The 25t o August is the 237t day o the year (238t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 128 days bidin.
Events
1718: New Orleans
1778: Triglav, the heichest peak in Slovenie
1825: Banner o UruguayBirths
Sir Sean Connery
Amy Macdonald- 1530 - Ivan the Terrible, Tsar o Roushie (d. 1584)
- 1707 - Louis I o Spain (d. 1724)
- 1744 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian an poet (d. 1803)
- 1786 - Ludwig I o Bavarie (d. 1868)
- 1845 - Ludwig II o Bavarie (d. 1886)
- 1850 - Charles Richet, French physiologist (d. 1935)
- 1911 - Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese politeecian (d. 2013)
- 1912 - Erich Honecker, leader o East Germany (d. 1994)
- 1928 - Herbert Kroemer, German-American physicist
- 1930 - Sir Sean Connery, Scots actor
- 1934 - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Preses o Iran (d. 2017)
- 1942 - Ivan Koloff, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2017)
- 1958 - Tim Burton, American film director, producer, airtist, screiver an animator
- 1968 - Stuart Murdoch, Scots muisicker
- 1987 - Amy Macdonald, Scots sangster
- 1987 - Blake Lively, American actress
- 1988 - Alexandra Burke, Inglis sangster
Daiths
Statue o James Watt- 1330 - James Douglas, Laird o Douglas, Scots knicht an feudal laird (b. 1289)
- 1776 - David Hume, Scots philosopher (b. 1711)
- 1819 - James Watt, Scots inventor (b. 1736)
- 1822 - William Herschel, German-Inglis astronomer (b. 1738)
- 1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
- 1984 - Truman Capote, American screiver (b. 1924)
- 2000 - Carl Barks, American airtist (b. 1901)
- 2001 - Aaliyah, American sangster an muisicker (b. 1979)
- 2009 - Ted Kennedy, American politeecian (b. 1932)
- 2012 - Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (b. 1930)
- 2016 - James Cronin, American physicist (b. 1931)
- 2016 - Marvin Kaplan, American actor (b. 1927)
- 2018 - John McCain, American politeecian (b. 1936)
Halidays
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