April 25
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April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). There are 250 days until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 32 - Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (died 69)
- 1214 - King Louis IX of France (died 1270)
- 1284 - King Edward II of England (died 1327)
- 1599 - Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (died 1658)
- 1621 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (died 1679)
- 1770 - Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (died 1850)
- 1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (died 1893) (O.S.)
- 1849 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (died 1925)
- 1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics (died 1937)
- 1900 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)
- 1902 - Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist
- 1903 - Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (died 1987)
- 1906 - William J. Brennan, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (died 1997)
- 1908 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (died 1965)
- 1911 - Jack Ruby, American assassin (died 1967)
- 1914 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., writer (died 1948)
- 1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (died 1996)
- 1918 - Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (died 1995)
- 1921 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter
- 1923 - Albert King, musician
- 1925 - Sammy Drechsel, journalist, film director, and cabaretist (died 1986)
- 1927 - Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
- 1928 - Vassar Clements, American musiciaan
- 1930 - Paul Mazursky, film director and writer
- 1932 - Meadlowlark Lemon, basketball player
- 1933 - Jerry Leiber, composer
- 1940 - Al Pacino, American actor
- 1945 - Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
- 1946 - Talia Shire, actress
- 1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
- 1947 - Johann Cruyff, Dutch footballer
- 1952 - Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
- 1963 - Jet Li, actor
- 1964 - Hank Azaria, actor
- 1964 - Andy Bell, British musician (Erasure)
- 1965 - Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction)
- 1969 - Joe Buck, baseball and American football broadcaster
- 1969 - Darren Woodson, American football player
- 1969 - Renée Zellweger, actress
- 1970 - Jason Lee, American actor
- 1976 - Tim Duncan, basketball player
- 1976 - Rainer Schuettler, German tennis player
- 1989 - Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama
[change] Deaths
[change] Events
- April 25 - Start of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal; A half-century of fascist rule was ended
