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August 25

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1960 Summer Olympics

66 years ago

Born this day

1930

Sean Connery

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Famous births28

1530 · 496 yrs

Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Russian: Иван IV Васильевич; 25 August 1530 – 28 March 1584), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547 and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.

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PoliticsDied aged 53

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1707 · 319 yrs

Louis I of Spain

Louis I (Luis Felipe Fernando; Spanish: Luis I; 25 August 1707 – 31 August 1724) was King of Spain from 15 January 1724 until his death in August the same year. His reign is one of the shortest in history, lasting for just over seven months.

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RoyaltyDied aged 17

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1744 · 282 yrs

Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried von Herder ( HUR-dər; German:; 25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian, pastor, poet, and literary critic. Herder is associated with the Age of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism.

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PhilosophyDied aged 59

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1767 · 259 yrs

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (French pronunciation:; 25 August 1767 – 28 July 1794), sometimes nicknamed the Archangel of Terror, was a French revolutionary, political philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention, a Jacobin club leader, and a major figure of the French Revolution.

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PhilosophyDied aged 26

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1786 · 240 yrs

Ludwig I of Bavaria

Ludwig I or Louis I (German: Ludwig I.; 25 August 1786 – 29 February 1868) was King of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states. When he was crown prince, he was involved in the Napoleonic Wars.

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RoyaltyDied aged 81

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1841 · 185 yrs

Emil Theodor Kocher

Emil Theodor Kocher (25 August 1841 – 27 July 1917) was a Swiss physician and medical researcher who received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 75

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1845 · 181 yrs

Ludwig II of Bavaria

Ludwig II (Louis II;Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm; German:; 25 August 1845 – 13 June 1886), also called the Swan King or the Fairy Tale King (der Märchenkönig), was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death in 1886.

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RoyaltyDied aged 40

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1850 · 176 yrs

Charles Richet

Charles Robert Richet (French pronunciation:; 25 August 1850 – 4 December 1935) was a French physiologist at the Collège de France and immunology pioneer. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis".

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LiteratureDied aged 85

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1900 · 126 yrs

Hans Krebs

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, FRS (German:; 25 August 1900 – 22 November 1981) was a German-British biologist, physician and biochemist.

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1905 · 121 yrs

Santa Faustina Kowalska

Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938) was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic.

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ReligionWould be 121

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1911 · 115 yrs100 Club

Võ Nguyên Giáp

Võ Nguyên Giáp (chữ Hán: 武元甲, Vietnamese pronunciation:; 25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary and politician. Highly regarded as a military strategist, Giáp led Vietnamese communist military forces to victory in the decades-long Indochina wars.

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1912 · 114 yrs

Erich Honecker

Erich Ernst Paul Honecker (German:; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.

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AD 383 · 1643 yrs

Gratian

Gratian (Latin: Gratianus; 18 April 359 – 25 August 383) was emperor of the Western Roman Empire from 367 to 383. The eldest son of Valentinian I, Gratian was raised to the rank of Augustus as a child and inherited the West after his father's death in 375.

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RoyaltyDied aged 24

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1227 · 799 yrs

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan (born Temüjin; c. 1162 – 18 or 25 August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire. After spending most of his life uniting the Mongol tribes, he launched a series of military campaigns, conquering large parts of China and Central Asia.

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RoyaltyDied aged 65

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1270 · 756 yrs

Louis IX of France

Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270.

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RoyaltyDied aged 56

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1482 · 544 yrs

Margaret of Anjou

Margaret of Anjou (French: Marguerite; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. Through marriage, she was also nominally Queen of France from 1445 to 1453.

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RoyaltyDied aged 53

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1688 · 338 yrs

Henry Morgan

Sir Henry Morgan (Welsh: Harri Morgan; c. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner and, later, the lieutenant governor of Jamaica. From his base in Port Royal, Jamaica, he and those under his command raided settlements and shipping on the Spanish Main, from which he profited.

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PoliticsDied aged 57

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1776 · 250 yrs

David Hume

David Hume (born David Home; 7 May 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist who is known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical scepticism and metaphysical naturalism.

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PhilosophyDied aged 65

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1867 · 159 yrs

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis.

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ScienceDied aged 75

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1882 · 144 yrs

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (26 December 1803 – 25 August 1882) was an Estonian writer who is considered to be the father of the national literature for the country. He is the author of Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg.

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LiteratureDied aged 78

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1900 · 126 yrs

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel.

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PhilosophyDied aged 55

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1908 · 118 yrs

Antoine Henri Becquerel

Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French experimental physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie and Pierre Curie for his discovery of radioactivity.

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ScienceDied aged 55

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1936 · 90 yrs

Lev Kamenev

Lev Borisovich Kamenev (né Rozenfeld; 18 July 1883 – 25 August 1936) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A prominent Old Bolshevik, Kamenev was a leading figure in the early Soviet government and served as a deputy premier of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1926.

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1936 · 90 yrs

Grigory Zinoviev

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev (born Ovsei-Gershen Aronovich Radomyshelsky; 23 September 1883 – 25 August 1936) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A prominent Old Bolshevik, Zinoviev was a close associate of Vladimir Lenin prior to 1917 and a leading figure in the early Soviet government.

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ActivismWould be 143

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Events5

1830 · 196 yrs

Belgian Revolution

The Belgian Revolution (French: Révolution belge, Dutch: Belgische Revolutie/opstand/omwenteling) was a conflict which led to the secession of the southern provinces (mainly the former Southern Netherlands) from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the establishment of an independent Kingdom of Belgium.

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Politics

1941 · 85 yrs

Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran

The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, also known as the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia or the Allied invasion of Iran, was the joint invasion of the officially neutral Imperial State of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union in August 1941.

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War

1960 · 66 yrs

1960 Summer Olympics

The 1960 Summer Olympics (Italian: Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad (Italian: Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 (Italian: Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy.

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Sports

1991 · 35 yrs

Battle of Vukovar

The Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991.

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War

2020 · 6 yrs

2020 Summer Paralympics

The 2020 Summer Paralympics (Japanese: 東京2020パラリンピック競技大会, Hepburn: Tōkyō Nizeronizero Pararinpikku Kyōgi Taikai), branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.

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