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Your Front Page: 8 August 1925

A personalised newspaper front page from the day you were born, printed in the style of your birth year.

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The World Birthday Chronicle

Saturday, 8th August 1925Broadsheet, pre-war

7 years ago today · 1918

Hundred Days Offensive

Philippe Pétain
Philippe PétainPhoto: Imprimerie Draeger à Montrouge en région parisienne · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

France. The Hundred Days Offensive was a series of massive Allied offensives that ended the First World War.

This series of decisive Allied victories shattered the German army's resistance, bringing an end to the fighting on the Western Front in the First World War.

Famous birthdays: born on this date

Alija Izetbegović

Born 1925. First president of the independent Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Roger Federer

Born 1981. Swiss tennis champion who won 20 major singles titles and held world No. 1 for a record 237 consecutive weeks

Paul Dirac

Born 1902. English physicist who predicted antimatter, wrote the Dirac equation and shared the Nobel Prize in Physics at 31

From the archives: also on this date

Treaty of Meerssen

870. The Treaty of Mersen or Meerssen, concluded on 8 August 870, was a treaty to partition the realm of Lothair II, known as Lotharingia, by his uncles Louis the German of East Francia and Charles the Bald of West Francia, the two surviving sons of Emperor Louis I the Pious.

Expedition Endurance

1914. The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

2008 Summer Olympics

2008. The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and officially branded as Beijing 2008, were an international multi-sport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China.

Your day in numbers

Star sign

Leo

Fire sign, ruled by Sun

Birthstone

Peridot

The birthstone for August

UK Number 1 single

Before the charts

The UK singles chart began on 14 November 1952

World population

About 2.0 billion

People on Earth in 1925

The cost of living in Britain, 1925

Average house

£605

Typical UK home

Pint of beer

7d

In a UK pub

Loaf of bread

9d

Large white loaf

Average salary

£165

UK full-time, per year

Approximate UK averages at the time, in the money of the day.

How your birthday newspaper is made

Enter your date of birth and we will print a one-off newspaper front page for the day you were born. The headline is a real historical event from our archive, chosen from your exact birth date where we have one, then from the same week, then from the same date in an earlier year. The page also shows famous people born on your birthday, your star sign and birthstone, the UK number one single, the world population and the cost of living in Britain at the time.

  • The layout, typefaces and colours follow the newspaper style of your birth decade: dense broadsheets before 1940, classic bold headlines in the 1940s and 1950s, tabloid energy in the 1960s and 1970s, colour accents in the 1980s and 1990s, and clean full-colour pages from 2000 onwards.
  • Headlines and summaries come from our archive of historical events, built from Wikidata and reviewed by our editorial team. When a famous person linked to the story has a profile on our site, their Wikimedia Commons portrait appears with the photographer's credit; otherwise you see an original woodcut or halftone illustration.
  • Add your town or country of birth to name the masthead, for example The Manchester Birthday Chronicle. Your birthplace is stored only on your device.
  • Every front page has its own link, so you can send it to friends and family, and you can download it as a high-resolution image to print or frame.

Questions people ask

Frequently asked questions

How do I get a newspaper front page from the day I was born?
Enter your day, month and year of birth above and press the button. Your personalised front page appears instantly, with its own link you can share and a download button for a print-quality image.
Are the headlines real?
Yes. Every headline is a real historical event from our archive. If nothing in our archive happened on your exact birth date, we use an event from the same week, or the most recent event on the same date in an earlier year, and the label above the headline says which.
Why does my front page look different from a friend's?
The design changes with the decade you were born in, from ornate pre-war broadsheets to modern full-colour layouts, so each page looks like a newspaper from its own era.
Is the birthday newspaper free?
Yes. Creating, sharing and downloading your personalised birthday front page costs nothing.

Further reading

Reviewed by the Who Shares My Birthday editorial team.

Last reviewed: October 2026