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October 25

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108

October Revolution

108 years ago

Born this day

1881

Pablo Picasso

Would be 144

Oldest record

610th

Battle of Agincourt

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Famous births26

1767 · 258 yrs

Benjamin Constant

Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (25 October 1767 – 8 December 1830), or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss and French political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion.

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PoliticsDied aged 63

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1800 · 225 yrs

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian, poet and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848.

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ScholarshipDied aged 59

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1806 · 219 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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1811 · 214 yrs

Évariste Galois

Évariste Galois (French:; 25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832) was a French mathematician and political activist. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem that had been open for 350 years.

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1825 · 200 yrs

Johann Strauss II

Johann Baptist Strauss II (German:; 25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger, the Son (German: Johann Strauß Sohn), or simply Johann Strauss, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas, as well as a violinist.

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MusicDied aged 73

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1827 · 198 yrs

Marcellin Berthelot

Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot (English: ber-tə-LOH, French:; 25 October 1827 – 18 March 1907) was a French chemist and Republican politician noted for the Thomsen–Berthelot principle of thermochemistry.

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ScienceDied aged 79

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1838 · 187 yrs

Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet (né Alexandre César Léopold Bizet; 25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era.

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MusicDied aged 36

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1877 · 148 yrs

Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell ForMemRS HFRSE FRAS (October 25, 1877 – February 18, 1957) was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910). In 1923, working with Frederick Saunders, he developed Russell–Saunders coupling, which is also known as LS coupling.

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1881 · 144 yrs

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent most of his adult life in France.

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1888 · 137 yrs

Richard E. Byrd

Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer, and pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics.

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1889 · 136 yrs

Abel Gance

Abel Gance (French:; born Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon; 25 October 1889 – 10 November 1981) was a French film director, producer, writer, and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927).

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1895 · 130 yrs

Levi Eshkol

Levi Eshkol (Hebrew: לֵוִי אֶשְׁכּוֹל;‎ 25 October 1895 – 26 February 1969), born Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik (Hebrew: לֵוִי יִצְחָק שְׁקוֹלְנִיק), was the prime minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969.

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Famous deaths13

1495 · 530 yrs

John II of Portugal

John II (Portuguese: João II;; 3 May 1455 – 25 October 1495), called the Perfect Prince (Portuguese: o Príncipe Perfeito), was King of Portugal from 1481 until his death in 1495, and also for a brief time in 1477.

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RoyaltyDied aged 40

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1647 · 378 yrs

Evangelista Torricelli

Evangelista Torricelli ( TORR-ee-CHEL-ee, Italian:; 15 October 1608 – 25 October 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Benedetto Castelli. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles.

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1760 · 265 yrs

George II of Great Britain

George II (George Augustus; German: Georg August; 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 (O.S.) until his death in 1760.

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RoyaltyDied aged 76

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1764 · 261 yrs

William Hogarth

William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, cartoonist, and satirist.

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ArtDied aged 66

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1920 · 105 yrs

Alexander of Greece

Alexander (Greek: Αλέξανδρος, romanized: Aléxandros; 1 August 1893 – 25 October 1920) was King of Greece from 11 June 1917 until his death on 25 October 1920. The second son of King Constantine I, Alexander was born in the summer palace of Tatoi on the outskirts of Athens.

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1938 · 87 yrs

Alfonsina Storni

Alfonsina Carolina Storni (22 May 1892 – 25 October 1938) was a Swiss-Argentine poet and playwright of the modernist period.

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1941 · 84 yrs

Robert Delaunay

Robert Delaunay (French:; 12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist of the School of Paris movement who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract.

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1945 · 80 yrs

Robert Ley

Robert Ley (German:; 15 February 1890 – 25 October 1945) was a German Nazi politician and head of the German Labour Front during its entire existence, from 1933 to 1945. He also held many other high positions in the Nazi Party, including Gauleiter, Reichsleiter and Reichsorganisationsleiter.

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1956 · 69 yrs

Risto Ryti

Risto Heikki Ryti (Finnish pronunciation:; 3 February 1889 – 25 October 1956) was a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 1940 to 1944. Ryti started his career as a politician in the field of economics and as a political background figure during the interwar period.

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1973 · 52 yrs

Abebe Bikila

Shambel Abebe Bikila (Amharic: ሻምበል አበበ ቢቂላ; August 7, 1932 – October 25, 1973) was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He was the first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, winning his first gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while running barefoot.

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1976 · 49 yrs

Raymond Queneau

Raymond Auguste Queneau (French:; 21 February 1903 – 25 October 1976) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle), notable for his wit and cynical humour.

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1993 · 32 yrs

Vincent Price

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, known to film audiences for his work in the horror genre, mostly portraying villains.

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Events5

1415 · 610 yrs

Battle of Agincourt

The Battle of Agincourt ( AJ-in-kor(t); French: Azincourt) was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453). It took place on 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) near Azincourt, in northern France.

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War

1854 · 171 yrs

Battle of Balaclava

The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55), an attempt by the British, French and Ottoman allies to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol, Russia's principal naval base on the Black Sea.

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War

1917 · 108 yrs

October Revolution

The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup, Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik Revolution, was the second of two revolutions in Russia in 1917. It was led by Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks as part of the broader Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.

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Politics

1983 · 42 yrs

1983 Invasion of Grenada

The United States and a coalition of Caribbean countries invaded the island nation of Grenada at dawn on 25 October 1983. It was codenamed Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. military, and resulted in military occupation within a few days.

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War

2021 · 4 yrs

2021 Sudanese coup d'état

On 25 October 2021, the Sudanese military, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, took control of the Government of Sudan in a military coup. At least five senior government figures were initially detained.

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