May 25 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 25, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#267 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 25 birthdays
Ralph Waldo Emerson · American philosopher1803
Jacob Burckhardt · Swiss historian1818
Pieter Zeeman · Dutch physicist1865
John Mott · American Methodist and founder of the YMCA1865
Jack Steinberger · German-American physicist, Nobel laureate1921
Jeanne Crain · American actress1925
Robert Ludlum · American novelist1927
Beverly Sills · American operatic soprano1929
Dixie Carter · American actress1939
Ian McKellen · British actor1939
Frank Oz · British and American director, actor, and puppeteer1944
Amy Klobuchar · American politician and lawyer1960
Mike Myers · Canadian actor, comedian and filmmaker1963
Yahya Jammeh · 2nd President of the Gambia1965
Anne Heche · American actress1969
Octavia Spencer · American actress1970
Keiko Fujimori · 67th President of Peru1975
Cillian Murphy · Irish actor1976
Roman Reigns · American professional wrestler1985
Alexis Texas · American pornographic actress1985
On this day in history
1782American Revolutionary War: US Colonel William Crawford began a failed expedition to destroy British-allied American Indian towns along the Sandusky River in the Ohio Country.
1787The Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia with the intention of revising the Articles of Confederation of the United States.
1962The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, went out of business.
2011The final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated daytime talk show in U.S. television history, hosted by Oprah Winfrey, was broadcast.
1999The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
2008NASA's Phoenix lander touches down in the Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
2009North Korea conducted a nuclear test and several other missile tests that were widely condemned internationally and led to sanctions from the United Nations Security Council.
2012In a test flight, SpaceX's Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station.
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