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February 25

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Pan American Games

75 years ago

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1943

George Harrison

Would be 83

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392nd

Albrecht von Wallenstein

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Famous births25

1643 · 383 yrs

Ahmed II

Ahmed II (Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثانی, romanized: Aḥmed-i sānī; Turkish: II. Ahmed; 25 February 1643 or 1 August 1642 – 6 February 1695) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1691 to 1695.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 51

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1707 · 319 yrs

Carlo Goldoni

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (also US:; Italian:; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays.

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LiteratureDied aged 85

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1778 · 248 yrs

José de San Martín

José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras (Spanish pronunciation:; 25 February 1778 – 17 August 1850), nicknamed "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru", was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts of South America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire…

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MilitaryDied aged 72

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1841 · 185 yrs

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French:; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a leading French Impressionist artist.

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ArtDied aged 78

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1842 · 184 yrs

Karl May

Karl Friedrich May ( MY, German:; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author known for travel writing. His works, often in first-person narratives about travels and adventures, were mostly set in the American Old West or the Orient and Middle East, but also in Latin America, China and within Germany.

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LiteratureDied aged 70

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1861 · 165 yrs

Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (German:; 27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian New Age guru, philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant and speaker with the dead.

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ArtDied aged 64

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1866 · 160 yrs

Benedetto Croce

Benedetto Croce, ( KROH-chay; Italian:; 25 February 1866 – 20 November 1952) was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and politician who wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, historiography, and aesthetics.

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PhilosophyDied aged 86

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1885 · 141 yrs

Tamara Karsavina

Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (Russian: Тамара Платоновна Карсавина; 9 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev.

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FilmWould be 141

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1888 · 138 yrs

John Foster Dulles

John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959. A member of the Republican Party, he was briefly a U.S. senator from New York in 1949.

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PoliticsWould be 138

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1917 · 109 yrs

Anthony Burgess

John Anthony Burgess Wilson (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), commonly known as Anthony Burgess, was an English writer, screenwriter, and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel.

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LiteratureWould be 109

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1943 · 83 yrs

George Harrison

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

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MusicWould be 83

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1949 · 77 yrs

Danuta Wałęsa

Mirosława Danuta Wałęsa (Polish:; née Gołoś; born 25 February 1949) is the wife of former President of Poland Lech Wałęsa.

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PoliticsAge 77

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Famous deaths9

1634 · 392 yrs

Albrecht von Wallenstein

Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland (24 September 1583 – 25 February 1634), also von Waldstein (Czech: Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna), was a Bohemian military leader, statesman and a major figure of the Thirty Years' War, fighting on the Catholic side as supreme commander of the armies…

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MilitaryDied aged 50

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1713 · 313 yrs

Frederick I of Prussia

Frederick I (German: Friedrich I.; 11 July 1657 – 25 February 1713), of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was (as Frederick III) Elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and Duke of Prussia in personal union (Brandenburg–Prussia). The latter function he upgraded to royalty, becoming the first King in Prussia (1701–1713).

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PoliticsDied aged 55

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1852 · 174 yrs

Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist. Widely regarded in his lifetime as Ireland's "national bard", his fame and reputation rested primarily on the popularity of his Irish Melodies.

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MusicDied aged 72

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1950 · 76 yrs

George Minot

George Richards Minot ( MY-not; December 2, 1885 – February 25, 1950) was an American medical researcher who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Hoyt Whipple and William P. Murphy for their pioneering work on pernicious anemia.

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ScienceWould be 140

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1971 · 55 yrs

Theodor Svedberg

Theodor Svedberg (30 August 1884 – 25 February 1971) was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate for his research on colloids and proteins using the ultracentrifuge. Svedberg was active at Uppsala University from the mid-1900s to late 1940s.

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ScienceWould be 142

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1999 · 27 yrs

Glenn Theodore Seaborg

Glenn Theodore Seaborg ( SEE-borg; April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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ScienceWould be 114

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2014 · 12 yrs

Paco de Lucía

Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gómez (Spanish:; 21 December 1947 – 25 February 2014), known as Paco de Lucía (Spanish:), was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer, and record producer. A leading proponent of the new flamenco style, he was one of the first flamenco guitarists to branch into classical and jazz.

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MusicWould be 78

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2017 · 9 yrs

Bill Paxton

William Paxton (May 17, 1955 – February 25, 2017) was an American actor, filmmaker and musician. A versatile character actor known for his distinctive Texan drawl and everyman screen persona, he was a four-time Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nominee, among other accolades.

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FilmWould be 71

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2020 · 6 yrs

Hosni Mubarak

Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak (Arabic: محمد حسني السيد مبارك‎; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 until his resignation in 2011, following the Egyptian revolution.

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PoliticsWould be 98

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Events5

1951 · 75 yrs

Pan American Games

The Pan American Games, known as the Pan Am Games, is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas first held in 1951. It features thousands of athletes participating in competitions to win different summer sports.

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Sports

1992 · 34 yrs

Khojaly Massacre

The Khojaly massacre (Azerbaijani: Xocalı soyqırımı, Armenian: Խոջալուի արյունահեղություն, romanized: Khojalui aryunaheghut'yun) was the mass killing of Azerbaijani civilians by Armenian forces and the 366th CIS regiment in the town of Khojaly on 26 February 1992.

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Tragedy

2007 · 19 yrs

79th Academy Awards

The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2006 and took place February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m.

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Culture

2022 · 4 yrs

Siege of Mariupol

The siege of Mariupol began on 24 February 2022, as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and lasted until 20 May. It saw fighting between the Russian Armed Forces (alongside the Donetsk People's Republic People's Militia) and the Ukrainian Armed Forces for control over the city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine.

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War

2022 · 4 yrs

Battle of Kyiv

The Battle of Kyiv was part of the Kyiv offensive in the Russian invasion of Ukraine for control of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, and surrounding districts including Hostomel Airport. The combatants were elements of the Russian Armed Forces and Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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