October 25 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 25, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#127 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 25 birthdays
Thomas Babington Macaulay · British historian and politician1800
Max Stirner · German philosopher1806
Évariste Galois · French mathematician1811
Johann Strauss II · Austrian composer1825
Georges Bizet · French composer1838
Henry Norris Russell · American astronomer1877
Pablo Picasso · Spanish painter and sculptor1881
Richard E. Byrd · American naval officer, explorer1888
Levi Eshkol · Israeli politician1895
Michael I of Romania · Last king of Romania1921
Lawrence Kohlberg · American psychologist1927
Anthony Franciosa · American actor1928
Anne Tyler · American novelist1941
Douglas Diamond · American economist and professor of finance1953
Nancy Cartwright · American actress1957
Kevin Michael Richardson · American actor1964
Elif Shafak · Turkish writer1971
Esther Duflo · French-American economist1972
Katy Perry · American singer1984
Ciara · American singer, songwriter, and dancer1985
On this day in history
1997After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
2001Windows XP, one of the most popular and widely used versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, was released for retail sale.
2010Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, began an increasingly violent series of eruptions that lasted over a month.
2022At 49 days, Liz Truss concluded the shortest tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
1854Crimean War: The ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade was decisively repelled by Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava.
1924The Daily Mail published the Zinoviev letter, a hoax purported to be a directive from Moscow to increase communist agitation.
1940Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
1944Heinrich Himmler ordered a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a nonconformist youth group that assisted army deserters and others hiding from the Nazis.
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