August 25 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 25, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#103 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 25 birthdays
Bret Harte · American writer and poet1836
Võ Nguyên Giáp · Vietnamese general and communist politician1911
Erich Honecker · Former leader of East Germany1912
Frederick Chapman Robbins · American doctor1916
Mel Ferrer · American actor, director and producer1917
Leonard Bernstein · American conductor and composer1918
Althea Gibson · American tennis player1927
Herbert Kroemer · German-American physics1928
Sean Connery · Scottish actor1930
Wayne Shorter · American jazz saxophonist and composer1933
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani · Iranian politician1934
Gene Simmons · Israeli-American musician and songwriter1949
Charles M. Rice · American virologist1952
Tim Burton · American filmmaker and artist1958
Billy Ray Cyrus · American country singer and actor1961
Claudia Schiffer · German model1970
Rachel Bilson · American actress1981
Blake Lively · American actress1987
Liu Yifei · Chinese-American actress and singer1987
China Anne McClain · American actress and singer1998
On this day in history
1835The New York Sun perpetrated the Great Moon Hoax, publishing articles about the supposed discovery of life on the Moon (lithograph pictured).
1989The NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings.
2012The NASA space probe Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.
2017Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004.
1950To avert a threatened strike during the Korean War, President Truman orders Secretary of the Army Frank Pace to seize control of the nation's railroads.
1961President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
1975Bruce Springsteen released his commercial breakthrough album, Born to Run.
2003NASA successfully launches the Spitzer Space Telescope into space.
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