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Battle of Stamford Bridge

960 years ago

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1897

William Faulkner

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Famous births30

1599 · 427 yrs

Francesco Borromini

Francesco Borromini (Italian:), byname of Francesco Castelli (Italian:; 25 September 1599 – 2 August 1667), was an Italian architect born in the modern Swiss canton of Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

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ArtDied aged 67

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1644 · 382 yrs

Ole Rømer

Ole Christensen Rømer (Danish:; 25 September 1644 – 19 September 1710) was a Danish astronomer who, in 1676, first demonstrated that light travels at a finite speed. Rømer also invented the modern thermometer showing the temperature between two fixed points, namely the points at which water boils and freezes.

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ScienceDied aged 65

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1683 · 343 yrs

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau (French:; (1683-09-25)25 September 1683 – (1764-09-12)12 September 1764) was a French composer and music theorist of the late Baroque era.

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MusicDied aged 80

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1711 · 315 yrs

Qianlong Emperor

The Qianlong Emperor (25 September 1711 – 7 February 1799), also known by his temple name Emperor Gaozong of Qing, personal name Hongli, was the fifth emperor of the Qing dynasty and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China proper.

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RoyaltyDied aged 87

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1866 · 160 yrs

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and embryologist. In 1933, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on the role of chromosomes in heredity.

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ScienceDied aged 79

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1881 · 145 yrs

Lu Xun

Lu Xun (Chinese: 魯迅; pinyin: Lǔ Xùn,; 25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), pen name of Zhou Shuren, born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer.

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LiteratureWould be 145

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1896 · 130 yrs

Sandro Pertini

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio "Sandro" Pertini (25 September 1896 – 24 February 1990) was an Italian journalist, socialist politician, partisan and statesman who served as the president of Italy from 1978 to 1985.

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1897 · 129 yrs

William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner ( FAWK-nər; né Falkner; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life.

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LiteratureWould be 129

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1901 · 125 yrs

Robert Bresson

Robert Bresson (French:; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French filmmaker. Known for his ascetic approach, Bresson made a notable contribution to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, ellipses, and sparse use of scoring have led his works to be regarded as preeminent examples of minimalist film.

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1906 · 120 yrs

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.

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1920 · 106 yrs

Sergei Bondarchuk

Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 – 20 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actor and filmmaker, born in Ukraine, who was one of the leading figures of Soviet cinema in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

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1929 · 97 yrs

Barbara Walters

Barbara Jill Walters (September 25, 1929 – December 30, 2022) was an American broadcast journalist and television personality. Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, she appeared as a host of numerous television programs, including Today, the ABC Evening News, 20/20, and The View.

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Famous deaths13

1506 · 520 yrs

Philip I of Castile

Philip the Handsome (22 June/July 1478 – 25 September 1506), also called Philip the Fair, was ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482, including the counties of Artois, Burgundy and Charolais from 1493, and the first king of Castile from the House of Habsburg in 1506.

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RoyaltyDied aged 28

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1534 · 492 yrs

Clement VII

Pope Clement VII (Latin: Clemens VII; Italian: Clemente VII; born Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici; 26 May 1478 – 25 September 1534) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 November 1523 to his death on 25 September 1534.

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ReligionDied aged 56

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1777 · 249 yrs

Johann Heinrich Lambert

Johann Heinrich Lambert (German:; French: Jean-Henri Lambert; 26 or 28 August 1728 – 25 September 1777) was an Alsatian polymath from the Republic of Mulhouse—then an associate of the Swiss Confederacy—who made fundamental contributions to mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy, and map…

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ScienceDied aged 49

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1958 · 68 yrs

John B. Watson

John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school.

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PoliticsWould be 148

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1970 · 56 yrs

Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque (German:; born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German novelist.

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LiteratureWould be 128

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1980 · 46 yrs

John Bonham

John Henry Bonham (31 May 1948 – 25 September 1980) was an English musician who was the drummer of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Noted for his speed, power, fast single-footed kick drumming, distinctive sound, and feel for groove, he is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential drummers in history.

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1980 · 46 yrs

Lewis Milestone

Lewis Milestone (born Leib Mendelevich Milstein; September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer active during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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FilmWould be 131

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1983 · 43 yrs

Leopold III of Belgium

Leopold III (3 November 1901 – 25 September 1983) was King of the Belgians from 23 February 1934 until his abdication on 16 July 1951.

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RoyaltyWould be 124

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1986 · 40 yrs

Nikolay Semyonov

Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, sometimes Semenov, Semionov or Semenoff (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Семёнов; 15 April 1896 – 25 September 1986) was a Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation.

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ScienceWould be 130

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1987 · 39 yrs

Mary Astor

Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941).

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LiteratureWould be 120

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2003 · 23 yrs

Franco Modigliani

Franco Modigliani (US:; Italian:; 18 June 1918 – 25 September 2003) was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT Sloan School of Management.

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ScienceWould be 108

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2011 · 15 yrs

Wangari Muta Maathai

Wangarĩ Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on planting trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights.

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PoliticsWould be 86

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Events5

1066 · 960 yrs

Battle of Stamford Bridge

The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire, in England, on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada and the English king's brother Tostig Godwinson.

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War

1396 · 630 yrs

Battle of Nicopolis

The Battle of Nicopolis took place on 25 September 1396 and resulted in the rout of an allied Crusader army, assisted by the Venetian navy, at the hands of an Ottoman force, raising the siege of the Danubian fortress of Nicopolis and leading to the end of the Second Bulgarian Empire.

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War

1555 · 471 yrs

Peace of Augsburg

The Peace of Augsburg (German: Augsburger Frieden), also called the Augsburg Settlement, was a treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and the Schmalkaldic League, signed on 25 September 1555 in the German city of Augsburg.

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Politics

1964 · 62 yrs

Mozambican War of Independence

The Mozambican War of Independence was an armed conflict between the guerrilla forces of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and Portugal. The war officially started on 25 September 1964, and ended with a ceasefire on 8 September 1974, resulting in a negotiated independence in 1975.

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War

2017 · 9 yrs

Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum, 2017

The 2017 Kurdistan Region independence referendum was a failed bid at Kurdish independence from the Republic of Iraq. It was held on 25 September 2017 in Kurdistan Region, with preliminary results showing approximately 92.73 percent of votes cast in favor of independence.

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