Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 25
Births
[edit]- 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
- 1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
- 1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
- 1897 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
- 1903 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (d. 1970)
- 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
- 1932 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
- 1943 - Robert Gates, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- 1944 - Michael Douglas, (pictured) American actor and producer
- 1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)
- 1968 - Will Smith, American actor and rapper
- 1969 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
- 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
- 1985 - Calvin Johnson, American football player
Deaths
[edit]- 1066 - Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:
- Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria
- Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)
- 1984 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
- 1991 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
- 1996 - Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
- 2003 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)