Famous Birthdays on July 25

Birthdays 1 - 200 of 231

• 975 Thietmar, German chronicler and Bishop of Merseburg, born in Hildesheim, Saxony (d. 1018)
• 1016 Casimir I the Restorer, Polish nobleman (Duke of Poland, 1040-58), born in Kraków, Poland (d. c. 1058)
• 1109 Afonso I the Conqueror, King of Portugal (1143-85), born in Guimarães, Portugal (d. 1185)

• 1336 Albert I, Duke of Bavaria and third son of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, born in Munich (d. 1404)

• 1404 Philip I, Duke of Brabant (1427-30) (d. 1430)
• 1421 Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician, born in Leconfield, United Kingdom (d. 1461)
• 1517 Jacques Peletier (du Mans), French poet and scientist, born in Le Mans, France (d. 1582)
• 1562 Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord, born in Owari Province, Japan (d. 1611)
• 1575 Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and physicist, born in Markt Wald, Germany (d. 1650)
• 1579 Valerius Otto, German composer, born in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany) (d. after 1612)
• 1593 Steven van der Haghen, Dutch admiral, and governor of Ambon (1617-18), born in Amersfoort, Ultrecht, Netherlands (d. 1624) [exact date disputed]
• 1626 Gerard Brandt, Dutch theologist, poet and historian, born in Amsterdam (d. 1685)
• 1639 Thomas Tompion, English clockmaker (cylinder tunnel), born in Northill, Bedfordshire, England (d. 1713)
• 1654 Agostino Steffani, Italian-German diplomat and composer, born in Castelfranco Veneto, Republic of Venice (now Italy) (d. 1728)
• 1657 Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German composer, born in Esens, Electorate of Hanover (now Germany) (d. 1714)
• 1658 Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor, born in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (d. 1703)
• 1675 James Thornhill, English painter (St. Paul's Cathedral dome), born in Melcombe Regis, Dorset, England (d. 1734) [some sources cite year as 1676]
• 1683 Pieter Langendijk, Dutch painter, etcher and playwright (Wiskunstenaars), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1756)
• 1715 Immanuel J. Pyra, German poet (Temple of Real Poetry), born in Kottbus, Brandenburg, Germany (d. 1744)
• 1746 Bernardo de Gálvez, Spanish military leader and colonial administrator (Spanish Governor of Louisiana and Cuba, 1777-83, Viceroy of New Spain, 1785-6), born in Macharaviaya, Spain (d. 1786)

• 1758 Elizabeth Hamilton, Scottish author (The cottagers of Glenburnie), born in Belfast, Ireland (d. 1816)
• 1761 Charlotte von Kalb, German writer, born in Saal an der Saale, Electorate of Bavaria (d. 1843)
• 1772 Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, German composer, born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1840)
• 1775 Anna Symmes Harrison, 9th 1st lady (1841), born in Morristown, New Jersey (d. 1864)
• 1780 Christian Theodor Weinlig, German composer, teacher and choir master, born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1842)
• 1786 Giacomo Cordella, Italian composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples (d. 1846)
• 1795 James Barry [Margaret Ann Bulkley], female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army), born in County Cork, Ireland (d. 1865)
• 1797 Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Cambridge, born in Offenbach, Germany (d. 1889)
• 1804 Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Education, born in Turin, Italy (d. 1880)
• 1816 Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), born in Unterkaka, Meineweh, Germany (d. 1895)
• 1822 Schuyler Hamilton, American Major General (Union Army), born in Putnam County, New York (d. 1903)
• 1824 George B. Vashon, American, lawyer, academic and poet, first African American lawyer in NY, born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania (d. 1878)
• 1824 Richard James Oglesby, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Oldham County, Kentucky (d. 1899)
• 1832 Simon Hassler, German-American composer, born in Bavaria, Kingdom of Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1901)
• 1839 Francis Garnier, French explorer, born in Saint-Étienne, France (d. 1873)
• 1840 Flora Adams Darling, American writer and historian, founded Daughters of American Revolution, born in Lancaster, New Hampshire (d. 1910)

• 1855 Edward Solomon, English pianist and composer, chiefly of operettas, born in Lambeth, London, England (d. 1895)
• 1857 Frank Sprague, American inventor who installed the first U.S. electric trolley system in Richmond, Virgina, born in Milford, Connecticut (d. 1934)
• 1858 William C. McDonald, American lawyer and politician (1st Governor of New Mexico. 1912-17), born in Jordanville, New York (d. 1918)
• 1860 Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught, born in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1917)
• 1861 Andrew Cowper Lawson, Scottish-Canadian Geologist who was the first person to identify and name the San Andreas Fault, born in Anstruther, Scotland (d. 1952)
• 1865 Jac[obus] P. Thijsse, Dutch biologist and educator (Contact with Plants), born in Maastricht, Netherlands (d. 1945)
• 1866 Frederick Frost Blackman, English botanist, born in London (d. 1947)
• 1867 Alexander Rummler, American painter, born in Dubuque, Iowa (d. 1959)
• 1867 Max Dauthendey, German painter and author (Ewige Hochzeit), born in Würzburg, Germany (d. 1918)
• 1870 Jan Derk Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch vicar (Young Flanders), born in Amsterdam (d. 1955)
• 1870 Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1966)
• 1874 Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev, Russian Chemist who invented the first commercially viable and mass-produced synthetic rubber, born in Lublin, Poland (d. 1934)
• 1878 Heinrich Gebhard, German-American composer, born in Sobernheim, Rhineland-Palatinate (now Germany) (d. 1963)
• 1882 George S. Rentz, U.S. Navy Chaplain (awarded the Navy Cross during WW II), born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania (d. 1942)
• 1883 Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, conductor (Boston Pops, 1927-29), and composer (La Giara; Concerto Romana), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1947)

• 1885 Benito Lynch, Irish-Argentine writer (Caranchos de la Florida), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1951)
• 1890 Julian Rivero, American actor (Son of Oklahoma, Via Pony Express), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1976)
• 1890 Tom O'Brien, American actor (Physical Evidence), born in San Diego, California (d. 1947)
• 1893 Dorothy Dickson, American actress and dancer (Paying The Piper; Danny Boy), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1995)

• 1894 Walter Brennan, American actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point), born in Lynn, Massachusetts (d. 1974)
• 1895 Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress (Paris Waltz; Voyage to America), born in Ermont, France (d. 1977)
• 1896 Jack Perrin, American actor, born in Three Rivers, Michigan (d. 1967)
• 1896 Richard Gale, English general and airborne commander (Normandy), born in Wandsworth, London (d. 1982)
• 1897 Hermann Ambrosius, German composer, born in Hamburg, Germany Empire (d. 1983)
• 1899 Arthur Lubin, American film director and producer (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr Ed), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1995)
• 1899 Ralph Dumke, American actor (Movieland Quiz), born in South Bend, Indiana (d. 1964)
• 1900 Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan author (La victoria no viene sola), born in Salto, Uruguay (d. 1960)
• 1901 Lila Lee, American actress (Midnight Girl, Blood & Sand), born in Union Hill, New Jersey (d. 1973)
• 1901 Walter Breedveld, Dutch writer (Een ship vergaat), born in Den Bosch, Netherlands (d. 1977)
• 1902 Eric Hoffer, American longshoreman and author (The True Believer), born in New York City (d. 1983)
• 1903 André Fleury, French organist and composer, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France (d. 1995)
• 1905 Denys Watkins-Pitchford, British writer and illustrator (The Little Grey Men), born in Lamport, Northamptonshire (d. 1990)
• 1905 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-British author (Crowds and Power) and winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, born in Ruse, Bulgaria (d. 1994)
• 1907 (Cornelius) "Johnny" Hodges, American jazz alto saxophonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1970)
• 1908 Bill Bowes, English cricketer (Bodyline bowler, 68 wkts for England), born in Elland, Yorkshire, England (d. 1987)
• 1908 Jack Gilford, American actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2), born in New York City (d. 1990)
• 1908 Joseph Mitchell, American writer (Joe Gould's Secret), born in Fairmont, North Carolina (d. 1996)
• 1908 Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian Carnatic vocalist, born in Tirukkodikaval, Madras Province, British India (d. 2003)
• 1909 Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Italian opera conductor, musicologist, pianist and composer, born in Bergamo, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1996)
• 1913 John Cairncross, British civil servant and spy (5th man - Cambridge Five), born in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 1995)

• 1915 David Napley, English solicitor, born in London (d. 1994)
• 1915 Enrique Fernando, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court, born in Malate, Manila, Philippines (d. 2004)
• 1916 Lucien Saulnier, Canadian politician, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1989)

• 1918 Jane Frank, American artist, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1986)
• 1918 Nan Grey [Eschal Miller], American actress (Three Smart Girls, Dracula's Daughters), born in Houston, Texas (d. 1993)
• 1919 Hubert Booi, Bonairian-Aruban poet (Golgotha, Muchila), born on Bonaire (d. 2014)

• 1921 John Christopherson, English artist and collector, born in Blackheath, London (d. 1996)
• 1922 John B. Goodenough, American materials scientist (lithium-ion battery), solid-state physicist and Nobel laureate in chemistry, born in Jena, Germany (d. 2023)
• 1923 Bill Fitsell, Canadian journalist, writer and historian (International Hockey Hall of Fame curator, historian 1969-2005), born in Barrie, Ontario (d. 2020)

• 1923 Leonardo Villar, Brazilian actor (The Given Word), born in Piracicaba, Brazil (d. 2020)
• 1923 Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (Josephine), born in Vaxholm, Uppland, Sweden (d. 2007)
• 1924 Frank Church, American lawyer and politician (United States Senator from Idaho), born in Boise, Idaho (d. 1984)
• 1925 (William) "Benny" Benjamin, American session drummer (Motown's Funk Brothers), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 1969) [1]
• 1925 Jerry Paris, American director (Happy Days) and actor (Dick Van Dyke Show - "Jerry"), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1986)
• 1925 Scotch Taylor, South African cricket batsman (1 Test; Transvaal) and executive (president South African Hockey Union), born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 2004)
• 1926 Teodor Grigoriu, Romanian classical music and film score composer, born in Galați, Romania (d. 2014)
• 1926 Whitey Lockman, American baseball player, born in Lowell, North Carolina (d. 2009)
• 1927 Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board), born in Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France (d. 2003)
• 1927 Midge Decter, American journalist and author (The Liberated Woman & Other Americans), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 2022)
• 1927 Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (Governor of Punjab, 1973-75; Chief Minister of Punjab, 1975-77), born in Shimla, East Punjab British India (d. 2000)
• 1927 Stanley Dancer, American harness racer (4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown), born in West Windsor Township, New Jersey (d. 2005)
• 1928 Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (The Rites of May), born in Pagsanjan, Philippines (d. 1988)
• 1929 Ron Lord, Australian soccer goalkeeper (10 caps; Sydney Prague), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 2024)
• 1929 Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader, born in Tezpur, India (d. 2018)
• 1930 Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist, born in Łuniniec, Poland (d. 1990)
• 1930 Annie Ross, British-American jazz singer (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - "Twisted") and actress, born in London (d. 2020)
• 1930 Maureen Forrester, Canadian operatic contralto (Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2010)
• 1930 Mitzi Shore [Lillian Saidel], American owner of The Comedy Store and founder of The Comedy Channel, born in Menominee, Michigan (d. 2018)
• 1930 Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricket batsman (14 Tests, 3 x 50; Canterbury, Central Districts), born in Christchurch, New Zealand (d. 1985)
• 1931 Kees [Cornelis Pieter] van Dijk, Dutch minister of the Interior, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 2008)
• 1931 Murray Day, New Zealand sports administrator (President International Squash Rackets Federation 1975-81), born in Hamilton, New Zealand (d. 2022)
• 1931 Paul Danblon, Belgian composer, opera director, opera administrator and scientific journalist, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 2018)
• 1932 Gibson Kente, South African playwright and composer, born in Duncan Village, Eastern Cape (d. 2014)
• 1932 Paul J. Weitz, American test pilot and NASA astronaut (Skylab 2; STS-6), born in Erie, Pennsylvania (d. 2017)
• 1934 Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter (My New Partner), born in Paris
• 1934 Don Ellis, American avant garde jazz trumpeter, and Grammy Award-winning film score composer (The French Connection), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1978)
• 1935 Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi businessman (arms dealing), born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (d. 2017)
• 1935 Barbara Harris, American Tony Award-winning actress (Plaza Suite; Family Plot), born in Evanston, lllinois (d. 2018)
• 1935 Larry Sherry, American baseball pitcher (World Series MVP 1959, LA Dodgers), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2006)
• 1935 Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2013)
• 1936 Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect (winner of Pritzker Architecture Prize 2002), born in London, England
• 1937 Colin Renfrew, English archeologist (Anatolian hypothesis), born in Stockton-on-Tees, England
• 1937 Dmitry Smolsky, Belarusian orchestral, choral, theater and pop music composer, and teacher (Belarusian State Academy of Music, 1962-2014), born in Minsk, Belorussian SSR (d. 2017)
• 1939 Richard Trythall, American-Italian pianist, contemporary classical and electronic music composer (Continuums; Parts Unknown), and educator, born in Knoxville, Tennessee (d. 2022)
• 1940 John Pennel, American pole vaulter (James E Sullivan Award-1963), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1993)
• 1941 Donna Theodore, American actress and singer (Hollywood Talent Scouts), born in Pleasanton, California

• 1941 Manuel "Manny" Charlton, Spanish hard rock guitarist (Nazareth - "Love Hurts"), born in La Línea, Andalusia, Spain

• 1941 Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer and photographer, born in London
• 1941 Raúl Ruiz, Chilean filmmaker (Three Sad Tigers), born in Puerto Montt, Chile (d. 2011)
• 1942 Bruce Woodley, Australian folk-pop singer-songwriter ("Red Rubber Ball"; "Cloudy"; "I Am Australian"), guitarist, and banjo player (The Seekers - "Georgy Girl"; "I'll Never Find Another You"), born in Melbourne, Australia
• 1942 Felix Philipp Ingold, Swiss translator and writer, born in Basel, Switzerland
• 1942 Krister Kristensson, Swedish soccer defender (38 caps; Malmö FF, Trelleborgs FF) and manager (Trelleborgs FF, Lunds BK, Höllvikens GIF), born in Malmö, Sweden (d. 2023)
• 1943 Janet Margolin, American actress (Annie Hall, Take the Money and Run; David and Lisa), born in New York City (d. 1993)
• 1943 Jim McCarty, English rock drummer (Yardbirds - "For Your Love"; Renaissance, 1969-70), born in Liverpool, England
• 1943 Roy Acuff Jr., American country musician ("Looks Like Baby's Gone"), born in Nashville, Tennessee
• 1944 Mijanou van Baarzel, Dutch actress (Klaverweide-Alicia)
• 1944 Molly Bennett Aiken, American foundation administrator (riding for the handicapped), born in Hollywood, California
• 1944 Tom Dawes, American rock bassist (The Cyrkle - "Red Rubber Ball"), and commercial jingle composer ("Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz” for Alka-Seltzer and “7Up, the Uncola”), born in Albany, New York (d. 2007)
• 1945 Jim Price, America session and touring horn player, and arranger (Rolling Stones; Bonnie and Delaney; Joe Cocker), born in Fort Worth, Texas
• 1946 John Gibson, American media host (The John Gibson Show), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1946 José Areas, Nicaraguan percussionist (Santana, 1969-77, 1987-89), born in Leon, Nicaragua
• 1946 Rita Marley (née Alpharita Anderson), Jamaican singer (I Threes), and the widow of Bob Marley, born in Santiago de Cuba
• 1948 Brian Stableford, British sci-fi author (Day of Wrath), born in Shipley, Yorkshire, England
• 1948 Claude Noel, Tobagonian boxer (WBA Lightweight title 1981), born in Roxborough, Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2023)
• 1948 Ray Wheatley, Australian boxer (NSW featherweight champion), official (IBF supervisor, referee & judge; VP IBF 2000-12) and broadcaster (Sky Channel, ESPN, 9 Network), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 2023)
• 1948 Steve Goodman, American folk singer and songwriter ("City of New Orleans"; "You Never Even Called Me by My Name"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1984)
• 1949 Denman Maroney, American jazz pianist and composer (Hyperpiano), born in New Jersey
• 1950 Mark Clarke, English bassist (Colosseum; Tempest; Uriah Heep), born in Liverpool, England
• 1951 Vanessa [Connie Witteman], Dutch model and singer, born in Voorburg, Netherlands
• 1951 Verdine White, American soul-funk, and R&B bassist songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire - "Mighty, Mighty"; "That's The Way Of The World"), and philanthropist, born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1954 Ken Greer, Canadian rock guitarist (Red Rider - "Lunatic Fringe"; "Big League"), born in Toronto, Ontario
• 1954 Lynne Frederick, English actress (Schizophrenia), born in Middlesex, England (d. 1994)

• 1955 Bantubonke Holomisa, South African Minister of Defense of Transkei, born in Mqanduli, Eastern Cape
• 1955 Iman [Abdulmajid], Somali-American model and actress (Star Trek 6), born in Mogadishu, Somalia
• 1955 Ritva Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder and politician, born in Lokalahti, Finland
• 1956 Frances Arnold, American Chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2018), born in Edgewood, Pennsylvania
• 1957 Bogdan Musioł, German bobsledder (Olympic bronze 1980), born in Świętochłowice, Silesia, Poland
• 1957 Daniel W. Bursch, NASA astronaut (STS 51, 68, 77), born in Bristol, Pennsylvania
• 1957 Ray Billingsley, American comic strip cartoonist (Curtis), born in Wake Forest, North Carolina
• 1957 Roger Clinton Jr., American actor and lounge singer, President Clinton's half-brother, born in Hot Springs, Arkansas
• 1958 Henk Wanders, Dutch bassist (Frank Boeijen Group), born in Nijmegen, Netherlands
• 1958 Thurston Moore, American guitarist and songwriter (Sonic Youth - "100%"), born in Coral Gables, Florida
• 1960 Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player, born in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec
• 1961 Bobbie Eakes, American actress (The Bold and the Beautiful), born in Warner Robins, Georgia
• 1961 Illeana Douglas [Hessellberg], American actress (Picture Perfect; To Die For; Six Feet Under), born in Quincy, Massachusetts [some sources give birth year as 1965, some New Haven as birthplace]
• 1961 Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress (Bold & Beautiful - "Brooke"), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1962 David Korevaar, American concert pianist and educator (University of Colorado), born in Madison, Wisconsin
• 1962 Doug Drabek, American MLB pitcher (NL Cy Young Award 1990), born in Victoria, Texas
• 1962 Mike Buncic, American discus thrower, born in Patterson, New Jersey
• 1963 Denis Coderre, French Canadian politician, born in Joliette, Quebec, Canada
• 1963 Julian Hodgson, English chess player, born in London
• 1964 José Bautista, Dominican baseball pitcher (SF Giants), born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• 1964 Tony Granato, American NHL left wing (LA Kings), born in Downers Grove, Illinois
• 1965 Marty Brown, American country singer ("It Must Be The Rain"; "Wildest Dreams"), born in Maceo, Kentucky
• 1965 Torey Lovullo, American baseball infielder (Oakland A's), born in Santa Monica, California
• 1966 Christine C. Quinn, American Democratic Party politician and Speaker of the New York City Council, born in Glen Cove, New York
• 1966 Lynda Lemay, French Canadian chanson singer, born in Portneuf, Quebec
• 1966 Maureen Herman, American bassist (Babes in Toyland) and writer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1967 Dave Jareckie, American biathlete (Olympics 1994), born in Mexico City
• 1967 Ed Sprague Jr., American baseball infielder (Toronto Blue Jays), born in Castro Valley, California

• 1967 Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee, born in Kaupanger, Norway
• 1967 Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress (The Steve Harvey Show), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1968 Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, Chickasaw-American pianist and contemporary classical composer (Lowak Shoppala' - Fire and Light), born in Norman, Oklahoma
• 1969 Jon Barry, American NBA guard (LA Lakers, Golden State Warriors), born in Oakland, California
• 1969 Trevor Peres, American heavy metal guitarist (Obituary - "The End Complete"), born in Tampa, Florida
• 1970 Lord Nicholas Windsor, youngest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, born in King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London
• 1971 Billy Wagner, American MLB pitcher (Houston Astros), born in Tannersville, Virginia
• 1971 Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter ("Bad Friend to a Good Man"), born in Corpus Christi, Texas
• 1973 Dani Filth [Daniel Davey], British lyricist, and heavy metal singer (Cradle of Filth), born in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England
• 1973 David Denman, American actor (The Office), born in Newport Beach, California

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