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June 25

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Korean War

76 years ago

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1903

George Orwell

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Emperor Gaozu of Tang

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Famous births32

1852 · 174 yrs

Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet ( gow-DEE, GOW-dee; Catalan:; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect and designer, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme. Gaudí's works have a sui generis style, with most located in Barcelona, including his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família church.

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ArtDied aged 73

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1864 · 162 yrs

Walther Hermann Nernst

Walther Hermann Nernst (German pronunciation:; 25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) was a German physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid-state physics.

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ScienceDied aged 77

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1882 · 144 yrs

Yanka Kupala

Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich (Belarusian: Іван Дамінікавіч Луцэвіч, romanized: Ivan Daminikavič Łucevič, Polish: Iwan Daminikawicz Łucewicz; 7 July 1882 – 28 June 1942), better known by his pen name Yanka Kupala (Янка Купала), was a Belarusian poet and writer.

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LiteratureWould be 144

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1894 · 132 yrs

Hermann Oberth

Hermann Julius Oberth (German:; 25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. Oberth supported Nazi Germany's war effort and received the War Merit Cross (1st Class) in 1943.

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1900 · 126 yrs

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, and member of the British royal family.

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1903 · 123 yrs

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell.

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LiteratureWould be 123

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1907 · 119 yrs

Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen

Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (German:; 25 June 1907 – 11 February 1973) was a German theoretical physicist. During World War II, Jensen worked on the German nuclear energy project, known as the Uranium Club, where he contributed to the separation of uranium isotopes.

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ScienceWould be 119

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1908 · 118 yrs

Willard Van Orman Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine ( KWYNE; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American logician and philosopher in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century". He held the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1956 to 1978.

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PhilosophyWould be 118

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1924 · 102 yrs

Sidney Lumet

Sidney Arthur Lumet ( loo-MET; June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American film director.

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FilmWould be 102

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1926 · 100 yrs

Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann (Austrian German:; 25 June 1926 – 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author. She is regarded as one of the major voices of German-language literature in the 20th century.

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LiteratureWould be 100

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1928 · 98 yrs

Alexei Abrikosov

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Абрико́сов; June 25, 1928 – March 29, 2017) was a Russian-American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics.

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ScienceWould be 98

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1929 · 97 yrs

Jean-Joseph Sanfourche

Jean-Joseph Sanfourche (25 June 1929 – 13 March 2010), (known as Sanfourche), was a French painter and sculptor associated with art brut. He was a friend of the artist Jean Dubuffet, and with Gaston Chaissac; he had a long correspondence with both artists.

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Famous deaths17

AD 635 · 1391 yrs

Emperor Gaozu of Tang

Emperor Gaozu of Tang (Chinese: 唐高祖; pinyin: Táng Gāozǔ; Wade–Giles: T'ang Kao-tsu; 7 April 566 – 25 June 635), personal name Li Yuan, courtesy name Shude, Xianbei name Daye Yuan, was the founding emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 618 to 626 CE.

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RoyaltyDied aged 69

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1274 · 752 yrs

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (1201–1274; AH 598–673), commonly known as Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (Arabic: نصیر الدین الطوسی; Persian: نصیر الدین طوسی) or simply (al-)Tusi, was a Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian, as well as a prominent Shiʿite scholar.

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ScienceDied aged 73

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1767 · 259 yrs

Georg Philipp Telemann

Georg Philipp Telemann (German:; 24 March 1681 – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works.

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MusicDied aged 86

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1822 · 204 yrs

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist.

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LiteratureDied aged 46

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1856 · 170 yrs

Max Stirner

Johann Caspar Schmidt (25 October 1806 – 26 June 1856), known by the pen name Max Stirner (German:), was a German philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness.

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PhilosophyDied aged 49

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1861 · 165 yrs

Abdülmecid I

Abdülmecid I (Ottoman Turkish: عبد المجید اول, romanized: ʿAbdü'l-Mecîd, Turkish: I. Abdülmecid; 25 April 1823 – 25 June 1861) was the 31st sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He succeeded his father Mahmud II on 2 July 1839.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 38

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1876 · 150 yrs

George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. Custer graduated in 1861 from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, last in his class.

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MilitaryDied aged 36

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1894 · 132 yrs

Sadi Carnot

Marie François Sadi Carnot (English: kar-NOH, French:; 11 August 1837 – 25 June 1894), known as Sadi Carnot, was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894. His presidency was marked by a series of poorly handled crises.

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PoliticsDied aged 56

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1916 · 110 yrs

Thomas Eakins

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists.

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ArtDied aged 71

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1960 · 66 yrs

Walter Baade

Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 – June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959.

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ScienceWould be 133

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1984 · 42 yrs

Michel Foucault

Paul-Michel Foucault, known as Michel Foucault, (UK: FOO-koh, US: foo-KOH; French:; 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, literary critic, and historian of ideas who analyzed the relationships between power, knowledge, and liberty, and how they are used as a form of social control through…

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PhilosophyWould be 100

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1995 · 31 yrs

Ernest Walton

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995) was an Irish experimental physicist.

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ScienceWould be 123

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Events5

1876 · 150 yrs

Battle of the Little Bighorn

The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand and known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United…

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War

1941 · 85 yrs

Continuation War

The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet–Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II. It began with a Finnish declaration of war on 25 June 1941 and ended on 19 September 1944 with the Moscow Armistice.

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War

1950 · 76 yrs

Korean War

The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict fought on the Korean Peninsula between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies.

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War

1991 · 35 yrs

Breakup of Yugoslavia

After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart in the early 1990s.

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History

1998 · 28 yrs

Aarhus Convention

The UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, usually known as the Aarhus Convention, was signed on 25 June 1998 in the Danish city of Aarhus. It entered into force on 30 October 2001.

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