-while-celebrating-her-47th-birthday/ |publisher=[[People (magazine)|People]] |access-date=14 February 2023 |date=25 February 2022}}</ref> *[[1976]] – [[Rashida Jones]], American actress and writer<ref>{{cite web |title=Rashida Jones |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/jones-rashida |publisher=[[Jewish Women's Archive]] |access-date=14 February 2023}}</ref> * 1976 – [[Samaki Walker]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Samaki Walker |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/955/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> *[[1979]] – [[Napoleon Harris]], American football player and politician<ref>{{cite web |title=Napoleon Harris |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/3551/napoleon-harris |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> *[[1980]] – [[Kash Patel]], American lawyer, former federal prosecutor and official<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-30 |title=Kash Patel {{!}} Family, Religion, Trump, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kash-Patel |access-date=2025-01-31 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> *[[1981]] – [[Park Ji-sung]], South Korean footballer<ref>{{Hugman|24881|Ji-Sung Park|access-date=3 June 2020}}</ref> *[[1982]] – [[Maria Kanellis]], American professional wrestler, actress, and model<ref>{{cite web |title=At age 40, female wrestler Maria Kanellis really knows how to make an 'Impact' |url=https://www.mid-day.com/sports/other-sports/photo/how-wwe-diva-maria-kanellis-helped-husband-mike-bennett-fight-drug-addiction-40843/1 |publisher=[[Mid-Day]] |access-date=16 February 2023 |date=25 February 2022}}</ref> * 1982 – [[Flavia Pennetta]], Italian tennis player<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/160391/flavia-pennetta/bio |title=Flavia Pennetta |publisher=WTA Tour Inc. |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731050636/https://www.wtatennis.com/players/160391/flavia-pennetta/bio |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1982 – [[Anton Volchenkov]], Russian ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Anton Volchenkov |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/anton-volchenkov-8468501 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> *[[1985]] – [[Joakim Noah]], French-American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Joakim Noah |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/201149/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> *[[1986]] – [[Justin Berfield]], American actor, writer, and producer<ref name="AP"/> * 1986 – [[Jameela Jamil]], English actress and presenter<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pocklington |first1=Rebecca |title=Magazine wishes Jameela Jamil happy birthday with photo of Jamelia - and Twitter reacts like this |url=https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/magazine-wishes-jameela-jamil-happy-7440701 |publisher=[[Irish Mirror]] |access-date=14 February 2023 |date=25 February 2016}}</ref> * 1986 – [[James and Oliver Phelps|James Phelps]], English actor<ref name="AP"/> * 1986 – [[James and Oliver Phelps|Oliver Phelps]], English actor<ref name="AP"/> *[[1987]] – [[Justin Abdelkader]], American ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Justin Abdelkader |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/justin-abdelkader-8471716 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> *[[1988]] – [[Tom Marshall (artist)|Tom Marshall]], English photo colouriser and artist<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/let-these-old-photographs-womens-suffrage-inspire-anew-full-color-180968127/ |title=Photographs Documenting the Struggle for Women's Suffrage Are Reimagined in Full Color |last=Fessenden |first=Marissa |work=Smithsonian Magazine |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |location=Washington DC |date=9 February 2018 |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042240/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/let-these-old-photographs-womens-suffrage-inspire-anew-full-color-180968127/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1988 – [[Gerald McCoy]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Gerald McCoy |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/13240/gerald-mccoy |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> *[[1989]] – [[Jimmer Fredette]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Jimmer Fredette |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/202690/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> * 1989 – [[Kana Hanazawa]], Japanese voice actress and singer<ref>{{cite web |last1=Doi |first1=Hitoshi |title=Hanazawa Kana (花澤香菜) |url=http://www.usagi.org/doi/seiyuu/hanazawa-kana/index.html |website=Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Database |access-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005063443/http://www.usagi.org/doi/seiyuu/hanazawa-kana/index.html |archive-date=5 October 2018 |date=5 May 2016}}</ref> * 1989 – [[E'Twaun Moore]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=E'Twaun Moore |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/202734/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> *[[1990]] – [[Félix Peña]], Dominican baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Félix Peña |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/felix-pena-570240 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> *[[1992]] – [[Joakim Nordström]], Swedish ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Joakim Nordstrom |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/joakim-nordstrom-8475807 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> * 1992 – [[Jorge Soler]], Cuban baseball player<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/solerjo01.shtml |title=Jorge Soler |publisher=Baseball Reference |access-date=28 July 2020 |archive-date=30 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730174027/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/solerjo01.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1993]] – [[Erick Fedde]], American baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Erick Fedde |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/erick-fedde-607200 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> * 1993 – [[Lukáš Sedlák]], Czech ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Lukas Sedlak |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/lukas-sedlak-8476310 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> *[[1994]] – [[Fred VanVleet]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Fred VanVleet |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1627832/fred-vanvleet/bio |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=14 February 2023}}</ref> *[[1995]] – [[Mario Hezonja]], Croatian basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Mario Hezonja |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/1626209/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> * 1995 – [[Viktoriya Tomova]], Bulgarian tennis player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Viktoriya Tomova {{!}} Player Stats & More – WTA Official |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/317584/viktoriya-tomova |access-date=2022-10-17 |website=Women's Tennis Association |language=en}}</ref> *[[1997]] – [[Isabelle Fuhrman]], American actress<ref name="AP"/> * 1997 – [[Thon Maker]], South Sudanese-Australian basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Thon Maker |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/1627748/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> *[[1999]] – [[Gianluigi Donnarumma]], Italian footballer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.acmilan.com/en/news/celebration/2020-02-25/happy-birthday-gigio |title=Happy Birthday, Gigio! |publisher=AC Milan |location=Milano |date=25 February 2020 |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=3 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603150948/https://www.acmilan.com/en/news/celebration/2020-02-25/happy-birthday-gigio |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1999 – [[Rocky (singer)|Rocky]], South Korean singer, dancer and songwriter<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fantagio.kr/musicians/라키/|title=라키|website=Fantagio|access-date=February 26, 2022|language=ko|archive-date=January 2, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102103132/http://www.fantagio.kr/musicians/%EB%9D%BC%ED%82%A4/|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2000]] – [[Bo Nix]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Bo Nix Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/N/NixxBo00.htm |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |access-date=February 24, 2025}}</ref> *[[2001]] – [[Vernon Carey Jr.]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Vernon Carey Jr. |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/1630176/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> *[[2003]] – [[Brandin Podziemski]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Brandin Podziemski |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1641764/brandin-podziemski |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> *[[2005]] – [[Noah Jupe]], English actor<ref>{{cite web |title=Famous birthdays for Feb. 25: Anson Mount, Chelsea Handler |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/02/25/Famous-birthdays-for-Feb-25-Anson-Mount-Chelsea-Handler/9211677293948/ |publisher=[[UPI]] |access-date=24 February 2024 |date=25 February 2023}}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.--> ==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[806]] – [[Patriarch Tarasios of Constantinople|Tarasios]], [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|patriarch of Constantinople]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14451b.htm |title=St. Tarasius |publisher=New Advent |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=19 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619214541/https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14451b.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[891]] – [[Fujiwara no Mototsune]], Japanese [[regent]] (b. 836)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fujiwara-Mototsune |title=Fujiwara Mototsune |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=5 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200705110237/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fujiwara-Mototsune |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[1099]] – [[Anselm of Ribemont]], Frankish nobleman and participant of the [[First Crusade]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Riley-Smith |first1=Jonathan |title=The First Crusade and Idea of Crusading |date=1 April 2003 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-8264-6726-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RNP6MBmn-2EC |access-date=17 May 2024 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1522]] – [[William Lily (grammarian)|William Lily]], English scholar and educator (b. 1468)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Lily |title=William Lily |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731054041/https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Lily |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1536]] – [[Berchtold Haller]], German-Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1492)<ref>{{cite web |title=Bertold Haller {{!}} Swiss religious reformer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bertold-Haller |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=28 May 2020 |language=en |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731040044/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bertold-Haller |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Haller, Berthold |volume=12 |page=856}}</ref> *[[1547]] – [[Vittoria Colonna]], marchioness of Pescara (b. 1490)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vittoria-Colonna |title=Vittoria Colonna |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042511/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vittoria-Colonna |url-status=live }}</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1601]] – [[Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex]], English general and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] (b. 1566)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Devereux-2nd-earl-of-Essex |title=Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731044405/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Devereux-2nd-earl-of-Essex |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1634]] – [[Albrecht von Wallenstein]], Austrian general and politician (b. 1583)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-von-Wallenstein |title=Albrecht von Wallenstein |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 July 2020 |archive-date=21 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621193617/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-von-Wallenstein |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1636]] – [[Santorio Santorio]], Italian biologist (b. 1561)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Barry |editor1-first=Jonathan |editor2-last=Bigotti |editor2-first=Fabrizio |title=Santorio Santori and the Emergence of Quantified Medicine, 1614-1790 |date=2021 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Cham, Switzerland |isbn=978-3-030-79587-0 |page=25}}</ref> *[[1655]] – [[Daniël Heinsius]], Flemish poet and scholar (b. 1580)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Heinsius |title=Daniël Heinsius |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=4 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731054051/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Heinsius |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1682]] – [[Alessandro Stradella]], Italian composer (b. 1639)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alessandro-Stradella-Italian-composer |title=Alessandro Stradella |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042637/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alessandro-Stradella-Italian-composer |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1710]] – [[Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut]], French soldier and explorer (b. 1639)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Greysolon-Sieur-DuLhut |title=Daniel Greysolon, Sieur DuLhut |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=5 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200705104020/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Greysolon-Sieur-DuLhut |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1713]] – [[Frederick I of Prussia]] (b. 1657)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-I-king-of-Prussia |title=Frederick I |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042319/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-I-king-of-Prussia |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1723]] – [[Christopher Wren]], English architect, designed [[St Paul's Cathedral]] (b. 1632)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Wren |title=Christopher Wren |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=29 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629012815/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Wren |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1756]] – [[Eliza Haywood]], English actress and poet (b. 1693)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eliza-Haywood |title=Eliza Haywood |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=5 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200705112311/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eliza-Haywood |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1796]] – [[Samuel Seabury (bishop)|Samuel Seabury]], American bishop (b. 1729)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Seabury |title=Samuel Seabury |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=7 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707124500/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Seabury |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1805]] – [[Thomas Pownall]], English politician, [[Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay]] (b. 1722)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/pownall-thomas-1722-1805 |title=Pownall, Thomas (1722-1805), of Saltfleetby, Lincs |publisher=The History of Parliament Trust |location=London |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=3 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703143418/https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/pownall-thomas-1722-1805 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1819]] – [[Francisco Manoel de Nascimento]], Portuguese-French poet and educator (b. 1734)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Manuel-do-Nascimento |title=Francisco Manuel do Nascimento |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042217/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Manuel-do-Nascimento |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1822]] – [[William Pinkney]], American politician and diplomat, 7th [[United States Attorney General]] (b. 1764)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Pinkney |title=William Pinkney |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731124617/https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Pinkney |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1841]] – [[Philip P. Barbour]], American lawyer, judge, and politician, 12th [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]] (b. 1783)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-P-Barbour |title=Philip P. Barbour |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=3 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703144003/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-P-Barbour |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1850]] – [[Daoguang Emperor]] of China (b. 1782)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daoguang |title=Daoguang, Emperor of Qing dynasty |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731122514/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daoguang |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1852]] – [[Thomas Moore]], Irish poet and lyricist (b. 1779)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Moore |title=Thomas Moore |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=11 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611004231/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Moore |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1865]] – [[Otto Ludwig (writer)|Otto Ludwig]], German author, playwright, and critic (b. 1813)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Otto-Ludwig |title=Otto Ludwig |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042341/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Otto-Ludwig |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1870]] – [[Henrik Hertz]], Danish poet and playwright (b. 1797)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henrik-Hertz |title=Henrik Hertz |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063456/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henrik-Hertz |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1877]] – [[Jung Bahadur Rana]], Nepalese ruler (b. 1816)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jung-Bahadur |title=Jung Bahadur |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731090001/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jung-Bahadur |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1878]] – [[Townsend Harris]], American merchant, politician, and diplomat, [[United States Ambassador to Japan]] (b. 1804)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Townsend-Harris |title=Townsend Harris |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=13 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913155809/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Townsend-Harris |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1899]] – [[Paul Reuter]], German-English journalist and businessman, founded [[Reuters]] (b. 1816)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Julius-Freiherr-von-Reuter |title=Paul Julius, baron von Reuter |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=15 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915041812/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Julius-Freiherr-von-Reuter |url-status=live }}</ref> ===1901–present=== *[[1906]] – [[Anton Arensky]], Russian pianist and composer (b. 1861)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anton-Arensky |title=Anton Arensky |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063325/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anton-Arensky |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1910]] – [[Worthington Whittredge]], American painter and educator (b. 1820)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Worthington-Whittredge |title=Worthington Whittredge |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731062908/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Worthington-Whittredge |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1911]] – [[Friedrich Spielhagen]], German author, theorist, and translator (b. 1829)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Friedrich-von-Spielhagen |title=Friedrich von Spielhagen |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731131005/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Friedrich-von-Spielhagen |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1912]] – [[William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg]] (b. 1852)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-IV-grand-duke-of-Luxembourg |title=William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg |newspaper=Encyclopedia Britannica |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063120/https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-IV-grand-duke-of-Luxembourg |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1914]] – [[John Tenniel]], English illustrator (b. 1820)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Tenniel |title=Sir John Tenniel |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=21 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621011905/https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Tenniel |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1915]] – [[Charles Edwin Bessey]], American botanist, author, and academic (b. 1845)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-E-Bessey |title=Charles E. Bessey |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=23 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723073430/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-E-Bessey |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1920]] – [[Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy]], French archaeologist and engineer (b. 1844)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marcel-Auguste-Dieulafoy |title=Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731081704/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marcel-Auguste-Dieulafoy |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1928]] – [[William O'Brien]], Irish journalist and politician (b. 1852)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-OBrien |title=William O'Brien |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731065523/https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-OBrien |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1934]] – [[Elizabeth Gertrude Britton]], American botanist and academic (b. 1857)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Gertrude-Knight-Britton |title=Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006113216/https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/80448/Elizabeth-Gertrude-Knight-Britton |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1934 – [[John McGraw]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1873)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-McGraw |title=John McGraw |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731075017/https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-McGraw |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1945]] – [[Mário de Andrade]], Brazilian author, poet, and photographer (b. 1893)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mario-de-Andrade |title=Mário de Andrade |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731064607/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mario-de-Andrade |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1950]] – [[George Minot]], American physician and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1885)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Minot |title=George Richards Minot |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731054030/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Minot |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1953]] – [[Sergei Winogradsky]], Ukrainian-Russian microbiologist and ecologist (b. 1856)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sergey-Nikolayevich-Winogradsky |title=Sergey Nikolayevich Winogradsky |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731050740/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sergey-Nikolayevich-Winogradsky |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1954]] – [[Joseph Beech]], American Methodist missionary and educator (b. 1867)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/ChinaCollegesProject/wesleyan/bios/beech_joseph.html |title=Beech, Joseph, Class of 1899 |last=Russ |first=Johanna |date=<!--Not stated--> |website=[[Yale Divinity School|divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu]] |access-date=April 20, 2023}}</ref> *[[1957]] – [[Mark Aldanov]], Russian author and critic (b. 1888)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Aldanov |title=Mark Aldanov |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617041856/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Aldanov |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1957 – [[Bugs Moran]], American mob boss (b. 1893)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Moran |title=George Moran |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063211/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Moran |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1963]] – [[Melville J. Herskovits]], American anthropologist and academic (b. 1895)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Melville-J-Herskovits |title=Melville J. Herskovits |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731063355/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Melville-J-Herskovits |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1964]] – [[Alexander Archipenko]], Ukrainian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1887)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Archipenko |title=Alexander Archipenko |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604143401/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Archipenko |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1964 – [[Grace Metalious]], American author (b. 1924)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/26/archives/grace-metalious-is-dead-at-39-author-of-peyton-place-novel-writer.html |title=Grace Metalious Is Dead at 39; Author of 'Peyton Place' Novel; Writer Shocked the Nation With Story of Lurid Life in New England Town |date=26 February 1964 |work=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York City |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=2 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702112555/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/26/archives/grace-metalious-is-dead-at-39-author-of-peyton-place-novel-writer.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1970]] – [[Mark Rothko]], Latvian-American painter and academic (b. 1903)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Rothko |title=Mark Rothko |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604133017/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Rothko |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1971]] – [[Theodor Svedberg]], Swedish chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1884)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1926/svedberg/facts/ |title=The Svedberg – Facts |publisher=Nobel Media AB |location=Stockholm |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=2 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902204215/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1926/svedberg/facts/ |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1972]] – [[Gottfried Fuchs]], German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (b. 1889)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://juedische-sportstars.de/index.php?id=190&L=2 |title=Gottfried Fuchs |publisher=Zentrum deutsche Sportgeschichte e.V. |location=Berlin |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=4 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704020342/http://juedische-sportstars.de/index.php?id=190&L=2 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1975]] – [[Elijah Muhammad]], American religious leader (b. 1897)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elijah-Muhammad |title=Elijah Muhammad |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=30 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030071312/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elijah-Muhammad |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1978]] – [[Daniel James, Jr.]], American general and pilot (b. 1920)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wuwf.org/post/his-100th-birthday-chappie-james-legacy-lives#stream/0 |last=Averhart |first=Sandra |title=On His 100th Birthday, 'Chappie' James' Legacy Lives On |date=11 February 2020 |publisher=University of West Florida |location=Pensacola |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=4 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704024716/https://www.wuwf.org/post/his-100th-birthday-chappie-james-legacy-lives#stream/0 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1980]] – [[Robert Hayden]], American poet and academic (b. 1913)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Hayden |title=Robert Hayden |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=2 July 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731082148/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Hayden |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1983]] – [[Tennessee Williams]], American playwright, and poet (b. 1911)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tennessee-Williams |title=Tennessee Williams |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=10 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310005311/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tennessee-Williams |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1996]] – [[Haing S. Ngor]], Cambodian-American physician and author (b. 1940)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Haing-S-Ngor |title=Haing S. Ngor |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=4 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404003835/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Haing-S-Ngor |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1997]] – [[Andrei Sinyavsky]], Russian journalist and publisher (b. 1925)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrey-Donatovich-Sinyavsky |title=Andrey Donatovich Sinyavsky |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731082305/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrey-Donatovich-Sinyavsky |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1998]] – [[W. O. Mitchell]], Canadian author and playwright (b. 1914)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-O-Mitchell |title=W. O. Mitchell |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=25 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625004538/https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-O-Mitchell |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1999]] – [[Glenn T. Seaborg]], American chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1912)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Glenn-T-Seaborg |title=Glenn T. Seaborg |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731121803/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Glenn-T-Seaborg |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[2001]] – [[A. R. Ammons]], American poet and critic (b. 1926)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/A-R-Ammons |title=A. R. Ammons |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=24 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624104800/https://www.britannica.com/biography/A-R-Ammons |url-status=live }}</ref> * 2001 – [[Don Bradman]], Australian international cricketer; holder of world record batting average (b. 1908)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/in_depth/2001/death_of_don_bradman/1189778.stm |title=Bradman dies at 92 |work=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |date=26 February 2001 |access-date=2 June 2020 |archive-date=7 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207183735/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/in_depth/2001/death_of_don_bradman/1189778.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4188.html |title=Sir Donald Bradman |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd |location=London |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=28 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228193013/http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4188.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[2005]] – [[Peter Benenson]], English lawyer, founded [[Amnesty International]] (b. 1921)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Benenson |title=Peter James Henry Solomon Benenson |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731044804/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Benenson |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[2008]] – [[Hans Raj Khanna]], Indian judge and advocate; upholder of civil liberties (b. 1912)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/43-years-since-emergency-a-look-back-at-hr-khanna-the-judge-who-stood-up-to-indira-gandhi-365539.html |last=Sudheesh |first=Raghul |title=43 years since Emergency: A look back at HR Khanna, the judge who stood up to Indira Gandhi |publisher=Firstpost |location=Mumbai |date=25 June 2018 |access-date=8 July 2020 |archive-date=8 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708174644/https://www.firstpost.com/india/43-years-since-emergency-a-look-back-at-hr-khanna-the-judge-who-stood-up-to-indira-gandhi-365539.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[2010]] – [[Ihsan Dogramaci]], Turkish pediatrician and academic (b. 1915)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.turkishjournalpediatrics.org/uploads/pdf_TJP_863.pdf |title=Remembering Ihsan Dogramaci |date=January 2011 |publisher=The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics |issue=53 |pages=1–4 |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=25 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625020107/http://www.turkishjournalpediatrics.org/uploads/pdf_TJP_863.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[2012]] – [[Louisiana Red]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louisiana-Red |title=Louisiana Red |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=22 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622141449/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louisiana-Red |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[2015]] – [[Harve Bennett]], American screenwriter and producer (b. 1930)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-harve-bennett-20150308-story.html |title=Harve Bennett dies at 84; TV producer rescued 'Star Trek' film franchise |work=Los Angeles Times |date=7 March 2015 |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=13 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613183442/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-harve-bennett-20150308-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *2015 – [[Ariel Camacho]], Mexican musician and singer-songwriter; (b. 1992)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/music/ariel-camacho-dies-at-22-lead-singer-of-los-plebes-del-rancho.html |title=Ariel Camacho, Lead Singer of Los Plebes del Rancho, Dies at 22 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=27 February 2015 |access-date=7 July 2023 |archive-date=6 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206094305/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/music/ariel-camacho-dies-at-22-lead-singer-of-los-plebes-del-rancho.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *2015 – [[Eugenie Clark]], American biologist and academic; noted ichthyologist (b. 1922)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eugenie-Clark |title=Eugenie Clark |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=14 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614075602/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eugenie-Clark |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[2017]] – [[Bill Paxton]], American actor and filmmaker (b. 1955)<ref name="NBC News">{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/actor-bill-paxton-dead-61-due-complications-surgery-n725776|title=Actor Bill Paxton Dead at 61 Due to Complications from Surgery|website=[[NBC News]]|access-date=February 26, 2017|archive-date=April 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430034250/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/actor-bill-paxton-dead-61-due-complications-surgery-n725776|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[Dmitry Yazov]], last [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] (b. 1924)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-military-yazov-idUSKCN20J1E2 |last=Osbourne |first=Andrew |title=Dmitry Yazov, anti-Gorbachev coup plotter, ex-Soviet defense minister, dies |date=25 February 2020 |publisher=Reuters |location=London |access-date=3 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731041915/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-military-yazov-idUSKCN20J1E2 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Farrah Forke]], American actress (b. 1968)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/farrah-forke-wings-lois-clark-182736922.html|title = Farrah Forke, 'Wings' and 'Lois & Clark' Actor, Dies at 54| date=2 March 2022 }}</ref> * 2022 – [[Shirley Hughes]], English author and illustrator (b. 1927)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Eccleshare |first1=Julia |title=Shirley Hughes obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/02/shirley-hughes-obituary |access-date=3 March 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=2 March 2022 }}</ref> *[[2023]] – [[Gordon Pinsent]], Canadian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1930)<ref name="CBCDeath">{{cite news |author1=CBC News Staff |title=Gordon Pinsent, Canadian acting icon, dead at 92 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/gorden-pinsent-1.6760868 |work=CBC News |location=Toronto |date = February 25, 2023 | access-date = February 26, 2023}}</ref> *[[2025]] – [[Henry Kelly]], Irish radio and television broadcaster, actor and journalist (b. 1947)<ref name="BBCDeath">{{cite news |author1=BBC |title=Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly dies at 78 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn04y7dg68ko |work=BBC |location=UK |date = February 25, 2025 | access-date = February 25, 2025}}</ref> *2025 – [[Roberto Orci]], Mexican-American screenwriter and producer (b. 1973)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |date=February 25, 2025 |title=Roberto Orci Dies: 'Star Trek', 'Transformers' & 'Hawaii Five-0' Writer-Producer Was 51 |url=https://deadline.com/2025/02/roberto-orci-dead-star-trek-transformers-writer-producer-1236301807/ |access-date=March 1, 2025 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]] |language=en-US}}</ref> ==Holidays and observances== *Christian feast days: **[[Æthelberht of Kent]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rcsouthwark.co.uk/liturgy_rites_dioccal.pdf |title=Interim Diocesan Calendar Proper to the Archdiocese of Southwark |publisher=Roman Catholic Diocese of Southwark |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202224/http://www.rcsouthwark.co.uk/liturgy_rites_dioccal.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/February/25-03.htm |title=St Ethelbert, king of Kent |publisher=Holy Trinity Orthodox |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=8 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308121955/https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/February/25-03.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> **[[Beatification|Blessed]] [[Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1894.htm |title=2. Sancha y Hervás, Ciriaco María |work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |publisher=Salvador Miranda |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605120808/http://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1894.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> **[[Gerland of Agrigento]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://catholicreadings.org/catholic-quotes/saint-gerland-the-bishop-saint-of-the-day-february-25/ |title=Saint Gerland the Bishop – Saint of the Day – February 25 |work=Saint of the Day |date=4 June 2019 |publisher=Catholic readings |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=18 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618184318/https://catholicreadings.org/catholic-quotes/saint-gerland-the-bishop-saint-of-the-day-february-25/ |url-status=live }}</ref> **[[John Roberts (missionary)|John Roberts]], writer and missionary<ref>{{cite web |url=http://satucket.com/lectionary/Calendar.htm |title=Calendar of the Church Year, according to the Episcopal Church |website=Satucket.com |date=23 August 2015 |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=28 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528163539/http://satucket.com/lectionary/Calendar.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> ([[Anglican Communion]]) **[[Hamburg]] ''Matthiae-mahl'', feast of [[Hanseatic League]] cities on the mediaeval first day of spring<ref name="mattmahl">{{cite news |title=The Matthiae meal |url=https://www.euscreen.eu/item.html?id=EUS_0065DB52E4BF42279013651EE15AE220 |agency=EU Screen |publisher=Deutsche Welle |date=2003}}</ref><ref name="meriaud">{{cite news |title=Lennart Meri Speech Hamburg, Germany February 25, 1994, Matthiae-Supper of Hansa Cities |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lennart-meri-speech-hamburg-germany-february-25-1994/id1489492475?i=1000549578895 |access-date=12 February 2023 |agency=Apple Podcasts |publisher=History of Estonia Podcast |first=Lennart |last=Meri}}</ref> **Blessed [[Maria Adeodata Pisani]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/blessed-maria-adeodata-pisani-158 |title=Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani |publisher=Catholic News Agency |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042510/https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/blessed-maria-adeodata-pisani-158 |url-status=live }}</ref> **Blessed [[Robert of Arbrissel]], founder of [[Fontevraud Abbey]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Blessed Robert of Arbrissel – Saint of the Day – February 25 |url=https://catholicreadings.org/blessed-robert-of-arbrissel-saint-of-the-day-february-25/ |website=Catholic readings |date=4 June 2019 |access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> **[[Saint Walpurga]] (she was canonised on 1 May c. 870 and [[Walpurgis Night]] is celebrated 30 April)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Walburga |title=Saint Walburga |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=1 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601042955/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Walburga |url-status=live }}</ref> **[[February 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]] *''[[Kitano Tenman-gu|Kitano Baika-sai]]'' or "Plum Blossom Festival" ([[Kitano Tenman-gu|Kitano Tenman-gu Shrine]], [[Kyoto]], Japan)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.insidekyoto.com/kyoto-events-february |title=Kyoto Events February 2020 |newspaper=Inside Kyoto |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=18 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618003410/https://www.insidekyoto.com/kyoto-events-february |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Memorial Day for the Victims of the Communist Dictatorships]] ([[Hungary]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kormany.hu/en/government-spokesperson/news/on-25-february-we-remember-victims-of-communist-dictatorship |title=On 25 February we remember victims of communist dictatorship |publisher=Hungarian Government |location=Budapest |date=23 February 2019 |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617230948/https://www.kormany.hu/en/government-spokesperson/news/on-25-february-we-remember-victims-of-communist-dictatorship |url-status=dead }}</ref> *[[National Day (Kuwait)]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/kuwait/nationalday |title=National Day in Kuwait |publisher=Time and Date AS 1995–2020 |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=18 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618180426/https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/kuwait/nationalday |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[People Power Revolution|People Power Day]] ([[Philippines]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/philippines/people-power-anniversary |title=People Power Anniversary in Philippines |publisher=Time and Date AS 1995–2020 |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=18 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618043152/https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/philippines/people-power-anniversary |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Public holidays in Suriname|Revolution Day in Suriname]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/suriname/revolution-day |title=Revolution Day in Suriname |publisher=Time and Date AS 1995–2020 |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=18 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618175109/https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/suriname/revolution-day |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Soviet Occupation Day (Georgia)]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-soviet-occupation-95-anniversary/27573048.html |title=Georgia Marks 95th Anniversary Of Soviet Occupation |publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |location=Prague |date=25 February 2016 |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617224754/https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-soviet-occupation-95-anniversary/27573048.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{commons}} * {{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25 |title=On This Day |publisher=BBC}} * {{NYT On this day|month=02|day=25}} * {{cite web |url=https://www.onthisday.com/events/february/25 |title=Historical Events on February 25 |publisher=OnThisDay.com}} {{months}} {{DEFAULTSORT:February 25}} [[Category:Days of February]]
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